This guest post from Belle Paniagua-Novak brings a beautiful and timely lens to that work: Energy Activism™.
Where conscious activism asks us to awaken, observe, and engage with integrity, energy activism invites us to look even more intimately at our energetic contribution. It reminds us that coherence, compassion, nervous system regulation, and spiritual alignment are not luxuries in activism—they are essential.
Belle’s words carry both lived wisdom and embodied clarity. In this piece, she shares what energy activism means, how it looks in practice, and why it matters—now more than ever. Her message is a breath of truth in a chaotic time, and a powerful mirror for those of us who believe that real change begins in the unseen spaces of the self.
May her words remind us that how we tend our own energy is how we tend the field we all share.
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By: Belle Paniagua-Novak
What is “Energy Activism?”
Energy Activism™ can be summed up in a single Rumi quote, “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
To be an energy activist is to know that we live in a collective energetic field and that the harmony or coherence of that field is reflected to us through our collective experience and that the collective experience is a reflection of our individual experience. This means that if we want the collective experience to change we need the field to shift. Excitingly, as conscious, self-aware, Earthly beings, we have the ability—and, even responsibility as Ervin Laszlo and other experts would say—to shift the field through the way that live, which includes the thoughts we think, the way we feel, the things we do, the things we do often and the relationships we keep.
Energy activism is about knowing that all of those things, as individual as some of them may seem, do matter. The choices we make and the way we treat each other determines the quality and harmony of the collective field.
So, if you can imagine a different world, the way that we actually get there is through ourselves. As more people start taking steps towards coherence, harmony, alignment, health, healing, love, compassion, care, forgiveness, acceptance, environmental awareness, etc. - in their own way - the field will continue to shift.
Energy Activists are actively, consciously, and devotionally working to shift our own energies to ultimately support the Upshifting of humanity. We stay the course amidst the chaos, adversity, and doubt from even the people we love the most.
People have told me that increasing one’s coherence is not activism because activism requires labor, sacrifice, and action. I would respectfully disagree because living coherently requires a great deal of all of those things, albeit a slightly different flavor.
Here are just some of the ways I have or have been engaging in energy activism, or living more coherently over the years.
EARTH
One of the greatest joys of my life has been reconnecting with nature, as a part of nature. I’ve learned that as nature, I too have natural rhythms, patterns, and cycles that guide and reflect my life. Leaning into those rhythms and cycles has helped to free me from the rat race of overconsumption and hyper-productivity.
Also as nature, I know the importance of a direct connection with the Earth for reducing inflammation, nervous system regulation, and countless other physical, mental, and emotional benefits. Therefore, as a supplement—not a solution, I use Earthing™ mats and an Earthing™ pillow for several hours every day. [I have a mat at my desk, near the couch, and where I meditate.] I also am prioritizing more outdoor time and travels.
I am conscious of how my lifestyle impacts the planet and am actively adjusting accordingly. I’m not perfect by any means but for one, I’m not sure “perfection” is the point right now, and for two, slow and steady wins the race—AKA is sustainable and maintainable.
[As a side note, I live steeped in the paradox of divine timing as well as feel the urgency of change, however, with urgency tends to come fear, guilt, and shame and I personally don’t believe those are the paths of real change for the majority of people.]
I am aware of the native land on which I live—Tongva, Tataviam, Serrano, Kizh, and Chumash—as well as the lasting impacts of colonization on all sides, and I encourage others to do the same. A quick search for your county or city’s land acknowledgement will get you started.
To put it simply - I love, respect and honor Gaia, our Mother Earth and the cultures who have been and continue to be her guardians and stewards, and as a result, I treat her as such.
The health of the planet is a reflection of how healthy we are. So, as soon as we care differently for the Earth, we care differently for ourselves, and ultimately that is how we affect lasting change.
MIND
Strengthening my sense of self-awareness and my ability to self-distance—a Logo-therapy term from Viktor Frankl, which means being able to watch myself - my thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, is what enabled me to go deeper into myself than I had ever gone before. Self-exploration and self-inquiry increase coherence by making us aware of places within us that need attention.
I meditate daily and practice mindfulness as often as I can. I question the thoughts inside my head and I talk to myself as a friend, with patience, grace, and compassion. There is an excellent book called, “The Hidden Messages in Water” by Masaru Emoto that I highly recommend to help understand the impact of our thoughts on coherence.
The truth is that coherence, or harmony within one’s self, only happens in the present so therefore training the mind to be in the now—and not yesterday, last year or tomorrow—is a fundamental part of that process. It’s also one of the things I had to teach myself in adulthood and seems to be a lifelong journey.
BODY
I trust the feelings in my body and I use them to guide my day to day. I heavily rely on them as emotions—which is the human word we have created for a pattern of feelings in the body—as they help me to navigate my relationships, personal projects, and so much more.
In order to get to and maintain that place of trust with my body’s natural guidance system, I had to heal my mind-body from IBS, acid reflux, depression, and anxiety, in addition to all my past painful memories. This freed up and “boosted” my energetic resources for navigation. This is definitely NOT to say that our mind-body needs to be in any sort of perfectly healthy condition in order to connect with our body’s intelligence, this is just my personal experience of what has helped.
Part of the process of re-engaging with my body’s signals required that I spend dedicated time towards strengthening my sense of interoception, which is the biological sense that connects with our mind to let us know what we are feeling in the body. Along with emotions, it’s the sense that you use when you connect feelings in your lower abdomen with needing to go to the bathroom, for example. Interoception exists on a spectrum and for most neurotypical folks, they have a level of interoception that equips them just fine for survival, but I believe that in order for humanity to evolve and for one to increase their coherence, our sense of interoception needs to be strengthened, especially because it is the mechanism by which we feel the guidance that I have been speaking of.
Essentially, the body is the medium through which life happens, so therefore taking extra care of it is a priority for me. When I am more energetically resourced, ultimately I can do more of what is in my heart and soul, and the more of us that are doing that, the more coherent things will be because living coherently is ultimately how we serve the world, hence why I consider this healing work to be energy activism.
SPIRIT
I’ve already mentioned that reconnecting as a part of nature brought me some of the greatest joy I’ve ever experienced, well reconnecting with myself as an energetic being with energetic anatomy and therefore energetic functions brought me some of the greatest expansion. When I learned more about what it means for me to be a soul with a mind and a body, all the limitations placed on me by my culture and my family seemed to disappear. I was no longer bound by the stories I’d been fed and instead found myself in a world of essentially limitless possibilities.
Along that journey I learned about the so-called, “science of spirituality,” which I have learned to mean “the science of oneness.” Through even just a basic understanding of quantum physics, I can tell you it’s been proven that we are all made of the same stuff, nothing is separate, and that one person does matter.
Even more incredible is that what science has now proven is actually what our ancestors have been telling us since the beginning. There are cultures and lineages still alive and well on this planet today that have been here for thousands of years. In that time, they’ve uncovered a thing or two about what it means to be incarnated on Earth, in a body with a mind, and spending time with their teachings over the course of just a few years taught me more about being a person than the 18 years of schooling I experienced.
It’s not just abou having this information - it’s one thing to know it, but the energy activism part comes in from actually living it. It means living from these universal, scientific, and ancestral ideas of love, gratitude, reciprocity, compassion, grace, forgiveness, patience, acceptance, and respect—to name a few.
It’s easy to be excited about all of this and to share it, but it’s an entirely different thing to actually live it - which for me in times like these means transmuting rage, hate, and anger into love, compassion, and patience by via peaceful advocacy and other means of supporting the people, places, things, and ideas we cherish most.
Why Now?
Because we’ve reached a turning point.
Many of the systems we’ve depended on - economically, politically, ecologically - are showing us that they can no longer sustain life in a meaningful way. We’ve drifted out of rhythm with the Earth, with each other, and with ourselves. And yet, as many Indigenous prophecies have reminded us, this moment is not just about collapse. It’s about possibility. A door is open right now for us to co-create a more coherent, compassionate world.
Not to be alarmist, but we won’t get this window again.
That doesn’t mean we have to get it all right. It doesn’t mean we have to fix everything at once. This isn’t about being perfect. It’s about being willing. It’s about participating however we can with whatever energy we do have.
Because even small acts of coherence matter. A single moment of presence. A breath taken in awareness. A feeling truly felt. These things ripple. They make it easier for others to do the same. They strengthen the field we all share.
And that matters - especially now.
People want to contribute. They want to care. But they’re overwhelmed, stretched thin, unsure where to begin. What I’ve seen over and over again - especially in my years working in veterinary medicine and animal welfare - is that people might struggle to take care of themselves, but chances are that they’ll show up more wholeheartedly for the ones they love. Their pets. Their children. Even their communities.
That’s part of what energy activism teaches us: your coherence isn’t just for you. It supports the people around you. It feeds the field they live in. It makes a difference.
This is why I do this work.
As an energy activist, my motivation is first and foremost personal, but my devotion is to the Earth and all my earthly relations.
This is Energy Activism. Ultimately, it’s a way of living and a way of being the change we wish to see in the world.
AI DisclaimerThe writing ideas, drafts, and reflections shared here are human-written and shaped by lived experience. At times, light AI assistance was used to support editing or clarity always under human direction and creative discernment.
I acknowledge the ethical complexities surrounding AI use, including concerns around authorship, bias, labor, and intellectual integrity. I also recognize the ecological impact of AI technologies, including the energy consumption required to power large-scale models.
My intention is to engage with these tools mindfully using them to enhance, not replace, human creativity and connection, while staying in conversation about the broader implications of their use.
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