Energy

Suppose the inside of your body is a farm. On your farm, you grow corn, water the crop, keep it clean, take good care of it, and make sure your corn has a wonderful taste. When the corn is ready to eat, you pick the stalk. You cannot eat all of the corn yourself, so you decide to give a few ears away. You give it away to friends, family, and people you do not even know. Now these other people have your corn. Some find the perfect size pot to boil the water, cook it up, butter it, put salt on it, and handle each end with care to ensure that they do not miss one kernel. They take a bite and are beaming with pleasure. To them, this is the best-tasting corn they have ever had. When they finish, they tell you all about how delicious it was. Others take the corn and do not know what to do with it, so they throw it out, while still others will take the corn but do not feel like eating it. They store it in the freezer to save for another day. Some take the corn and use it to make other dishes like cornbread, corn tortillas, or corn soup to share with other people. You have a choice to be emotionally affected by people’s opinions of the corn itself or by what they choose to do with your gift of corn. But the truth is that, if you had never taken the corn off the stalk and given it away, the crop would have died in the field, thus keeping the next crop from being healthy or growing at all. No matter what people decide to do with your corn, others are needed in order for your crop to continue to grow.

What is this corn? Corn can be a number of things. In my life, corn is love and energy. Most of the positive changes in my life started with having faith and understanding energy. This is why I feel that it is so important to put in an effort towards making accurate assessments of our surrounding energy. There are two forms of energy, material and non-material. I am no scientist, but I will give you my theory. Material energy contains matter of a tangible nature and can be touched. For example, we can touch a cup of tea, a computer, a DVD disc, a church building, a person, a book, and so on. Non-material energy does not contain matter. It’s intangible and cannot be touched. The significance of this energy comes from what is “given off,” which is usually a feeling. For instance, this would include our feelings after drinking a cup of hot tea or what we might feel as we view images on a computer, as well as the mood of a theater after watching a film, the passion felt by the choir in a church, the love felt when sitting beside a loved one, or maybe even your thoughts as you turn each page of this book. Whether it is material or non-material energy, the most valuable lesson I have learned is to be unattached to its infinite feelings.