Business Book Review: The Energy Codes by Dr. Sue Morter
Everything is energy. When you start to believe this scientifically proven and ancient wisdom, you can start to attract the energy you want to create.
My Rating: ★★★★★
Length: 352 pages
Publisher: Atria Books
Released: 2019
Key Takeaways for Personal Branding
Dr. Sue Morter’s The Energy Codes is a remarkably comprehensive guide into the science that explains Morter’s mantra (shared by many others) that everything is energy. As the daughter of a pioneer in energy medicine, Morter offers an exceedingly thorough exploration of energy — not something she became enlightened on later in life, but rather, growing up, was a topic of discussion around her dinner table.
This idea that everything is energy isn’t new. For our predecessors of the ancient world, it was the foundation of their beliefs as represented in the Bible, the Quran, the Torah, the Upanishads and other ancient texts.
More than written in ancient texts, it’s written into our DNA. For example, it’s been discovered that it is through our energy field that our DNA gets instructions for how to act.
Dr. Bruce Lipton from Stanford University’s School of Medicine evidenced that changes in organisms are caused by gene activation from a stimulus on the surface of the cell wall rather than in the genetic code within the cell nucleus — which was previously widely believed. This shows that messages from our cells’ environment, such as our thoughts and emotional states, generate energy flow that determines what the cell will do. That environment leads to the production and movement of molecules of chemistry, that lead to the activation of our DNA and overall cellular function. Meaning, what you think and do affects your energy at a cellular level.
The physical world we perceive is just energy — compressed and made dense enough to touch.
As I always say when it comes to your personal brand, you attract the energy you create. How can we learn to understand and harness the full potential of our pure energy being?
As Morter says:
“We are energy. Our matter, mind, and thoughts are energy. Our flesh and bones are energy. We are integrated, multidimensional beings made of pure energy. And the degree to which we know this truth about ourselves is the degree to which we live either in pain or in bliss.”
Here are my top takeaways from Morter’s The Energy Codes:
The Quantum Flip
The Quantum Flip is your transformation from a fear-based self to living as the boundless, whole and creative being you are. Morter proposes that our problem isn’t that we are inadequate or broken but that we believe we are.
Morter posits that by default we try to solve problems, pain and challenges using the same forces that create them — this survival-centric identity is what Morter terms the ‘Protection Personality’. This keeps you away from your true potential:
“When we start to see ourselves as the pure, magnificent energy beings we are, we automatically begin our journey to experiencing wholeness.”
Rather than looking externally, always scanning for potential harm, you need to turn inwards — to the energy within you to show you what is really true for you. When you lean into this, life starts to unfold more effortlessly.
Morter describes two sides of the coin in her model:
The Back Side (tails): This is victimhood and survival. You believe we can’t impact the world around us, unaware of our influencing and creator potential. Here you feel fatalism and resignation. You blame your circumstances.
The Front Side (heads): Here you live from a place of power, consciously and actively living in the “Creatorship” or the “Creative Genius” of your soul’s true self. Here, there isn’t good or bad, or seeing the silver lining — there is only a belief that everything has a purpose.
On the front side, problems are not problems to survive but are projects. Troubled spots and not broken things to be fixed, but questions to be answered:
“Today, I see all situations that occur as impulses from the universe nudging me toward my greatness.”
Embodiment, not merely Enlightenment, creates a quantum flip from one side to the other. In physics, the phenomenon known as a “quantum flip” describes the ability of an atom to change directions instantly without ever slowing. So, getting to the other side of the coin — seeing the world differently — can happen in an instant.
Morter believes the reason you don’t know your own divinity is not that you aren’t divine, but because you don’t have circuits in place to perceive that divinity:
“We have to build and activate the circuitry in the nervous system to ‘turn the lights on’.”
The Energy Codes
The Energy Codes are Morter’s set of practices to help generate your Quantum Flip:
Morter’s Five Energy Code Truths are:
Everything is energy.
Your life is a reflection of your energy.
You are the creator of your life.
Your creation — your life — is always expanding.
The purpose of your life is to discover your creativity.
Your energy influences the world — an exchange that goes both ways. As researchers at the HeartMath Institute demonstrated, we can change our DNA (one vibrational frequency of our system) with emotion (a different vibrational frequency within our system). For example with anger, rage, and hate, a DNA molecule compresses. With love, compassion, and joy, the molecule expands. So the vibrational frequency of our emotions impacts our physical body and health:
“Our thoughts and emotions are merely different vibrational frequencies, and even physical form is nothing more than compressed energy. What we experience as “positive” thoughts are energy patterns that are more open and spacious, while “negative” thought energy patterns are denser.”
As Morter highlights, take two guitars at opposite ends of a room that are tuned to each other. If you pluck the G string on one of the guitars, the G string on the other vibrates. This dynamic is shared between humans too.
Unlocking your Imagination
Quantum science dictates that everything happens at the energetic level before it happens at the physical level.
We manifest what we think by arranging subatomic particles into a pattern. Your imagination is your tool for shifting these energy patterns. This isn’t “real”, but it’s generative, original, inspired thinking — what Morter calls alpha thinking as it uses the alpha frequency of the brain. Your imagination connects you back to who you truly are.
Favourite Quotes
“We want to go from being externally focused to internally focused — from looking outside of ourselves to sense how others perceive us, to looking within ourselves to sense and feel who we really are. Only then do we awaken to and become who we really are.”
“Whenever friction happens in your life and you have an emotional or “charged” reaction, immediately ask “Where?” rather than “Why?” — as in, “Where in the body do I feel this?” rather than “Why is this happening to me?”
“All of humanity goes through this splatting or loss of identity. It is our collective destiny to integrate or put back together our dispersed energy and to awaken from our cosmic amnesia, to “re-member” who we really are.”
“If it isn’t flowing in your life, it’s because it isn’t flowing in your body!” And, if it isn’t flowing in your body, it won’t be flowing in your life!”
“We are not just spiritual beings having a physical or earthly experience; we are spiritual beings having a spiritual experience at the physical end of the energy spectrum.”
The Energy Codes by Dr. Sue Morter Available on Amazon.
