The Mystery of Life Energy

Jan. 15, 2024

We were fortunate enough to have solar panels installed in our home in rural Western MA about 8 years ago, so we’re now able to avoid any electric bills for most of the year, except for a few winter months. Not because the sun is low in the sky then, but because our panels aren’t sloped steeply enough for any new-fallen snow to slide right off. Instead, it lingers for days and weeks, preventing any sunlight from reaching the cells, until the snow melts and the panels can begin to generate electricity anew.

To remedy this, I recently bought a “roof rake”, a Styrofoam brush with a 10-foot extension that allows me to brush the snow off the panels the day after a storm, so the panels don’t lose valuable time as they begin to absorb the sunlight again. Even with the extender and a ladder, I can only reach about halfway up the roof’s array (see Photo #1), but that’s enough to make a huge difference in how much paneling gets exposed. And today, brushing off the most recent few  inches of snow during a gloriously sunny day, a flash of insight showed me how snow brushing was an exact analogy to the healing processes of energy medicine.

A large blockage is released  

                     

 Some “acupanels” are clear, some are blocked

Here’s what I mean: By clearing away the accumulated snow, the sunlight can once again reach the solar cells to generate electricity and circulate it through the house. In the analogous world of energy medicine, the house is the body we inhabit, while the solar cells are energy-absorbers like the mitochondria in our own cells. This etheric energy enters our body via food, air and sunlight (it’s even called solar prana in some traditions). But this subtle energy won’t circulate through our acupuncture meridians if there are too many blocks in the system – emotional, psychological and physical. And that’s what the snow drifts represent – the barriers to absorbing energy. When the appropriate healing process is used (in parallel to the roof rake) – yoga, meditation, acupuncture, exercise, massage – the blocks are released and the energy that’s always out there, and in here, can once again circulate freely.

The snow blockage being released in the first photo is decent sized, and its release would correspond to the deep sigh of relief when a tough emotion gets addressed. The avalanche that once cleared our entire roof array during an unseasonably warm post-storm day a few winters ago was more like an emotional catharsis, a primal scream. And these releases, large and small, feel good because the unimpeded flow of prana can once again create health for the physical bodies we inhabit, just as the sunlight can once again create electrical energy for the homes we live in.

Book link: Chapter 5 – Understanding energy.  A cartography of energy medicine. Subtle Anatomy, page 120