Understanding the energy field · Injuries
Getting injured is part of life. Rico only speaks of a cause when an injury stays because it overwhelms the field.
This page shows what he sees in fields. It is not a list for you to place yourself on.
Getting injured is normal
Every day, countless small parts of the field are injured in every person. This happens in conversation with others just as much as when you are alone in the forest, on a mountain or out on the lake. The field sorts most of these small injuries out again by itself.
“Getting injured is part of our development. It’s nothing negative.”
Rico Brunner
But there are injuries that go beyond the everyday. By this Rico means injuries that overwhelm a field because the pressure in that place is greater than the strength. They stay instead of sorting themselves out. He only speaks of truly injured fields when an injury stays for a longer time. How this calculation works is explained under Why effort alone is not enough and Pressure, strength and the leeway.
Obvious and inconspicuous injuries
Rico distinguishes two ways injuries come about. Some you notice straight away. Others you don’t notice for a long time.
Obvious
An argument that leaves you hurt. A goal you don’t reach, and then you are too hard on yourself. Expectations that aren’t fulfilled. You usually know exactly which situation it was.
Inconspicuous
A conflict you have processed well, and yet somewhere something isn’t quite right. It is so slight that you hardly pay attention to it. Injuries like this often arise where people are close to one another, in conflicts that are spoken and unspoken.
According to Rico, the inconspicuous ones are harder to grasp. They don’t come with a bang. Some grow larger over time until they can be felt, and then it is hard to say where they come from. Rico describes the sentence people often say at this point: “I don’t know why I’m not doing well, actually everything is fine”. Up to a certain point, injuries like these are normal too.
How different injuries look
Rico describes what he sees with words, some of which come from everyday life. In everyday life people also talk about a broken heart or about nerves snapping. You don’t need to know these words. They show why a cause lies somewhere different in every person and why it is so important to look closely.
| What Rico sees | How he describes it |
|---|---|
| Broken | From too much pressure, when a part can no longer give way. The place no longer passes on information. |
| Overstretched | The strain is so great that a part loses its shape. Often the stage before tearing. |
| Torn | From pulling rather than pressure: when something is supposed to be held or endured that is too heavy. |
| Stiffened | After overload or shock. Unlike a blockage, it usually affects a larger area that is no longer able to move. |
| Unresponsive | From exhaustion or overstimulation. The part no longer carries out its task and only takes up space. |
| Misinterpreting | The information arrives, but the wrong action follows, and rather at random. |
| Wrongly connected | Firmly connected the wrong way, like in a house with wrongly wired electrics: “When I switch on the kitchen island, the washing machine starts.” Rare, according to Rico. |
| Dissolved | A part is missing, and an impulse goes nowhere. Hard to recognize, “because you have to see where something is missing”. |
| Manipulated | Forced into a form that doesn’t match the field. In the short term this can bring something, in the long term it blocks. |
| With foreign energy | Like a building block that goes in everywhere and fits nowhere. A small share, three to five percent, is normal according to Rico; a lot of it creates dependence. |
| One-sidedly strong | Strength and weakness are too far apart. This can throw the field off balance. |
| Jumbled | Nothing is where it should be any more. Feelings and thoughts run into each other. |
| Disturbed dynamics | The processes are no longer smooth. The field reacts more slowly and less flexibly. |
| Blocked interactions | The parts no longer communicate with each other properly. Information only arrives in fragments. |
| Stopped growth | Otherwise a field grows all the time, even alongside a blocked part, which can then hand over tasks. Here this growth has come to a standstill, and with it an important ability of the field. |
| Its own ordering has stopped | Otherwise a field keeps sorting out its small injuries by itself, following its own process. If that stops, even small ones are left lying and get in the way of the parts that function. |
Based on Rico’s descriptions in his masterclass. Left column his terms, right column shortened from his wording. Not matched to any complaints.
A word like “broken” sounds heavy. Rico explicitly takes this heaviness away from it.
“Every person has had broken energy fields at some point. That’s nothing bad; here too it depends on which energy field is broken, or how many energy fields are broken together?”
Rico Brunner
And he says openly that his list is not complete. In his work, he says, he keeps coming across connections he hadn’t expected and only sees because he analyses the field.
“Energy fields can’t be described exhaustively with our language, with our words, and so neither can the injuries, nor the variants of injury, nor the effects of injury.”
Rico Brunner
A field compensates
If a part drops out, others take over its work. An energy field works like a team in which someone is missing and the others step in. Often it isn’t individual parts but whole areas that together help carry a task that isn’t theirs. That is why people are often very resilient despite injuries. And that is why they don’t notice anything for a long time.
For Rico, this stepping in is one of the most important abilities of a field. But it has a limit. In his book from 2003 he writes that a field can bridge a lot, but that in the long run this is not an ideal state and is a strain overall. The parts that step in carry more than their own work.
This leads to something Rico pays attention to in his work. In a field, every part is connected with the others. If one part changes, the work of the others who had been stepping in for it shifts too. If four people who had been missing from a team come back on the same day, it is unfamiliar for everyone. That is why, in his own words, Rico works carefully and in small steps, not with as much as possible at once.
Where an injury lies matters more than how it looks
Not every injured place plays a role in your life. So Rico first looks at where an injury lies and what it affects. If it lies in a place that a lot is connected to, it matters. If it lies in an area that isn’t important for your life, you hardly notice anything of it.
“And if energy fields don’t affect anything important in life, then you can also leave that injury as it is.”
Rico Brunner
That is why not every injured place appears in an energy field analysis either. What is described is what matters now. There is more on this under What Rico reads in your field.
An injury is always in the present
Many people ask whether they have to talk about their past. For Rico, an injury is always now, even if it arose a long time ago.
“That means the injury is always now. The moment of injury can lie in the past.”
Rico Brunner
That is why he doesn’t work on your past, but on what isn’t functioning in the field today. You don’t have to tell anything or live through anything again.
Not everything that is hard is an injury in the field
Sometimes something in life is no longer right: a job, a relationship, a place. No field sorts that out. Rico says this openly, because it is more honest than tracing everything back to the energy field. And anything that concerns the body belongs with a doctor, as the page Body, psyche and energy field describes.
What this can mean for you
If a lot is hard right now, it can be a relief to know that getting injured is part of life and that a field helps carry a lot, long before you notice anything. If things are going well and you want to keep it that way, compensation explains why a field can be resilient for a long time and why bridging still costs something in the long run. And if you want to develop further, Rico’s sentence applies in the other direction: injuries are also part of development.
Questions that come up often
- Do I need to know what kind of injury I have?
- No. What lies in the field, Rico reads in the field. The table above explains how different it can look. It isn’t meant for you to place yourself.
- Do I have to talk about what happened to me?
- No. For Rico, an injury lies in the present. He works on what isn’t functioning in the field today, not on your history.
- Does Rico work on every injury he sees?
- No. What matters to him are the places that play a role for the whole field. An injury that doesn’t affect anything important can stay.
- Is an injury in the field something physical?
- No. It means a place in the energy field, not in the body. Medicine is responsible for the body.
- Is “broken” or “dissolved” something bad?
- Not in itself. According to Rico, every person has had broken places in their field at some point. It depends on which place it is and how much depends on it.
Where to go next
How Rico finds such a place is explained in How Rico finds and reads your field. What he then does is described in Information, not energy.