Have you ever felt like part of you was still stuck in an old moment, or already halfway into a worry that hasn't happened yet? Most of us know this feeling well. A conversation from years ago that still replays at 3am. A decision we keep second-guessing. A future event we've rehearsed so many times in our minds that we're exhausted before it arrives. We tend to treat these as passing thoughts or moods. But in the light body work, we understand them as something more concrete: part of your life force is actually anchored in the past, or projected into the future.
Life force that's streaming towards your past or into your future isn't available now, for your health, your creativity, your relationships, or simply for enjoying the day you're actually living. Every time you think of a memory or fret over something that's coming, some of your energy is literally in a different time and place than where you are in your body, in your present. This has a real impact on your capacity to “be in the now,” despite all your best efforts. And most of us think the only way to shift this is to use our will to direct our thoughts into the present.
Presence Isn't a Willpower Thing
We all know it's important to “be in the present.” It's one of the most repeated pieces of advice in both wellness and spiritual practices. But how do we actually do that? You can't simply decide to stop replaying the past or stop projecting into the future. If you've tried, you know the mind tends to drift right back. That's because the entanglement isn't only mental. It lives in your body. It expresses in your energy system.
Fascia, organs, bones… meridians, chakras, outerbody layers… these all accumulate compressed life force from unresolved micro- and macro-stresses. You could think of these unresolved stresses as hidden vaults of energy. This energy, however, is not lost forever. There is a way to identify it, retrieve it, and consciously apply it towards certain activities.
In an earlier article, How Can Bodyworkers Benefit from Energy Practices?, we described the body as a graduated system of layers, from the densest bones and organs out through fascia, fluids and meridians, to the chakras, kundalini channels and outerbody layers of the energy body. As we stated, unresolved stress can accumulate in any of those layers. And each stuck moment leaves its mark as a kind of stress matrix, holding a portion of your vitality in place.
So presence isn't something you force. It's something you retrieve. And the good news is that there's a real mechanism for doing it, one you can learn to work with instead of white-knuckling your way through.
Where Life Force Goes
Entanglements
Old wounds, traumas, unfinished moments and decisions that still hold part of you there.
Your life force, here
Available for healing, creativity, connection and joy.
Projections
Worry, dread and anticipation that send your energy ahead of you. Waiting is part of it too: “I'll be happy as soon as…”
Over a lifetime, these small departures add up. We also develop personality detours: patterns we adopted, often long ago, to cope with difficult moments. They can become so familiar we think of them as who we are. But they carry hidden repercussions. Each detour points back to a place in time where some of our life force left the path of the soul, and they can show us exactly where to go to bring it home.
The Body as a Vehicle
In the Light Body Activation materials, we describe the energy body as a vehicle: the light body vehicle. It's not a metaphor or an image you simply imagine and hope for. It's created from the actual components of your energy system, activating and then coordinating into an operational vehicle. By consciously engaging in this process, you can support a smoother transition as you spiritually mature. You can become an agent of your own evolution.
This is the most innovative application I've discovered within the light body work. It's a culmination of all the elements presented over the last 45+ years.
Saul Goodman
- Specific acupuncture points
- Chakras
- Kundalini
- Cranial rhythm
- Outerbody membranes
- Breathing cycles
Activated together, they transform your body into a diamond-shaped double tetrahedron: a vehicle made of light.
When these elements are activated and synchronized, the energy system organizes itself into a geometric form around the body: two interlocking tetrahedrons, one pointing upward and one pointing downward, creating a diamond-shaped field of light. Each part of it is anchored and powered by real structures in your energy anatomy, which is why it can be felt, tracked and adjusted rather than just visualized.
The human body is not finished evolving. It has extraordinary capabilities we've barely begun to understand, let alone use. Building and activating your developing light body is a key to open up new dimensions of experience as well as understand more about our journey here on Earth.
Learning to Pilot Your Light Body
Once your vehicle is active, it can travel. Not in the way we usually think about travel, but through space and time at a higher frequency than, say, driving in a car. You can literally use it to travel to coordinates in space-time where your life force has become entangled.
This works in both directions. Travelling back, you can release the hold of old entanglements and retrieve the vitality that's been tied up in them. Travelling forward, you can harmonize the frequencies of events that haven't happened yet, meeting them from a place of alignment instead of dread.
Students of the online course The Awakened Energy Body will recognize the foundation of this from the guided process Time/Space Travel for Healing. The practice is to travel to a moment in time, past or future, and identify restrictive forces that are trapping life force. Then we can release the restriction(s) in various ways, raise the frequency and ‘recycle’ the energy into present time. You can learn to also adjust the coordinates of past and future events so they come into a more harmonic resonance. At certain expanded frequencies the past, present and future merge into a Present Time Continuum.
One practitioner, Svetlana, used an earlier version of this process before a surgery she was anxious about:
One night I did the space-time process, travelling forward into the hospital setting and simply raising the frequency there. At some point the whole room filled with the most beautiful light... The next morning I sat down to meditate and contacted the area where the anxiety had been. Softness. Space.
Svetlana, Shiatsu Shin Tai Practitioner, CroatiaWhat This Work Looks Like in a Life
The light body work is always developing and is a central part of our daily life. Every class is built from wherever Saul's work has actually gotten to; before he teaches anything new, we test it in our own lives, sometimes for months, sometimes for years. So we can speak to what this looks like from the inside.
We are always changing, and you can encourage those changes to be positive growth rather than deterioration. The light body materials are here to support you as you develop, as you grow… to enable the most ease & joy possible as you go through what could be called a spiritual birth.
Here are some of the changes Lynn has noticed during this period of focusing on the light body vehicle work, in her own words:
I've played violin since I was a kid, and for fifty years it's been something of a physical struggle for my body. Last spring I started learning piano almost as a side project, just for fun, and it's been opening up my understanding of music theory in a way that's spilled back into the violin. This year, for the first time, my body is actually comfortable playing it. Fifty years, and something just shifted.
And it hasn't stopped there. I've noticed more patience lately, actually listening instead of half-listening, enjoying rest instead of feeling restless in it, letting go of things that used to keep me gripped for days. None of it dramatic on its own, but together it's been a quietly big shift.
That's what gathering life force back into the present feels like: real, lived change, not just insight.
The Next Phase of Our Evolution
Our energy system is part of our physiology, as real as our nervous system or our circulatory system. And it is developing into a more mature form: a functional light body. Many people are already feeling evidence of this: heightened sensitivity, a sense of more going on in the body than they have language for. What's missing for most is anyone showing them how to use this part of themselves.
That's the heart of Light Body Activation. Not just exploring interesting ideas about chakras or kundalini, but developing a felt, practiced ability to work with them. The light body stops being a concept and becomes something you can actually pilot: toward health, toward transformation, toward your contribution to the world, and toward a life lived fully in the present.
You have a body. Why not learn how to truly use it?
Interested to do this?
Upcoming 1-Day Livestream with Saul Goodman
The Light Body Vehicle:
Back to the Present
Practice activating your light body vehicle and use it to gather life force back into the present. Livestream on Friday, October 30, 10am–3pm EST. Full recording sent to everyone who registers.
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