I AM – The Natural Energy Flow I

The Persistence of Old Structures

In my previous article Focusing Energy – Share Your Light (2023), I wrote that despite decades of effort to improve products and services, society itself has not changed in any fundamental way. The style has changed, the interfaces have changed, but the underlying principles remain almost identical to those of a century ago. Systems still operate through rigidity, control, and standardized thinking. I recently encountered a real‑time example of this.

When Modern Services Reproduce Old Bureaucracy

In autumn 2025, Verkkokauppa outsourced its billing to the Walley checkout service. When Verkkokauppa handled billing themselves, everything worked smoothly. But under Walley, the system began to sputter immediately. My account was closed after only a couple of days of delayed payment, and I could no longer make purchases.

A Stick in the Wheels

The issue was simple: Walley had moved the due date to the middle of the month, which did not match my payment rhythm. I asked customer service to move it back to the beginning of the month. They said they could not change the due date — but I was free to pay according to my own rhythm. Payments would simply be transferred to the next billing cycle.

On the surface, this sounds flexible. Yet the system still blocks purchases due to a delayed payment. Companies often criticize the state for bureaucracy, but they simultaneously build their own bureaucratic structures and become obstacles in their own machinery.

Flexibility of Services

When I sent feedback to Walley, they treated the situation as a personal inconvenience. But the issue is much broader. Smooth services are not just about convenience — they support the uninterrupted flow of creative work. Verkkokauppa has invested heavily in one‑hour delivery times so people can continue their work without interruption. But if your account is closed every month, the entire purpose collapses.

Flexible payment arrangements are essential for people living with limited resources. My electricity provider, for example, allows me to choose a due date and even move it by 35 days whenever needed. This flexibility is so valuable that I never consider switching providers, regardless of price.

Early Lessons About Belonging and Bureaucracy

These modern examples are not isolated incidents. They are part of a deeper pattern I have witnessed throughout my life: systems that claim to support people often end up restricting them. And my first encounter with this pattern happened long before adulthood.

The bureaucratic inflexibility I describe here is not new to me. I first encountered it as a child in foster care. Although our foster home was financially stable, it did not give me a sense of safety or belonging. The people caring for us followed rules, but they did not understand what I needed.

When I was 13, I found a job at a nearby supermarket. It gave me a sense of belonging and purpose. But because I was underage, some people in the foster home wanted to report the supermarket for employing me illegally. They tried to protect me from the very thing that was helping me heal. That was my first clear confrontation with a system that prioritizes rules over human reality.

Now I understand that the caretakers were thinking about exploitation — the very thing bureaucratic regulations are designed to prevent. But for me, the work was not about money. The paycheck was a bonus. The real reward was the feeling of belonging.

The Path of Least Resistance

These early experiences shaped my understanding of how energy moves in human life. I learned that well‑being does not come from systems or rules, but from inner alignment and the freedom to follow what feels coherent.

Looking back, I see that my guiding principle has always been simple: everything is fine as long as people do not stand in my way. This may sound passive, but it is actually the essence of the path of least resistance. Natural energy flow means allowing action to arise from inner alignment rather than effort or confrontation. I do not try to open locked doors or convince people with words. I follow the openings that appear naturally and let primal energy set the direction.

I never tried to find friends. I trusted that real friends would find me when I lived authentically and allowed others to do the same. This is not moral responsibility — it is energetic responsibility: the ability to respond accurately to one’s own inner energies and maintain coherence of the authentic self.

Limitations Imposed on Us from the 3D World

The less you are entangled in the norms, rules, and conventional thinking of the modern world, the easier it is to maintain coherence and live from your authentic self. The deeper you sink into external structures, the greater the risk of losing that inner alignment. After the stroke, this has been my greatest challenge, because in many respects I have become “a social case” in the eyes of the system.

In the Nordic countries, the welfare and healthcare systems are built with good intentions, yet they easily entangle people in ways that disrupt their natural balance. One small step toward the system can shift the center of gravity, and suddenly bureaucrats define your life instead of your own inner energy. After the stroke, I have faced this pattern again — now both in my body and in the structures around me. The outer rigidity and the inner rigidity meet in the same place. This is where rehabilitation truly begins.

Mundane Challenge

For me, the rigidity has been especially visible through my physical disability, which is generally treated as an illness. In recent years, the issue has become clearer as I regularly need assistance in everyday life. I have had a waterbed since the 1980s to support the natural energy flow in my body and ease the strain caused by one‑sided paralysis. Yet home‑care workers have complained that my waterbed is too low, worsening their ergonomics and causing back pain. They suggest I should acquire a bed designed for care work.

My answer is simple: I do not live for home‑care, and no one’s back pain is my responsibility. Each person is responsible for their own body. If someone’s back cannot handle the work, it may be time to consider a different job. Most caregivers manage their tasks well despite the ergonomics.

Rising Above Time and Place

Rehabilitation is often understood as a technical process: exercises, routines, measurable progress. But in reality, it reaches far beyond the body. It touches the deeper layers where time, place, and external definitions begin to shape what we believe is possible. My own journey has shown me that the greatest limitations are not always physical — they are the structures that decide what counts as “real” healing, what methods are acceptable, and who is allowed to define the direction of one’s recovery.

Many years ago, I wrote that my physical condition would have healed long ago if I had been able to maintain the natural energy flow in my body. That insight has only grown clearer with time. The challenge has never been lack of inner potential, but the narrow frameworks through which rehabilitation is officially recognized. In the healthcare system, only certain methods exist; everything else is treated as irrelevant, invisible, or even impossible. And yet, the body does not follow bureaucratic categories — it follows energy, coherence, and the conditions that allow it to reorganize itself.

AlterG and the Proof of Inner Capacity

Despite these constraints, I was able to access AlterG walking exercises between 2018 and 2022. Those years were a living demonstration that the energy in my body is still recoverable, even after decades in an electric wheelchair. On the AlterG treadmill, I could walk for up to half an hour at my best. The experience was not merely physical — it was a reminder of what my body knows when it is given the right environment: breathing deepens, circulation strengthens, nerve pathways awaken, muscles respond with surprising clarity, endorphins rise, and warmth returns to my cheeks.

These moments showed that rehabilitation is not about age, diagnosis, or prognosis. It is about creating conditions where the body can reconnect with its own intelligence.

The Shared Principle Behind All True Healing: Coherence

When I look at the methods that have genuinely supported my healing — my waterbed, water gymnastics, AlterG walking, and now the possibility of mini‑trampoline rebounding — I see a clear common denominator. All of them allow the body cells to rise above time and space. They create a state where gravity, tension, and old neurological patterns loosen their grip. In that state, the cells can reorganize, communicate, and regenerate in ways that conventional rehabilitation does not acknowledge.

It is not only consciousness that expands; the body itself has this capacity.

Rehabilitation, in its deepest sense, is the gradual dissolving of all the cages: the physical ones, the bureaucratic ones, and the internalized ones. It is the movement that begins when even one bar softens. That movement — however small — is the beginning of freedom and coherence.

And coherence, in this deeper meaning, is not the peace, harmony, or cohesion that the outside world expects. It is not about fitting into society’s rhythms or aligning with its rules. Coherence is authenticity before one’s own inner energies — energies that are constantly moving, shifting, slipping through the fingers like something alive. To stay coherent is to stay true to that movement, even when the world around you remains rigid.

In that coherence, the cage is no longer a prison. It becomes a temporary shape, one that the light will eventually outgrow.