How does ShapeShifting give expression to pure energy?
Our bodies are both pure energy and a physical expression of that pure energy.
Our bodies are incarnated energy. At the subatomic level our bodies are empty space. If we were to walk around within these atoms, it would be similar to walking around in empty space. At great distances from each other there would be subatomic particles with forces pulling and pushing on each other like planets which are made up of vibrating threads of pure energy.
These subatomic particles form larger elements like electrons, protons, and neutrons which make up an atom. Groups of atoms form molecules which gather together to form cells which gather together to form tissue which gather together to form organs and sensing and communicating networks which work together to form our bodies. This whole process is a result of energy creating and organizing our bodies into a living organism. This is pure energy expressing itself in the form of our bodies. We are both empty space sparsely populated by subatomic particles of pure energy at one level and physical organisms at another.
Energy seeks connection and expression. Energy is an organizational entity. It organizes our bodies and brains with myriad recursive self-referential feed-back loops embedded in countless parallel layers of simultaneous energetic functions. The energy flowing through these recursive loops and parallel layers results in a pattern of energetic activity that blossoms to a degree of complexity sufficient for consciousness. There are a number of levels of consciousness such as the conscious mind, the unconscious, and the subconscious for example. Each of these levels have their own purpose and some are harder to enter into than others. The level that is most connected to our bodies and the energy flow within it and through it is our preconscious mind- more about this in a minute.
Not only are our bodies made up of pure energy but everything around us is also pure energy. We are surrounded by webs of energy in the form of light waves, sound waves, radio waves, gamma rays and forms of energy unknown to us at this time. Because our bodies are pure energy they connect with these external webs of energy as they pass through us. We are shaped by these external waves of energy surrounding us even as we also give shape to the energy within us.
This is how it happens. The energy flowing through and around your body lays out a line or flow of energy that your body then follows. As your body follows that flow line, it fills it in with its physical movement story. In the process, your body's physical movement also articulates the energy flow that it is following. The energy flow not only gives your body a place to tell its story but gives itself the gift of physical expression . Energy gets shape and shapes get flow- thus ShapeShifting.
Also, as our bodies move they communicate with other bodies through this same flow of energy. Energy is the connecting fluid that passes between our bodies. It allows our bodies to express themselves to each other. That expression in its purest form is through movement. Our bodies’ universal language is movement.
ShapeShifting not only allows us to go into this level of pure energy and tell its story but it also allows us to give expression to the story that our bodies want to tell. This story is both our own and the wished for expression of pure energy. Our movement is the merging of our own body’s story with the eternal story of energy from the beginning of time. It is the energy flowing through the unique shapes that each of our bodies make that gives the power of expression to our movement.
Our preconscious minds are the place where our bodies are allowed to merge all of this energy and to set the body free to tell its own story. It is the place that allows our bodies to generate the movement story that only it can tell. Unlike choreographed movement which comes from the conscious mind, ShapeShifting movement comes from our bodies as we enter our preconscious minds. Our conscious minds try to imagine what it is like to be a body but they do not have the capability to encompass what the body knows. The movement that our conscious minds imagine in the choreographic process lacks integrity, truthfulness, and immediacy and as a result is shallow and stale and does not communicate with other bodies. ShapeShifting movement comes from our bodies as it is set free in our preconscious minds to speak freely about what it has gathered and remembered from a life time of interacting with the world around it.
ShapeShifting gives expression to both the eternal energy flowing in and through our bodies and to each of our bodies’ unique stories.