Happy Me, Happy You by Serge Kahili King

Author:Serge Kahili King
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Quest Books

Chapter 6

Your Relationship with Your Spirit

This chapter is probably not at all what you thought it was going to be. That’s because, in English, the word spirit has so many different meanings. The word’s most fundamental meaning is “essence.” That’s all well and good, but there are many ways to think of the essence of something. For some people, spirit refers to the essence of alcoholic beverages, produced by a process of distillation, such as brandy, vodka, and gin. However, this chapter is not about alcohol.

For other people, spirit refers to nonphysical entities that inhabit material things, like nature spirits; or to entities that used be physical, like the spirits or the dead; or to things that represent the essence of something abstract, like the spirit of a civilization; or to angels and immortal beings vast in scope and beyond our understanding. I’m not talking about any of them here, either.

For still other people, the essence of a human being is a mysterious something called the “soul.” This chapter is not about your soul in the way that most people think about it.

What I am going to talk about, and provide demonstrations and techniques for, relates to your spirit in terms of energy and how that concerns your relationships in general.

YOUR PHYSICAL ENERGY

I have already talked a little about physical energy when I described how your body transforms sensory information from the world around you into electrical impulses that travel along your nervous system. Now I will go more in depth with this subject.

Without sufficient physical energy, you can’t kiss a lover, hug a friend, or run from an enemy. Most people don’t give much thought to their physical energy, taking for granted that they either have it or they don’t. In fact, an amazing number of people think that energy is a kind of physical substance that can be poured into or drained out of them. Even worse, some people honestly believe that other people can suck out their energy, leaving them depleted and sick. To banish such fears and enable you to have as much energy as you want to for your relationships, I’m going to explain how your physical energy system really works.

Cell Energy

Operating muscles, extracting wastes, making new cells, healing wounds, and using your brain are constant, everyday activities that require energy. It’s fairly obvious that the food we eat, the water we drink, and the air we breathe all affect the amount of energy we have. They do, of course, but only indirectly.

Our most direct source of energy comes from the molecules of a chemical compound called adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which is created inside our cells. When your body needs energy to do something, the ATP molecules are broken apart. This process releases energy in the form of electron waves that is then available for the body’s various activities.

However, to make the ATP molecules in itself takes a lot of energy, so where does that energy come from? Here’s where water, air, and food come in.

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