In Physics, we learn that a conductor is the material, or vehicle, in which electricity (a form of energy) travels. Metals (e.g., gold, silver, and copper) being among the best types of conductors.
Conductors allow for electricity (energy) to move easily.
Meaning there is little to no resistance in the movement of electrons between two atoms. It simply provides a path for energy to easily flow.
Energy, of course, being the ability to do work. Or, as Einstein discovered: energy is mass times the speed of light squared (or multiplied by itself).
We also were taught that while energy can move and change forms (e.g., transfer from potential to kinetic energy, or vice versa), it also can neither be created nor destroyed (First Law of Thermodynamics). It simply is.
And, everything is energy.
So, we, both individually and collectively, then are energy, as well.
Consciousness is another form of energy, as are our thoughts, feelings, emotions, and words. Again, everything around us, and in us, is energy.
As I mentioned, conductors are the way in which energy moves freely. Of course, if we are talking about other types of conductors (e.g., those for an orchestra or for a train) we still are talking about how to direct something that travels, whether it be the notes (music) or the train on the tracks.
By the way, that’s just what my brain does … it starts down one path and ends up on an entirely different trajectory sometimes. Ah, I digress …
So when I think about conductors, I think about being at the helm to direct the path to allow energy to flow. I think about how we are sovereign beings with free will who get to choose who we want to be and we show up in this life. We get to decide. We get to direct the path our energy flows.
Therefore, we should be the conductors within our own lives.
Imagine having the depth of self-awareness to fully understand that energy is absolutely everything. And, in that, we then also recognize the power of our own thoughts, beliefs, stories, words, and emotions.
We would then take greater responsibility, as a result.
We would be more intentional about the form (and quality) of energy we are transmitting, and what energy we are willing to absorb (and take in).
We would create pathways to allow for pure flow, for energy that matched the frequency and vibration of what we desired most, what we want to call in, and the work we understood we are here to do.
We would be the flow of energy itself.
We would also be that flow unrestricted, uncompromised, and unattached. It would be gentle, easy, and with little to no resistance.
We would just be.
As I think about the role of a conductor, whether as a piece of metal allowing the flow of electricity to pass through, or in front of an orchestra, or directing a train on its tracks, it makes me think about a poem I wrote many years (or, should I say … decades) ago that has become somewhat of a mantra, or due north, for me. Thought I’d share it with you:
It’s funny when I wrote this I had no idea it was really my due north calling to me. It wasn’t until I was at a workshop for Stephen Covey’s Habits of Highly Effective People when we were working on our mission and vision statement that it clicked.
This was my mission statement.
I often do that. I write something at one point in my life, not really sure what it’s all about. Often, even confused as to its meaning. Then, sometimes years later, I pick that piece up again and the epiphany drops in. I call this cathartic writing. As if some force greater than me puts the words on paper so that they will be available when I am ready for them,
When the student is ready, the teacher appears.
Just another example of energy and how it moves. It never is created nor destroyed, it simply flows and changes form (or meaning).
In that particular moment, I realized that this is part of my overall mission statement, my why, and my calling in who I am, who I can be, and how I am to serve in my work. That I am (as are you) here to feel all of it, to let the energy of life move through me, and around me.
To be the conductor on my own song.
So, I ask you this: Are you intentionally taking on the role of conductor in your own life? Are you seeing the magic in the array of colors before you, the sounds, the music, the energy?
Or, are you sitting with a deaf ear? Are you allowing the noise from the chaos and the world around you disrupt your own orchestra?
Are you being a conductor, where energy is moving freely to and fro, or are you being an insulator, where you are taking in everything and everybody else’s crap, stories, programming, and conditioning … thus, creating a build-up of stored energy and resistance?
For, it’s only when you decide to be the conductor of your own orchestra, the director of your path, and the maestro of your life, that you will feel intune with your soul energy and the energy all around you.
So, conductor, I urge you … play your song.