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I've always loved lichen on rocks and fungi growing out of logs. The pale greens and browns seem to obliterate the underlying shape, so that its original appearance is utterly transformed. While these natural coverings are amazing in their variety and loveliness, you could view them metaphorically.

They could be seen as a symbols of how our solid, underlying, unique selves often get lost when our energy is off, when we become entangled in our own "stuff" and can't see the rock for the lichen! If you were to scrape off the lichen, there would be the fine lines, the cracks and tiny hillocks of the geological formation below--a beautiful, solid, enduring thing.

And so it is with us. If you could clear away our "lichen" and "fungi"--that is the layers of maladaptive reactions, the overlay of unconscious emotions and limited beliefs--the things that dictate how we, unwillingly and automatically, respond to certain experiences in our lives, you'd discover such amazingly solid foundations beneath all of that, foundations that could help us react in more balanced ways to situations.

Yet, it seems, many of us are often at the mercy of our unconscious blocks that cause us to react over and over in ways we absolutely hate--explosions of temper triggered by small events, paralyses of fear at being rejected, or maybe a constant reaching for food, alcohol, or some other "comfort" when self-hate and hopelessness seem to have the upper hand. The purity of who we really are--the rock beneath the lichen--gets lost as our unconscious patterns dictate our behavior.

Energy healing techniques such as EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), Yuen Method, and Reiki, can help to counteract our automatic, negative patterns and slowly, but surely, free us to experience our real selves, solid and grounded as the lichen-covered rock.