Life Angles: LIFE Acronym #14 - Leeches Inconspicuously Filch Energy

LIFE Acronym #14:
"Leeches Inconspicuously Filch Energy"

[***NOTE*** This was supposed to be the post for Sunday, August 7th, but I fell asleep in the middle of writing it last night. So I've decided that from now on I'm not going to stress about what date the posts end up on. I'll just make sure that there is one post represented for every day that passes until 100 days since the day that I took up my blog again. 100 days from that date will put me squarely on 11-1-11]

There are many different species of leeches, but here in this post I will be talking about the freshwater aquatic blood-sucking leeches. If this subject doesn't interest you, please read on regardless, because as always, I am going to relate this to your life. :)

Leeches are found in various places all around the world. Did you know that these creatures have two mouths and two brains, and can carry five times their body size in blood? They secrete enzymes that keep the blood alive until they have the chance to digest it (kinda freaky, I know).

Here's the parasitic feeding process that these creatures engage in:

1. They first carefully sneak into position, and then excrete a powerful anesthetic that keeps the host unaware of what is going on.

2. Then, they latch on with their powerful suckers. These suckers are so strong that you will tear the leech's head off of its body before you will pull the leech off. The only way to get a leech off is to break the suction by wedging a flat object underneath the sucker.

3. Once they are attached, they pierce the skin with a sharp proboscis to get the blood flowing out of your body.

4. After they have access to your blood, they insert an anticoagulant that keeps the blood from clotting. Because of this, the wound can bleed from 2 hours to 3 days after a bite.

5. Next they latch on with their jaws, which contain many small teeth. Now the blood-sucking can begin. This gluttonous feeding process lasts anywhere from 20 minutes to 2 hours, and once they're full, they roll off.

If, of course, you manage to catch them red-handed (pun intended), you can do your best to try to deny them of the remainder of their crimson meal. But, be careful in this endeavor. If you try using fire, alcohol, salt, or any other forceful means, they will vomit back into the wound, unleashing a harmful and disease-ridden miscellany of bacteria, viruses, and parasites into your bloodstream.

Our blood is our life-giving energy. It is what provides our cells with the needed oxygen and other nutrients that they need to survive. When a leech bites a human, it is taking energy from that person, which the person will have to replace. It is also leaving a wound that will continue to bleed, and will take a while to heal. Leeches not only take the good stuff, but they leave the bad stuff as well (bacteria, viruses, and parasites).

We humans despise leeches for their parasitic nature. But didn't you know that some people have similar tendencies? And I'm not referring to blood-sucking here. I'm sure that you agree with me that vampires are only found in science fiction literature. What I'm referring to here is the leeching of someone's physical, mental, or emotional energy by another person.

Every person has sort of a "spiritual vibration", and the energy that a person either gives or takes depends upon the frequency of this vibration. If someone is living their life very much in line with the eternal principles or love, peace, and purity, the positive energy that they emanate will be high. But if someone is having severe problems in their life, and being depressed or negative, then they are living in a very low energy level.

Please do not compartmentalize, stereotype, or label people. I am not saying that people are either one way, or the other way. This energy depends not upon an unchangeable nature within a person, but rather upon how that person is living their life AT THAT TIME.

People who are living in high positive energy have more than enough for themselves. They have such an abundance of energy that they can let it overflow out onto other people and lift them up. But it's easier for a high-energy person to lift medium-energy people than low-energy people, and it still does take its toll on the higher-energy person in the interaction. Just because they are high energy does not mean that they have a shield of immunity to low-frequency negative energy.

There are many people who are not living with self-love and a peaceful acceptance of life's experiences and learning processes. These people tend to be at odds with life, and can leech energy from others. And they do this without even realizing it. They can be living like energetic leeches; always looking for the next person to talk with and whine to about their problems. They're looking for some sort of validation, or emotional release from their pain. But they don't realize that they are taking energy from others when they do this.

Also, just as the leech's victim is unaware of what is going on due to the anesthetic that the leech secretes, often the person who is losing energy to another person does not realize it either.

I'm not trying to point fingers at these "low-energy" people by comparing them with leeches. Please remember that despite our view of leeches, they are actually innocent themselves and are simply following their instincts when they latch onto a human's skin. Energy-sucking people are just living their lives the best that they know how, and do not actually realize that they are like a constant energetic black hole, taking in everything that they can get and giving little to nothing in return.

This can also apply to committed relationships. If you are in a committed relationship, please be sure that you are both giving relatively similar amounts of energy to the relationship, and that there is not a "leech" in your relationship that is causing a one-sided imbalance in the health of the relationship. Those kinds of relationships don't last long if the imbalance is not soon corrected.

There are countless people on this earth who have not gotten into learning about personal development and self-growth, and don't even realize that their personal energetic posture is so important.

They understand the principles, but they never really think of them on the metaphysical level. Most people realize that some people are so happy and genuine that everyone wants to be around them, and yet some people are so negative and sullen that not very many people want to be around them.

This is just the simple, obvious, superficial way of explaining something that is truly much deeper and more profound by nature. The energy level that people are living at is precisely what makes both charismatic, magnetic people, and sullen, despondent people. And of course, it also makes everyone in between, because in this world of over 6 billion people, there are people living all across the spectrum.

Everyone's goal should be to raise their own energy, and learn to be living at a higher level so that they can lift others who are in the world around them.

And keep in mind that there are different personality types. Don't confuse a certain personality type with a "low-energy" person. This energy that I have been speaking of refers not to introverts vs. extroverts, not to sanguine types vs. more reserved types, but instead correlates to the person's overall level of happiness, and their life's alignment with true and proper principles.

This energy consists of physical energy, emotional energy, mental energy, and spiritual energy.

Now that you know how important it is to pay attention to your energy, I'll give you some ways to lift your energy:

• Exercise daily and eat healthy (eat more fresh fruits and vegetables). Your physiological self affects your spiritual self more than you know.

• Spend time each day for introspection and meditation. High-energy people are the kind of people who are always learning more about their inner selves. And the knowledge that they gain empowers them in untold ways.

• Spend time each day to commune with deity (a.k.a. PRAY). I'm assuming here that my audience is chiefly Christian, but I hope that any non-Christians who are reading this still believe in a higher power. And I hope that any non-Christians, agnostics, or even atheistic people who stumble upon this blog will still read it anyway, and glean from it the non-religious parts that are valuable for human growth and happiness no matter what one's beliefs are.

• Study the subject of human psychology, and learn about the power of your own thoughts and your subconscious mind. In my humble opinion, I think that it is absolutely foolish to be disinterested in this subject, as it is one of the most important subjects that I have ever learned about, and is absolutely INTERLACED all throughout every aspect of personal growth and progression.

• Study the subject of emotions, and learn to understand your own emotions and the part that they play in your life. Your emotions should eventually become your friend, rather than your enemy. Emotions can cause problems when they're not dealt with or viewed correctly. But when they are seen in their true light, they become an important companion in life's journey, and serve to make life that much more dynamic and wonderful.

• Always work on your own spirituality, and read as much as you can about spiritual things. Spiritual books and articles can remind our inner selves of the things that matter most. This is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT, because life has a way of getting us to forget about the things that matter most.

• Learn to love and accept yourself no matter what. Only when you completely love and accept yourself can you give outwardly to other people and lift them up.

• Learn to love and accept others no matter what. This love should be akin to the biblical term called "Charity", and is essentially "The Pure Love of Christ". Christ loves ALL of us, no matter what. And we need to be emulating that love as best we can. This applies to EVERY HUMAN, no matter what they have done to us, our families, our communities, the nation, or the world. This doesn't mean that we "accept" or "condone" their behavior. It just means that we love them as a human being, and we recognize the inherent and eternal worth of the human soul.

• Seek a worthy spouse if you don't have one. And if you do, then seek to grow your relationship into a synergistic, dynamic, mutually loving, accepting, and building relationship. More good has been accomplished in this world by people who have good, open, genuine, loving, and healthy relationships, than by anyone else.

In summary, love all leeches, but do not call them leeches, and do not tell them that I called them leeches! Haha... ;)

But, seriously, love those who have not yet learned to balance out their lives and are living in a state of low happiness and low energy. And love those amazing people who have so much in harmony in their lives that they are just radiating a positive, resplendent energy that attracts people of all walks of life. And most importantly, make it your life's quest to become the latter, and try never to find yourself in the shoes of the former for too long.