YOU are an energy being. You are made of energy, you emit energy, you absorb energy. Your physical self is a manifestation of your energy, as is the whole of your material experience.

Every thing and no-thing, that is, every physical and non-physical contact you make has an effect upon you and you have an effect upon it. This includes other people, animals, plants, the very earth upon which you tread, and the very air in and outside you. It is more obvious that we transform food and liquids with these bodies, but we also make infinite transformations in other types of contact or with thoughts alone.

A thought is an energy transaction. Your physical brain has electrical events to conduct your thoughts through that matter, but your mind and spirit, the non-physical part of you, is the originator of these pulses. Your emotional energy may be reflected in physical responses, but the source is you. Whether you are in contact physically with another person or thing, your emotional response to them is transmitted just as surely as if it were carried by a wire. You are also receiving these transmissions of energy from others.

Now all of this can happen automatically, leaving you defenseless against bombardments from others, or totally unaware of how you are truly affected by them or radiating outward to them. Your unconscious or subconscious habits can also restrict or direct transmissions which you might well alter if you recognized them. By the same token, other people may be manipulating what you send to them, with their own guardian at the gate.

Despite what some may infer from these statements, you cannot change other people by force of will. They have freedom to choose what to do with incoming energy, just as you do, though they may not be consciously aware of this freedom. You can only change you. You can alter your own energy emmisions by being who you want to see in the world. Be the best you can imagine, proceed with your highest intentions, and integrity of soul/spirit.

This will not only make you more of who you want to be, but will help echo back the same energy to you (see Attraction & Reflection). If you feel incoming energy which you find bothersome or uncomfortable: 1) make sure you are not sending out any of this type, and 2) realize that you do not have to accept it. You are well within your rights and power to let such energy flow on by you. To resist is to literally create a static field between your will and the incoming force. Don't do this. Don't fight it. But don't absorb it either. Recognize that others have different energy signatures than you do and let it be, but also let it pass.

Reacting is a method of absorption. This is wonderful if you allow an emotional or thoughtful reaction to take place when you experience something you feel good about, or something you appreciate. It is detrimental if you react abrasively or combatively. You are then feeding the very energy which you do not like.

Awareness of your energetic power and the power of all other energy beings, is how you make the best use of it for you. Otherwise, you can be like so many others, who simply bounce around in the energy streams, thinking they're victims of life, when they simply have not seen the energy and the freedom of chosing how to use it.