This time of world upheaval, what Andeans call Pachacuti, or the turning over of the world, is causing tremendous imbalance in our spiritual and energy bodies. Not to mention our pocketbooks…our habits…our friendships…our lives as we knew them.

This time has been predicted by many Indigenous cultures. Those same cultures offer insight and wisdom that I find essential. Each day as I try to shift out of fear or anxiety or depression, whatever response is arising in the moment, I focus on bringing in sami, energy that comes from being in harmony with the universe.

In the blog Sami: Five Ways to Return to Harmony, I try to share how to access and use this essential Andean wisdom that's been guiding my path for 30 years. 

Being in harmony with the universe—the whole of creation and destruction, chaos and beauty—helps build your immunity. Your physical, energetic, and spiritual selves all benefit from the harmony you create, and suffer when you let disharmonious feelings and energies overwhelm you. 

Harmonious, Lighter Energy

For the Q’ero people, energy that comes from being in harmony with the universe (sami) resides in the highest mountains, the stars, the cosmos: sacred, living places of light, powerful, harmonious cleansing energy.

For the rest of us, connection with harmonious energy could come from meditation, when we are fully present, breathing, as our being opens into the vastness of the universe, outside space-time.

Or a moment of pounding rain—drowning out all other sound, cleansing our souls of dust, density, and distraction—might lead us into the harmony of sami.

Or time in the desert—with its vast open spaces, wind, ancient stones, secret canyons filled with maidenhair fern, vast starry skies, and mysterious healing powers—might provide the emptiness that clears our brains.

Or quiet time spent with a single, beloved tree, or a place we love, or a transfiguring moment: any of these may take you to an open-hearted place.

Sami is high-frequency energy, the animating essence that feeds your luminous and physical body. It flows from reciprocity: to receive it, you must give to other humans, places, and beings.

But how can you give or receive any good energy when you are depleted, fearful, and off center? How can you be grateful when you’re full of despair and grief? How can you be generous when you feel like your world has blown apart? Read more of the blog...

 

 

1. Saminchakuy. With intent, let living energy—kausay—flow from your crown through your feet, offering Pachamama, our cosmic mother, all the heavy energy of the virus and the epidemic as food.
2. Saywachakuy. With intent, let the living energy of the earth flow from the bottom up into your heart and out your crown to strengthen your immune system.
3. Hucha mijuy. With intent, imagine drawing the heavy energy of your family, intimate group, or community into your Q’os’qo—your energy center just below your navel—and down into the earth through a tube or funnel, letting the earth digest and compost whatever energy you feed it. This will support and strengthen everyone.
   Be sure to let kawsay flow through you again after “eating hucha.”