Taking Back Your Joy of Living

Taking back your joy of living

An introduction to managing your personal energy

J. L. Reynolds 
To the divine entity of all life, my guides and angels, thank you for your love, patience and support as you taught me.

Table of Contents

Preface 5
Chapter 1. The journey begins… 10
Energy flow in your spirit body 15
Chapter 2. Environmental Energy 23
People energy 24
The “Evil Eye” 28
Residual Energy and Energy Dust 29
Residual energy in your home 32
Residual energy in the workplace 35
Rushing energy 39
Chapter 3. Energetic sensitivity 45
Chapter 4. The gifts and challenges of spirit bodies 54
Spirit body types 56
Earth 57
Air 62
Fire 66
Water 70
Chameleons 75
Spirit Body Dynamics 81
Chapter 5. Grounding your energy 86
Chapter 6. Shielding your spirit body 100
Primary shields 102
Secondary shields 108
Chapter 7. What shield is best for you? 116
Chapter 8. The Human Relationship Energy Matrix 129
Chapter 9. Managing energy through our connections 138
Filtering or cutting cord 141
Ribbon selection 144
Preparing to cut or filter the cord 146
Cutting the Cord 147
Chapter 10. Filter and cord interventions 151
Chapter 11. Controlling your energy 161
Chapter 12. Healing Energy 176
Chapter 13. Energy Vampires 187
Chapter 14. Removing Residual Energy 196
Preparing to remove residual energy 198
Smudging 199
Sea Salt 199
Using visualizations or your intent 200
Removing residual energy after a break-up 200
Removing residual energy in a bed 202
Leaving the old energy behind 205
Afterward 206
Glossary 208

Preface

Life is a journey containing experiences that challenge, amaze or thwarts us. Although we strive to achieve our hopes and dreams while living a happy, joyful existence, life’s challenges can get in the way. When we do not know how to hold onto our joy, over time, life can beat us down, leaving us a shadow of our former selves. At times, it may leave some wondering why they should even hope to find some happiness in living or whether they want to go on. However, not everyone struggles to be happy. During your life, you have probably met someone who seems to be happy even though they are going through a very difficult phase in their life. You may even know someone who always seems to be smiling and their smile evens shines out from their eyes. Have you ever wondered how they do it? Are they faking it, or is it real? Is there a chance they know something about retaining their joy of living that they are not sharing? These are questions I began asking my angels as a youth. From my perception, it seemed that more people were hurting or somehow broken compared to those who radiated happiness from their spirits.
This is when I started my quest for answers. I was mortified to think that when I grew up, there was a good chance I could be broken too. I wanted to live my life to the fullest and draw every little bit of happiness I could from the experience. Although I knew that I could not always control the outcome in every situation, I wanted to know what I could do, if anything, to hold onto my joy of living. I was convinced that there had to be more to life than feeling spiritually beaten up and left for dead long before my physical body dies. From a very young age, I knew that in Exodus 20: 13, the Bible said that you should not kill. I presumed this also means that you should not kill yourself either. My angels further explained that regardless of what a soul needs to work on as part of their growth in this lifetime, it continues even if they ended their physical lives. This means they need to continue their soul’s journey without the benefit of having any energetic support from people in their human relationship matrix. Unfortunately, suicide brings the additional angst of watching the affect their premature death had on others who love them, which only adds to their soul’s burden.
This is when I started my quest for answers. I began by asking the adults in my life. Unfortunately, they could not answer my questions to my satisfaction. It bothered me so much, I prayed about it. I thought that by going to the source, I would have a better chance of receiving the answers I needed. Specifically, I asked for guidance and knowledge from the divine, on how to hold onto my joy of living and keep my happiness alive in my spirit. It was not long afterwards the universe began my life lessons. In my youth, I somehow expected the angels to give me the answers. I thought that whatever the answer was, it would be relatively easy to do. Unfortunately, it was not. To learn, the universe presented me with numerous life lessons over many years.