Energy Psychology and Energy Work Explained - Sarah Lawrence

On Fridays, I like to unwind with People Magazine. It’s a light ritual, a mix of stories about one of my favorite subjects: human nature. Recently, a familiar name caught my eye — Carrie Underwood — and, as it turns out, she’s a Manifesting Generator in the Human Design system.

If you’ve ever flipped to the back page of People Magazine, you’ve probably seen the “One Last Thing” feature, a quick-fire interview where the same five questions are asked of a celebrity each week.

In an October issue, that celebrity was Carrie Underwood, singer, songwriter, and winner of American Idol’s fourth season.

Curious, I looked up her birth date on Wikipedia and ran her Human Design chart.

What I discovered fascinated me: Carrie is a Manifesting Generator, one of the most dynamic energy types in Human Design.

That one chart sparked a whole new exploration, and this post (and podcast!) grew from there.

There are so many personality tests and self-awareness tools out there — Myers-Briggs, Enneagram, astrology, numerology — and now, Human Design.

Life is busy, and many of these systems can feel complicated or even overwhelming. So, how do we get the most out of them without drowning in data?

I often remind my clients: –

“Understanding your energy is like solving a multidimensional Rubik’s cube — one small move at a time unlocks the next level.”

That’s exactly how Human Design works.

Human Design is a unique system that weaves together four ancient traditions with one modern scientific discovery – creating a map of how your energy is designed to operate.

It blends:

The fifth and most modern layer is genetics. The 64 I-Ching hexagrams correspond to the 64 codons in human DNA (discovered by Watson and Crick in 1953).

Together, these elements form a multidimensional framework for understanding who we are, how our energy moves, and how we interact with the world.

If you’ve ever seen your chart, you may have felt both intrigued and a little lost.

People often tell me,

“I had my chart done once… and then I had no idea what to do with it!”

It’s understandable. The chart looks like a beautiful matrix of shapes, numbers, and colors, fascinating, but also overwhelming at first.

That’s why I encourage people to start simple: focus on your Type and your chakra pattern first.

Human Design isn’t meant to be memorized; it’s meant to be felt. Once you start noticing how your energy naturally flows, the chart begins to “speak” and each part clicks into place.

If you’d like to begin exploring, connect with me through my secure client portal. I’ll send you a short report and your Human Design chart for free.

If you’d like to make a start, connect with me here at my secure client portal. I’ll send you a short report and your Human Design Chart for free.

There are five main energy Types in Human Design:

My own aura type is Manifestor, and I’ve written more about that in this blog post.

But today, let’s focus on the Manifesting Generator — the type that both Carrie Underwood and Simon Cowell share.

Manifesting Generators are energetic dynamos, creative, fast-moving, and full of drive.

They juggle multiple passions, explore widely, and learn by doing. Once something excites them, they go all in, full throttle, no hesitation.

They often have an entrepreneurial streak or an unconventional approach to life. They innovate naturally, bringing fresh energy or a new twist to familiar ideas.

Every Manifesting Generator has a defined Throat Chakra, a constant energetic connection to expression.

This gives them a magnetic voice, a natural ability to translate inspiration into sound, speech, and creative manifestation.

Imagine a lamp that’s always plugged in and ready to shine – that’s what a defined Throat Chakra feels like. The current is always on, waiting for a cue to illuminate.

In Human Design terms, Carrie Underwood’s Throat Chakra is powered by both her Heart Chakra and Sacral Chakra — a combination known as The Money Line.

This channel fuses love, passion, and creativity into one steady current, linking heartfelt communication with material and emotional success.

Think about the raw emotion in her song “Jesus, Take the Wheel.” That’s Heart-Throat energy in motion — vulnerability turned into resonance.

When the Heart and Throat align, passion flows into purpose, and purpose into prosperity.

Simon Cowell, interestingly, is also a Manifesting Generator, but his energy moves very differently from Carrie’s.

His Throat connects to his Sacral energy through his Self Center (sometimes called the GPS Chakra). This creates what’s known as the Channel of Exploration, the energy of trailblazing and bold self-expression.

He also carries the Alpha Channel, which drives leadership and the courage to speak truth without apology.

We’ve all seen it on American Idol: Simon’s sharp honesty, his confidence, his clarity. That’s his design in action.

Carrie’s chart also features a defined link between her Root Chakra (drive and stamina) and her Sacral Chakra (life force and creativity).

This forms the Channel of Concentration — the energy of sustained focus and productive flow.

It’s what allows her to channel her creativity day after day, maintaining steady momentum over time. With rest and balance, this becomes her secret to long-term success.

Both Carrie Underwood and Simon Cowell are brilliant examples of the Manifesting Generator in action, yet they express that energy in completely different ways.

That’s the beauty of Human Design: no two charts are ever the same. Even when people share the same Type, their specific channels, chakras, and life experiences give them their own energetic fingerprint.

If you’re curious about your own Design, I offer free Human Design charts through my secure client portal. Once you’ve received your chart, we can begin exploring it together — one “Rubik’s cube move” at a time.

You might be surprised at how clearly your energy starts to speak once you know how to listen.

I hope you have enjoyed this podcast about Human Design Manifesting Generators. Maybe you identify with Carrie or Simon, and are curious about your own Human Design? 

To receive a short chart report and a free Human Design Chart, message me through the client portal.

Would you like a Human Design Reading with me? I’d suggest beginning with the Life Purpose Reading.

If you enjoyed this podcast, you might also enjoy this one – How To Recognize a Human Design Projector – Gloria Gaynor.

Becoming a mentor as a parent is probably the biggest role we didn’t realize we would need to do. When you are put in a mentoring role, how can intuitive guidance help you?

This podcast is about becoming a mentor. There are times in life when we find ourselves in that role, even when it’s not something we consciously sought. Suddenly, others look to us for guidance, and we’re not entirely sure how to go about it.

This episode came about because I wasn’t even sure what I was going to talk about! So, I asked my Spirit Guides for help. They immediately directed me to Caroline Myss’s Archetype Deck and told me to draw six cards.

Using Caroline Myss’s beautiful Archetype Cards, I channeled a message about the student-to-mentor journey.

Caroline Myss Archetype Cards on Amazon.

Archetypes, as you may know, are energetic blueprints, patterns of thought and behavior that exist within the collective mind. They describe the roles we embody as humans on our path of growth.

Each archetype has light and shadow aspects. In this channeling, I focused on the positive, light-filled side of each one.

I channeled a fascinating six-step cycle of transformation: how we move from student to mentor and back again.

What I discovered is that becoming a mentor isn’t a single event; it’s a cycle.

We begin as students. Often, we don’t even realize we’re stepping into mentorship until we’re already actively practicing it. Maybe a teacher once asked you to help another student, or a friend turned to you for advice.

For me, it started while working at Channel 4 Television, teaching colleagues how to use Wang typewriters (remember those?). I only learned to use one myself because I wanted to save my work! Yet, that small moment led to a lifelong path of teaching and training.

In that instance, my teacher wasn’t a person, it was new technology.

The cards my Spirit Guides directed me to were:

And then—back again to The Mentor.

The first message that came through was clear:

A Mentor is a Student in disguise.

Wisdom is not just received—it’s embodied. The eternal student learns, applies, and evolves.

As the saying goes:

“When the student is ready, the teacher appears.”

I’ve had many teachers—some conventional, others unexpected. True mentorship is synchronistic and empathic. There’s a mutual exchange of energy and understanding that helps both people grow.

A wonderful example of this is the relationship in The Karate Kid: the timeless dance of student and teacher, each reflecting the other as they both grow.

After learning from a mentor, we begin The Ascent. We take what we’ve learned and move upward into new life stages, creative pursuits, or personal challenges.

This is the part of the Hero’s Journey Joseph Campbell described so beautifully: the mountain is never the same mountain upon your return, and the river is never the same.

Growth requires courage. Along the way, we face our “monsters”, usually obstacles that test and strengthen us.

The next card, The Lover, speaks of passion and devotion, the unbridled appreciation for someone or something.

But love can also become obsession or self-destruction if we lose balance. The deeper truth of this archetype is that every act of love teaches self-love.

To love others fully, we must first learn to keep our own hearts open, even after they’ve closed and reopened many times. Love is always a mirror: in the end, all love is love of the Self, reflected through others.

I remember attending my first Kryon conference when my eldest was still a toddler. The channeling by Lee Carroll emphasized the word responsibility, and I suddenly grasped the profound responsibility of nurturing a child into adulthood.

Parenting, like mentoring, is a powerful heart-opener. It invites us to grow something new, whether that’s a child, a creative project, or even a movement.

Yet, what we create, we must also release. The child becomes an adult. The project is complete. The book is written. Growth always involves letting go so that new life can emerge.

Next comes The Scribe, the keeper of knowledge and stories.

Recently, I was reminded of the difference between preserving information and stewarding it. In truth, knowledge isn’t ours to own. It moves through us, not from us.

As scribes, we receive wisdom, process it, and share it in the way that best serves others. Information isn’t the gift, it’s the bridge to understanding.

Through this process, our experiences crystallize into insights we can transmit, whether through writing, teaching, or simply the way we live.

Finally, we arrive at The Poet.

The Poet expresses Soul insight through symbolic language, art, words, or resonance.

After the Dark Night of the Soul, after the desert of transformation, we emerge with wisdom we can’t help but express. The Poet’s role is to sing the soul’s truth in a way others can feel.

At this point, we often find ourselves mentoring others without realizing it. The cycle begins again.

The truth is, there’s no beginning and no end to the student–mentor journey. It’s a continual spiral of learning, embodying, creating, and sharing.

If we can stay in a state of curiosity, the “beginner’s mind”, we remain both student and mentor simultaneously.

As I like to say:

We’re all on the same bus—just sitting in different seats.
Each of us has a unique view to share from where we are on the journey..

Working with the Akashic Records expands your connection to the Soul through your Higher Self, your intuitive aspect.

If you’re new to this work, I recommend starting with a Soul Star Reading.

If you’ve already had one, deepening your practice with the Akashic Tarot can take your intuition even further.

Being able to access your Akashic Records through the Akashic Tarot strengthens your connection with your Higher Self — and expands your intuition as a natural side effect.

This month I’m going to be talking about our Energy and our seven energy bodies.  These bodies comprise something people talk about or speak about as our aura.

If you want to see this podcast as a video with slides, here it is.

There is an aura; most of us start with the chakras, but we also have a Personal Energy Field that expands out from us and all around us.  Anything from 2 feet to 30 feet, all the way around us, depending on what we are doing with our energy.

We’re going to figure out why we’re all so different when it comes to energy and energy systems.  At first glance, our energy systems seem to be all the same.

We are also going to find out what happens in brief when our personal energy merges with someone else.

The Earth is surrounded by an electromagnetic field, just like any planet which is influenced by the Sun or Solar energies as well.

So here we are on Earth, this Being that’s been created by Earth, and we’re electromagnetic.

Our Life Force or ‘chi’, when we’re incarnated into a body, generates a field around us comprised of several different energy bodies, and sometimes people can sense different aspects of our energy bodies.  An example would be – how someone is feeling, which relates to our emotional energy body.

Some of you may know about chakras if you’ve done any meditation work, yoga, or other types of focused energy work.

The chakras can be thought of as bundles or centers of energy that are focused on a particular area of the body.  These energy bundles relate to, or have connections to, the different energy bodies.

People in meditative practice soon find out that there is more than just one energy body.

These energy bodies expand all around us; they are not just located in one area of the body, because all 7 energy bodies generate our energy field or aura.

We have a Physical Energy Body, created from our Life Force.  This energy body is created by the life force emanating from us.  Our DNA and our cells are active, and the mitochondria in our cells are active. 

Our Physical Energy Body can also be read through energy work or readings. These approaches help us to intuit things like present Life Purpose and how balanced our Chakras are.

Then we have an Astral Energy Body.

A lot of people are very keen on astral travel (or at least trying to do it).

The Astral Body, also known as the Emotional Body, collects, stores, and transmits all human emotions and desires. When we are born and therefore incarnated, the Astral Body is the first energy body that we begin to grow.

Then we have the Mental Body. You can think of the Mental Energy Body as under construction.

Every time we think, focus, create, or have an idea, we are using our Mental Energy Body.

We can create from our internal experience, or our collective or group experience of the whole of humanity.

We can also be affected in our Mental Body by thoughts from the collective. Our Mental Body is also conditioned by our family group, our social behaviors, habits, or even our culture.

All of these things build the Mental Energy Body over time, and it is attached to the Emotional Body.

You could say that ‘You are what you think’, and ‘You are what you feel’.

Think of the Causal Body as ‘the collective goodwill of your Soul’ (Richard Rudd, the Gene Keys).

The Causal Energy Body is a sort of storage facility. It’s also an energy holder of all the things we create in this life. Some examples are our actions, our emotions, and our thoughts.

The Causal Body is what gets taken with us when we pass on or transition. It takes that ‘collective goodwill of the Soul’ and adds it to our Akashic Records.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama is probably familiar with this one!

Think of the Buddhic Body as a more refined version of the Astral Body. This is why there is a connection there between the emotions and higher experiences in meditation.

When we go into Higher States of feeling or sensation, we may have a blissful experience. This can sometimes be because we are accessing our Buddhic Energy Body.

This is a higher vibration of the Mental Energy Body.

Some people refer to the Atmic Energy Body as the Higher Self, which is also our Intuition. It’s about connecting with our Divine Mind.

It can give us a sense of our Soul, our Higher Self, Intuition, and also synchronicity.

The Monadic Energy Body surrounds and supports all the other energy bodies.  It’s a system that holds everything together, like an environment for software.

This support happens from the cellular level upwards.   The Physical, Astral, Mental, Causal, Buddhic, and Atmic are all supported by the Monadic Body.

The Monadic Body connects to the bigger ‘ocean’ of our Akashic Records. This includes past lives, our Soul Groups, and Soul Groups of origination.

So we all have the same circulatory systems, lymphatic systems, and cellular systems. Why are we all so different when we generate energy as incarnated beings?

This is because, at the Soul Level, when a Soul incarnates into a body, it has an individual blueprint.

This blueprint is made up of 8 different Divine energy types or centers.

These centers present in different proportions for every single Soul.   So, just to begin with, there are eight different ways you can express your energy.

We all also derive from 24 different Soul Groups.

If we do the math, eight times twenty-four – that is quite a lot of differences just with those numbers.

Then into that equation, we’re going to add our Soul Vibration Rate. This relates to our experiences in many lives.

When we factor in what karma we’ve managed to clear and what level of awareness we’ve reached now, we can begin to establish where we are on our journey.

This can be very different for everyone, and affect the mix of how we represent our energies in the world.

Through Human Design, you can think about having an electromagnetic imprint for this lifetime, which your Soul has chosen. This relates to how your genes express themselves, what Life Purpose you have, and what tasks, life themes, or lessons your Soul wants to experience this lifetime.

Through the Human Design chart itself – there can be a trillion or even trillions of different combinations!

To sum up, purely on Planet Earth, just within humanity, we’d be going into one of those very long numbers with no endings on it!

All of this affects our energy.  Plus, our past lives affect how we express our energy in present life.

We’ve also chosen a particular genetic inheritance as we incarnate into this life. This is called genetic karma. Let’s not forget all our different present life experiences, too.

I like to say we are all sitting on the same bus but in different seats. So, from our particular perspectives and our life experiences, things are different – even if they are sometimes similar.

When we get close to somebody else, we can start to feel their energy if we have energetic awareness. Aura merges, or Personal Energy Field merges, can start from up to 30 feet away.

If you see somebody walking at a distance down the street, you may start to get some sense of who they are.

As we get nearer, around 24 feet, the more we can sense an individual. When we live in big cities or walk in big crowds, we subconsciously filter all that information out. Our brain does that for us because it would be overwhelming otherwise.

At 18 feet, the nearer we get to somebody, the more we can sense, notice, or feel.  At 12 feet, this is where we can begin to become very easily aware of someone’s energy. Maybe we can catch onto some of their thoughts or intentions.

Now, this awareness can be anything from body movements or what you already know about the person, but there is also an energetic component as well.

When the aura merge is at 6 feet of distance or less, the real question is: are you influencing them, or are they influencing you?

To summarize, our Personal Energy Field or aura is an electromagnetic field generated from our Life Force when we incarnate.

Our Personal Energy can merge with others from 30 feet apart or less – in fact, more with remote intention.

If you talk on the phone, you can become very connected with somebody. Even though they are not in the same room, you can start to tune into each other energetically.

All of our individual Personal Energy Fields or auras contribute to the collective energy field of humans.

So that means we are all unique, yet we’re all connected.

I hope you enjoyed this month’s broadcast about your seven energy bodies.

I hope you enjoy this month’s podcast about your Chakras and the Akashic Records!

This month I want to talk with you about working with your Chakras through the Akashic Records.

Chakras can give us very telling information about our health, wellbeing, and emotional states of mind.

You may have had the good fortune to have energy work or a chakra balancing session, which can feel amazing.  Sometimes, though, these blissful effects seem to wear off very quickly, no matter how hard we work on our chakras.

It can be difficult to stay at a particular level of vibration or expansion for very long when life gets in the way.

The key here to help stay balanced in our chakras is to take balanced action in our lives.  After all, you wouldn’t go to the chiropractor, get your back adjusted and then go home and slump in a lumpy, uncomfortable chair – that would be a waste of time and energy!

Doing chakra work and expecting it to ‘stay’ is the equivalent of doing exactly that – if you don’t also take focused action around a circumstance or issue.

Chakra balancing can show you a way forward and how to do something better or differently from a feeling, sensing or energetic perspective.  But how to stay there?

That’s where reading the Chakras from the perspective of the Akashic Records can be so useful.

With your Akashic Records open, not only can the Chakras be checked for under- or overactivity, but also your Akashic Guides and Spirit Guides can chime in with extra help and even a suggested to-do list.

I’d also recommend

Akashic Records Readings are a type of reading that reviews your current life situations from a higher perspective. I include the perspective of your Divine Soul Blueprint, your Soul’s vibration rate, Life Lessons you are working on, and your Life Purpose. This gives you the structure you need to connect with spiritual information and relate it to your life in practical ways.

With my approach, more clarity results, and daily decisions become easier. Bigger Life Situations can be managed from a clearer starting point. And if we dig into your Success Codex, we can even brainstorm how to get out of stuckness, too. Who doesn’t want that on a Monday morning?

Check out this page to see all available Akashic Readings. I always recommend beginning with the Soul Star Reading if you are new here, since it sets the frame of reference for this approach.

Sometimes we realise we’ve been slimed by negative energy. Maybe you picked up creepy vibes from a person or a place. Perhaps you just feel off and can’t quite put your finger on why. Here are some things to notice and work with, so you can de-slime yourself and get back into balance. Everyone deserves a clean aura!

All is well in your world, you’re growing and glowing and then—shazam—you’ve been slimed by negative energy.

You interact with someone, or walk into a place with a strange atmosphere, and suddenly you feel ungrounded. Your previously high spirits have dropped right down into your boots.

Up until that point, everything was fine… until that happened.

Now you feel emotionally drained, maybe even physically unwell. You might need a time-out, or even a whole day (or more), just to regain your balance.

You have no idea where all this cruddy energy came from.

Could it be that you’ve been slimed by energy?

Resource: Energetic Boundaries: How to Stay Protected and Connected in Work, Love, and Life by Cyndi Dale

One of my main areas of study has been the nature of our energy fields—how our auras or personal energy fields interact with one another.

I’ve learned that the energy of other people can affect our mood and sense of wellbeing. Even planetary transits or disturbances in larger energy fields can influence our auras.

One thing I know for sure is that people can hook into other people’s energy—sometimes with bad intentions, and sometimes simply through extreme need. Either way, this can change a person’s resonance or vibration.

Our energy fields are conditioned through contact with other people’s auras. Two of the energy modalities I’ve studied in depth are the EMF Balancing Technique and Human Design.

Both explore human energy field interaction in fascinating detail.

Resource: Human Design Free Chart and Report, and Readings

In the EMF Balancing Technique, practitioners work with the electromagnetic field surrounding the human body.

When we create a relationship with someone else, we form a quantum energetic phenomenon called the Third Lattice.

The Third Lattice is a blend of both people’s energies—ideas, thoughts, emotions, and perceptions—woven together.

Think of it as the energetic representation of the relationship itself.

These attachments are created through the mind (our thoughts) and through the emotional body (our feelings). Over time, we can accumulate multiple Third Lattices connected to people, places, or even situations.

Energy work can help us clear or rebalance these lattices. Sometimes this improves a relationship; other times it allows us to release an attachment that’s no longer healthy.

Resource: Free Seated Remote EMF Balancing Technique session

If you’re sensitive or empathic, you may feel other people’s energy the moment you enter a room or meet someone new.

From a Human Design perspective, we begin merging energetically with another person as soon as we’re within about 30 feet of them.

Our original Design becomes conditioned by the aura the other person radiates. This explains why we instantly “vibe” with some people, while others make us feel uncomfortable for no obvious reason.

Here are 3 general ways in which other people can consciously or unconsciously drain energy from someone else: –

1. Energetic Vampirism – yes, it really does exist.

2. Over-giving – someone needs uplifting, and you help them even though you’re already exhausted.

3. Energetic fixation – being a devoted fan of someone (including celebrities). It’s not called stalking for nothing!

As I trained to become an Akashic Records reader, I was taught not to work in the energy for too long. I kept my readings to 30 minutes for the first 6 months, and all was well.

As a new reader, if I went over the half-hour reading limit, I felt very drained energetically.

Over time as a reader, I began to understand my own limits and to learn how to avoid over-giving. Giving energy can become a habit, and not always a healthy one.

As you read this, remember that we all have energy fields with specific vibratory rates. Everyone is learning how to balance their personal energy.

I’m sure I’ve taken someone else’s chi at some point while working with other energy teachers—without meaning to. I’ve never intentionally been an energy vampire, but who can say what happened during moments of unconsciousness?

Resource: The Soul Star Reading

I can honestly say that I’ve never intentionally been an energy ‘vampire’, but who can say for sure what happened when I’ve been out of present awareness?

I’m quite sure that in my younger years, I took other people down in resonance to make myself feel better.

Some examples of this are: –

In everyday life, we exchange energy with each other through human interaction, such as complementing each other, making someone feel guilty, or judging them. This kind of energy exchange is perfectly natural.

From the perspective of the Akashic Records, it’s called discordant energy. It doesn’t grow us spiritually, but it helps us live and survive as humans.

Resource: Calm Vitality Reset Reading

If you interact with someone and you have been slimed by energy, then check for the following: –

Either way, a breathing space won’t hurt.  It may be that you have some healing to do, also.

Think of ways that you can set good boundaries with the person and act on your ideas.  

As more people awaken to their personal energy, there comes a deeper responsibility—to ourselves and to each other.

Keep working on your own growth. Share what you learn. It can only benefit us all in the long run.

If you believe you’ve been slimed by negative energy, clearing your chakras and aura is a wise step. Use every experience as information for future interactions.

The 7 Energy Bodies Podcast.

3 Easy Ways to Perform a Spiritual Cleanse.

Human Design Readings

One way to grow your psychic ability is to begin to work with your Akashic Records. This expands the connection to your Soul through your Higher Self (also known as your intuition).

You’ll find that your intuition expands with Akashic Records work, and questions you have on the spiritual journey will be answered. It really helps you to connect the dots.

If you are interested in an Akashic Records Reading, I always recommend starting with the Soul Star Reading.

This reading gives you 3 different immersive experiences of the Akashic Records: –

If you’d like to know about the different readings I offer on this site, start here>>