What does the word sacred mean to you? Have you ever felt the deep peace, stillness and tranquility that exists in certain places?  Have you been touched by the breath of life in some pristine nature spot? Have you felt the peace and stillness of your spirit at a certain temple, church or mosque? How about the opposite experience? What places that you go to make you feel anxious, nervous, stressed out or even fearful? Think of the way you may feel when you go to a busy station, a tense workplace or maybe a place with a shady past or where some conflict has occurred. These places are not inherently like this, but their energy signature builds up over time based on the actions, thoughts and intentions of those who visit that place. This energy signature can have a significant impact on the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual balance of the people who go there. Knowing this, we begin to realize that our choices and actions have a cumulative effect and with selective conscious action we have the power to cultivate a place to the vibrational level of a certain type of energy.

A temple or other holy place is the first thing people may think of when they hear the word sacred. The original purpose of a temple in ancient times was not for spreading a religion or the worship of a certain god. In ancient times, people had a closer connection with nature and understood the importance of energetic purity and how to maintain and cultivate it. Those who specialized in the harmonization and amplification of energy, used their heightened awareness to find places in nature that naturally exuded a powerful vibration and could be used for healing, connecting with the spirit of nature, inner exploration, divination, conflict resolution etc.

Since nature holds the original blueprint for the energetic balance of physical life on this planet and she is constantly reharmonizing it, our personal packet of energy which makes up our life being can easily become outdated and disharmonized. When this happens, the result may manifest as disease, mental and emotional issues, loss of purpose, relationship strain, conflict or even worse.  Temples were then created as a place where we could reharmonize and re-sync our energies with nature in an easy and efficient manner.  Those who visited these places treated them as sacred, thus sacredness lived and grew there.

The original activity for those who visited a sacred space was not to pray, ask for favors, or perform rituals. In order to connect with the sacred energy of these places, all that was required was to sit on the Earth of that place, become still and quiet and open ourselves. When the mind has ceased activity and becomes quiet, conscious awareness becomes active. When we open ourselves to nature, she naturally rebalances our energies. When the energetic vibration of a certain place becomes purified and charged, we can harmonize and uplift ourselves in a much quicker timeframe than in other places.

Life is a sea of energy, and all of its individual forms and expressions are little systems of energy on their own.  Each life form is a unique expression as well as an extension of the one great energy which is life itself. Each species and individual being has a certain degree of control or mastery over the way energy accumulates and is moving in their lives. The greater the mastery over the energy of ones being, the greater the scale of evolutionary freedom one will enjoy. When one becomes aware of the reality of energy cultivation, they realize the importance of the cultivation of their own individual energy, the energy of their home, relationships, community and ultimately the world and beyond. Taking responsibility for one’s own life means to accept the brush of the creator and take steps to make the best life we can both for ourselves and all beings.