Unclogging the Current: Using Our Triggers to Restore Vitality

Everything that has ever happened in your life since birth, has been stored in your body energetically. Things you don’t remember and things you try to forget, are lingering as energetic imprints in your body.

I heard a great quote from author and thought leader Penache Desai, who said “emotions are energy in motion”. This means that when something sparks emotion in us, the natural way to deal with it is to allow them to flow through us and out.

Much of the time, emotions are held back and left to lurk in our bodies waiting to be expressed. Maybe there isn’t the time to let our emotions out in the moment, or maybe we were told that it was weak to show emotion. For whatever reason, if unexpressed, these emotions can wreak havoc on our mind and body.

In my Reiki healing practice, I see the stuck emotions as sort of an invisible veil over the body. They may be felt as heaviness, hopelessness, or irritability that you can’t quite discern.

Sometimes it is hard to make the connection between what you are feeling now, to a moment of trauma from your past.

Not living your truth can also take its toll on the body. If you are stuck in a situation that is constricting your energy body, whether it is stressful, dangerous, or just unsatisfying, it restricts your flow of vitality and creates clogs in your system.

If you grew up in an environment with strict beliefs, or weren’t allowed to express yourself, you likely have restrictions in your energy body.

Every time something happens that triggers a previously held emotion or trauma, and again we hold it in, it adds yet another veil of restrictive energy in the body.

Triggers should be viewed as opportunities to self-reflect and heal. Without this understanding, the mind wants to assign blame. People get fixated on the person or situation that triggered them, thereby ignoring the deeper issue, which is the core wound once again making itself known.

These unhealed wounds cause problems in our relationships. So often our partner is blamed for our wounds, when really, they are there to help us see ourselves. Whenever we blame someone else for why we feel bad, we miss an opportunity to heal.

Throughout our lives, “the body keeps the score” (an excellent book by Bessel van der Kolk, M.S.). The body eventually displays signs of buried emotions and trauma in the form of illness. Dense and restricted energy creates problems in the physical body that conventional medicine often fails to see.

This explains the rise in auto-immune illnesses and other ailments, for which they cannot really “find” the source or cure. I myself, had a debilitating autoimmune illness in the form of rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia for many years, before I began deep energetic and emotional healing.

It didn’t take long before I recovered from that completely.

It is possible to deeply heal the body and release trapped emotions in the body.

Is it easy?

Well, it doesn’t take surgery, so in that sense, it is easy.

However, it does involve allowing those memories and feelings that you stuffed away in hopes to never feel or see again, to come up. It may involve forgiving people for hurting you (for your sake, not theirs).

Helpful activities include journaling, movement, meditation, energy healing, and other alternative healing methods.

Is it worth it? Undoubtedly — YES!

When you clear out the dense, heavy energy and emotions from your body, there is a lightness and expansiveness that is palpable. When the energy is freely flowing again, the body can heal the physical ailments that you may have incurred.

When the body and spirit are free of restriction, our soul is free to fully express itself.

That’s when life gets really good. Here’s why,

We no longer take anything personal. We are free to be who we are, and nothing holds us back from expressing our unique self and living the life we want.

We feel alive in our body and are motivated to take care of ourselves, because we have hope and look forward to each day.

We no longer hold on to what doesn’t serve us, nor do we live to please others.

We honor ourselves and do what feels right for us, regardless of what others may think.

We feel our feelings when they arise, and allow them to release. After all, emotions are energy in motion.

It is possible to live a healthy life unencumbered by the past, hopeful for the future, and fully present to enjoy life as it unfolds.

I hope this gives you a little perspective, and a lot of hope.

If you need a little help getting your energy flowing freely again, schedule a reiki session with me!