Understanding the energy field · Stability
Stability is not a building block you can slot in. It arises when many parts of the field work well together.
That is why it can’t be produced directly. All you can do is make sure it is able to form.
A swamp or solid ground
You may know both. Days when every little thing throws you off balance. And days when you stay calm even though a lot is going on around you. Rico describes the difference with an image.
“People who aren’t stable stand as if in a swamp, and no matter what happens, they wobble, and people who are stable stand on solid ground.”
Rico Brunner
The ground is not your everyday life. Everyday life can look the same for two people. The ground is what carries you within it.
How you can recognize stability
Rico doesn’t describe stability as a feeling, but by what happens in the first moment.
“Being stable means that no matter what happens, you stay calm in the first moment, then you think it over or you instinctively do the right thing, because you have stable ground beneath you.”
Rico Brunner
So stability doesn’t mean that no strain comes. It describes what holds under strain. That is why, in Rico’s model, calm is experienced as strong, and restlessness as a sign that the balancing isn’t working at the moment.
Stability arises from the interplay
In Rico’s model, stability is a result. He calls the smallest parts of the field cells. This doesn’t mean the cells of your body, but the units the field consists of in his model.
“Actually, by stability I mean a functioning cell.”
Rico Brunner
Each cell has a stable part, which Rico calls the root, and also areas such as tension and interaction. When many such parts work well together, together they form what you experience as stability.
“It isn’t stability that is the basis of my work, but the interplay of all the components, which then form a stability together.”
Rico Brunner
Rico speaks of millions and billions of stability points that together make up a whole. Many people sense whether someone is stable because they perceive this whole. What it depends on in detail only becomes clear when someone looks at the individual points and how they work together.
According to Rico, a field doesn’t actually strive for stability. It strives for calm. Stability and growth arise as results of the balancing succeeding. If a cell functions, it helps carry the load. If many function, the whole field carries more. If one drops out, others take over its work. That is why people are often surprisingly resilient, even when something isn’t right in one place. There is more on this on the page How a field can be injured.
What stability does in different places
Stability is the same quantity everywhere. But what it does depends on where in the field it is needed at the moment. Rico distinguishes three situations an area of the field can be in.
Where an area has to carry a lot
Here stability makes the field resilient. It absorbs pressure and has a calming effect.
Where an area is holding
Here stability balances. It distributes pressure and makes the field more responsive.
Where an area is developing
Here stability has a stimulating effect. It sets new processes in motion, “like an adventure”, as Rico says.
What matters here: these three situations are not three kinds of people. They lie side by side in every field.
“Nobody is only in the help area, nobody is only in the development area.”
Rico Brunner
That is also why there is only one remote energy work and not three. In every field, Rico works at the places that need it at the moment, and there in the way the place requires. There is more on the three situations under Help, Stability, Development.
Stable doesn’t mean rigid
Can a field be too stable? Rico describes fields in which one area has a great deal of stability while others have hardly any strength. Then the energy collects where the field still functions. The stability grows beyond the point where it gives support and becomes rigidity. He compares this to a tree whose roots have grown so large that it can no longer move at the top.
“Of course there are always areas that are stronger and weaker, but the strength and the weakness mustn’t be too far apart.”
Rico Brunner
This leads to a rule for his work. Rico works at the places that don’t function. What does function he doesn’t optimize further, because that would widen the gap between strong and weak in the field even more. A field carries well when it carries as a whole, not especially much in one single place.
Why stability can’t be produced directly
The question Rico hears most often is: how do I become stable? His first answer is a qualification:
“It’s very difficult to work on stability, but there are things that help stability to form better.”
Rico Brunner
The stability is formed by the field itself. What can be done: clear the way for it. If something takes stress out of the system, it has more energy for its own balancing.
This also explains why Rico starts differently with a very overwhelmed field. An overwhelmed field needs all its strength just to hold. Nothing is left over for anything else. In this state, as he observes, it makes no progress, however hard it is pushed. That is why an overwhelmed field is calmed first, and with some people Rico works more on the pressure at the beginning than later on. Not so that it feels better for a short while, but so that work on the causes becomes possible at all.
This leads to a rule that runs through all of remote energy work: less is more. A field takes things in best when it is slightly underchallenged. How finely Rico weighs this up is described on the page Pressure, strength and the leeway. Why the pace comes from the field is explained under Why your field sets the pace.
Nothing is removed, a field grows beyond it
Many people imagine that something broken is taken out, and then everything is as it used to be. That is not how Rico describes an energy field. What doesn’t fit can’t be removed. A field develops beyond it.
Development isn’t something special that is only needed in a crisis. It is the normal state of a field, even when everything is going well.
“Development is a natural, healthy state.”
Rico Brunner
A field also doesn’t just sort itself out now and then. It does so all day long, as long as it is able to. Rico compares an old burden to a mountain from which the field removes a small piece every day. It couldn’t cope with all of it at once.
What this can mean for you
If a lot is hard right now, this image explains why Rico doesn’t start with as much as possible at once, but with calm. If things are going well and you want to keep it that way, stability is the question of whether the ground also carries you under more pressure. And if you want to develop further, solid ground is the place from which development is possible without pressure. Often all of this applies at the same time, just in different places.
Questions that come up often
- Does stable mean that nothing affects me any more?
- No. Stability describes what holds under strain, not that no strain comes. Even a stable field can be overwhelmed in one place if the load there is greater than its strength.
- Am I either stable or not?
- According to Rico, no. Every field has areas that have to carry a lot, areas that are holding, and areas that are developing. He says: “Nobody is only in the help area, nobody is only in the development area.”
- Can I do something for my stability myself?
- Hardly directly, says Rico. What you can do is give it room. He advises not looking for what makes you strong, but for what does you good, such as going for a walk, swimming or reading a book, and bringing that into your everyday life in small portions.
- Can a field be too stable?
- Rico describes fields in which one area has so much stability that it becomes rigidity, while other areas have hardly any strength. What matters is that strength and weakness are not too far apart.
- Are the cells in the energy field the same as in the body?
- No. In Rico’s model, “cell” is the name for the smallest unit of the field. It has nothing to do with the cells of your body.
Where to go next
Why every field has its own pace is explained on the page Why your field sets the pace. The three situations from which people come to remote energy work are described in Help, Stability, Development. You’ll find the term stability and its neighbours in the Glossary.