Last week I was talking to a woman who’s been herding sheep with her border collies for more than 20 years. When she asked what I do and I said I’m an energy worker, she asked what that meant. I mentioned that in herding the term pressure has to do with energy boundaries. So in herding whether you are aware of it or not, you are working with energy. You, the herder, are working the edge of your energy against the edge of the dog’s energy…and the dog is working her or his energy against the sheep’s energy. Herd animals use their energy as a security. The strength of many animals close together in a group is very different than scattered individual animals.
In life when we are using or working with energy, we are often completely unaware of it. When we take the time to explore the world of energy, we can expand into our gifts and skills on a whole new level.