Energetic Parasites

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Energetic Parasites

Parasitic energy is energy that is all-consuming. When you’re stuck in it, you feel triggered and anxious, and you start ruminating on what might happen or did happen, casting yourself as the victim of someone else’s behavior without thinking of any way you might want to change or engage differently. You start feeling attached to results. You start anticipating in advance how you’ll react if X happens versus how you’ll react if Y happens. You’ll feel defensive and judgmental of how everything outside of yourself is being handled, while mentally validating and insisting that however you’re handling things is on the up-and-up. For sure, when you’re caught in parasitic energy, you feel lower energy, tired, and frustrated.

How to deal with parasitic energy:

#1: Noticing what it feels like when parasitic energy has taken over. This is basic somatic awareness to notice when you feel bad, and decide to observe exactly what’s going on—what are the sensations? What are the thoughts? This somatic awareness, however, has to focus on simply being aware. Don’t make it mean anything, just yet.

#2: Unpack the Stories. When you’ve spent some time simply being aware, now you can ask yourself what the “Stories” are that you tell yourself about the situation. What are you making it mean? Is there another possible interpretation? Are you telling stories that are limiting? Are there stories that speak more to possibility?

#3: Look a few layers underneath the presenting Stories. What’s driving this Story? Why would this be the Story I would adopt? What frame of mind must I be, in to adopt this Story?

Someone once brought up a topic with me that I said I wasn’t open to discussing on the phone. What I really meant was that I wasn’t open to discussing it at all, but I had only mentioned the phone. The person later emailed me. I was furious—I told them I didn’t want to discuss it! How dare they! I had to pause with what I felt, unpack the Stories that I was “making it mean” that they were overriding my boundaries. Then I asked myself, “What’s driving this Story? Why would this be the Story I would adopt?” It occurred to me that there was a place where I didn’t trust the person and that was the real issue. If I trusted them, I would have easily assumed, “Ah, they misunderstood me—they didn’t realize that I don’t want to talk about this.” Dealing with parasitic energy, it was harder for me to see this.

#4: Choose a course of action that is the antithesis of your Story, and see if that creates movement.

The place from which we habitually react and get stuck is a place you’d think we would all recognize and not do, yet again, the next time around. But we are human, so when we are faced with parasitic energy our tendency is usually to battle it in all the usual ways. And often, that means we’re just stuck in it, longer and it becomes even more parasitic. So, when dealing with parasitic energy, what if we choose the opposite? What if we choose patience when we are most sure that someone should be hurrying? What if we choose compassion when we are most sure that we have been wronged? What if we choose action when we are most sure that the systems are too big and powerful to every change?

#5: Ask yourself: “What would acceptance do? What would forgiveness do? What would compassion do in this situation?”

Parasitic energy feeds on “being right.” Asking what the choices of acceptance, forgiveness, or compassion would bring is a way of getting out of “being right” and into being back in our grounded selves.

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Three iconic species have been reintroduced to an Australian national park more than a century after they were driven out by invasive predators.

Twenty western quolls, 20 bettongs and 100 bilbies were released into Sturt national park, New South Wales, where they were abundant before European settlers introduced cats and foxes, which drove them out.

Now the marsupials are back amid efforts to create “safe havens” for them. The return of the western quoll is particularly exciting for conservationists as it’s a top predator and should help to “restore the desert ecosystem”.

“Seeing their tracks in the red sand for the first time in around a century and radio tracking them daily to check their survival has been a thrill,” said Dr Rebecca West, principal ecologist at the University of New South Wales, which led the project. “So far, they are surviving well.”

The safe zones have some cats in. The aim is to teach the marsupials how to live alongside them, which research from South Australia suggests is possible.

DID YOU KNOW?

Meditation almost certainly does sharpen your attention.

It’s not surprising that meditation would affect attention, since many practices focus on this very skill. And, in fact, researchers have found that meditation helps to counter habituation—the tendency to stop paying attention to new information in our environment. Other studies have found that mindfulness meditation can reduce mind-wandering and improve our ability to solve problems.

There’s more good news: Studies have shown that improved attention seems to last up to five years after mindfulness training, again suggesting trait-like changes are possible.

Do these benefits apply to people with attention-deficit disorders, and could meditation possibly supplant drugs like Adderall? We can’t yet say for sure. While there have been some promising small-scale studies, especially with adults, we need larger randomized controlled trials to understand how meditation might mix with other treatments to help both kids and adults manage attention-deficits.

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Arrow Lunge (Anjaneyasana)

What is Arrow Lunge?

Arrow lunge is a variation of anjaneyasana, or low lunge. It's particular to the Forrest Yoga tradition. Rather than balancing on the ball of the back foot, it's the back of the back foot that presses toward the floor. The pose gives a deep hip stretch and develops balance.

Instructions

• Begin in a low lunge with the left leg forward. Keep the fingertips on the floor.

• Slide the right knee back so that it's behind the right hip. Make sure that the right foot points straight back.

• Press into both feet and lift the right knee from the floor. Engage the legs to keep a lift in the lower body.

• Slowly lift the hands from the floor and reach them overhead.

• Breathe while holding the pose.

• Exhale and release. Change sides.

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