What is energy?
Energy is basically work. When you move a chair, you are doing work, you are expending energy. You are allowing energy to be transformed into other forms of energy. In that act of moving a chair you are setting in motion a whole host of transformations of energy through out your body and into that chair. That chair is being held in place by gravitation. Gravitation is a force, a kind of energy that pulls on the mass of the chair. It therefore holds potential energy. In order for the chair to move it must be acted upon by another force or form of energy. Some form of kinetic energy must be applied to counter the pull of gravity. One form of kinetic energy is your body in motion. So if your hands apply multiple directions of kinetic energy in opposition to the pull of gravity, that chair will move.
So basically there are two main forms of energy: kinetic and potential. Kinetic energy is possessed by objects due to their motion (your moving hands and arms), while potential energy is possessed by objects due to their relative position or configuration ( a chair pulled to the floor by gravity in the corner of your living room).
However, in order for you to move that chair, your body goes through myriad forms of energy exchanges that are both kinetic and potential. The photons of light that reach your eyes to locate that chair are kinetic packs of energy. When they reach the electro/chemosensory neurons of your retina they activate, via other interneurons, the neurons in your brain and throughout your nervous system that control a whole series of muscles in your arms which result in your arms moving the chair.
Energy creates differences. The differences of electro-chemical potential energy in the environment are converted into differences of electro-chemical energy in the sensing apparatus of your body and then into differences of electro-chemical energy in your muscles, which, by antagonistic action, are converted into the kinetic energy of your body’s movement. All other forms of energy, such as thermal, electromagnetic, solar, chemical, gravitational, atomic, and so on are in themselves forms of either kinetic or potential energy. Physicist now think that not only is there dark matter but that there is dark energy that may be causing the expansion of the universe. Energy like this may not be scientifically detectable but your body swims in it all the time.
In short, energy is every where around you and in you. And that energy never goes away; it simply endlessly transforms into ever changing expressions of energy. The energy present at the big bang of our universe is now flowing through your body. Your body has access to that energy. That energy can mingle with your body’s energy. Your body also senses and responds to ambient energy. If you are moving in a room filled with people, your body is heavily influenced by the energy of those people’s bodies. There are webs of energy that you move through your body every second of your life. Your body can gather that energy and direct it into physical movement. And that directed energy can be perceived by other bodies.
Fundamentally, energy flows. Energy seeks energy. Energy may even seek expression. Your body can give ambient energy a physical expression. And your body receives power from that ambient energy to tell its story in the language of movement. The flow of energy gives clarity and presence to what you express in your body’s movement story. Your movement is grounded in the web of energy in which it expresses itself. Your body breathes in and expresses out the energy which surrounds it like it breathes air.
The flow of energy through the brain organizes the functional levels in it. Ultimately, this organizational activity culminates in what we call the conscious mind. But there are other levels of intelligent activity in the brain that precede the conscious level. There is one level of (energy) intelligence that relates most directly to the body. It knows what the body knows split seconds before your conscious mind can even grasp the world around it. This level of intelligence is not readily available to your conscious mind. It is called the preconscious mind. It is the psychic space in which your body lives and breaths. It is accessible only through the flow of energy through your body. It is a space where your body can tell it’s story.
We access our preconscious mind as we allow the energy in our bodies and around us to flow, to commingle, to generate a new environment in which our bodies can tell the stories that they have been longing to tell. And it is the desire of energy itself to find a voice through our bodies. This is a world based on energy flow. We carve out space for our bodies to tell their stories. It is a place in our brain and in time and space. A place free of the confines of our conscious mind.
Your body is energy. From the subatomic electrochemical exchanges within cells and neurons to the most complicated physical and metal processes of which your body is capable, the flow of energy is at its core.