Bats and energy!

At the beginning of the summer, I visited a friend who told me that she had been listening to bats in her garden, using a handheld device that changes the frequency of their sonar to make it audible to humans. She kindly loaned it to me, and so began a geeky summer of taking it everywhere we went!

t was incredible to stand in the the gathering dusk on the edge of a Swedish forest and hear the intimidating, almost machine-gun-like rattle of large bats as they swooped through hedges on their night-time raids. The small light on the device attracted moths, and we could see the bats hurtling towards us, low to the ground, wheeling away at the last moment. It was thrilling!

In Yorkshire, on a cool, bright evening, the bats flew high, following a familiar route through the houses, banking around the corners and up driveways; a different species, smaller with an almost liquid, burbling sound.

Sitting in my own back garden in Chichester, a pair of bats swooping overhead in the dusk seemed like they were chattering to each other.

Each species of bat has a different range of frequency that it uses, and this, as well as size and physical characteristics, helps to identify which one it is. I must admit, with many ranges crossing over each other, I’ve not been very successful at identification, but there is something magical for me, to be admitted to this hidden world.

And, as I often do, I started to think about all of the other frequencies around us, the other hidden, but nonetheless real elements of the world around us. We happily accept wifi and all of its uses, but many of us can feel confused or sceptical about the fact that our body has its own energetic frequency!

Science has convinced us that we are blood and bone, but we are so much more than that! We are energy. We are frequency and vibration. And when we open up to that understanding, a whole wealth of possibility opens up too. We don’t have to understand it fully, but if we dismiss it entirely, we miss an opportunity to live and feel in a richer and more connected way.

We may not have the auditory range to hear bats, but we do have all of the tools - our senses, our visual imagination, our conscious mind to feel more of what is going on around us, to notice and to participate, to access our own deeper rhythms and understand why our body or mind might be feeling a certain way.

My understanding is that the more we ‘tune in’, the easier it gets and the more and more we notice, both inside and outside of ourselves. Life takes on a more vibrant hue, because we are seeing beneath the surface. And it is this that keeps inspiring me, again and again, to share energywork with people around me, so that they too can start to see, sense and feel a little more of the wonder that surrounds us, all of the time.