Amplifying your own essence: Healing from the inside out
- Feb 17
- 3 min read
By Susana DuMett
Often people seeking to feel stronger in themselves come to me wanting to learn how to protect their energy. My sensitive nature used to get the better of me, so I understand the impulse to put up barriers against others and the world. Boundaries are important, but having learned the power of energetic intelligence, I now encourage people to learn about energy and how to master it over putting effort into avoiding or blocking. In my experience, it’s one of the most powerful and radical things a person can do.
How you hold your own energy directly affects your resilience, emotional balance, and sense of ease in the world. In knowing how to tend to the energy systems within and around you, you can support your healing and regenerate your own energy. Energetic intelligence or mind and energy mastery is the antidote to stress, burnout, feeling drained by other people, and so much more—helping you show up consistently, authentically, and sustainably in your own vital essence.
Protecting energy assumes threat and that your energy is limited. It positions you as fragile in a hostile world, someone who can easily be depleted by difficult environments or “energy vampires.” Temporarily retreating from things is perfectly healthy, but a focus on protection without cultivating inner strength, reinforces the idea that something outside of us has power over us. Energetic intelligence is the opposite. In emboldening your own energy, your default is more vibrant, present, and powerful. You take the driver’s seat of your own life, not allowing the whims and turmoil of the outside world to adversely distract or drain you.
As an energy practitioner and energetic intelligence coach (with a background in strategic communications), I came to this work out of a health crisis that needed me to step into my personal power to overcome. Mindset and energy healing directly improved my health, clarity, and capacity to live well. Beyond healing, I gained heightened perception and razor-sharp discernment, especially around what’s mine to tend to and what’s not. I stopped leaking energy and learned to shift it within and around myself to serve myself and others better.
To get a sense of this is, sit in a chair with your feet flat on the ground. Imagine cords of energy extending from your feet and the base of your spine into the earth, rooting you. Breathe and bring your attention to the center of your body, your core, your heart, the place where you feel most yourself. Sense a spark or excited pressure there. Don’t force it. Let it emerge naturally. You might imagine it as a star or a steady light of life force energy or something else.
Allow that feeling to expand without strain, filling your body. Then let it extend just beyond you, above and below, front and back, not as a barrier, but as a field, an extension of your inner power. Be with it, feel it, amplify it more.
This practice works because you’re calling forth what’s already inside. Anchored in yourself, there’s nothing to stave off. That’s why it’s radical. The truth is, you are more powerful than you’ve been led to believe. What doesn’t resonate naturally falls away.
You can remain open, connected, and present without absorbing what isn’t yours to carry. You can be an eye in the storm in these uncertain times, bringing authentic balance and presence to all that you do. How might this shift your own life, business, family, or day-to-day interactions? This is when your own healing can become a healing for others too.
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