565 thoughts on “Connection, Choice & Energy: Are You the Pilot or is Autopilot Running You?”

1. This is so true from my own experience
   “Serge Benhayon of Universal Medicine elaborated on this teaching by saying, “If everything is energy, therefore everything is because of energy”.”
   I can now absolutely feel the difference in the two energies that are available to us which is fire or prana and I can feel when I have allowed myself to be affected by prana my insides become infected and the negative thoughts start to pour in and poison my body. This is a completely different sensation to when I allow fire into my body this brings a settlement and a joy to every aspect of my life. And what I am beginning to hate is that the Pranic energy is always seeking an entry point into our bodies to infect us with negative thoughts and actions. It seems to me we are playing out a constant battle to stay in the fiery energy.

2. Since attending workshops and courses by Universal Medicine, I have a deeper understanding of life, and that all that happens is because of energy. I have learned many things including self-care and self-nurture, and the biggie for me was to learn not to react, which allows me to read situations and respond – makes such a big difference.

3. So when we feel a victim of life or life is too hard or difficult, we can stop and ask ourselves what energy have I chosen, have I chosen auto pilot mode and from that question, we can stop, breathe and feel our bodies so that our next movements are with our bodies.

4. How do you feel? Did you live connected to your heart today? If not this may explain the stresses and strains you feel. No solution is needed, no review just connect and move forward and you can make a new start with you.

5. It is such a great point to come to, or even just to acknowledge, that there is or even that there can be different energetic sources for the movements of our bodies. Because this starts a whole new world of discussion and investigation in to the possibilities of: if this is the case, then what is really going on here?

6. Thank you for the detail here Rosie. Bringing this level of observation to ourselves calls one to live with a much deeper level of self honesty, which can be a huge adjustment in itself.

7. It’s such a great question ‘Are You the Pilot or is Autopilot Running You?’. We are vessels of energy and so which energy are we choosing to run us? We can either choose love or whats not love will choose us – its always one or the other, we can think we can sit on the fence but thats pure illusion!

8. We can use the other fuel and do very well for a long time. Drive and stress can be very effective but our bodies show the consequences over time.

9. I love this and what is asked of us to consider. If the quality of connection to our essence is not moving us then what quality is, what is the momentum that we are in and what quality of energy or vibration is behind it? Bringing this awareness to how my body is feeling, honestly feeling, has been life changing to say the least as I have realised how the body just never ever lies about the quality of energy we have chosen to be moved by. The truth walks with us with our every step we only need to be willing to be open to it and be guided by it.

10. Living everyday being aware of the fact that we are the creators of our own lives, puts a whole new way of living before us. It brings forth how powerful we are, we are all Gods and that’s a lot to accept, allow and live, but my goodness what glory lies before us if we choose to live this fact.

11. I think a lot of the time we think we are the pilot when we are not, have you ever found yourself feeling slightly off or that something isn’t quite right or you do something and after you are like – what was that? Could it be then that in those moments someone else is piloting our vehicle?

12. either way the ship keeps running…. totally we will be moved, it is just what is it that is moving us, love or a force. Simple. I love your very practical examples of how to support yourself to stay present and choosing.

13. Yes whatever is happening outside of us or inside of us as in our thoughts and feelings, we always can choose to come back to ourselves, have a moment of feeling what we are actually feeling, feeling ourselves and then keep going with what we were doing in a different way – with ourselves that is.

14. It’s key to recognise the thoughts and call them out for what they are; as in love or not love. Otherwise, it’s far too easy to get swept away in thoughts and lose ourselves.

    1. I really don’t do that enough, I am still caught up in they are my thoughts and identify with them and play them out. It really is irresponsible and the choice to be more aware is always available.

15. “Your body runs either way, it’s just the quality of life you end up living is totally different.” love this line. It makes me sit up and pay attention. The fact that we are ‘functioning’ is one thing, living our true potential is another. There is no way we can be all of who we are if we are running on autopilot.

    1. When you look around at our communities and friends and family, it is sad but obvious to see how many of us are just functioning rather than really living it up.

    2. No we can’t be who we are but we can think we are getting what we want …

16. We as humans like to think that we have control, control over our movements, thoughts, the things we say and how things in life play out. And to an extent that is true, we can choose which source of energy we align to. But, when running on autopilot, we are not in the drivers seat. Our vehicles get run by a force that can make us so very human, things that could lead to a complete destruction of our being.

    1. It is a pure illusion to think that we have control when in autopilot for the reality is we are being controlled and in that, given the thoughts to think we are in control.

17. That there are two different energies of life is a great science, and that these two have very different effects or outcomes on not only life itself but within the human frame itself that they are running is very incredible even just to consider.

    1. I agree Shami there is a whole other level of awareness that we can and are designed to be living with, as Rosie has shared here. When we are open and willing to feeling the difference between living with the quality of love and all that is not love and the effect this has on our body and being, the way we live is then attuned to a whole new level of greater harmony.

18. It’s a very clear distinction isn’t it, that the rushing, anxiousness or feeling checked out is the mind led human being, versus the calm, steady way of being with the whole body and the grace and beauty of being connected to ones soul.

    1. One exhausts you and the other provides you with more energy than you can imagine possible.

19. Through the world of energy we get access to the enormity of life (hence of ourselves) in a big way. There is nothing else.

20. Just because life ‘just happens’ does not mean it is you. We are scared of being controlled and told what to do but the irony is often there’s an energy that’s running us that’s not true.

    1. The thing is when that energy is running you, you are being controlled!

21. ‘If I am not present with myself, and I am not aware of which energy I am running on, I have found myself eating food that I know is not good for me, but I eat it anyway.’ Yes, I have done this a lot recently and it stops me from feeling just how far I have separated from my inner connection, and I can no longer read what is going on around me, which means that I avoid dealing with situations that really need my attention.

    1. Yes, I know this all too well. So now when I find myself eating certain foods, I stop to question… what changed, what did I react to, what didn’t I want to feel and get to the cause rather then stay in the effect and over eat. Still a work in progress.

22. ‘Who is the pilot, if it is not you?’ We might think that there’s no harm done in checking out, switching off, not having any idea how we got from A to B, but when we’re not with ourselves, we are allowing ourselves and our bodies to be run by another energy. Hence the unwanted thoughts, the need to distract ourselves from what we don’t want to feel – that disconnection that we’ve chosen – through whatever means, be it through eating, physical activity, working. socialising. None of these things are ‘bad’ – but it’s how we are with them that matters – are we doing them in connection to ourselves and all others, or to distract or numb ourselves from something we don’t want to feel?

23. If you see someone is not able to cope or is checking out, it’s easy to think you need to take their part on your plate. But what I have got to see is this is just a trick of the spirit, the same energy that has taken them off track is also holding us back. The key is to return to the steady consisentency of Love – this is what I have learnt from what you shared Rosie.

24. What I can feel is the simplicity of what we are here to learn – to keep saying yes to our connection constantly and consistently.

25. I have experienced many programs running through me. The key was whether I had awareness of them or not – those I didn’t realise were running could do pretty much whatever they want – until I notice them.

26. Wow, I really needed to read this today! Thanks Rosie. I realised today that if I’m feeling anxious and distracting myself from feeling it, I’m on autopilot and not really feeling anything.. effectively allowing another energy to run my body. When I take ownership of my body by choosing to stay aware of what I can feel, and expressing whatever is there to be expressed, I feel alive, vital and energised. When I let that go, sell out in favour of holding back, and seemingly making everyone else feel comfortable, i.e. not rocking the boat, it feels awful – I’m allowing myself to be dominated by a contracted energy and it makes me feel exhausted. The quality of energy we choose to run our bodies with affects our whole being, life, and the health and wellbeing of our bodies.

27. I love this blog and the simplicity of what you feel in your body – the phrase I learned is that you are ‘either harming or healing but never both’ and today I saw another beautiful phrase that asks the question, ‘is it empowering and evolving?’ It reminds me that everything I do or say has an effect and when I live with true purpose and with full conscious presence, everything I do can be both empowering and evolving.

28. One rule of thumb I have is; if it’s not a thought that is of love, than I know it is not love and I need to re-connect.

29. When we run on autopilot we are running with beliefs and ideals, which come from our head and not our body.

30. Tracking back from the end choice – eg the food we choose to eat – to the energy we are in when we make that choice -makes so much sense. Once we are at the fridge door its too late. When I feel loving with myself the choice to eat foods that aren’t good for me isn’t an issue.

31. Being connected to my body makes all the difference, I then notice if I start to check out or lose presence and can bring myself back more easily.

32. Yes complication is a dead giveaway!

33. And that’s our real choice, what energy runs us, for once we’ve chosen that all else follows. And as you say Rosie, the body runs either way, but the quality of how we are varies enormously in that body, and in the world.

34. When running around on auto pilot it feels like being in a runaway car driven by a mad and uncaring joy rider and then the day unfolds in this same energy until stopping the auto pilot and taking command of the vehicle (body) again through being in stillness within.

35. If we truly wish to change our life – we’ve been given the key – it’s energy. So isn’t it simple then to practically watch and measure the way we live? The fact that we ignore and skim over this fact is so telling of which pilot is in charge. Thank you Rosie.

36. Great points Rosie, love the appreciation for noticing any pain or discomfort in the body and the opportunity these little indicators offer us to choose what energy comes next.

37. I really love the practical and relatable examples you share here. They help me to see exactly how these scenarios play out for me.

    1. Yes, we can notice programs running us when we are ‘doing’ that is not sensible or is disharmonious.

38. This world is not about power struggles but power sources. If you plugged in your computer to a Double A battery you wouldn’t expect the best results – so why do we persist in running off a source that just isn’t Love? Thank you Rosie for prompting the question.

    1. Love your humour Joseph and the point you and Rosie make is profound. It’s love or it’s not – there is no in between.

    2. Exactly my friend, it either is or it isn’t. And how that feels in your body is worlds apart.

39. Being captain of our own ship. How many of us want this, but choose something else, because our unresolved hurts get in the way, and some other energy or force runs our ship, keeping us stuck in old patterns and behaviours, going no-where. The best medicine to give ourselves, is to heal the hurts in our body so that our ship (the body), can sail in the only true direction, which is back to Soul.

    1. Yes but I also feel that a lot do not want to be responsible and hand over the tiller or wheel of their ship and let another energy run it and then complain that they don’t like the course they are sailing. What they may not have realised is they are actually the one that chose to give their power away in the first place.

40. When I allow the auto-pilot to run the day, it always feels stressful and filled with the energy of having to rush about. Being the pilot of my day, brings space and a sense of open-ness for all to flow in its natural order.

    1. I know what you mean, its like you are taken on a roller coaster ride and you can’t get off or slow down! I hate that feeling!

41. For me, I don’t need to rely on a Scientist or so and so with this or that after their name to tell me how it is… all I need to do is use my body and be my own science project and everything is very clear.

42. This is a very good point for us all to ponder – if we get from A to B but cannot remember how we got there, who is steering the ship and what is the quality we then arrive with?

    1. I realised I was on auto pilot the other day, driving the same route home when I actually needed to turn and was too late and I laughed out loud, knowing that I had not been present and that I had missed the turning. Its easy to get lost and not know what is running us.

43. I like how you describe the difference when you are in the drivers seat…connected with your body. When there is conscious presence with movement there is ample space and a knowing that all unfolds very naturally.

44. Talking those moments to connect with the body and the breath are key, as without this we can be ignorant of the fuel we are running on. We can all feel the quality of the energy moving through us.

    1. We can be ignorant of the fuel we are running on for sure, and often think we are on premium when in fact the fuel we are running on is slowly killing our engines!

45. Connection with our bodies is paramount; it allows one to live with purpose in life no room to check out and play with the fairies just a constant commitment to the love of humanity.

    1. So true Francisco, when we are connected, we are present and grounded and their is not air fairy about it.

46. We can step from one boat to another at any time – how do we change ships? It’s a choice of fuel.

47. Autopilot doesnt require responsibility. Taking again responsibility for our life and circumstances, living with integrity and respect is our true way. Accepting that each of us has this responsibility is for each of us to arrive at. Until such time, as many baulk at such an honesty, we are left with the array of human behaviors that are deeply harming and hurtful.

    1. And that is why so many like auto pilot, no responsibility or accountability.

48. Beautiful, we can either be on the ship that is leading us to our way of loving more and more, or we can be on the ship that is leading us to be more in a waywardness of creation that is lacking love. What ship are we on? And are we in the movement of the ship of love or the one without? That is a great question.

49. Our thoughts are a great marker of the quality we are running our day or our body in. If I’m having a negative thought about myself I know I’m off track. How many things do we do a day that effect our thoughts? From investigating so far I can say – our food, the way we move, the way we sit in a chair, the conversations we have. Could everything we do be effecting our quality, and hence the quality of our thoughts?

    1. I feel that yes, everything we do, even the way we open the fridge door, the way we sit down on the toilet or the way we wash our hands, all of the little details, they all effect our quality and therefore the quality of our thoughts.

    2. Great question to ask Meg for when we start to understand this, that everything we do counts and its not what we do but in how we do it. Are we fully present or are we checked out – both produce very different results and very different thoughts!

       1. I just thought about how we read a blog like this for example… do we half read it or are we fully present? Do we get what is on offer or do we skip read, check out and make a quick assumption? I know I am guilty of both and I know what feels better.

    3. What a great marker you have Meg, regarding being off track after even one negative thought! I know for myself that I have definitely gone a long time in my head with all kinds of negative thoughts and not feeling enough before coming to a point that questioned what energy (or fuel as Rosie shared) was running me at the time. But the reality is that we (as Divine beings) are not designed to have even one negative or self-critical, doubting thought. So knowing this and then making different choices during the day – to move more gently for instance and with presence in your body can go a long way to switching over to a fuel that is all about healing, learning, and evolving.

50. “I have found myself eating food that I know is not good for me, but I eat it anyway” – I do this too and what I appreciate in this is, if there is the intention to know and to know well how the unsupportive energy works and feel deeply the effects and consequences, patterns and momentums shift from a true response of choosing love.

51. Sometimes I find my body gets hijacked. One moment I am fine then Wham! Before I know it I am eating something I very very rarely go for. But is this behaviour really ‘out of the blue’ or am I incrementally opening the door for another pilot/energy to take over my body?

    1. That happens to me too. I wonder if that is the moment I open the door, or if I opened the door earlier and this is the moment of take-over – if that makes sense?

52. It is a powerful realization to understand that the quality of life we get to experience is the result of that which we choose to become obedient to. For at every moment we have passing through us the light of the soul that knows we are already everything or the lies of the spirit that keeps us needing to be more, it is just a choice.

53. Being the pilot of our lives brings a great deal of simplicity to our days as we gain our pilot’s license by simply connecting to how we move and how we then bring this to our day to day life. There is no test we have to pass or position to apply for as we navigate through life by the exploration of who we are and how we move within our daily routines. The skies may be windy or wild at times but when we master the basics of our connection to our bodies it becomes a wonderful discovery of so much more.

    1. Yes, and once you try it, and see how it all feels, its a no brainer!

54. This is a very key point – “Your body runs either way, it’s just the quality of life you end up living is totally different.” That leaves us with the question – do we want function or vitality? Existence or true living?

    1. Such a good question… and I have found that when I get home from work, I often get out of my car and I am in function mode and its actually horrible, all about getting it done but … if I stop and re-connect with me, feel my body, take a moment to sit and look at the sunset or take a short walk, then I get on with cooking the dinner… it becomes a pleasure rather than a function. It affects the whole evening and I know that I am a much nicer person to be around when I am living rather than just functioning.

55. When I am thinking about what to say in advance I am in my head and also in the future. I have to ask myself what energy have I allowed in that is running through me in that moment? Surrendering and being present with my mind and body knowing exactly my every movement will determine what it is I am to say and do in the future… I need not be concerned by it now as all I need to do is to be with my body right here and now and connect to the quality I know is true.

    1. It is so easy to get caught in wondering about the future and in that, we just miss this moment, this present!

56. Thanks Rosie, I enjoyed reading this again, it’s a whole different way to look at life but for me it makes perfect sense now as I have observed the difference between the two sources of energy we can draw from. Love feels whole, warm, holding, and offers space, the other source of energy feels devoid of love, it feels degrading, uncaring, and with a focus outside of myself and on reaching outer goals, often with a rush or push to get there. Love is the one the whole body knows and aligns to so well.

57. Each choice leads to the next. So often I’ve tried to change things by willpower alone but only presence delivers the harmony I seek.

    1. We can waste so much energy trying to control and force and sometimes we just have to see that there is a learning in every situation and we can be whatever we want to be in any given situation.

58. When we live our lives from an open heart, there is no need to plan ahead or worry about possible outcomes as there is a certain level of simplicity and clarity that dispels any complications and complexities of the mind.

    1. Thanks Francisco, I get what you mean, but am still learning and practising this one. I know it to be true, and have lived it myself at times… and I have also allowed another energy to take over and BAMMM I have a head full of complications and complexities and it is not good at all!

59. When I am running on auto pilot, I know I am not taking responsibility for my choice of energy and the quality of my movements. Your blog Rosie, brings my awareness to how much I am running on auto pilot throughout my day.

60. I used to think I was free of this ‘auto pilot’ program you describe Rosie because I had a plan, a scheme and a design for how the day should go. After a, b would take place and this would be followed by c which I had carefully scheduled in. Yet weirdly no matter how hard I tried these plans didn’t work out. Inevitably they would over-run and unexpected obstacles would come up. It’s only in recent times that I have started to realise, that the simple key is the energy in which I move. When I am present this is assured, space opens up and I get looked after by God – the ultimate project manager. Sure I still have to put the practical steps in place, but ultimately I know the plan I am following is not mine but a divine one instead.

    1. I love what you’ve shared Joseph, ‘God – the ultimate project manager’. It is so simple isn’t it, to be aware of what energy we move in because it affects everything. Also, the amazing thing is, we are all working under God’s supervision. We may not see him at work but his presence is always with us.

61. In connection we understand there is no individuality, as we deeply know the oneness that we all belong to.

62. I keep coming back to this blog and the brilliant metaphor you use Rosie never fails to touch me. If I am truly honest about how present I am with my body I can see that a lot of the time, I’m not really with me. Whilst I might think I’m moving about, making choices, cooking food etc it’s just another variation of the autopilot program. Because it makes you think you are in control it’s easy to go along and think everything is right with the world but our movements, quality and reactions illustrate the truth of what kind of pilot is actually in the driving seat.

    1. It is quite scary when we realise how often we are on autopilot, and what I have learnt is that when I am on auto pilot, I miss out from being in the moment, seeing things fresh, and responding in the moment, as I react instead. Responses come from being present, reactions, re – actions come from autopilot.

63. Wow Rosie just reading this makes me appreciate what I often choose when I am at work. I just reflected on a behaviour I have recently taken and reading this blog confirms to me the energy I choose to go to and I can just see it laughing and having a whale of a time as I resort to this behaviour. All to stop me from feeling what is truely going on and leaving me smashed afterwards. Then we don’t have that sense and wonder where the day has gone when we haven’t been with ourselves on the first place.

    That connection with ones body is so important – I’d rather be the pilot of my own body.

    1. When we have that thought, “where has the day gone?”, we really should be stopping and asking ourselves… “where have I been all day?”.

64. Loving the practicality of what you share Rosie. The either/or examples really support and confirm that there are only 2 energies we can choose – love and ‘not love’. And if we think we’re sitting on the fence by not choosing we need to think again because if we’re not choosing Love we are choosing ‘not Love’

    1. Yes, there is no “not choosing”, cause if you are not choosing you are still actually choosing just to settle for whatever rather than choose what is love.

65. Rosie what I love is not being on autopilot. In fact when I catch myself in autopilot it feels like I’ve ‘abandoned’ myself, its quite amazing really whereas before building a depth of connection with myself and seeing the critical responsibility of energy and the quality of energy I would happily checkout whilst driving, watching TV and many other activities.

    1. I was asked if I wanted to watch a movie the other night, and in the past I would have said yes, but what I realised last night is that in front of the screen, it is way too easy for me to check out and before I know it, someone else is running the show as I am on auto pilot and I don’t want that anymore, I don’t enjoy it at all…. perhaps for a moment or two, but I don’t like how it leaves me feeling afterwards. So instead of a movie, I did a Chakra-Puncture session and really enjoyed our time together. A much better way to spend the evening!

66. Running on autopilot might seem a comfortable way to live life but maybe not if we consider who or what the autopilot actually is and where it brings us at the end of our day or life.

    1. Comfortable for some maybe, but for me personally, I have absolutely loved every moment of being my own pilot, choosing my own fuel and realising that I had been taken for a ride for a long long time!

67. When we take responsibility for the energy we choose to fuel our vehicle then we know we are on the way home to where we came from. When we allow another to be at the wheel then we become further separated from our true way.

    1. But even when we think we know where we are going or what energy we are using, we can still be fooled. Its a tricky thing at times, and I find that if I am thinking too much then I am most likely already fooled!

68. I really enjoyed the simplicity and practicality of how you presented the two sources or fuels of energy we can run on Rosie. They are distinctly different and knowing this is what provides the stop moment. It’s so important to check in with ourselves because autopilot, negativity, rushing etc can feel quite normal, so checking in gives us that opportunity to come back to love. Your focus on how this plays out in expression was also very helpful, thank you.

    1. Thanks Melinda. I wrote this a long time ago, and I use it all the time. Learning to be aware is not something we just get and that is it, move on…. rather it is something that we use every day. It is wonderful to be able to figure out which energy you are using.

69. Rosie this is so simple, you have given such practical examples that everyone on the planet can relate to that clearly shows that we are responsible and can choose at any moment what energy is running our bodies. I had that light bulb moment this week, if I entertain any negative thoughts about my self then I am just opening my body up to abuse because love does not cut us down or anyone else ever!

    1. I love those moments when you catch a thought and go, hang on a moment, there is no way my loving self could think that, so somehow I have changed which energy I am to choosing to run on. It is simple.

70. In connection we are given access to the wisdom of the universe, there is an absolutely solidness that is felt within and meeting life from this place is a constant flow and joy for all.

    1. You are right, and when in this flow, there are no doubts.

    2. Yes Francisco! And it’s the most beautiful feeling in the world.

71. It’s very easy to get stuck on the end choices we made, the food we eat, how we move but in fact the first choice is the energy we choose as our fuel and really our end choices are a siren call to show which energy it is, one that is loving or one that is abusive.

    1. More and more these days I find my focus is shifting from the end result (the food I ate for example) and asking myself about the energy I have allowed to move me. This makes more sense then beating myself up.

       1. Yes it is important to look at what happened leading up to the binge, anger, upset or whatever reaction you have. This way you can start to learn about how you react and what triggers you.

72. Our bodies are amazing! They will run on all most on anything! But, as a car that’s abused, it wears out quicker, and then we blame the car and accept no responsibility for its early failure.

    1. Yes, so true… and we need to remember that unlike a car, our body is a living being and it is not just the food that we put in it that affects it, but it is our environment and our thoughts, how we move and what we express as all of these parts play a part in the whole and effects us even if we are not aware of it.

73. “So I am in mind but not in body!” And which is “autopilot” and how “to reconnect to feel my body,” so that I can feel any difference so “then it is clear to me that I am the pilot of my ship and I am steering the course that I choose.” Could it be that the way I steer creates a movement that supports my body so I stay connected and then the “fuel or energy” that “is running the ship” is guarantied? Therefore our movements before we steer aligns us to our bodies so we are connected with our body and feel it clearly so there is no question of being on autopilot.

    1. Now that is taking it to a whole other level, but true.. if we change our movements, it guarantees that we have the right fuel to run on, the right energy for our vehicle.

74. “For me, I know I am connected when I am aware of how my body feels” Yep, same for me Rosie. I find it the most supportive ad helpful thing in bringing me back when I’ve lost the plot and feel out of sorts or emotional. Feeling my body bring instant reconnection and back into a responsive way of being instead of a reactive one.

75. It’s great we have these little moments (or bigger ones, if we habitually miss the smaller ones) that tell us when we’re off track. A signal from the soul, letting us know it’s time to readjust.

    1. I have had millions of little moments, and quite a few big ones as I am a slow learner and often play dumb or have to learn the lesson a few times before I get it… and the body just keeps on giving me the moments and they get louder and louder until I finally listen. Thank god it doesn’t just give up on me!

76. So much energy is wasted on pre-planning and working out the words to be used in a conversation and then when coming to speak them, they either come out with a force or in a complete muddle! This is a marker of being on auto pilot. To be in connection with, and express from the body, is harmonious and effortless – this is the joy of being captain of your own ship..
    “If what I am talking about seems simple and I have no need to pre-plan what I am going to say next, then I know that I have chosen an energy that is loving and supports me to connect back to me. It means I am the captain of my own ship”.

77. A great marker for whether we are truly in command of our vehicle (body) or just running around in the vacancy of being on auto pilot.
    “If I am thinking about what to say next, rushing my sentences, not taking moments to pause; if what I am talking about seems complicated or overwhelming, or there is a need, drive or goal I can feel, I know then that I have at some point chosen the wrong form of energy for me. I have allowed another pilot to run my ship!”

78. We are so used to running on autopilot with so many things, and we deem it as normal, but we never question once who the autopilot is that is then running us. As you describe Rosie, it matters greatly that we are present in and with our body to be able to determine the quality/energy that is running through us.

79. I have a couple favourite brands of petrol that I like to put into my car as it makes my car drive and feel very powerful and lovely to drive. So it makes perfect sense for me to treat my body with the same level of care that I do with my car so that I am firing on all cylinders to match the awesomeness of my car… actually it’s the other way around I have to buy the great fuel to match my awesomeness.

    1. I have just got a diesel car so I have to be very aware of which fuel I am using now, as the other will just kill my engine. I feel it is the same as far as energy, with the one, life is awesome, with the other it is just intense and complicated.
       And on the note of diesel, I actually love that I have to turn the ignition on and wait a few seconds as in that moment, I can also just check in to see who is going to be the driver. A perfect stop moment to reconnect before I drive off rather than the speedy gonazalez that doesn’t stop and is taken on a drive.

    2. I’m impressed and inspired that you can feel the difference in the fuel you put into your car. It’s helped me to see that there a whole other level of awareness to go to with attention to detail and feeling the consequences of my choices.

80. ‘One of the ways I’ve used to work out which type of fuel or energy I am using is to become aware of how I am communicating and expressing.’ So true Rosie, becoming the observer is a great teacher.

81. Beautiful written Rosie. You remind me that there is always a pilot and if it’s not us then it’s worth considering exactly who is running the show.

82. When I hold back in my expression I feel the consequences very quickly. It’s like I shrink from the world and my connection not only with others but with myself as the awesome womanI know I am. I belittle myself. Likewise if my expression is not true I immediately feel less. Our bodies are wonderful barometers of what is happening and how we are relating to the world around us. It makes sense then to really look after our bodies and treat them like the precious gifts they are and not treat them in any way carelessly. It also makes sense to breathe our own breath and choose the quality of our movements and not let the outside world run us.

    1. As I read your comment I was thinking of the barometer on the boat, and how fragile it is and how you have to look after it, don’t bump it around or leave it outside to get wet or damp even, because if you damage it in any way, it may not give you an accurate reading and reality is, our body is the same.

83. I have at times had the experience of being in both these situations, and thanks to the teachings of Serge Benhayon I have learnt that the responsibility resides with us as to what energy we use in our decision making. Surely we all prefer to Captain our own ship!

    1. Surely we would prefer to be the Captain and often we actually think we are the Captain but we are not, because the energy that we are running on is even giving us the illusion that we are in charge.

84. No matter what you say – it’s the energy. No matter what you do – it’s the energy. No matter how you look – it’s the energy you live in. We can even say how vital energy is to our every day, but if it still comes from this part of us that wants to resist and ignore the energetic facts of life – we will end up paying the price. What a trickster! So what I hear in your words Rosie is it’s just a matter of time till we see that ignoring true quality does not ever work. For our body is set up to tell us everything about energy. It reports back constantly. It will always bring us back to the truth of how we are designed to be.

    1. We are so lucky that it reports back to us all the time. We just at times need to listen a bit more carefully!

85. Be yourself – or someone else will be it for you.

    By this I mean we have, as Rosie presents, a continual choice to live life in the pilot seat and thus navigate our way through by being true to who we are, or we can check out, put ourselves on ‘auto-pilot’ and simply coast along blindly and thereby run the risk of being ‘pulled under’ by any seeming obstacle we may come across because we have not stayed present with ourselves. It is in the ‘withdrawal’ that we allow an energy that is not us, to run us and we start to develop patterns and behaviours that are not in accordance to the love that we are, thus becoming a vastly reduced version of ourselves.

    1. I love how you shared this Liane, we must be aware of the withdrawal part as that is when we are no longer in the driver’s seat.

86. Einstein opened the door for energy being part of life. It was Serge Benhayon who has brought to our attention that energy is a constant part of our daily lives and what does it mean. Serge has also presented an absolute understanding of how the body relates to it, and its consequences. Thanks to Serge Benhayon we know that we have an intimate relationship with the world of energy, even if we cannot relate to it through our five senses, and how relevant is for us to be aware of it.

    1. The world is yet to appreciate what Serge Benhayon has brought to us by way of understanding energy and our relationship with it. It is absolute gold.

87. Moving around on autopilot is like being a robot that has been cued to execute a certain number of tasks; there is no awareness, no presence and we don’t know how we got from A to B or where we left our keys or wallet. It is a very disembodied and draining way to exist – not truly live.

    1. There is no you in the robot, just function and no life at all – as you say, not truly live.

    2. It’s true gabrieleconrad – it also has me pondering on the fact that going into autopilot is akin to handing over the keys to your car to a complete stranger and telling them to do whatever they want with it. Whose interests is this ‘autopilot’ protecting?

       1. I have never liked anyone else driving my car, why would I want to give them the keys to my body?? Sounds scary but in truth it happens. We check out, and in that moment, we may as well be handing the keys over as we are no longer choosing the directions.

88. More and more I am finding how truly simple the choice of connection or rather reconnection truly is. Nothing hard or complicated about it, it’s just a choice of responsibility that makes it feel difficult

    1. And when things are so simple, we often dismiss them and take the complicated route which leads us even further away from connection!

89. For many this science may sound all too over their heads and asking too much responsibility to live by and accept. But indeed there has not been any other explanation given to why we can have seeming two different and at times starkly differing personalities that can be oscillated between from day to day. Sure we may not all have bi-polar disorder, but how can it be that at one moment we feel one way about something and then the next almost have a completely different perspective and approach to it? Could it be that these are simply us running from two differing sources of energy?

90. What fuel runs us? Now thats a great question on so many levels, do we go about life apparently blind when the truth is our eyes are always open or do we embrace the quality of energy we are.

91. It’s always been a ‘thing’ for me – “am I in my mind or in my body?” What you have so clearly pointed out here Rosie, is there thinking involved or just an action in place. The reinterpretation can be that ‘evil thing’. It’s my relationship with time knowing that it is already there or done, it is just for me to be obedient with the space in front of me – I’m the instrument to put into manifestation. Job done!

92. Thank you Rosie for sharing about the two kinds of energy that can run our bodies and minds, when I am up in my head over thinking a situation or becoming anxious about a situation I definitely know I am not connected, but when I am with my body and its movements there is a flow to life and a simplicity with what I am doing and a sense of quietness.

93. Always great to return to this blog Rosie, to appreciate just how amazing our bodies are, our personal guide, and all we need to do is be willing to choose to tune in. Our bodies are moved by energy, and we are the ones that choose which energy we align to in every moment. In other words, we are always choosing the vibration of love or that which is loveless, and our bodies reflect the truth of our choices, as such is our marker of truth. It is through our willingness to being honesty with how we are feeling that we can then develop our awareness of how we are moving, the quality of life we are living and understand that there is a direct relationship between the quality of our choices and the quality of energy we are choosing to align to.

94. Its great that you have found some clear indicators that warn you that you have stepped away from the wheel, it is a practical down to earth approach that makes heaps of sense.

95. Once again a re-read of your sharing is a great reminder to be consciously aware at all times of the energy I am choosing to live in. Thank you Rosie.

96. It is very easy to run on auto-pilot, not having any conscious awareness of the multitude of movements that take you from A to B. Operating this way through life is not only very exhausting, but makes for a very scattered and hectic experience of life too, speaking personally of course, with a head full of thoughts that are usually unrelated to what I am doing, all the while doing whatever it is I am. It’s exhausting just to recall how it is to operate that way.

97. One thing is for sure, when we run on autopilot we get very depleted. True vitality comes from being in charge of what energy we align to.

98. Fantastic sharing Rosie, when it is pointed out to you about the two energies or fuels for our vehicles you wonder how this can not be known by every person in the world as we live it daily! Nothing new is being presented, we actually do all know this is how the world works but we like to play ignorant so we can essentially be irresponsible and do what we want. The state of our planet is proof of how ill this way of living is.

99. Beautifully expressed Rosie. You make it so easy to see that we are always choosing the energy that will fuel our movements. I am now asking myself if my energy is sourced through my body or my mind. “…who really is the pilot, if it is not you?” When I connect to my body I feel at ease in moments. It is an energy that brings a gorgeous quality to whatever I do and I feel like I am steering my own ship rather than being thrown about the ocean.

100. This is a super-great guide to personal mastery Rosie – love it.
     “I am the pilot of my ship” – or not. Simple. To bring awareness to just who or what is piloting us is everything, and opens us up to more learning about ourselves, the world of energy, and just what is governing us, than we could ever have imagined possible.

     1. So well said Victoria – ‘This is a super-great guide to personal mastery Rosie..’ As this is what it is all about. It is only ourselves that are making choices, whether it is the vibration of love that moves us or not. And we even hold in our fingertips, literally, the wisdom to know the difference.

101. It is true Rosie, once we establish clear markers for which energy we have chosen, it is a matter of then choosing awareness of the fact in any given moment. Life becomes very simple to navigate with this understanding.

     1. It does, and even when you lose your way, its just a matter of coming back, connecting and starting again. No big deal.

        1. Yes super simple… which doesn’t always follow that it’s easy to do especially when you’ve reacted to something and are caught up in it. Always there is a point though I find when a clear choice can be made, to hang onto whatever is getting to me, or to let go and align to something different. The latter is infinitely nicer in the body and in every other respect.

102. Awareness, connection, transparency, reading. Great choices!!!

103. The more aware we are in connection to our own body the easier it is to make self-loving choices that support both us and those around us, it is when we separate from ourselves we end up running on auto pilot.

104. I like this statement- ‘I am now at the helm of my own ship’. Often we can let life do us instead of choosing how we will be with life.

105. Am I in my mind or body I have found to be a great question to keep checking with myself throughout the day to ensure I am using the true fuel of life – love.

106. I know that too, running around with millions thought making myself feeling busy and with that tension in my body, while when I do return to myself there is a relaxation in my body and no busyness at all, only some things to do which I can easily handle.

     1. We can get things done in both types of energy, but the quality that they are done in and how it feels afterwards can be worlds apart.

107. Through Universal Medicine I have come to understand that we have a responsibility to be aware of where our thoughts are, of what we are thinking and that if we do not choose to take responsibility for thoughts then something else will. It is our thoughts that either harm or heal. If we are not feeling all the love we innately are then it is time to choose honesty as we check-in with what we are allowing. Your analogy of the type of fuel we choose for our car is so accurate when reflecting on the fuel (e’g’ thoughts) we choose for our living moments.

108. I love it when “I have no need to pre-plan what I am going to say next”, as that way of being does not bring any stress to my body but a sense of speciousness and joy compared to the other way of being with the pre-planning and in that, controlling mind that brings tension and makes me feel contracted instead.

     1. I was recently at a business networking group where everyone has 60 seconds to speak and I started to panic, oh my what am I going to say as I noticed that everyone had a piece of paper or their phone with prompts or full text for them to read from and in that moment, I remembered that I don’t need to pre think and that when it is my time to speak, whatever is needed for the group will be there and voila…. I gave a great quick talk and even amazed myself. If I had tried to plan it I would of missed the awesome wisdom that came to me in that moment when I let go.

        1. Indeed Rosie, if we can allow that wisdom to come through we are not only blessing ourselves but everybody we are with too. I had something similar with a group of engineers in which we on turn had to give a small presentation. I had prepared some slides but during the actual presentation it all unfolded for me what and how to present and I actually ended up talking about the trinity of philosophy, science and religion which where for sure not on my slides.

        2. That is great Nico, I love when that happens… what you presented is what was needed not what you mind had planned.

109. We take a lot of care to make sure we put the correct fuel in our cars but often seem to take a lot less care when it comes to our body!

     1. Yes, and we make sure we don’t run out of fuel in our cars… yet don’t check our own levels or bring the same level of care to our body. Also, I just thought how we can spend quite a lot of time maintaining our cars, yet struggle at the thought of getting a massage or seeing a naturopath for healthy living advice and supplements. It is important to support and maintain the body, not just fix it if it is broken.

110. I agree the kind of thoughts we have can be a very good indication of what energy is running us. Funnily enough the most insidious thoughts are often not what we normally called bad thoughts because at least with “bad thoughts” we know we are not doing so well and there is an honesty, but the ones to watch for are the good and righteous ones that are void of true love – these can be very harmful.

     1. That is a very good point Nicola, I know exactly what you mean, and it can be tricky if we are not paying attention or being aware…. lights on, no body home syndrome.

        1. ha ha yes good point Rosie – it really is no body home syndrome as in not being connected to our body because our body is the one to listen to.

111. When we nourish ourselves with quality fuel it energizes us with the same quality. In turn this lays the foundation for quality results. Simple.

     1. Yes, very simple yet why do we not always choose that? I have found that I know it, but once I am already running on another energy, it at times can be quite easy to just keep putting in the wrong fuel and being quite un-caring towards myself. Not always, but it does happen!

     2. If we really understood this, many industries that flourish now would be out of business. Illness and disease would be reversed. So with how the world is now, it is super clear to see that most are choosing a quality of fuel to run the body that is far far less then the quality of what our body and its particles are made of.

        1. I can see that this is not a judgement Aimee, but an observation and my feeling is it is because many are just not aware that they are so aware and sensitive and that there is more to us than our physicality.

112. One of the greatest gifts Universal Medicine has given me, is the absolute truth that I am the one steering my own ship. When this is know and lived every choice becomes our responsibility.

     1. Yes and from there, the world and our destiny is really is up to us to make of it what we wish.

113. “if I catch myself thinking thoughts of not being beautiful, not being good enough or not clever enough, then I realise that I have once again lost my awareness and am running on an energy or fuel, so to speak, which is very un-loving and not true at all.” I love this as it is so so easy to think our thoughts are ours and that we are this way. When you make it about that we choose and energy that then runs our body either in a loving or not loving way life gets a whole other dimension to it which makes it easier to understand our behaviours and feelings. It also makes it easier to change them from the one to the other.

114. Great practical examples of how we can choose an energy to run our bodies with and how they can feel when we do that. A good reminder for me today to connect back to my body and to feel how it feels. And that it is always a choice.

115. How simple life is when I realise it’s simply a choice between which fuel I choose to run my body. I love how practical and useful it is to catch the signs of when it’s a harmful fuel that I’ve let run my body – my thoughts clearly show me.

     A simple ok change what’s running me, no point going into it until I’ve returned to love because what’s harmful is invested in keeping itself running and will distort the truth to do so.

     1. No point getting frustrated when we have lost our way again… just simply reconnect is all that is needed.

116. So simple and one of the key factors for all of us in the way we go about our days is the fact we do not realise that we are being ‘flown’ by another pilot or more honestly we choose not to know as it suits us to stay in flow with something that asks us not to be loving, gentle, connected. It is really as simple as you say and requires moment by moment vigilance and loving discipline.

117. Amazing to feel the simplicity that the energy we choose first, is what sets the scene for everything thereafter.

118. I completely agree with you Rosie when you say
     “Through the teachings from Universal Medicine, I’ve discovered you can also look at it this way – you are either connected with your body and feel it clearly or you are disconnected from it, not feeling truly how it is and therefore just running on autopilot. But if this is true, then who really is the pilot, if it is not you?”
     I have lived most of my life in auto pilot, it was not me running my body another energy was because I did not wanting to take responsibility for myself or the choices I was making I dulled myself down. It wasn’t from the want of trying but it was as though I was hitting a brick wall most of the time, I would feel I was taking steps forward only to be pulled back again, I felt like an elastic band and it has been so frustrating. However with the help of the Universal Medicine practitioners I have broken the consciousness that was holding me back, I know this to be true because suddenly I can really appreciate myself and the love that is naturally in my body but was held back is flowing through me and it is such a pleasure to be me. All the hard work has been so worth it.

119. There is such simplicity in what is shared here and yet we make life so very complex at times. This is as Rosie shares, another reflection that we are choosing a less than loving energy as our ‘pilot’. Today this simplicity is reminding me about the joy of just being me and that this is what I am here to be – and that being me is more than enough.

     1. This is gorgeous appreciation and acceptance Richard –
        “Today this simplicity is reminding me about the joy of just being me and that this is what I am here to be – and that being me is more than enough”.

        1. We really do not appreciate enough that we are enough and we don’t have to be anything as we are already it!

120. It is a lot easier to know which energy I am in, when there is a sense of flow and ease, not rushing in my movement or conversations I am connected to my body, when I am rushing around, more things on my mind, trying to do lots and when having a conversation I am usually in my mind and not connected to my body. Its actually very quick to recognise now than it use to be.

     1. Very true Amita, it is easy to recognise it we are open and aware and know the signs.

121. There is a world of difference between being in our head or in our body. When my life was full of struggle and complication, I was mostly in my head, always trying to control and plan ahead…. Making the shift to be in my body by simply making loving choices that truly supported it, my life has become so much more simpler and effortless in that there is no planning, trying or pushing, there is only just being myself and expressing all the love that I am without perfection.

122. ‘One of the ways I’ve used to work out which type of fuel or energy I am using is to become aware of how I am communicating and expressing’. I have this too, I can feel immediately when I have chosen the wrong fuel to express, there is a hardness there and a push and it feels yucky in my body. The good thing is I am quick to spot this, and call it out.

123. There’s no fuzziness with energy, we choose, and it’s one or the other. And you flag a great marker here in how we speak ‘If what I am talking about seems simple ‘ … if things start to get contrived or complicated then it’s a great sign for me also that I’m off track and not with the natural energy of who I am.

124. If we take life in or take life on then the impact we feel, you feel overwhelmed, you try and run through and get it done, you push back, you fall in a heap at the end of the day or week, your body start to break down etc it just makes sense. You are living something that’s not yours to live, you’re not living truly yourself, you’re living everything else. Who is that ‘everything else’? and do they or does it really care for ‘You’ or is it just about it? If you are worn out, broken down, anxious, depressed or even just feeling off then bring things back to you. Nothing can care for you like you do, it maybe similar to an older saying but it rings true. The care you take, the how you are with yourself in thought, action and movement is the key to either having life on your back or having life in front of you so you can see where you step next. We do have a choice but the point we currently think we choose is already the choice. We don’t just turn up at a destination there is a movement or we travel to it and so wherever we end up isn’t the choice otherwise we would just be there, the movement to or the quality of movement to the place is the key and is everything and how you are with that movement already predetermines the destination.

125. ‘And like a good quality fuel that you use for your car – you get great results from it.’ Perfect and so well said. Isn’t it simple. Choose an energy that will serve you to be the best of who you are – not to meet expectations, just to be you, and from there, life no longer needs to be the struggle, the drama and the pain. It’s super simple – go against your own grain, and you’ll reach hurdle after hurdle, go with the flow of your own grain, and cruise on through.

126. Yes, and when we let go of control, it is amazing what God can express through us. I have moments when I say something and I know it did not come from me and I am in awe of what was shared for the other person and for myself in that moment.

127. Gosh, whatever source provides my internal map, it keeps redirecting me to this blog Rosie. I feel it’s because I still have a tendency to pay no attention to the quality of energy I and other people let govern their body. We hear so much noise in the news about terrorist acts, kidnaps and hijacks but we are not alarmed when we get angry, emotional or reactive in life. Yet the truth is our body has been similarly taken over, at ‘energy-point’ if you like, just without any balaclavas. It is time we stopped treating this terrorist energy as if it was a respected pilot.

     1. Loved reading your comment Joseph. It made me laugh but at the same time, it is true. We have to call out the energy for what it is, in all cases no matter how we or another are reacting. To not do so, we are still part of it and just turning a blind eye…. shame.

128. Left to its self our mind becomes a driving force that has little care or awareness of our bodies. The fact that we have choice as to wether we leave our mind to run the show, or choose instead to allow our bodies to have a say is presented here in this blog. Could there be huge power in not only reading what is presented here, but integrating it into how we live our life?

     1. Left to itself, the mind can be reckless and cause a lot of havoc and should come with warning signs. Do not let loose, only use in combination with body at all times!

129. You have shared some useful everyday indicators to determine what energy is running us. I find the clearest of all is feeling if something is loving or unloving in the way I am running my body. There is no grey area, only black or white and my body will quickly tell me the truth through the level of ease or tension I feel.

     1. True Fiona, there is no in-between, it is or it isn’t and that is that.

130. Such a great blog Rosie – you remind me how we are so trained to think of life from a point of function. Can we get up out of bed, or can we not? Are we able to drive down the street? Can we speak? If the answer is yes, we like to think that this is a success. But everything about our world today is telling us that it is not. If we were a boat as a group, we would surely have a hole in the bottom and be steadily sinking! So your words appear here as a clarion call to consider the quality the true success of it all. I’ve heard this a few times in my life, but boy I feel now the moment is right to make this way my navigation and guide and see if choosing the quality of energy buoys my passage in life.

     1. Yes we are sinking that is for sure, you just have to look at one aspect, health for instance and it is scary. Vitality is a rare thing and this is just one part of the whole, which affects the whole.

131. I have just left a comment on a similar blog about this very subject. I won’t alleviate as it was a little long, and possibly may be questioned for its length, as may this one. But in short (excuse the irony), the more you look at humanity and at your own life, the more you start to question what truly rules human behaviour. In all my years studying with Universal Medicine, two things have become clearly apparent by way of lived experience. And that is that two distinct energies can be experienced in the body. Both have a distinct quality. Fire, or the emanation of The Soul can be felt as a deep beholding warmth towards which one feels like they are embraced and want to surrender. It can inspire one to great action, or give cause for one to feel a great pause. Here I have only touched on some of its qualities. Most importantly, perhaps, is that its quality NEVER changes, although it is true to say our relationship with it deepens in time. And then there is prana, which a little more chameleon like in its guise. For it can be also experienced as a warm heat, although it tends to be prickly. Confusingly, it can also be felt as a deep cold within the body. It can also give rise to assist one to experience a feeling of bliss or elation. Indeed, it would seem at times as though it is many different things, but as you start to get to know it, you start to realise in time that it is just one.

     Thus you will often hear an esoteric student explain something as being “this energy”, or “that energy”, but in truth it is just different vibrations of the same thing. The energy of anger and that of bliss can thus be described as two different energies with two different qualities, although in time one comes to experience them ultimately as the same, although appear different by virtue of the fact that they are different in their configuration, and thus is so the outplay in the human body by way of the type of behaviour it entices.

     Most people do not live with this daily awareness. However, that is in large part because we have not lived in a way that allows our bodies to be so sensitive and receptive to the world of energy, and so it is all too often beyond the periphery of our awareness. Even the spiritual new age, which bases itself on the study of energy, does not truly ask us to discern the quality of that energy by its actual essence. Thus why the true esoteric student is so devoted to a clean diet, clean way of living, of questioning things so deeply, even the highest virtues we can apply to human life. Such is the way of the true philosopher, and invariably many come to the same conclusion with regards to many things, which from the outside would appear as though there are dogmatic rules being applied or followed, when in truth they are ultimately not – just many coming invariably to the same one conclusion based on their lived experience.

     1. Thanks Adam, I love how you explain things and bring the simplicity of it all. I have always been able to feel energy but didn’t realise, I had no awareness that it was even happening. These days I do, but there are times where I think I can’t but really I can.

132. The analogy of which fuel is running the car or which captain is in charge of the ship is a good one for me because it really shows how everything we do, say and think comes first from a choice of energy that we make and in my experience there are only two types of energy we can choose from and you cannot be both at the same time!

133. Like a car that has been re-wired to work on Sunflower Oil, our body can become so used to alternative fuels, that it is unusual, odd and bizarre at first to put in 100% Love it truly deserves. There’s a ‘shock of the new’, untypical sounds, new sensations and ways your vehicle might handle. But the key is for us to stay steady with this period of transition and keep coming back. Just because something is familiar and ‘normal’ does not make it true. Thank you Rosie, for this reminder to continue to check the source I am tapping into to power my day.

134. This is a great point you bring in Rosie, that either we are on the steering wheel of our life or not in which case we have checked out, are not conscious aware and with our body anymore but instead live in our thoughts and leave the body unattended, allowing an energy that we do not belong to to run the most precious in our lives.

135. Long held beliefs can be freed as I listen to my body and become more aware of the energy running in my body. A belief that I have aligned to in the past is becoming not so attractive anymore and confirmations in my body are revealing what I have always known and totally ignored, that this belief, way of being is not supporting me anymore. As I begin to observe that I am not the pilot while holding onto this belief it is making me ponder on the investments I have as I lose connection to myself in order to keep the belief going. What is becoming apparent is that the belief can go on around me but I do not have to fall in with it and catching myself when I do is bringing me back to reconnecting and steering my own ship.

136. Thank you Rosie for the tips about how to check what energy we have chosen to run our bodies and our thoughts. These tips are significant, because I have noticed whatever energy I am in, the next choice will be guided by that energy. So it is wise as soon as we realize we have been in autopilot to stop and change the metaphorical energy sockets.

137. I used to think that we got our energy from the food we eat. Whilst there may be some aspects of truth to this, it is only part of the discussion about what energy is. We are alive due to a source of energy and because of who we are we can choose (through making loving choices or not) which source of energy we are in throughout our day. When we become more aware of this it really stands out like a sore thumb, especially when you are with people who are also aware of this and don’t buy into the antics of the spirit. Its there staring you in the face, saying that is not you and you have made choices that have resulted in this. It’s can be very uncomfortable to feel those choices, but when we are willing to see them and then make new, more loving choices for ourselves, then we can simply move on. It is a constant lifelong learning to make more and more choices that are loving.

138. Lovely, while reading the blog I just got an amazing confirmation of what it feels to be present. Presence is something I struggle with quite a lot, and having the opportunity to stop and appreciate it right now is great. Thank you Rosie ❤

139. I think that is a great question- if we are running on auto-pilot unaware of what we are doing- then who is the pilot? and what is running us?

140. Yes using the car analogy, are we driving the car or is the car driving us? With the correct fuel the car runs smoothly, as with our bodies when connected to the depth of presence within and choose this quality to move with. Thanks Rosie.

141. What a great expose of how to discern what energy is running you, Love or not its that simple! Love the examples and relate whole heartedly.

142. Yesterday I had a day like you describe where I was very much in my head, thinking ahead of myself rather than focusing on the task at hand and staying present with my body. It was only when I started my journey home that I realised this. This morning is a new opportunity to choose differently thanks to a lovely reminder from your blog.

143. Rosie, your blog clearly shows how the quality of everything in our life, is down to the choices we make – to either be present with our body or not. As this is lived, it is clear that there is no-one else to blame for how we are reacting or feeling – this is the healing of the whole spectrum of emotions from both the helpless victim to the highly volatile, explosive persona and all in between.

144. Universal Medicine shows us a way to live, breathe, eat and move that offers a deeper connection to the energy of fire which is the energy of God. We are the pilot, the pilot that chooses which energy we will be driven by, by the choices we make.

145. The feeling I get reading this blog Rosie, is that as well as piloting our life, it’s up to us to gently hold our own hand like the sweetest brother, or chaperone and keep bringing ourselves back to the simple energetic facts. For with them we cannot ever be lost.

     1. Yes, we need to care for ourselves and our connection so as to never lose it. It is precious like a little child.

146. Making a choice to change my movements to loving ones when I can feel in overwhelm about what there is to get done is incredible. I instantly feel I can manage with the awareness on my body and I no longer can feel the ill emotion in my body. Of course I can choose to stay in the overwhelm and then I find myself snacking on foods which I know do not support my body. It is about making choices to love me as I know I deserve it.

147. It’s a great metaphor that you offer us here Rosie. After all, imagine a pilot who at the first sign of turbulence, turned off the plane engines, and parachuted out – that would not be the greatest experience! And yet that’s what I find can happen in life when we identify a situation or feeling we don’t like. Your words here inspire me to stay in the cockpit, connected and at ease and know I can deal with whatever drama comes at me. Stressing and disconnecting has never helped yet.

     1. That is a scary thought Joseph, yes if we jump out or abandon ship then it can be disastrous!

148. Connection is the key, that supports us in knowing which energy we are connecting to. I too am now more aware when I am communicating and it flows with no tension in my body I know I have choosen the true energy, when I start rushing in my communication and tension felt, I know its another energy driving me.

149. In connection, we are in flow with the universe and everything there is; in disconnection, we are at the mercy of the world with all of its impositions of what is not of truth.

     1. and my experience is magic happens when we are in the flow with the universe.

150. It always feels great when you bring your focus back to your body, to your posture and to how you are moving. The body is always communicating so much to us, if only we take the time to listen.

151. It is a great question – what is running our body if we aren’t?! And something that helps to bring me back to me or change the energy I’m running with is to ask myself what the purpose is behind a thought that I’m having, say if I’m doubting myself or overly-berating myself or another for something, or even just planning too much in my mind.

     1. So many thoughts are just distractions and have no purpose at all! and yet we go with them and let them run wild in our heads!

152. I agree observing the kind of thoughts we have is a dead giveaway as to what energy we have aligned to or let in.

153. I love the way you describe us as ‘captains of our own ship’ Rosie, it makes me see us all floating at sea, desperately trying to tune into radio to know which way to go, when we could simply use the stars and the moon to navigate in a way that is true. This way we can see we never know which way to go, but if we are open God lets us know.

     1. Having sailed so much, and my dad used to navigate by the stars… this all makes sense to me..however at times we do know which way we are going, we feel the flow of the tide and the wind in our sails and there is no stopping us!

154. It is so simple, we can choose the quality we want to be in and why would we not want to be loving and caring for ourselves, but I know how easy it is to be not loving and caring for myself. I have put myself on a program to connect to my body and guide my thoughts to be with whatever I am doing and I am amazed that with this commitment, no perfection, how much space there is, a simplicity that is not of this world and truly appreciated by me.

155. It is great coming back to this blog and very timely – it is so easy to find myself simply going through actions but am I actually being all of me with everything I do and every step I take – if not what am I moving with. It is massive at one level and simple to dismiss at another. For if I am not claiming myself in full then what energy is running me and what quality am I offering others?

156. Rosie, you’ve captured so clearly how we can run our bodies, and as you say and I know from living, our bodies run regardless of what fuel we choose (love or not); there is an impact and choosing anything less than love hurts and can often lead to choices which do not feel great in the body. It’s so great to be reminded that when we do catch ourselves in those moments to have a certain food, or lost in that thought we can use it as a guide to go ‘where am I’ and come back, or take steps that we know will support us to do so, or in other words we can choose to continue to give up and let ourselves be run, or we can choose to feel how we are, to feel our bodies and to take that next step to be very present with us, to live in our bodies in other words, and not just from our minds. Thank you, your blog today has been super supportive in helping me to see and break some patterns I’ve been allowing myself to be caught in and now I can see when they’re there it’s a tell to say who’s running the show!

157. I guess it is not surprising that the next ‘technological advance’ we as a race are longing for is the advent of self-driving cars. No doubt this will give us more time to do ‘what we like’ like browse the web or answer emails. But your words here Rosie have got me thinking how we are already comfortable with auto pilot mode because it seems to be ‘stress-free’. But like the early self-driving car prototypes, it seems that this so-called ‘safe mode’ actually causes accidents. This is certainly my experience of living on auto-pilot in my life, you get things done and temporarily escape but it comes at a great cost to the quality of your light.

     1. That is a scary thought Joseph. Self driving cars so we can checkout even more!

158. That’s the thing, our body still moves and functions through life with either energy fuelling it. But the quality of how we live is vastly different. This is why our choices are so important, effectively, our first and most important choice is to choose the energy, and from there all the other choices are presented. This is free will.

     1. I have been experimenting with this for 7 years now and once you make the choice of which energy to run on, everything that follows is just a result of that. When I do make pranic choices at times I get so lost and unaware and that just leads to more of that and off I go on a roller coaster ride away from my true self, and I find myself eating foods that I know are harmful to my body or saying things I would never naturally say…. And yet, when I choose firey energy, thoughts of binge eating don’t even come on my radar and how life unfolds is completely different.

159. One of the many great teachings that Universal Medicine presents are that energy comes before any thought or action. We choose what kind of energy we wish to align to. What occurs thereafter will then depend on the energy chosen. The more we understand at a very fundamental level that we are subjects of energy the more we will be able to accept what is occurring and then change it.

     1. It is this great teaching that allowed me to write this blog in the first place. It is such a valuable teaching that I so appreciate learning as it is a game changer. With this, we are no longer stuck as a puppet, not aware that we are being run but free to make choices on which energy we want to run on.

160. ‘One of the ways I’ve used to work out which type of fuel or energy I am using is to become aware of how I am communicating and expressing’ Rosie spot on. I can relate to what you say and in my own life can feel when I’m communicating from an energy that is not mine. It is possible that when we begin to speak with pace, from our heads not our bodies, and without true connection with the person we’ve lost our way and connected to energy that is not truly loving. With awareness, we can choose to bring ourselves back, by connecting with the gentle breath.

161. Thank you Rosie for such a simple and beautiful reminder that we always have a choice in the quality of energy we align to.

162. A great reminder that true change can only come from changing the energy that is running through us.

163. It’s always great to remember that we are the captain of our own ship, and the seas we choose to sail are also our choice too.

     1. So true Meg. Just like everything else in life.

164. Thank you Rosie for sharing it is all a matter of choice which energy we choose and the different quality of life and thoughts we live in. The body is an amazing marker for how we are in what energy we choose.

165. It’s interesting how it’s a scientific fact that at its most fundamental level everything is energy and yet so little in life is it considered what is going on at an energetic level in illness and disease or when we have an accident or anything really! I’m very grateful to Universal Medicine for helping me to re-develop my awareness of the energetic aspect of life and to have a greater understanding and clarity of life from that.

166. Thank you Rosie, you have a clear, simple and relatable way to convey your experiences. It’s surprising how much I think is me, like rushing sentences, overthinking etc, but when I realise and reconnect to my whole body I don’t naturally choose to do those things. I slow down, consider, stay solid, and am very tender with myself. There sure is a big difference between connection and disconnection, and it’s safe to say that in disconnection autopilot is a very unloving pilot.

     1. So true, and that disconnection auto pilot will take you places you would never go if you were connected. You can find yourself in the most uncomfortable places and wonder why you got there and think “what on earth am I doing” and if you do stop and connect you will know and understand that you just lost yourself somewhere along the way.

167. If we see physicality before energy, we are already lost.

     1. That is so true but it seems that we make life about physicality way before making it about energy and when you realise that that life is actually 95% energy and only 5% physicality then we see that we really are lost if we are not seeing the whole picture.

168. Hello Rosie and it is great to reintroduce to us the fact of energy. We know it exist but yet still don’t base our life around it or on it and it becomes one of those things we talk about but rarely live as a fact. As you are saying here we have a choice which way our life goes and it’s not based around a multitude of choices, there is only one consistently and that one choice relates to the energy that we choose or allow to run us. ‘Everything is energy therefore everything is because of energy’ so you can’t not choose. In other words there is no sitting on the fence and just because you don’t believe it, don’t see it or don’t choose it doesn’t mean you can escape this energetic fact. So you can either make the choice or the choice is made for you. Like you are saying about the ‘autopilot’ Rosie. No matter what the flavour or what is happening there is always a choice to be made.

     1. Love it Ray, there is no sitting on the fence, and there is no way to escape it even if you try to turn a blind eye or not believe. The turning the blind eye and not believing or pretending you can’t feel is in fact a choice.

169. I find I easily catch myself when I walking from A-B drifting off in thoughts, thinking what will I do when I get there, basically thinking about anything other than actually the steps I am taking. So the moment I then focus on the steps it is like my whole being and body is together and immediately I get to feel everything around me – otherwise essentially I am walking and moving in tunnel vision only seeing what I want to or what suits me to see.

     1. After a presentation yesterday, I have come to realise that most of the time I am either thinking of the past, comparing back to then, living in a way that is saying, I don’t want to do that again, and that hurt so I won’t do it like this or that or I am thinking of the future as once this or that is done everything will be good and, I can’t wait to get to…. you know what I mean and rarely am I actually right here in the now, in the present moment. In less than 24 hours, I keep catching myself and its very revealing and an interesting exercise to ask yourself, am I in the past, present or future and if so… why am I avoiding the present so much?

        1. That is a great question as it is so easy to be ahead or behind ourselves. What it also means is that when we are doing this we are effectively trying to be in 2 places at once and so it is exhausting and hence why we feel so run down and tired. It is amazing how much more energy I have and how much more I do when I am fully present with what I am doing.

170. Our choice of energy is often evident when walking. It is easy to drift into thoughts rather than be present with each footstep, feel our feet touch the ground and stay with just that. When walking I constantly have to bring myself back to me. It is an ever present choice, stay connected or be fuelled by an energy that runs through me and takes over.

     1. One step at a time, making a choice rather than just checking out. I have to be present to make the choice as I have often not even been aware.

171. ‘One of the ways I’ve used to work out which type of fuel or energy I am using is to become aware of how I am communicating and expressing’. I observed recently how my body felt after speaking. If it felt uneasy, empty or drained I knew my expression was superficial, dis-connected or excessive, if it felt still and at ease then I had expressed truthfully and from my body. I’m being shown that true communication is founded on the quality of connection we have with ourselves and another. And when speaking sometimes ‘less is more’.

172. It is empowering to realise that it is us that chooses the quality of energy that moves us, and that every choice we make is a result of the energy we have chosen. Thank you Rosie for offering some very practical ways of being able to discern for ourselves the energy we are being moved by, is it love or not? You have also highlighted how important our connection to our bodies are as they reflect the quality of every choice we make. If we are willing to be honest with ourselves and how we feel in our bodies, we then can be guided to live in honor of our connection to our essence within.

173. When we are in our minds there is no care for the body, the mind does not care at all what is happening ‘down under’. The first steps to become aware that an energy that did not supported my body was running me was for me practicing the Gentle Breath Meditation from Universal Medicine and with that I learned I had a choice in which type of energy I wanted to live in. From there I now know and feel my body is telling me the truth so listening to my body is far more trustworthy than to any thought when I am not connected with the body.

174. It is so true, what energy we choose takes over all of how we live. It is in choosing the loving connection to our body that we are true to ourselves.

     1. What I have discovered lately and really got to experience and feel is that when we choose either energy, it takes over all of how we live and then has an effect on everyone around us, especially those we share a home with, or work with. So it brings in another level of responsibility with the choice of which energy we are choosing.

175. When I stop to re-fuel my car, there is a clear choice: diesel or petrol. I take great care to ensure I choose the right one, aware that if I don’t I would cause lasting damage to my car. Consequently, I have never chosen petrol because my car is fuelled by diesel. Curious to reflect that I don’t always apply this same wisdom when choosing which energy field I’m aligned to.

176. There is a great expose of the type of fuel here. For most of life I’ve simply assumed that the fuel was the food that we eat, but it comes way before that. The food we eat is simply the outcome of the energy we have been choosing all day. If we are in disregard, anxiousness, exhaustion then these will inform our choices… if we choose love, truth, harmony then this will affect the way the larder is provisioned or the other choices we make.

     1. Very true Simon. This insight came to me this morning that fuel is much more than the food we eat and you have expressed well: ‘The food we eat is simply the outcome of the energy we have been choosing all day’.

177. Imagine how our world would look like if we all would be the “captains of our own ship”.

178. Amazingly simple Rosie, and your examples are so real and so applicable in our day to day lives. Our bodies are always ready to show us where we are and what we have allowed.

179. The choice is simple, but the one thing I have noticed is the difference in how you experience life, one is a roller coaster, exhausting and complicated the other is feeling a support team assisting along the way, life unfolds with a grace and beauty, yes complications arise but they are there to be dealt with and cleared. Simply by connecting, choosing and appreciating the support we have in abundance the body is left to support our vitality.

180. I like your simple examples of feeling and knowing the difference where we are at.

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182. AS you say when we are aware of the fact that we are not feeling 100% we can stop and take a breath and come back to placing the attention on our bodies and how we feel. Just by closing our eyes and breathing gently. we can allow ourselves to let go of the tension we have accumulated and bring back a centredness to our being. We can choose to reconnect in this way and feel the quality return and our bodies love us for this.

     1. I have been practising this at work, and at first I thought I can’t do this at work, but I can. I have even found a quite space and taken a 10 minute nap if I needed to. I just had to get past the thoughts in my mind that were telling me I can’t.

183. Thank you Rosie for setting out the clear distinction between when we are connected and when we are not . It is so simple if we observe and stay present with our bodies which are always mirroring back to us our choices.

184. A brilliant question that would be extremely beneficial if we just make the commitment to simply stop and ask ourselves this several times throughout each and every day.

185. It’s a great learning not just for ourselves but in observing others and the choices they make and having the steadiness to not take on their issues or dramas, leaving us free to truly support.

     1. Yes in observing others we are less likely to get caught up in any issues and dramas and therefore we can stay steady and in this offer true support. When I don’t observe, it is so easy for me to get caught up in it all and then I can’t see clearly or help because I become a part of the issue.

186. Great blog Rosie, you make very clear the difference between being connected and hence choosing a source of energy that is supportive of not just our flow and ease in life, but very much affects our health and wellbeing too. In fact it IS the initial driving factor that leads to all ill-health and dis-content. It’s a super simple approach you’ve outlined for beginning to take the helm of our own ships… awesome!

187. Great to come back to this bog this morning and feel how simple it is. We like to make things complicated with our minds when it really doesn’t have to be.

188. “or I can just check out, take no responsibility and let the autopilot take over”…I’ve been dabbling a bit in this lately and wow it does not feel great it in the body. I have put on weight and feel quite heavy and tired. But sometimes it feels hard to stop the momentum of checking out but your blog is a good reminder of how to check back in to see who is running your body. Thank you Rosie.

189. The thought of someone else at the helm of my ship is not a pleasant one . To take back the controls and be consciously aware of what direction I am taking is a really important step. something we all need to do to make sure that the energy that comes through us is the Fiery energy of God.

190. I was very much like you Rosie, a rudderless ship on a dark night that would beach as well as get stranded on the rocks at various times. As I was so lost and out of control, I never considered the energy I was in would make any difference until I found out, through the Universal Medicine presentations by Serge Benhayon, that I had a choice, not only a choice but also a responsibility to stay connected to my inner-most. My Inner-most being my divine aspect that has always been with me to bring me back to me, but until I was made aware of how to reconnect to my inner-most I was totally lost and even now after 12 years sometimes the rudder comes off. Now I do not go on auto-pilot as I choose my loving connection to the best of my ability! I can occasionally get lost but it is becoming easier to find my way back and reconnect to love that is our ‘inner-most’.

191. It does come down to that – responsibility nothing less – do we want to be responsible for the fact everything we do, say think, our every word, action, food we eat, thought, has an impact on our body and the whole entire world, even down to how we get out of bed. For many this can feel like it’s too much, but it’s an excuse we use to not choose our divineness, simplicity, co –creation and with that God, we like to stay in the comfort and individualism of our own so called lives, in whatever way, shape or form that comes. We can all have our different issues and woes, but the thing is they all come from the one and the same place, choosing to separate from our Soul. Imagine stepping back and watching the world from above and seeing all these people clearly moving in a way that’s erratic, hectic, rushed, making choices that are clearly not them, against the natural flow of life, nature and the universe. The thing is we all know this and can feel this to our bones, the pull and call in our bodies to evolve, otherwise we wouldn’t use and do so many things to disconnect form our Soul, our responsibility and purpose here on earth, to serve, reflect what it is to live as a son of God, and return back to Soul.

192. It’s very clear there are only two energies to choose, evolution or not. There is no in between, no grey, no well maybe I can do this and it’s still okay, it’s black and white and very very clear. You can oscillate in a moment between both, this is a very harming and draining way on many levels to live, it destroys us and eats at our light from the inside out. We may look okay on the outside but on the inside we are getting whacked.

193. Beautiful Rosie, although in an airplane the autopilot can be of great benefit, running our bodies in that mode is not. For running our bodies in conscious present the way to be with, as in conscious presence my mind and body are one and in complete harmony. Whereas in the autopilot mode they are not and thus do go in different directions in which my body suffers from the imbalance and it is imposing on my body. For instance being in the past or future with my mind while my body can only be in this moment.

194. It all comes back to the quality of life we are living which comes from the energy we are choosing – are we choosing to run our own ship or are we checking out and filling our ship (our body) with comfort food and other strong stimulants thus avoiding all responsibility for our lives?

195. It all comes back to responsibility. No matter how many stories, tales or woes we may tell ourselves, the simple truth is that we are avoiding taking full responsibility for ourselves, the energy we choose and what we are here to do – and that is for the whole entire human race to return to Soul

196. What I have noticed very loudly with food, is if I eat one thing, even the tiniest of things that I know does not support my body, woosh the doors are wide open, and all these thoughts come flooding in to then eat lots of other things that take me out even more. So the learning for me is to say no to the energy first that is feeding me these thoughts and look at where my movements changed, at what point did I go from feeling very lovely and connected to moving in a way which allowed these thoughts in. Sometimes it actually goes back days even though I pretend to myself it’s that same day, but if I trace it back I can be honest and say wait a minute, I planned and knew I was going to do this days ago. So it’s really about looking at the energy first. For when I am connected to myself and my Soul it doesn’t even cross my mind to eat certain foods or go up certain supermarket isles – it’s just not on my radar at all.

197. That’s the thing we can make it about so many things, this and that and all these dilemmas and woes, complicating it in our head, trying to work out why do I keep eating this, or doing that – which really is all a form of self- identification, indulgence and continuing to keep us in separation to our Soul, responsibility and co-creation. When the answer is super simple really – what energy am I choosing? Once you have truthfully nominated that then it explains everything. E.g. it’s not about the food that you eat it’s about the energy that you have chosen first that gives you the thoughts then you go to eat or buy that food.

198. “If what I am talking about seems simple and I have no need to pre-plan what I am going to say next, then I know that I have chosen an energy that is loving and supports me to connect back to me. It means I am the captain of my own ship.”
     It absolutely astounds me as to what is there in the moment to say when connected with my body and to the person that I am with.
     Learning to trust that this flow of energy is always available, if I choose to be with my body is a process, and at times I let myself be taken over, but this is only ever when I think I am not good enough, or doubt myself. So being vigilant and recognizing these energies for the saboteurs they are has been, and continues to be, the deepest healing for my body.

199. Woah Rosie, I read through to this paragraph and it says so much when it comes to the energy we choose to run our bodies by.
     “Your body runs either way, it’s just the quality of life you end up living is totally different.”
     The quality of life we end up with, being determined by energy, so very true, yet for many in our world this understanding is not yet considered. Thank you for saying this so clearly. A quote that I know will stay strong in my body for life.

200. This makes things very simple. It is either one or the other. If I am not present and aware then something else is running me. I have to ponder why our lives are set up to be so busy? Is it to distract us from the fact that we can be truly present, and so not be so careless with what energy is running us? It is important to be present, feeling how we are moving, feeling that niggle or feeling how amazing we feel. There is so much joy in this, why miss it?

     1. Is it that we keep life busy because we can be identified by being busy, oh look at me I do this, this and that…. ( I know this one well!) and in that we keep things complicated, where as if we were more present and less distracted, life would be more simpler but I wouldn’t be as identified??

        1. After 12 years of attending Universal Medicine events I also find myself getting racy or ‘being busy’. These days it is not because of the foods I eat but because of the energy I use as a distracting choice to feel racy and therefore be distracted from being responsible for the energy I am choosing. My raciness is becoming a great marker for me to know when I am not focused on being connected to the love we all come from.

201. Much to love about this article but what I love most today is that when you don’t choose, you do choose. So when you go into auto-pilot mode and check out, you can think that you are not choosing anything (or the energy) but by you checking out, and dissolving responsibility (which I am familiar with!), you are actually handing over someone else to run the ship (I love that metaphor), and have chosen that energy by default. I did a lot of this this week, and you’re right Rosie, it does not feel great in the body.

     1. Exactly, either way you are choosing. Either way you are responsible. No one makes me check out… I am an expert at that myself.

202. Beautiful to revisit this blog, Rosie. Makes me really appreciate how far I have actually come, and really, that knowing everything is energy and everything is because of energy has supported me tremendously in understanding myself and the world and its people.

203. Rosie, it’s great to come back to this article. I can feel the difference between running my own ship and being on autopilot, I love the simple examples that you give about when you are connected. I have been feeling today how if I disconnect and chose to be in my head how hard life is, making decisions feels complicated and expressing feels rushed and tiring. If I choose to connect and live from my knowing and authority, life feels much more simple and enjoyable.

204. Untill l came to Universal Medicine l had no idea how disconnected l was from myself. l could feel the dissatisfaction in my life, but had no idea how to address it. I still have a long way to go, however l now have such incredible, simple tools to put to good use whenever l feel that auto pilot taking over. Half the battle is being clear enough to actually be aware of it.

     1. 7 years after coming to Universal Medicine and I still have to bring awareness all the time and that is why I have markers or stop signs throughout my day. If I find myself moving too fast, or slamming the car door, or sitting too heavily, or moving from one place to the other without knowing how I got there, that is a sure enough sign that I am disconnected. So when I put my handbrake on, open a door, stand up, enter a password into my computer these are all opportunities to re-connect once again.

205. I really appreciate the simplicity of noticing the behaviours to know without question what type of energy I have chosen. This morning I sat opposite a mirror as I was typing and I kept looking up. I didn’t like what I saw which was seeing my choices reflected back at me: sleepless night, ill energy running through me whilst I slept, it’s bound to be seen. But that I went into negative thinking about myself rather than a loving feeling of feeling the beauty beneath was untouched and I had loving choices to make for my day, showed me the energy I didn’t like seeing I continued to choose and let run through me.

     Reading this confirms I have a choice to just stop and reconnect; feel how lovely I am and make choices from love. I don’t have to make up for past wrongs just come from love. I am not running from a deficit, trying to catch up, make up past ill choices keeps me in their shadow and I will never step out from under them.

     1. Thanks for sharing so openly Karin, I know what you mean about looking in the mirror and not liking the reflection or seeing how tired you look. For me, in those moments it is important to remember that I am a vehicle and I stop and become more and more aware of what energy have I been letting run me.

206. In connection with the energy of truth and love, there is a never ending flow of inspiration that can find joyful expression in anything and everything we do. Choosing the other energy, there is a searching for something meaningful and judgement about what doing is good and what is bad. So with one we have a way of living that is about ever developing. With the other, we have a way that is ever correcting.

207. It is a great way of explaining how we are always choosing which form of fuel is running us. When the fuel is not in love and respect of the vehicle (our body) nothing runs smoothly, or with the potential that is available for it.

208. Beautifully said, I’ve been very distracted and run by other energy and confusion for the last month or more, this article hit the nail on the head and made me realise I’ve been running on not so good fuel. Rushing here rushing there, not looking after me. Thank you for those very insightful words.

209. Great blog Rosie, and it so clearly lays out how we are with energy and our bodies … your line ‘Your body runs either way, it’s just the quality of life you end up living is totally different.’ reminded me of something really important, our bodies will run, but how and what’s the quality we leave in our wake. As you say we can be taken by an energy or choose to be the pilot of our own ship.

     1. Good point Monica, what do we leave in our wake? And when we stop and consider that, it can be hard as we have to feel the responsibility that we have or that we can pretend to not be aware of… because our wake effects everyone. It is no longer just about me, but how are the results of my choices effecting everyone else?

210. “Your body runs either way, it’s just the quality of life you end up living is totally different.” So true Rosie. It is always our choice, but often we don’t want to take that responsibility – so much easier to blame something outside ourselves……

211. You have explained this so clearly ,Rosie. It is all about self responsibility and true connection and allowing life to unfold in its’ own way. Sometimes I find it hard to stay fully present and it is then that I feel the rush of life and easily get lost in this. With more awareness, I am getting much better at bringing myself back to me.

212. I have a very similar marker in my body for knowing if I am choosing a fuel that is loving, or one that is not. Having an effortless flow to what I express, feeling it’s truth and relevance to whoever I am expressing to is an absolute give away.

213. Yes Rosie in the end it all boils down to whether we are with ourselves in full or not.

214. Detail is often something that we choose to overlook, but it is in fact the key to keeping conscious presence. To ignore the detail is to miss out on so much more.

     1. I haven’t really ever realised the importance of detail until recently and it was one of those “aha” moments, where all the parts of the puzzle fell into place for me. Without attention to detail, I get caught up in another energy because there is only 2 to choose from, so if I am not present, then I am disconnected. Being aware of the detail supports me to be present and also helps me to see where I left and disconnected. In tracing back my footsteps and choices I am able to learn rather than just think it is all just a coincidence or by chance. Nothing is by chance, it is all a result of the energy that I allow to run me.

215. A great reread here Rosie, and one that proves that no matter the time that elapses this choice between presence and autopilot is both fundamental and never changing. It will always dictate the quality of life we experience.

     1. It sure is a constant choice, there is never a day or moment off because in that off moment you are actually saying yes to the pranic energy. It is always one or the other.
        The other thing I have learnt since writing this blog over 3 years ago is that it is so important to pay attention to the detail, as this is where I often miss the difference in energy. If I am aware of the detail, it helps me to stay present and not get off track and led astray by another energy.

216. Rosie has wonderfully described some simple ways we can discern the energy we are choosing. Looking someone in the eye or avoiding their glance; feeling degrees of tension in my body; agreeing with someone ‘for the sake of it”, or taking a moment to ponder and truly respond; the many aspects of movement Rosie mentions, being connected or disconnected from the quality of movement we choose; putting off a task we know we need to do or embracing it step by step. There are innumerable ways we can check in with ourselves and make a little shift as to what we energetically choose in our next moment.

217. The notion that the energy we choose gives us our quality of movement and thoughts and governs who we are relates to a deep sensitivity I have always felt, yet before being introduced to ‘the science of energy’ though Universal Medicine, felt burdened by. Now understanding life to be about the choice of energy, that sensitivity has made me aware that life is not the governing influence of who I am but the recipient of who I choose to be.

     1. We do feel it all and we are all super sensitive but for me I had become an expert at over riding what I felt and doubting what I knew to be true, to just fit in to be polite, to go along with the crowd etc. These days it is so good to honour what I feel and often if I ask others they actually agree, as they have felt it too but didn’t dare say it out loud in case they were wrong or ridiculed.

218. It’s pretty clear which energy is which and it is pretty easy to be aware and to come back to myself. The more we are aware and practice the easier it becomes and it is so worth being the pilot of your own life.

219. Learning to be in the know of what energy is running our body is a beautiful process of reclaiming our awareness of energy, building a body that is capable of this. And getting to know the deep connection there is to the divine, that can run our body in full surrender to life.

220. As a woman learning to be the master of myself is the most valuable and worthwhile investment I have ever made.

221. What a difference knowing about energy makes to all of our lives. It is with great appreciation of Serge Benhayon for sharing this truth. Thank you also Rosie for sharing how it all works in our lives in a simple way to relate to.

222. It is super empowering to know at any moment you can stop and choose the quality in which to take the next step. No longer are we victims when then control lies with us.

223. I love it Rosie, the idea that someone else might be steering the ship when we are not connected to ourselves is an important question. When we are seeing such a rapid increase in conditions like dementia, where it appears the person has checked out of their body and surrounds quite profoundly, catching ourselves in those seemingly harmless ‘daydreams’ and fantasies, checking out from day to day goings-about seems a very sensible place to start addressing it. You make it very practical in your examples thanks…

224. This is great Rosie, ‘Are You the Pilot or is Autopilot Running You?’ such a great question. One that we rarely ask ourselves, so bringing awareness to who is actually running the ship? – are we taking moments to check in throughout the day. I know for me, in days gone by I would not have even understand what you were asking, the auto pilot was going so fast. The emotions would run hot and heavy, not feeling connected at all. These days it is very different, connecting to myself is key, checking in to feel is key, understanding energy is key. So to make other choices, loving ones that foster always going deeper in my relationship with myself.

225. It is such a simple statement – too simple – but still quite profound. We spend so much time pondering on the physicality of life, we rarely give time to pondering on what actually gives life the energy to the life we see. What energy makes one person’s cancer terminal and another not. It can’t be just genes, for if it were, then the outcome would be more consistent, would it not? Why does one treatment work for one person and not another? I understand why we do not consider energy. It has been twisted into a study of unicorns and rainbows, full of frauds and wannabees. And this has unfortunately put people off. But somewhere in all that which is not true, there has to be the truth.

     1. Adam I love what you have shared here and great questions to ask.
        Made me realise that in the past I had found the whole energy concept complicated and too hard for me to understand, I had this feeling that I was not smart enough and so I put it all in the too hard basket.
        I laugh to myself as I write this now as it really is so simple. I so appreciate how Serge Benhayon has presented on energy and how I have learnt what I know and understand today which allows me to feel energy with my body rather than get caught up with my mind and what ever other energy is being fed to it.

226. The beauty of the esoteric modalities is that it allows us to feel the fact of two energies. And whilst it may not be obvious at first, as we develop a body that is truly sensitive, and honour that sensitivity, it becomes quite easy to become aware of the fact. The difficulty in the beginning is working towards something that we cannot feel because of the state of our body. This is where markers such as gentleness play such a key role.

227. I confess that in the past I have found myself down the street and had no memory of the drive. Realising that I was ‘gone’ the entire drive, lost in a sea of thoughts, unable to take in my surrounds. Another sign of disconnection is when I am unable to remember a persons name that I have just met or am unable to recall what they look like, this revels that I have not been present but instead been on ‘auto pilot’ but is there really any such thing or is something else running you at this time??

228. So practical and simple Rosie and such great markers of whether we are connected or disconnected.

229. Love what you share here Rosie and the very practical ways that you check yourself and what fuel is running your body each day. This shows that we actually create everything we do by the choices we make to connect or disconnect from life. I can get caught up in using an unloving fuel to ‘fix’ an unloving choice I’ve made… For example, thinking once I’m more myself then I’ll do this or that, or I won’t talk to this person until I’m better. Most the time actually stopping and doing the activity I need to or connecting with that person supports me to reconnect.

230. Rosie this is an awesome blog to re-read and be inspired by, I especially like the wisdom expressed in this line ‘you are either connected with your body and feel it clearly or you are disconnected from it, not feeling truly how it is and therefore just running on autopilot. But if this is true, then who really is the pilot, if it is not you?’ So simple and clear thank you for this beautiful reminder this morning.

231. Choosing the wrong energy is like dominoes set up to fall over, once you decide to go that way you triggered the chain reaction that is hard to stop. When we start to feel again the difference between the two different energies, it becomes more apparent what is running in our body. It has allowed me to turn off the autopilot.

232. We have become experts on the subtle differences of wines, the range and variety of musical groups, the tone and quality of movies and food. But what if we brought this type of discussion to energy itself? Then we might see as you beautifully show Rosie, that there is a big ocean of energy we live in every day, with a great deal happening that we pretend not to see yet it is immediately and completely affecting our bodies. So before any further discussions let us become connoisseurs of loving energy, appreciators of tender quality, discerners of brilliance, then with every particle of our being we will know what’s true and what is really healthy for me and for you.

233. These ‘red flags’ that show we are in auto-pilot are, for some, too often present in our day, e.g. the self-doubt, not feeling good enough or worthy. It highlights the need to stop and reconnect to our bodies.

234. I am the captain of my own ship. I can often think I have no control and the environment is in control, but my choices navigate me.

235. Are you the pilot is an awesome question, if you’re not aware and choosing what your next movement is, then who is choosing? It’s a scary thought!

236. Thank you Rosie for a great sharing, I know the autopilot thing, like arriving at a destination not aware of how I got there. I have been on autopilot most of my life. These days are so different I am much more aware of my body and where it is at, and what energy is running it when I am tired and feeling the overwhelm of life or when my body has a flow, an easefulness to it and a joy, either way I am aware now of a choice I have in what energy runs my body.

237. This is a great sharing Rosie, to re connect to our bodies again. I have been making more effort to stop and feel how my body is and what is going on within, am I listening to the messages it is sending out or am I overriding them? I have noticed how tired I feel when I have been working in disregard as opposed to how I feel when I am in connection with my body and there is harmony.

238. Living disconnected to our bodies is hard work and the best way for complexity and burdens in life, our connection is everything as we get to feel the essence of who we are and live that quality in everything that we do hence creating flow, harmony and joy in our daily living, this is Gold!

239. It is important to know we’ve got a choice, the connection we have with our bodies is dependent of the choices we make, what energy we choose to go in has an enormous effect on our day. Knowing this gives the responsibility over the energy we choose, when we are choosing the autopilot and go into thoughts we can’t be serving in the way that we can when we choose to be fully aware.

240. If an unloving autopilot energy is running your vehicle and is also running all the other vehicles around you then there is the inevitable collision but if we all choose the loving fiery energy of love then we live in harmony with all.

     1. The thing is, so many are living in autopilot on an energy that is unloving and because everyone else is doing the same thing, they don’t even realise that there could be another way. It is not until someone steps out and shows another way and a reflection is seen and noted that change can occur.

241. It’s a lovely awareness and a simple choice to come back to me. When I allow myself to have that 300 things to do, that rush, it’s usually because I feel somehow that I am not enough. Once I come back to me…of course I am enough.

242. Brilliant Rosie, great examples to clarify what connection means. The word is often spoken about as if everyone knows. There are a myriad of examples and the ones you have shared are very relatable and for me come back to that observation that my connection naturally chooses the fuel that sustains a quality in my life I can feel and know to be true. This is a great feedback loop you have described so well.

243. In this era of self-driving cars, it seems there are times we all wish to recline, lay back and take our hands from the wheel and effectively go on ‘auto pilot’ in life. This can be as simple as the way we eat, write, sleep or cook food. But this autopilot is not kind or true and is not a true imitation of you being you. We need to be honest and start to admit that the autopilot does not actually work, but is in fact reckless, dangerous and irresponsible driver who obeys none of the laws of the road. Thank you Rosie for this great reminder to check who is steering who.

244. I have on more than one occasion as you have said in the past driven to work and don’t remember the journey. I would just say the car was on auto… some one auto have been driving because I was defiantly not in the car. I have also had days were I have not stopped and at the end of the day completed nothing. Your list of helpful tips bringing us back to ourselves is timeless and will always be a great re-read.

245. Adam that is so true we are constantly numbing and desensitising our body, so we don’t feel the energy. What a game we play with ourselves.

246. “Since this was brought to my awareness I have been really paying attention to energy and feeling into what is happening around me – seeing the effect of one thing on the next.” This is a brilliant experiment and I think we can never get enough of this. There is always more unfolding to observe.

     1. It is a brilliant experiment Irena, and it makes me think of all the times in my life where I have isolated things, and not connected the parts, and therefore not seen the effect of one thing on the next. I was not seeing the bigger picture but just separated bits and how there is always a consequence and flow on effect to each and every choice and action or expression.

247. What I love about this simplicity Rosie of either being connected or not being connected is that there can be no judgement or criticism in what we do. For if we have done something that is not true to us then it is simple: choose the true energy again.

     1. It does help to get the self, the identity out of the way because it really is about which energy is running through you and therefore are you connected or not.

248. Totally Elizabeth! The way I see it these days is that if I am caught up in any thing that is complicated or I am thinking and churning over things, then I have at some point allowed a lower vibrational energy to enter and I just need to stop and re connect to my body and feel me and then move from there.

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250. Rosie, it’s very opportune and no accident to read this blog today as I’m feeling how I’ve been disconnected from myself and not caring how my body is. That line you wrote ‘Your body runs either way, it’s just the quality of life you end up living is totally different.’ sums it up brilliantly. It will run, but how is the body feeling and what trail are we leaving in what we do, and do we care? Ultimately we all feel energy, and how we are with ourselves and others affects everything, there is no getting away from this and it brings it back to our choice, and to choose, do we want to be responsible or not?

     1. I love it when you come across just the right blog or just the right person who says the one thing that you need to hear because we know when we are being irresponsible, we know when our energy is out ( a great tell tale is the feeling of “I don’t care ) but really, we do care and it is as simple as being aware, stopping and re connecting and then changing the way we move and how we express. Bringing our focus back to the quality in which we are moving in is the key and it is a game changer.

        1. Yes it’s that simple, coming back to the quality of how we move is key and it’s so true Rosie what you say about caring when we say we don’t care, the fact is we’re often reacting to the world and that shows we do actually care! And the one word in all you say which stands out is ‘irresponsibility’ – we know when we’re being irresponsible and rather than feel it we go into ‘we don’t care’ when we do and we know what we are doing.

251. Dear Rosie, what a great question to ask – who is captain of my ship? And I love the real and practical examples of how you have checked in with yourself to see who is at the helm. Thank you.

     1. ah you know, having had 24 years at sea, and having had a life of not taking too much responsibility I know a few things about being at the helm or not. I had a lot of fun writing this and love how so many can relate and get what I am sharing.

252. As you have mentioned Rosie it all comes back to choice as to what energy we allow to run us. I find a good way to re connect and gather myself during the day is to have intermittent stop moments where I just stop breath gently and feel my body.

     1. Yes without stop moments, we just continue on in a downward spiral….. where as stopping and checking in with the quality in which we are living, moving and expressing gives us the opportunity to adjust, confirm, deepen or start again. But without that stop, how do we expect anything to change.

     2. That is awesome advice Joe…”You are either connected with your body and feel it clearly or you are disconnected from it, not feeling truly how it is and therefore just running on autopilot.” When I am in auto-pilot it feels like I am living in only parts of my body, not in my full bodied experience of life.

253. ‘ I know then that I have at some point chosen the wrong form of energy for me. I have allowed another pilot to run my ship!’ – This is an awesome reminder Rosie to always check in with ourselves to feel what energy we are allowing to run us. We have the power to make truly loving choices that bring harmony and simplicity to our workplace, our relationships, families and communities everywhere.

254. Even when reading this blog I notice how I was dipping in and out of auto pilot. I would be reading the words off the screen and then suddenly a new train of thought would come in. I would be thinking about that train of thought and pretend to read at the same time until I realise I haven’t read the last two sentences but rather skimmed over them.

     This shows how auto pilot makes many processes much slower, as I had to re-read what I had missed but also it can lead you to missing snippets of your life.

     That is a tragedy in itself.

     1. I love how you have pointed this out Luke as it happens to me all the time. It is a tragedy that we miss parts because we have wondered off to another place in our mind and have been distracted. I even do this at times, when someone is going to tell me something really important and I have had the honesty to catch it and ask them to repeat it and I share how I do really want to hear, but its as if there is a bit of interference.

        1. What comes to my mind is if this is happening when reading blogs, how often do I do this during the day?

        2. Exactly Luke! I was doing an Esoteric Yoga class today and even though I was given all the reminders to stay with my body and with my movement, I kept finding my mind drifting off to all sorts of places and it really made me realise how much this is also happening throughout my day.

        3. Good point Rosie.

255. Agreed Linda. Rosie has presented simply and clearly what is going on here all the time and the fact that we are the one doing the choosing. I am now really noticing how often people say something was a coincidence or an accident and assume that things that happen are just random acts. Yet this leads to massive irresponsibility and a giving away of our power. It takes a lot of commitment to re-learn to keep in charge at all times but that doesn’t change the fact that no one else can do it except us as we go from choice to choice.

     1. Hi Helen, I used to be one of the many who believed in coincidences and it has been massive to realise that there is no such thing. Everything is a result of a choice or a bunch of choices we have made and yes, with that comes the responsibility of all of our choices are what got us to where we are today.

256. “For me, I know I am connected when I am aware of how my body feels”.
     Such a simple statement Rosie but with a very powerful message. A timely remind to be aware of what the body is feeling in each and every moment.

     1. Conscious presence and whole-bodied movements.

     2. I find that as soon as I am in my head, I am out and not connected. Breathe is not as gentle and there is an underlying anxiousness in my body. When i can feel my body in my movement and am aware of my gentle breath, i know I am connected to my body.

257. Rosie, this is a loving and supportive blog with so many ways of checking in with ourselves and alerts to watch for which expose our disconnection to self. Your comment of fact – ‘Your body runs either way, it’s just the quality of life you end up living is totally different’ – lets us know that ultimately the choice is ours and one we can make anytime.

258. I have been enjoying reconnecting to the complete wonder of it all as me and my son are both studying anatomy units at the same time – we were both equally excited and inspired.
     It feels so good to be 43 and still open to learning new things.

     1. Yes, anatomy and physiology is fascinating!

259. What science can show us about how the energy moves through our bodies and effects is is just so extraordinary. It is also a very deliberate and complex balancing system that is affected by everything – stress, emotions and reactions are another big one.

     1. It is extraordinary how it all works and how the energy flows and it surprises me that we don’t study more about it when we are young to have a better understanding of how our bodies do actually work and how they are effected by everything.

260. Recently i have become so aware of the fact that our body is really an empty and mechanical vessel and with the life force running through it it is really a chuck of flesh. The quality of the lifeforce that runs through it is up to me, and I determine what I do with that lifeforce understanding all of this is the science of the living. We can do such great things if we choose.

     1. It sure is just a vessel, and every single choice we make, how we speak, how we move, what we eat effects what energy runs through it.

261. Its definitely a paradigm shift Annie C that takes practice but so worth the commitment. I love how Rosie shared the distraction and disconnection felt when ‘I am in my mind not my body’ for it is something we can all relate to. It is a fabulous way of describing the whirlwind of emotional activity that happens in our mind as opposed to the strength of presence felt when we are fully connected to our body.

     1. I will take the strength of presence over the whirlwind of emotional activity any day!

262. Great analogy Rosie regarding our choice of the quality that we fuel and power our body with. I love how you share the simple truth that ‘Your body runs either way, it’s just the quality of life you end up living is totally different.’ This is beautifully said and so very true.

     1. Yes it’s beautiful what Rosie shares, it’s the quality of energy we choose, as our body runs either way with the energy chosen. By choose the more loving energy we are honouring ourselves more and able to choose more living moments.

263. Rosie your blog has highlighted to me just how vital it is for us all in every moment of every day to actually stop, check in and reflect on whether we have been caught up in the headiness and whirlwind of life and are in effect are been piloted by the world around us, or that we are actually in charge of and captaining our own ships so to speak. Great blog.

264. I agree Annie C, the quality of our presence and the level of awareness that we fuel our body with decides who and what pilots our journey.

265. Beautifully stepped out Helen. Very clear description.

266. I love this one..”The other stop sign for me is if I catch myself thinking thoughts of not being beautiful, not being good enough or not clever enough, then I realise that I have once again lost my awareness and am running on a energy or fuel, so to speak, which is very un-loving and not true at all.” This is a great one to remember throughout the day, as it is so easy for me to go into self-beating, and believe that it is me thinking this. It has shaped my whole behaviour for the day.

     1. Ah yes, comfort and escaping in sailing. I can see how that can apply for many people as it really is a great way to run away, avoid responsibility and not be part of the whole. I was just thinking that it was not my choice to go sailing…. which it wasn’t when I was a child as it was my parents dream but at some point it did become my choice as I grew up and even purchased a boat with a boyfriend. So I did make a choice to continue on in that same running or rather sailing away into the sunset and avoiding all responsibilities. So once again, I get to see how I have so often chosen to blame someone else rather than see that it was me who made that decision! Ouch.

        1. Your comment made me think of a bumper sticker idea. Have you exposed a normal today? Or it could be a program that you put yourself on, where you expose a normal each day. Would be interesting at the end of the week to recognize just how many we all have.

267. I agree Mary and also ..” paying attention to energy and feeling into what is happening around me – seeing the effect of one thing on the next.” I never thought to observe it in this way, how it has a follow on effect. Very fascinating.

268. This is an awesome description of what is happening “I have allowed another pilot to run my ship!”

269. This is a key point for me in this blog..”Your body runs either way, it’s just the quality of life you end up living is totally different.” I feel many of us don’t actually know what else is possible as far as a true quality lifestyle. We get so far, become comfortable and decide we like it there and that is where we stop! We have such privilege in our lifetime to make a difference and be of greater service in this world – we have a responsibility not to stop in the comfort of that decision. We need to keep evolving, no matter how exposing this can be for us.

     1. Confirms a great sign to let us know we have chosen the wrong energy, our body gets caught in autopilot. It is up to us to be honest that we are stuck in the wrong and change our movements, they way I can confirm the change is that I am able to feel my body in my movement and I am not caught in my head.

270. What I sometimes do is redo the movement a few times to retrain the way I move.

271. This is such an important aspect of life, we have a choice of what energy we are running on, and we can continually correct it by choice.

272. Whilst ever we remain ignorant to the fact that we can feel and discern energy, there will forever be conflict between human beings, as each strives to defend their truth as being the truth, and forever will we be be fooled by those who disguise their true intent with empty words and empty rhetoric.

     1. And this is where so many frustrations and arguments stem from, from the need to be right… and when we place right as more important than truth. What may seem right to one is not always the truth.

273. I love your analogy Rosie. Yes auto pilot is something I just slip into unconsciously when I lose connection with my body. But when I am with me every moment counts and is full, and life flows with ease – I love being the pilot but it does come with Responsibility.

     1. Yes it does come with responsibility and you always have to keep on making the choice in every moment. You can’t just be the pilot and then switch on the cruise control.

     2. There are ways of being and living that we all know in our hearts are healthy and loving for us and have a ripple effect of inspiration to all. Living our everyday in this way also connects us to the true flow of life but, I am realising more and more, that no matter how hard we try to avoid responsibility we cannot for it just chases us relentlessly until we accept that our everyday lessons, our entire lives really, is all about learning to live responsibly in the respect of the all. I agree hartanne60, every moment does indeed count and can be full of this flow if we so choose.

274. Sometimes it feels as if that Autopilot switch is way too easy to find and turn on but it’s never ever given me the feeling of the absolute joy of when I’m in connection and the Pilot in charge of my ship.

275. I love the things you mentioned Rosie that help you to understand if you are indeed with yourself or not. For example…. thinking about what to say next, rushing sentences, not taking moments to pause. These are great reminders to be aware of when communicating and checkins. I know that I have just these past few days, been more invested in getting out what i’ve needed to say and not waited for the space for others to finish. So great reminder.

     1. It is always amazing what transpires when we allow a little space!

276. I agree Bernadette. This blog is an awesome reminder about that fact that all is energy and that we make a choice in each and every moment as to which energy is running us.

     1. I just read this comment, and thought all we need to do is keep on checking in with ourselves, make stop moments to stop and feel so that we are not caught on a ride that we aren’t even aware of.

277. Katie you have highlighted the two big aspects of this – discernment and choice. Each of us has the ability to discern the energy (even if we try to ignor this) and then we have a choice to make – this is the responsibility – what energy do we choose and continue to choose in each and every moment?

278. So true Mary – this brings a whole new level of responsibility to the way we live our lives.

279. It has been interesting to note that when we express in connection with ourselves it brings up a lot in others as this is a different way. What the world is used to, at least in the part of the world that I am living in, is communication that is rushed, emotional, abrupt and haphazard, this is our accepted norm. When expression is without niceness or pandering and takes time to express care, either there is reaction and people will run miles away, or they can’t get enough of it and would like to have lunch with you every day.

280. Rosie I have had an experience recently which gave me a deeper awareness of how constatnly connecting with my body felt. A photographer documented one day in my life and this prompted me into a deeper awareness of being present. I continued to live this after the photographer was gone, and felt I had to constantly remind myself and come back to my body when I was on my own and had moments of disconnection with myself. The truth is we are never on our own, even when we go through life without someone watching us, every moment we can choose to feel our bodies and whether we do or not affects the quality of our lives. What I found was, when we connect with ourselves there is so much love within us, every choice of disconnection is a rejection of our own love, which shows us where it is we still harbor hurts to work on.

281. “Your body runs either way, it’s just the quality of life you end up living is totally different.” This is so true Rosie and such a catch, because our body does run regardless of the energy we choose. I know that when I am choosing love, the quality of my day-to-day living is amazing. When I don’t choose love, I still get stuff done but the flow and quality is not there.

282. Of course Annic C! The off putting pompousness of Arrogance and all its superior energy is exactly what we hide behind if we want to resist awareness of a truth that we don’t want to feel or see. You are also totally correct in saying that humbleness is definitely the key to healing building this awareness without any resistance.

283. It’s so easy to get caught up in the whirlwind and expectations of our everyday life and the pressure of the incessant stimuli that is happening all around us and influencing us, that we don’t question how we are allowing ourselves to be piloted throughout our days, nor what the quality of the actual fuel is that we are feeding ourselves with and thus living off. Awesome blog Rosie.

     1. Beautifully said Suse! BUT…we often get caught in the whirlwind, but sometimes we want to choose to get caught so that we can blame the whirlwind rather than take responsibility.

284. And hold steady even if the tides are strong or the wind is trying to blow you off course, we just have to come back to ourself and know that we are the pilot and we can choose our own course.

285. I never liked alcohol either, but what I now realise is that it was the feeling of not being myself that I disliked the most and that is what would happen when I drank. I would not be me.

286. Exactly Sandra, even when you think it is you, quite often you don’t realise that you are actually on auto pilot and someone else is at the helm!

287. Well said Gail, societal beliefs and expectations can definitely fuel our choices and effectively put us on autopilot throughout our days if we don’t question or choose otherwise.

     1. So many of us have been taught to fit in and follow rather than feel and discern.
        It is beautiful what Universal Medicine is presenting, allowing people to feel rather than just do as society does but to stop and feel it in our bodies and be responsible. To also say no to what doesn’t feel right even if the rest of society are going along with it.

288. Great explanation of how we each get to choose, in every moment, what type of energy fuel will drive our bus. One keeps us lovingly in the driving seat, the other just switches the vehicle into autopilot. I love your ways of checking and knowing when you’re in autopilot and how that gives you the space to choose where and in what energy you go next.

289. Arrogance, yes I have been caught in that, and it is like a prison because while you are stuck in it, you go no where and you can’t see beyond your self inflicted cell.

290. Yes that is true Annie, and to do that we have to get rid of the idea that we know it, or we got it because there is always more to learn and always more awareness.
     Once we come out of the darkness, it takes a while for our eyes to adjust, then we only see what we want to see but after a bit more if we are open to it, we can actually see things that have been there all along but we were just not aware.

291. I have now found I can take the helm and steer my own ship or I can just check out, take no responsibility and let the autopilot take over. Either way, I get to choose which fuel or energy is running the ship. – this is great we are always doing something and there is always something driving us, it is immensely freeing to know that we always have a choice.

292. Thank you Rosie for this self-empowering blog you have written so light-hearted, that the joy of becoming aware of having indeed a choice is present. How revolutionary and liberating is what you say in this line: “If what I am talking about seems simple and I have no need to pre-plan what I am going to say next, then I know that I have chosen an energy that is loving and supports me to connect back to me. It means I am the captain of my own ship.” So I am the captain of my ship, when I am not pre-planning. It is like in some movies, when you over the whole time think, you know the truth and at the end you become aware it is all the other way round but the misunderstanding was in your mind.

293. Love the ‘fleet of brotherhood’ image, Sandra, thank you … piloting our own ship, so still being aware and responsible for our alignment and yet knowing we’re in the fleet of brotherhood, is very inspiring.

294. It’s true, it can be just like this: “I am lost in a whirlwind of my mind.” It can be like a huge noise in the mind which can sound like a whirlwind when one becomes aware of it … and that’s the moment we can say, “Whoa, stop there, what’s this running me right now, what’s going on here?!”
     To become aware of any whirlwind moments is a gift and the more we see them the more we come back to ourselves.

295. I have often heard people ask me “are you coming from your mind or your body?” I never really understood what that means so thank you Rosie for describing the practical examples of how you tell where you are at.

296. Great analogy Rosie and I have spent so much of my life opting out on autopilot but now love the beauty and flow that comes from taking responsibility and steering my own ship. Communication is also a great indicator for me because I can so easily get into wanting the other person to ‘get it’ rather than letting an interaction flow and letting go of the outcome particularly when I am with family members. Thank you I love the playfulness of having a picture of myself with a captain’s hat on as a reminder to steer my own course.

297. This is a great understanding, the energy we choose runs us, and as it does it effects everything we do. I can see very clearly that when I am connected, I know what I am doing in the moment, but when I chose an other energy that is unloving, it indeed feels like I have been steered by someone else for a little while..

     1. Ditto and I appreciate Rosie’s sentence: ” … if I catch myself thinking thoughts of not being beautiful, not being good enough or not clever enough, … ” – I will also find this a really useful key to instantly becoming aware that I’m not connected to me, that I’ve moved into an unloving space … this instance can then be dropped and return to the loving me – enough of the old-beating-myself-up already!

298. ‘What I’ve found is that we use energy to run our bodies. We can also choose a form of energy to run our bodies that is loving. And like a good quality fuel that you use for your car – you get great results from it’. Rosie, a few moments before reading your blog and inspired by another, I had an aha moment: ‘ feed the body with Light and love’.
     this was my soul speaking to me, a message from God. Until then I hadn’t fully appreciated how the choices I am making every day, especially food, can bring me closer to or further away from God.

299. Beautifully said katemaroney1. The responsibility of our choices essentially comes back to the choice between two energies – that which comes from our head and puts us into autopilot or that which comes from our body. When I choose my body there is an ease with which I can speak and move and even think, whereas when on autopilot, it’s like I’m walking with my head and I feel limited, dense and constrained – world’s apart really!

300. A great reminder that we are always choosing, whether we are aware or not. And this choice then effects how we express. Thank you Rosie

301. Yes Danna, Rosie’s blog is very empowering, now that I am more aware of the autopilot moments and the drifting rudderless result to my life. I have a clear choice to steer my ship responsibly.

     1. I love that Bernard, drifting rudderless. It makes me think of living life without a spine, just being pushed and pulled all over the place without making a choice for yourself and being responsible, but instead being at the mercy of the world or sea around you.

302. Thank you Rosie, your blog was very helpful to clarify the difference between running on autopilot and choosing from the body. The give away signs you described, like eating something that’s not right, racy thoughts, harsh movements, or awkward communication are all reminders to stop and connect and regain control of the ship.

303. Very true Rosie, at any given time we are always given a choice of the energy we wish to express from and since the choice is always ours the situations and occurances that we experience are a result of the choices we have made.

304. Rosie the analogy that you have shared about fuel and pilot or auto pilot is such a simple one and would be a wonderful thing to illustrate in a book to support children to learn from an early age that they are constantly choosing energy.

     1. The beauty of teamwork unfolding.

305. So true what you are sharing Rosie. Every moment we make a choice and it is up to us, what we choose, it is our responsibility and we can’t blame anybody.

306. These is something that was an absolute revelation to me “What I’ve found is that we use energy to run our bodies. We can also choose a form of energy to run our bodies that is loving.” I knew that I felt what I called ‘vibes’ and ‘feelings’ but I had not been giving them an true credence and had been reacting when I felt things rather than observing. WE can choose energy and it is profound to do so.

307. Great analogy Rosie … You explain the energetic choices we have and can make beautifully. 🙂

308. That we are still able to travel, whatever our choice of ‘fuel’ can make us think of this journey as a success. But my experience is just as you present Rosie, that using the wrong fuel consistently has a way of seriously damaging your engine…to the point where we have to be grounded and become closer acquainted with the finer details of fuel.

309. Living in connection is a truly powerful way of being and one which the world does not support. Living from the head up does not serve and is actually harming to the body. I have recently had a period in my life where I have gone from being very steady to being quite busy as the structure of my work life has changed significantly. I have noticed a hardening in my body and pain in my back. It was great to read this blog Rosie as its a reminder to slow down and connect and not let the ways of the world pull me away from me.

310. There’s some great pointers here Rosie, especially with regards to what are the quality of our thoughts – this is something I am playing with at the moment and what I am learning is that the unloving thoughts are cold and destructive, whereas the self loving thoughts are all warm and very supportive. When I clock that my thoughts have strayed into autopilot mode, I also notice that my actions with my body have also become hard and rough.

311. A great sharing exposing the responsibility in simply choosing to live our lives, or have them lived for us.

312. Hi Rosie, thank you for a great analogy and simple ways for us to create markers to check if we are connected with ourselves or not. Who truly wants to be autopilot anyway? – everyone wants to be the pilot! There is way more responsibility and fun in being the pilot!!

     1. Oh yeah! Way more fun and freedom being your own pilot…. in fact, it is the only way to go for me these days!

     2. So true, Ariane. Autopilot feels so uncomfortable for me now but I still go there occasionally. It feels amazing to steer the ship and this gives me a marker to come back to when I am on autopilot.

313. Great blog. Two great questions there that you explore: who is in charge, the pilot, and what fuel, energy, are we using? That’s absolutely crucial to life and should be the first question every school day to make clear, that it is about energy and responsibility in the first place, and then anything else.

314. The beautiful revelation, you offer me here, Rosie, is the marker of complication. Sometimes I feel that I have to nominate issues in relationships, things that bother me or I clearly feel are not harmonious. But sometimes this comes across complicated and I understand now, that this is not me talking then. So I can learn, before I choose to express, to reconnect and express in a light, simple way, the way I am.

315. ‘Shiver me timbers’ Rosie, or should I say my spirit brings the cold and damp which causes me to shiver. My soul on the other hand, puts a light under my timbers creating an eternal flame, that actually does not burn but “we can also choose this form of energy to run our bodies, that is loving.”

     1. I will take the one that does not burn out any day!

        1. Yes Rosie, our eternal flame burns bright bringing joy to all we do. All we have to do is weather the storm of the spirit! Then it is full power ahead or should I say ‘puts the wind in our sails’!!

316. I love how empowering it feels to have conscious presence and feel like I am “…the pilot of my ship and I am steering the course that I choose,” rather than being on ‘autopilot’.

317. Autopilot is such an interesting mode we have. In a car if you want to go into autopilot you switch a switch, but we just hand over our reigns to something else, without the need to press a button or switch. I always find it a great reminder to be present and to live with a degree of awareness of my body so that I do not end up somewhere not remembering why!

     1. I do not have that feeling so often any more, but I remember that feeling of how on earth did I get here because I don’t remember any of it… and then wonder, where was I?

        1. Yeah it’s a scary feeling!

318. I have loved reading this Rosie and the reminder of something so simple yet such a life changer. To keep checking in on who is steering the ship has been profound for me and I enjoy the deepening relationship I have with my body and this awareness.

319. Great Rosie. The choice of energy that we allow is determined by each and every step we take. Each step confirms the quality of energy that we walk with, so if I’m not choosing the quality of me, then I’m walking with something else.

     1. Exatamundo!

320. I can very much relate to planning ahead what I am going to say, I used to do this all the time. Since attending the courses of Universal Medicine, I have learned what it means to be in my body and to be present. Now when I say something, there is less need to prepare in my mind what I am going to say and this feels wonderful. I just express in the moment, more and more. Also with job interviews by the way, and I have had such beautiful, open and intimate interviews, huge change.

321. A lovely blog to read and share – Thank you Rosie. All ships (our bodies) need fuel – smiling now as I had a picture of pulling into a garage which had ‘energy’ for sale (instead of petrol) ‘unloving energy’ cost = untold damage to your body/mind/others. ‘Loving energy’ cost = free. tank always full.
     To have those ‘stop moments’ and to check where we are at energetically in our bodies is a wonderful way to put a halt to those busy momentums which try to run us.

     1. Yeah and we are the ones who can create those stop moments, anywhere, anytime.

322. Love this blog Rosie, particularly love the ending; ” have now found I can take the helm and steer my own ship or I can just check out, take no responsibility and let the autopilot take over. Either way, I get to choose which fuel or energy is running the ship.”; simple and profound.

323. I love reading this blog. It is so simple and so true, and as Nicola said it is “an ever evolving and developing way of living. It also makes everything and anything I do fun so long as it is me doing it!”

324. Flight path 101 Rosie thank you. A simple to follow step by step guide in how to travel through life at our optimum.

     1. I like this Giselle… I work in the travel industry so it is quite fitting!

325. Beautiful Rosie, really simple but with an ample amount of insight into the results or outcome of life. Really love it. ‘Your body runs either way, it’s just the quality of life you end up living is totally different.’ Brings about a power of a choice.

     1. Thanks Emily…… power of a choice and self responsibility.

        1. Nailed it.

326. Thank you for sharing your great little red flag, Rosie. So simple.

327. I completely agree with what you have written Rosie. It actually took me a few years of attending courses to even become aware of just how much I did things on auto pilot meaning I was not with my body. In fact the more aware I became the more aware I became of just how much I was not aware. So the first big step was just to be aware of what was going on and then I started a whole series of little projects to bring myself back. One of the early ones was to be aware of how I took off the seat belt when I got out of the car and how I opened and closed the car door. Over time these kinds of seemingly tiny choices have completely transformed my life and I now have heaps more energy than ever before and am running my body on a much healthier fuel. However, this is not something I have mastered by any means but rather a an ever evolving and developing way of living. It also makes everything and anything I do fun so long as it is me doing it!

     1. Thank Nicola, not something I have mastered either. To me it is like with each new level of awareness I get to, there is even more there waiting for me.

328. This was the perfect blog for me to read today Rosie – I have a huge day ahead and I could feel that I wasn’t even able to stay with this blog as I read it, my mind was wandering in a million different directions. Rushing through the words in an effort to ‘get it done’ as a result I had to keep rereading passages and it took twice as long. Staying with the body allows us to connect and enjoy what we are doing, it is far more efficient too.

329. Rosie it was so lovely to be with you as I read this blog, your story is my story and to greater or lesser extent you describe everyone’s story here. You make a very good case for choosing conscious presence over checking out as we all have the red flags and many of us even have pretty similar red flags. I am finding new red flags all the time too and red flags that hide behind other things. Getting to know our red flags can be fun and empowering, seeing them can be the beginning of their end.

     1. Love what you have shared Deanne – I often find the discovery of a ‘red flag’ daunting and see it as a sign of failure instead of as an opportunity to adjust and change. I can feel how important it is to appreciate the red flags as a warning not an indictment.

        1. Very good point there Leonne, and thank you Deanne for allowing us to work this out from what you wrote. When we see the red flag, it does not have to be a moment to beat ourselves up but quite the contrary, it’s a time to celebrate that we are now aware of another part of our life that we were not and we can therefore change if we want to. Only if we want to. It is our choice.

330. Great blog, Rosie. I love the simple symbolism you used about you or another steering your own ship.I have come a long way from thinking ahead and not being present in my body. It creeps back in when I get ‘goal’ driven and don’t allow things to unfold.

331. Great blog Rosie. I find it quite hard to talk whilst being present in my body and easily become invested in what I’m saying being accepted by the person or people I’m talking to. This need hadn’t occurred to me before so thanks for that awareness – I suspect I’ll start catching myself in this needy conversation and use it as a marker to pause to reconnect.

332. The more I listen to my body the more I can how my mind can try and creep back in and try and take control. Life is so much simpler when I listen to my body, the thoughts that try to make things complicated are always there but I am learning to say no to them and let my body have the final say.

     1. Listening to our body is such under estimated wisdom. We spend years attending school being taught about the powers of our mind and then struggle with life when our mind fueled lives don’t run so well.

333. I love the simplicity of this blog Rosie, as it reveals the way we live is a reflection of the choices and energy we align to. I can feel so much of what you have written reflects the many things I am now choosing to do (not in perfection) but with more presence and the difference in my body is amazing. I feel the more connected we are with ourselves the more life has a natural flow about it.

334. I Love this Rosie its a great simple explanation of what is at play and what we are in charge of choosing!

335. It seems that this steering one’s own ship is a moment by moment dedication, as the currents in the sea can take you off course when you are snoozing.

     1. Very true…. you may get hit from a massive ship if you snooze and are not on watch and clearly steering your own ship.

336. Being connected and having conscious presence with what I’m doing during the day is still a work in progress, but when I do I notice the difference in my body and how I interact with those around me. It certainly feels more relaxed and joy-full than when I was on auto-pilot.

337. I use to be in auto pilot all the time, now I have really started to understand how important it is to be present, having conscious presences with everything I do, it’s a work in progress but I can feel the difference it is making in my body and my environment.

338. “…become aware of how I am communicating and expressing” – as a long-time self-observing introvert, this is something I actually did a lot of, but I had no idea how to truly change it to be more present with myself. As a consequence, I was not the best for the people I was communicating with! The result was, I was very aware of how I was (tense, protected, in my head, etc) and very aware of how the other person was (tense, protected and in their head) and would go into feelings of guilt over my contribution to disconnected communication. So I’d shy away from interacting – it just seemed so tense and unsatisfactory and easier being alone with myself where I could at least have only one tense person to deal with! As you say, Rosie, it’s the teachings of Universal Medicine that turned it all around – giving us the inner tools for coming back to our bodies and being able to be present even in interactions with tense, protected people. It’s a blessing to be able to ‘stand still in myself’ and allow another to be where they are at, without feeling like I want to run away from them!

     1. Thanks for commenting diannetrussell, I can so get the picture of the two tense, protected, in their heads people talking, but there is actually not a lot of communication going on…. just the tense niceness. I can almost see a cartoon skit made out of this.

        1. Cartoon skit – you could probably sketch from just about any two people talking and it would be there, but they ‘wouldn’t’!

        2. Yes, true and funny at the same time!

     2. I love your honest sharing diannetrussell, I can say now that I have a tension running in my body that I have taken into all interactions I have. It is interesting to consider that I have also shied away from contact with people in spite of the fact I naturally love the company of others. It is great to now have this awareness that this is playing out and start to address the tension and discomfort and allow myself to become more open.

339. Rosie I love your analogy of being captain of your own ship, steering it and in charge, or allowing autopilot to take over. It makes it very simple – keep choosing to stay present, it is way more empowering and won’t lead to anxiousness and feeling overwhelmed. Thank you.

340. ‘i can stop, take a breath and make a choice in that moment to either reconnect to me and my body, or continue in the uncomfortable rush of energy that is not really me or my rhythm.’
     Thank you Rosie for sharing how simple it really is.

341. I love what you share in this blog Rosie, I can relate to being in my mind and not my body and how this affects me in my life. I would never put cheap fuel into my car, so why would I choose to pollute my body with thoughts that keep me less? Thank you for this beautiful reminder!

342. Amazing Rosie I love your practical experiences you share in your honest blog. I am more the practical typ of person and so I can very much relate to it. So thank you for showing how easy it is to feel if we are connected with ourselves or not.

     1. If it is simple and practical and I get it… so thats the only way I can share it.

343. This is an inspirational sharing Rosie, thank you. I am more aware when I am on ” auto pilot” these days and if I find myself (as you Mentioned) in a place without any recollection of how or why I am there, I realise I am on auto and need to connect again . I like the analogy of taking the helm and “steering my own ship” on the energy of Love, rather than letting go on autopilot and taking no responsibility for the energy I am using.

344. Rosie I love this blog – thank you! It makes so much sense that the quality of our day is determined by our connection to our body and using an energy that support us to be loving. There is much joy to be had through connection and quality of movement being on autopilot cannot compare.

     1. Beautifully said Bianca. A loving and supportive connection with our own body that allows us to express our own true joy and innate qualities special to ourselves, vs autopilot. I know what I want my days to be founded on!

345. I know I still run on autopilot a lot of the time with my mind out of control going off on all types of tangents. The difference to when I stay connected with what I am doing is huge. One way is stressful and complicated with an anxiousness to get everything done, which can be exhausting The other way keeps things simple, I am aware of how I am moving, and there is an ease in my body in whatever I am doing, which feels lovely and is rejuvenating. I am aware that it comes from the choice of energy I choose in every moment – love or not love.

     1. Beautifully said Deidre, I can totally relate to all that you have shared. Simplicity vs complexity, it’s our choice.

346. Having started to become more aware of my body over the past few months I can totally relate to what you’ve shared here Rosie. If I am running with critical thoughts, or upset because I don’t want to feel something, I have noticed that these thoughts create a certain walk, a hurried and desperate walk that makes me feel like a bulldozer – hard and no interest in what is between me and my, at the time, perceived goal of tension relief. But in the moment I clock this walk occurring I can stop, change my walk, and in that change the thoughts and tensions disappear. It sounds so simple that at times there is still disbelief, but I can’t deny for much longer that HOW the body moves is power-full. More so than the mind I have used as my go-to place for direction and answers and understandings of life.

     1. Very true leighmatson, I know I have often given more power to the mind than the body. And the two offer very different results and I can feel which one works better for me.

     2. It’s amazing how if something hurts us we can be triggered into autopilot, and it’s almost as though an automatic response takes over. I also totally relate to how movement can change things, sometimes I clock my walk and I am a bit hunched and shrunken (if that’s a word) and the minute I correct it I feel differently.

347. I love this simple explanation of how to know which of the 2 energies is running you and if you are connected in your body or disconnected and in your head. These 2 things aren’t just another tool to add to the many self-help tips out there these days. They are all we really need to know as everything then comes from these choices. What a gift to share this with people.

     1. Yes Fiona, Rosie certainly does explain this very clearly and helpfully. It is either one energy we are running on or another. What choices am I making and is the intention clear, is it simple or complicated, am I making excuses or taking responsibility, I find that is also a great guide.

348. I love the simplicity of the analogy about ‘autopilot’ Rosie, it has a very powerful affect on exposing how I go about my daily activities without consideration to whom is the pilot in charge of my life. Thank you for putting ‘me’ back in the driver’s seat.

     1. Who is the pilot? That’s a great question! It’s so important that we claim the driving seat back.

     2. Well said Andrew. It reminds me of the topic of responsibility and there are no coincidences. Either I take responsibility and I’m the driver or I don’t, blaming the world for not driving correctly, what a difference.

349. Great blog, thank you for sharing

350. Rosie I really like the analogy of what fuel or energy is running the ship in relation to our bodies. I am finding it’s super important to check in on which type of fuel I am filling up with as the autopilot pattern has had its way for some time. Thanks for the great reminder to keep checking!

     1. Rosie your blog presented for me to read again this morning. What you are sharing in such a practical way, is so perfect for what I have committed to changing in my life at the moment, I am truly being consistently aware of the energy that is running me. Thank you again!

351. I really enjoyed reading this blog Rosie. You have shared a lot of very practical tips and examples of how to choose energy that allows you to act and move with love. Thank you.

352. Inspired by Universal Medicine and your own experience through putting what was presented into practice, you make a very clear and easy to follow distinction between ‘doing life’ on auto pilot or living it from your body and all of you.

353. autopilot is a good name for it, except this autopilot doesn’t have all the safety features and will run your body into the ground, rather than relinquish control.

     1. Very true, this autopilot has no safety or care whatsoever.

354. Understanding that, if everything is energy therefore everything is because of energy, together with the understanding that fundamentally there are only two types of energy; one that contains love and one that does not – has totally changed my life and explained everything to me.

355. There’s some great little points in this blog Rosie that all add up to which fuel we are choosing or not. One little indicator I find useful during my day is, when at work and the phone rings, I can tell how I am when I pick up the phone – sometimes I may rush or there is a hardness in my tone or my voice can be clear, slowed down and gentle. I also pay attention to how I pick up the phone and replace it – this is a good one for me because I answer the phone a lot.
     We have a ‘put the phone down gently policy’ in our office and any unintentional slamming stands out like a sore thumb. It feels lovely to do and it is respectful to the person on the other end.

356. Well put leighoflight, it seems our body is a clear reflection of what choices we are making and choosing

357. Rosie I could relate to everything you have written, the quality of how I do things and the thoughts that are in my head are completely different when I run on the right fuel and am not on autopilot. Time for me is still something I get caught up in, as soon as my thoughts are about how am I going to fit it all in, or I have a lot to do I can feel my body getting anxious and racey and my thoughts are focused on things ahead of me rather than what I am doing at that moment and this is when I start to loose the natural rhythm of the day.

     1. Its great when we start to see all the little patterns of behaviour that we can go into , and even greater when we can catch ourselves in those moments, stop and say, hang on a minute, I am way ahead of myself. All I need to do right now, is just what I am doing right now, and then I will move onto the next thing…. and trust that there will be enough time, because even if there is not, its not the end of the world.

358. So true to stop and feel which energy is running through me. Great analogy of a car and the type of fuel is running it.

359. “The more we get to know ourselves the more we can allow us to be our natural selves in the world regardless of the drives outside to be different”, well said monicag2 – it can be such a simple choice when we find ourselves running on an unloving program to change it, yet at the time it can seem hard. The more consistent we are with ourselves, the loving momentum this builds means we have more of a pull towards being loving than not.

360. I sometimes find myself wanting to go to autopilot because the responsibility and awareness just seem to be too much for me. What follows after that is a long period of choices that lead to total discomfort and unease in my body. Then I do chose the “wrong” food, let thoughts in that give a drive etc. So in the result one moment of “comfort” leads to a worse feeling than one moment of pause would have taken me to stop and breathe. It is like choosing to use diesel instead of unleaded fuel, and ruin my engine slowly but constantly by the deposits the “wrong” fuel leaves behind.

361. So easy to read and understand the fact that there are 2 types of energy in life with your post Rosie. I love your visual metaphor of a car’s fuel in relation to the workings of our body with your words here: “Your body runs either way, it’s just the quality of life you end up living is totally different”. The quality of our ‘fuel’ IS everything and is what determines our destination in our life, whether this be with harmony, ease and joy – or not, which is something only we choose as “pilots of our own ship”. We have such great power then.

362. Take the helm and steer your own ship; very powerful words Rosie
     Thank you for the reminder and inspiration to steer my own ship.

363. I love what you have presented here Rosie. I enjoyed the simplicity you have shared about choice of energy and a very practical way to feel the difference.

364. Dear Rosie, what a simple explanation of what it means to be disconnected and how it feels to be connected and with oneself. This is really supportive. Thank you.

365. So important to not personalize someone with what they chose to say or do, especially when they hurt you and something got into them. Sometimes a big challenge, but you can only but support someone in staying observing and telling them, that this is not them.

366. “What I’ve found is that we use energy to run our bodies. We can also choose a form of energy to run our bodies that is loving. And like a good quality fuel that you use for your car – you get great results from it.” So simple yet life changing. What I have learnt is that every moment, no matter what, we have the option to choose. Understanding what sits behind those choices has been life changing; they are my aha moments.

367. ” Love is no soft affair, it is powerful energy that does not engage in sympathy, comfort, need or excuses” This is great, so unlike the love we are sold in the media and mostly subscribe to when we are young. And thank you Rosie for sharing with such space in your writing that everything is so clear and simple.

368. What a great question – if you are running on auto pilot then who is the pilot if it is not you? If we check out we leave a space for another energy to check in and then we might do horrible things and people know that is not really us because they say things like “what’s got into you”!

369. “What I’ve found is that we use energy to run our bodies. We can also choose a form of energy to run our bodies that is loving. And like a good quality fuel that you use for your car – you get great results from it.” I love your playful analogy here Rosie. Last year I put the wrong fuel in the vehicle I was driving, that gave me a wake up call of the energy I was running with that day.

370. Thanks Rosie , so simple, what energy am I running on?

371. Thank you Joan for your comment in which you write: This journey to come home to the essence of ourselves and reconnect with our soul is like piloting a sailing ship against the wind. A light hold on the tiller, and remaining present and focused all the time as the boat runs its course, using the power of the wind, and steering along that thin line where the boat is taken forward without being blown to one side or the other. It takes attention, commitment and strength to do this. Love is no soft affair, it is a powerful energy that does not engage in sympathy, comfort, need or excuses.”
     I love what you have shared and tried to reply but could not, so had to copy it again…. I love how you have spoken my language. Although I don’t sail anymore, I can so get this!

     1. I have never sailed but I love this.

        1. No need to sail tonisteenson, its overated! I searched and sailed around the world and I only found myself with the support and inspiration from Universal Medicine, Serge Benhayon and Natalie Benhayon.

372. Thank you Rosie. I love how you shared that thoughts of not being beautiful or ‘enough’ in some way are a great indicator that you are not piloting your own ship. I will remember this when those thoughts come up for me now.

373. I like your comment Joan; we can choose between running with the dictates of our mind (Auto pilot), or live with love which is the impulse of our heart, whereby we pilot our own ship. Yes indeed, why would we ever choose auto pilot after reading the wisdom Rosie has shared with us.

     1. I am remembering something that was said to me when I had just become a student of Universal Medicine. This journey to come home to the essence of ourselves and reconnect with our soul is like piloting a sailing ship against the wind. A light hold on the tiller, and remaining present and focused all the time as the boat runs its course, using the power of the wind, and steering along that thin line where the boat is taken forward without being blown to one side or the other. It takes attention, commitment and strength to do this. Love is no soft affair, it is a powerful energy that does not engage in sympathy, comfort, need or excuses.

374. Thank you for sharing this Rosie. Taking time to connect and be the “pilot” of our own ship feels so important. I know there are many times that I am on autopilot going through the tasks of the day. I will use this blog as a reminder to check in and connect to ensure that it is love running my ship.

375. I like your analogy of the fuel for the ship you are steering Rosie. It is so important that we regularly check in with ourselves and feel the connection with our bodies. I really appreciate how you are observing the way you communicate and noting the finer details in your life that help keep your awareness on what energy you are running. Very inspiring.

376. ‘If what I am talking about seems simple and I have no need to pre-plan what I am going to say next, then I know that I have chosen an energy that is loving and supports me to connect back to me. It means I am the captain of my own ship.’ Just one great example of the truth in your blog Rosie. I was so good with pre-planning everything and after a conversation ruminating just like a cow everything what had been said. It seemed autopilot but I sure had a say in it. Now I choose to connect with me, feeling my body time after time if needed. ( I can be as stubborn as a cow as well)

     1. Annelies, love your reference to the ruminations of a cow…which has 4 stomachs…and produces vast quantities of methane….yikes! All that revisiting of what I /others said or what I might say, a clear call for a ‘fuel’ change.

377. Well that brings me back to feeling responsible for all the things I do, think or say, which is great! I think we need accountability and responsibility in our lives as a base for everyone to stand on, I feel like one day everyone will get to this place of responsibility and great for you Rosie to be a teacher of it.

378. So true Rosie. You have spelt it out so clearly and in a way that makes it easier to see what is happening on a practical, temporal level. Thanks.

379. I love the point raised within this blog that our bodies run whether we are conscious or not of what is actually running them. I have found that the more aware I am of my body the more aware I am of what is running it. Am I anxious, nervous, worried, running on adrenalin or taking great care as I go about my day?

380. That’s really cool Rosie. You make it really simple to grasp that it all comes down to a simple choice of how to be with yourself.

381. And what is great, is how simple it is to change this. A stop, some awareness and a choice.

382. That is so true Tim, once we start taking the helm more often (as in being our own pilot), it is easy to see when we have gone into autopilot and then choose to actually take over again.

383. Congratulations Rosie, for taking the helm and becoming the captain of your own ship!
     And thank you for playfully and simply explaining how you differentiate between which energy is choosing to run your ship at any given time…
     Your blog has helped me with my understanding of how to discern the energy which is running MY ship. It really is quite simple, just stay connected to my body by feeling what is going on, and being aware of the quality of thoughts running through my head. And if at any time I swerve off course, gently steer myself back to me again. And of course, the more we stay on course with the right (or true) energy, the quicker we will reach our destination, back home to our true selves. Thank-you!

384. It is lovely to have the two energies that fuel us delineated in such a practical way. thank you Rosie.

385. I agree Leigh – the quality is very different, depending on which energy we use.

386. Thank you Rosie for this timely reminder to connect back to myself “I can stop, take a breath and make a choice in that moment to either reconnect to me and my body, or continue in the uncomfortable rush of energy that is not really me or my rhythm” -So simple yet to so profound.

     1. A very profound reminder for us all Sam and showing us that in every moment we have a choice.

387. Well put Rosie, so true and relevant to the all. Great examples of times where we can let the energy in, also these times are great to stop and feel what is it about that moment that we allowed it in.

388. This is a great article Rosie, I find it very supportive to read the simple, practical ways that you re-connect to your body, ‘Another way for me to see if I am connected to my body or not is to check where I am. If I can feel my body and am aware of my hips or can feel how I am holding my arms or even if I am aware of a little pain in my lower back, then I am with me – connected.’

389. The eternal battle of awareness. There are so many chapters to write…. Beautiful Rosie!

390. Hi Rosie I really enjoyed this line “And like a good quality fuel that you use for your car – you get great results from it.” it is very simple and makes complete sense for me. I know that if I put in quality fuel my car runs smoother, lasts longer and in much more of a healthy condition – the same with the energy I choose to put in my body.

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