Is My Energy Off?

My friend was having a rough week and stopped by one day to talk. When she arrived, I opened the door and went in for a hug.

(I’m not much of a hugger, but she’s one of the people who always gets one.)

She took a step back and said, “Before you hug me…is my energy off?”

I chuckled and said, “We’re coming out of a global pandemic. Everyone’s energy is off.”

“No, really,” she said. “My friend keeps telling me my energy is off. I don’t feel like it is, and she can’t really explain what’s so ‘off’ about it. What do you think?”

I smiled and said, “This is exactly what I’m writing my book about.”

“Well, hurry up and write the dang book then! I obviously need to read it because I feel like I’ve got an energy problem. Maybe I don’t. Hell! She could be projecting and my energy is fine. But I don’t even have a way to find out! I need this book.”

Is My Energy Off?

The short answer is yes.

If you don’t have a consistent and intentional daily energy hygiene practice, your energy is off. Period.

Just like if you ask me, “Do I smell…off?” and you don’t have a daily physical hygiene practice (like bathing or brushing your teeth) every day, the answer is probably yes.

When your “energy is off” — and it happens to nearly everyone — it negatively impacts every aspect of you.

Here are some common symptoms humans may experience when their energy is blocked, stopped, or stuck and not flowing naturally.

Below are general examples of common symptoms that my clients experience. However, people who identify as neurodivergent, are born with different abilities, are facing health challenges and/or experience myriad other life challenges as a human being may find that their existing experience often intersects, overlaps, and influences these, too.

How Did My Energy Get Like This?

Ever since you were born (and even before!) you’ve been accumulating all kinds of things–experiences, T/trauma, beliefs, emotions. These things come into your bubble of energy as packages of energy. Often, they stay there, building up year after year, until we learn how to intentionally clean our energy bubble.

Many of the things you are carrying around in your energy bubble aren’t even yours! This is especially true if you are an empath.

Think about that for a second: Many of your fears, beliefs and grudges might not even be yours at all. They were deposited into your energy bubble when you were a young child (typically by your well-meaning caregivers) and you’ve been carrying them around ever since.

This happened to one of my friends who had been scared of heights his entire life. One day, he was on the roof of a two-story home and realized he wasn’t actually scared of heights at all. How did he get this deep, life-long fear that wasn’t actually a fear at all?

When he was a kid, his mom worried that he’d break his arm falling out of a tree so she repeatedly told him he was afraid of heights.

It was her fear not his.

He spent his whole life believing a fear she had deposited in him. That fear of heights was a package of energy stored in his bubble for decades. The day he realized it wasn’t accurate, he was able to finally let it go.

Every day, as we move around in the world, our clothes, bodies, and shoes get dirty just by the natural living of life. Our energy bubble is the same. We take energy from others. We give energy to others. Our energy bubble gets dirty in the natural living of life. This happens subconsciously–affecting our thoughts, mood, and health–until we become aware of what is happening at an energetic level.

What’s Happening Under the Surface?

Just like the water from a shower cleans your physical body, there is a flow of energy (Life Force Energy, to be exact) that cleans and replenishes your energy bubble. This flow of Life Force Energy above you and below you is the shower that cleans the energy in your energy bubble.

This flow can get cut off for a whole bunch of reasons. When that happens, it becomes stagnant, heavy, and gross…a lot like what happens to water in a pond when there’s no fresh water flowing into it.

Once the flow of Life Force Energy is turned back on, your energy bubble begins to release the stagnant gunk it had been storing and let new, fresh, life-giving energy back into your energy bubble.

 

 

Reconnecting to this Life Force Energy each day does many positive things–like relieving and resolving many of the symptoms we discussed above–and you can begin to feel the changes almost immediately.

Like many people, my friend wasn’t connected to her Life Force Energy. Her friend could sense it and said, “Are you ok? Your energy is a little off.” She didn’t actually know that the flow of Life Force Energy was cut off. But she could definitely sense it.

We sat together in my kitchen that day as I sketched out how to ‘get your energy back on’ by connecting to your Life Force Energy. If you’d like to learn how to do it, too, you can check that out here.