Let me tell you about one of the most profound experiences I’ve ever had. It showed me that energy is a real thing and that it can be directed using the power of the mind. The experience I had changed me from believing that everything is energy to knowing without a doubt.
Because there’s so much on the internet that isn’t true and it seems like everything turns out to just be marketing, I feel compelled to tell you that I’m a real person and this is a 100% true account. I added a couple of AI images just to help you visualize the scene as I experienced it.
One summer day when I was first learning energy healing, I was relaxing in a reclining beach chair next to the river near my house. It was the middle of the week, so only a few people were there, sunbathing on the rocky beach or wading in the water. After reading for a while, I started practicing the Quantum-Touch energy healing technique I had been learning. I moved energy through my body, feeling the strong sensations as it swept through my arms, legs and torso.
After a couple of minutes of doing this, I decided to experiment by placing my attention on a dog far off in the distance, a big white Lab playing near its owners about a hundred yards away down the beach. This wasn’t any specific technique I had learned, it was more of an exploration.
Feeling the energy really buzzing through my body by now, I set an intention to connect my energy field to the dog’s. I directed the energy as it flowed through me and I sent it out from my legs and feet in the direction of the dog. I added some visualization, picturing a golden stream of light connecting our energy fields. Then, for good measure, I visualized a green stream of light connecting our heart chakras.
Immediately the dog stopped playing, turned, and began walking straight toward me. I watched as it slowly but surely crossed the long distance toward me, stepping carefully across the stones that make up the beach. I sat perfectly still in my chair, sunglasses on and not saying a word, as the dog continued to come closer. I didn’t want to influence which way it went. As I sat there unmoving, the thought shouting in my head was, This is real!!! The dog then stopped at my left side and sat down right next to my hip.
In those moments, the truth revealed itself to me with sudden astonishing certainty: that energy is very real, and that I can directly affect material reality using my intention. In this case, my intention was powered by breath and energy flow. This is the basic recipe for what has throughout time been called magic. True magic, the spiritual and energetic abilities that all humans are created with. Not sleight-of-hand stage tricks, and not black magic using incantations meant to control the free will of others.
The dog and I sat there like old friends, and I placed one hand lightly against her side, continuing to send energy. Eventually, her people looked out from their beach tent and, noticing where she had gone, called out to her. She looked over at them for a moment and then turned her head back to gaze at the river with me. Twice this happened. After about ten minutes of sitting next to me, she finally got up and walked back to where she had come from. I was left stunned and exhilarated, savoring the particular sensation that comes with the dawning of newly discovered truth and feeling awed by the endless possibilities before me.
In the time since then, I’ve seen wondrous results in my energy healing practice. Despite this, there have been those inevitable moments when I questioned the reality of energy work; that’s just what the “reasonable” part of the brain does. How can this really work? However, at those times, all I’ve had to do is remember the dog experience to once again be reassured beyond any doubt that it’s all very real. Believing that energy is the essence of everything (objects, people, emotions, thoughts, situations…) is a necessary big paradigm shift if one wants to understand reality. But knowing it for certain has expanded my perspective permanently, and for that I am eternally grateful.
