The energy field analysis · what is read
Structure, functions, interactions, state and mechanisms. Five questions to ask a field.
The levels come from Energyology, the model in which Rico has been organizing his observations since 1998. It is an experience-based model, not a scientifically tested method.
How you can look at a field
An energy field can be compared to a clockwork. Many gears mesh with one another. When they all run well, the clock shows the right time. Whether a clock is right, you can see on the dial. Why it isn’t right, you can only see in the movement.
That is exactly where Rico looks. He observes on the level at which the field works, not on the level at which you experience it. What he can’t see, he says openly: where someone is right now and in what life situation.
“I don’t have to assess what works; I have to assess what doesn’t work.”
Rico Brunner
Describing a field in every detail would never be finished. That is why Rico looks for the places that aren’t running. He likes to tell a story about holidays with his grandparents in the mountains. You only see chamois on a rock face once you have learned how to look. Then they leap out at you, the way a mistake in a stitch catches the eye of an experienced crocheter within a second.
The five levels
Rico orders what he reads in a field into five levels. Each answers a question of its own. An energy field analysis takes up the levels that matter right now for the two to four most important points. Not every analysis addresses all five.
Structure
What is your field made of?
A field consists of many units that are all built the same way: each one has all the functions. They attract one another without merging into one another. Together they form clusters, nodes and areas. Rico calls the whole “a system that can grow and shrink”.
Functions
What can your field do?
Every unit has functions from the start. Abilities, on the other hand, are learned. The functions include stability, elasticity and the ability to apply what has been learned in the right place. A field “has an intelligence, and it recognizes where it has to be how”, says Rico.
Interactions
How do the parts act on one another?
Information in the field is not distributed from one point. Each unit draws what it needs, and it acts from all sides. The interactions keep the field under tension. In Rico’s words: “The interaction orchestrates the tension.”
State
Where does your field stand right now?
Rico distinguishes three areas: Help, Stability and Development. A field is not in one area as a whole. Each part has its own state, and the state of the whole is not the average of the parts. According to Rico, a state is “mostly visible under pressure”.
Mechanisms
How does your field react to a demand?
This is about processes: what happens when a demand meets your field. Rico has confirmed this core logic. It is shown as a drawing in the next section.
Stability, elasticity, the functions present and the interactions together make up the carrying capacity: how much your field can carry right now. It is not a fixed quantity. According to Rico, it grows naturally. It only stops growing when the field isn’t working well.
What happens when a demand comes
Every day brings demands: a conversation, a task, a message, a change. What the field does with it depends on whether the demand matches its carrying capacity. Rico has confirmed the process like this: if a demand is manageable, the field develops. If it is too big, the field compensates, up to a limit. Beyond a tipping point, a disturbance arises that can sustain itself.
What matters here is the dashed line. A manageable demand is not something you need to avoid. It is the material a field grows on. Too much at once, on the other hand, makes it compensate, and compensating costs strength that is then missing for development. That is why Rico pays such close attention to the pressure in remote energy work. More on this under Pressure, strength and the leeway.
What Rico reads and what he doesn’t assume
For Rico, reading means seeing what is there. He considers assumption the greatest danger in his work. If you assume something, you see what you expect. That is why he distinguishes strictly. What he sees, he describes. What he doesn’t see, he names as such and doesn’t speculate.
“The greatest danger in energy work is making assumptions.”
Rico Brunner
That is why an energy field analysis contains no guesses about your life. Even an injured spot in the field doesn’t automatically get a place in it. According to Rico, some spots have no influence on life because they are not in an important position. What is described is what matters now.
Three situations in one field
The fourth level, the state, is the most surprising for many people. A person isn’t simply doing “well” or “badly”. Rico describes it like this:
“A person can, for example, be in the help stream in private life. In the stability stream on the relationship level. In the development stream in business.”
Rico Brunner
That is why the analysis is not a judgment about you. It shows where each part stands right now. Someone in a hard phase finds a description in it just as much as someone who is doing well and wants to move forward. More on the three situations under Help, Stability, Development.
Where to go next
How an analysis comes about and where it fits into the day is described in How an energy field analysis is made. How Rico finds your field in the first place is described under How Rico finds and reads your field.