What determines your house's energy?

• Have you ever visited a house and felt distinctly uncomfortable in it, wanting to run away at the first available instance? And conversely, have you been to houses, which are warm, and inviting, where you just don’t feel like leaving the place? Where you feel like ‘home’?
• Have you felt low in the air, especially, when family members are quarrelling?
• When a child enters your house, have you felt the surge of energy sweeping across the room? And when the child leaves, have you felt as if a story has passed by?

Everybody experiences the feelings mentioned above sometime or the other. How are they caused? Why do you feel that ‘something’ in the air whenever there is some kind of influence in the room – either human or otherwise?

The answer is a word that’s often bandied about, but seldom understood. Energy. Everything and anything that happens to you is a matter of energy movements. Primarily, these movements happen within us, and have a bearing on the energy surrounding us.

Throughout our lifetime, what we invariably do – often without realising it – is energy management. Every action is aimed at three things – Creating or generating energy, preserving it or allowing our body to utilise this energy, and discarding or destroying the excess energy. Now, does Brahma-Vishnu-Shiva sound familiar? In Hinduism, these three Gods represent the three aspects of energy that we employ in our lives.

Our breath determines the quality of the energy in us. Think about it: your breath is the only thing under your control. Nothing else can be controlled. Energy gets created when you breathe in, and gets destroyed when you breathe out. It’s as simple as that.

How is energy connected with your house? Well, the energy that you generate through your breathing, determines the energy in your house. So, if all the members of the family breathe well and correctly, the energy of the house will be good. If there are fights galore, it naturally results in faulty breathing. (Check how fast-paced your breathing becomes when you get angry, and conversely, check how your breathing becomes slower when you are relaxed).

Each breath that you take creates a frequency. It creates waves in the air, which you can’t see, but can feel. When your frequency is in sync with the frequencies of others in your house, you will experience peace and harmony. And remember, it is not just the people in the house who create frequencies. Everything in the house creates a frequency, which depends on how well that particular thing is kept. Things well kept will increase the frequency, and those that are not, become energy guzzlers.

Some Frequency Determinants

• Loose lying clothes bring down the frequency of a house.
• Clutter is a big energy guzzler. Many people have the habit of storing things thinking “they may need it in the future”. They never end up using them, and instead keep contributing to the clutter in the house. Discard items that you don’t need. These hamper energy movements in the house.
• Cobwebs. These trap energy. The cleaner the house, the more the energy.
• A well-kept puja room. The altar or puja room is where the energy of the house is generated. Make sure it is clean and sans any broken or chipped idols.
• Poor colour. The colour of the rooms plays a big role in improving energy. Lighter colours juxtaposed with darker shades is good.
• Cross ventilation. Airy rooms are better in terms of energy.

If you have too many electromagnetic objects in the house, that creates disturbing frequencies.

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Do we need to insulate ourselves?

Do these sentences sound familiar?

• “Oh my battery is down.”
• “We are on the same wavelength.”
• “We share similar vibes”
• “We both are on the same frequency.”

These sentences comprise normal daily lingo of most of us, don’t they? But why do we use the terms ‘battery’, ‘wavelength’, ‘vibrations’ and ‘frequency’? If you notice, all of these are words from the electromagnetism lexicon. Why do we refer to a battery? Is this battery located inside our body? Is it chargeable? What frequency are we referring to? Which wavelength? If you have been following this column, much of the subjects in it have dealt with the connection between science and spirituality; about how everything that you do or don’t do has an electromagnetic bearing.

If that is the case, we are as ‘electrical’ as a wire. No wonder, we hear people say – “Oh, he’s wired in that fashion”. A wire is cannot function without insulation. The plastic around the wire is the insulator and the wire itself is the conductor. A conductor, by nature loses energy, and the insulator’s job is to prevent energy loss.

The human body too is a conductor. Why do Shah Rukh Khan fans scream hysterically and feel the shivers and the current when they spot him? It is a case of electromagnetic conduction. That’s the reason an attractive person is termed as magnetic.

So, does the human body have an insulator too? Yes, it does, in the form of the aura that envelops it. Numerous writings are available on this subject, but it always pays to know as much detail about it as possible.

If your aura is weak (i.e. if you are poorly insulated), your energy leakage will be more. The symptoms will include fatigue, lethargy, loss, hurt, stress, insecurity, fear of the future, etc. In other words, a poor insulation will result in energy loss. Just like the electric wire. But unlike the wire where a coat of plastic does the trick, the human body has a variety of ways to strengthen the aura.

These include good diet, a positive outlook, adequate exposure to the five elements (air, fire, water, earth and space), prayers, donation, love, time, etc. It’s a game we play throughout life – the game of increasing our conductivity and simultaneously increasing our insulation. A perfect balance between the two produces a healthy human being.

This need for insulation why it is advised that meditation be done by sitting on a mat, preferably made of the Kusha grass. It acts as an insulator and prevents the earth from sucking the energy. It is also advised that food be taken this way. The concept is the same. It just goes to show that our ancestors were so far ahead in their thinking.

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How well do you manage your space

Every spiritual seeker would be aware of the five elements that rule our existence – air, fire, water, earth and space/ether. If you want your life to be balanced, it is essential for you to be able to ‘manage’ each of these elements. Pranayam or the science of right breathing, is a classic technique of doing this. In fact, Pranayam helps in managing all the elements: air, with inhalation and expiration; fire, because the regulated breathing through the nostrils affects the nadis or energy pathways in the body and regulates temperature; water, because your body is 75 per cent water and the frequency generated by right breathing influences it; earth, because you are seated on the ground when doing pranayam; and space, because you took out time to do the pranayam.

Space is a very interesting medium. It’s a strange and different element. It’s just there. You can’t see it, you can’t touch it, and you can’t say how far it extends. You can’t even say what, if anything, it’s made of. According to Einstein, space expands and contracts depending on what velocity we’re moving at, and it gets bent out of shape by the presence of solid matter.

We react to space typically: there is ‘your space’ and there is space that’s ‘not yours’. Check out parking lots and you will get the distinction clear – “That’s my parking space. You stick to yours”. Sounds familiar? Territorial behaviour has ruled living beings since eons. Not only humans, it is common knowledge that the animal and insect kingdoms function on territorial basis as well.

But the fact remains; do we own space at all? Well, maybe not. Even when you are sitting absolutely still, you are moving. The planet is spinning on its axis and revolving around the sun, the whole solar system is swinging around the galactic core, and the galaxy itself is rushing away from every other galaxy at an incomprehensible velocity. So although you think there’s a ‘your space’, you are never actually in the same space for two consecutive moments.

You can only ‘borrow’ space. You can’t own it. And during the time that you have borrowed, you need to keep that space well. You may own a flat in Mumbai, which you feel is ‘your space’. God forbid, if a natural calamity strikes and the flat is destroyed, ‘your space’ is gone. Or let’s get real: if the underworld decides to occupy your flat, your space is no longer yours!

That’s the reason, it’s more important to keep the space pure than boast about the existence of the space. The size of the flat is not as important as the way it has been kept. A small flat well maintained generates more energy than a large apartment badly kept.

So, concentrate on keeping your space pure. Not just physical, but mental, emotional and spiritual as well.

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My column in mumbaimirror.com

Starting June 5, my column 'Connect-Ticket' has got an online presence in www.mumbaimirror.com (Click on Columnists, and scroll down to my name). So far, this column was restricted to print, and therefore the print audience, which in any case is limited. Now, a global audience will bring about, hopefully, with its own set of energy changes.

I am doing this column in a question-answer format to address queries on energy movements and principles to the best I know about the subject. This subject can only be discussed and the concepts shared: it may take many lifetimes before one actually knows the truth.

So, do visit the portal and my column there, and bombard me with questions :)

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The knack of getting into trouble

Why do drug addicts hang around with fellow drug addicts? Why do spiritual satsang-attendees hang around with similar-minded people? What is the Page 3 culture all about with everybody who’s part of it talking about dress, stress and less? Why do some people attract wealth wherever they go and whatever they do? Why do we find ourselves sometimes thinking the same thought throughout the week or month? Why is it that some people always have a knack of getting into trouble, like Harbhajan Singh and Sreesanth, and why do some always attract success, like Dhoni? The answer lies in an oft-repeated and randomly-used word: frequency.

We all have a frequency. We operate on one. Our frequency is determined by our breathing rate, and this frequency determines the vibration of the atoms inside us. Everything – living, non-living, animate, inanimate - vibrates because everything comprises atoms. When one person’s vibration is harmonious with another’s, they exclaim, “Oh, we share a similar frequency!” Or “we vibe well” or “our tuning matches”.

In other words, we use physics terms like ‘frequency’, ‘vibration’, ‘tuning’, etc., in our everyday lingo without really understanding the true meaning of the sentences. Put another way, we end up using words that actually denote the big truth, but we simply don’t realise that.

So, two people resonating similarly will have similar interests, tastes, etc., and those whose frequencies don’t match, will have cat-fights galore. “Oh they just can’t ‘get along’ with each other” we say. ‘Get along’ or in other words, ‘resonate’. Likewise, if a person’s frequency resonates with the frequency of a book, that book will become that person’s ‘favourite’ book. Ditto with chair (my favourite chair), food item, toy, corner, etc.

Operating on a set frequency can also give rise to attachments. For instance, different activities or thought processes– like spirituality, sex, reading, gossiping, gambling, cleaning, etc. - have different frequencies. Ordinarily speaking, we call this ‘addiction’. Have you seen people who cannot get sleep without getting their daily dose of gossip? How about those who are addicted to talking and thinking about sex? Then there are some people who are addicted to being scrupulously clean. They keep on cleaning everything. We also call this OCD – Obsessive Compulsive Behaviour.

All these categories of people are ‘frequency-victims’ ie. they are like damaged long-playing records that keeps tripping on a particular point while rotating on the spindle. They will continue to operate on the same frequency as if on autopilot till something happens that suddenly changes their frequency. A typical example would be people who start behaving completely differently from their usual self, after witnessing the death of a close one.

If you find yourself doing an activity repeatedly and want to get rid of that habit, practise slow breathing. A simple way to do this is to watch your breathing – as the air goes in and comes out of your nostrils. Just the act of watching will slow down your breathing. Prolonged differential rate of breathing will change your frequency will snap you out of your addiction.

Remember, there are only two truths in this world – one is you breathe; the other is you will die. Death is not in your hands, but breathing definitely is. It is up to you how correctly you want to breathe. Well, the yogic science of pranayama is all about that, isn’t it?

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