Being Pure Energy

When you let go of fear, guilt, and shame, you stop blocking your natural presence. You don’t shine by effort—you shine by being fully, unapologetically yourself.

I once watched someone walk into a crowded room and say absolutely nothing. No grand entrance, no flash of designer clothes or booming laughter. Yet everyone noticed. Not because they demanded attention, but because they didn’t need it. They were so fully themselves that it was as if the room had turned toward a gravitational center. That was the first time I saw what I now call "pure energy."

What is it about certain people that makes them radiant without effort? Most would say it’s confidence, or charisma. But those are symptoms, not causes. The real cause is subtraction. What makes someone radiant is what isn’t there—fear, shame, guilt, insecurity. When those get removed, what’s left is what you might call your default state. And it turns out, your default state is luminous.

Most of us go through life like radios tuned to the wrong frequency. There’s a signal inside us, something clear and strong. But guilt distorts it. Shame mutes it. Fear jams it with static. You can’t hear the music because you’re listening to the noise.

This isn’t spiritual fluff. It’s engineering. If you stop burning internal energy on emotional self-monitoring—on running background processes like “don’t look stupid” or “why did I say that?” or “what will they think of me?”—you suddenly free up massive bandwidth. It’s like shutting down bloatware on a computer. Everything runs faster. More memory is available. You don’t become something new; you become what you were before the install.

You see this most clearly in kids. Not the ones already infected by self-consciousness, but the rare ones still unedited. They are pure presence. They’re not afraid to take up space because they haven’t yet learned to feel guilty for existing. That’s why people say kids have “so much energy.” They don’t. They just aren’t leaking it.

So how do you get back to that state? It’s not by adding anything. Not more affirmations, not more hustle, not more self-improvement. You get there by taking things away. You stop apologizing for your existence. You stop flinching from your reflection. You stop playing the game of “do I deserve this?”

The paradox is that when you do this—when you really stop judging—you don’t become passive. You become sharp. Judgment doesn’t make you smarter. It makes you slower. When you stop judging yourself and others, you start seeing. You see what’s actually there, instead of what your internal script tells you should be there. And seeing clearly, without judgment, is one of the most powerful states a human can be in.

At that point, you’re not performing anymore. You’re not in the game at all. And weirdly, that’s what makes people pay attention. Because most people are always calculating, scanning for shame, rehearsing guilt, dragging yesterday into today. When you’re not, you stand out. People don’t know what to call it. They say you “light up the room.” What they’re feeling is the absence of noise.

This is what it means to be pure energy. Not that you’re hyped up or hyperactive. But that you are no longer fighting yourself. All the energy you used to spend hiding, managing impressions, apologizing for who you are—that energy gets released. And when it does, you don’t just walk into rooms. You arrive.

Being pure energy isn’t about being everywhere. It’s about being fully where you are. That’s what omnipresence really is: not scattering your attention across every possibility, but concentrating it entirely into now.

And ironically, the less you try to shine, the more you do. Because light isn’t something you push out. It’s something you stop blocking.