Written by: Jen Russman, Executive Contributor
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The empowering part about healing is knowing that you decide what it looks and feels like for you.
There’s no one-size-fits-all, right or wrong way to heal.
However, there could be one thing you’re doing and not even aware of that is slowing down or blocking your progress and desired results.
You could be leaking energy.
Here’s what I mean…
Everything within you is energy – your thoughts, emotions, words you speak,
cells, bodily systems, even your DNA.
Everything outside of you is energy – people, places, things, your environment, even the food you eat.
You are participating in energetic exchanges every moment of every day – taking in and putting out energy both consciously and subconsciously whether you realize it or not.
How you choose to participate in these exchanges influences whether you are leaking energy or protecting it.
Here’s why…
Healing requires a lot of energy, specifically energetic exchanges that are nourishing and create a harmonious state of homeostasis.
Healing manifests best in an energetic state of being that allows your mind, body, spirit to align, recalibrate and restore balance.
Not only on a physical level, but an emotional and spiritual plane as well.
Both your emotional and spiritual states are energetic and contribute to the breakdown, as well as the restoration.
So taking care to protect your energy emotionally and spiritually is just as important as minding it physically.
Preserving and protecting all of these levels creates a state of energetic homeostasis which allows healing to take place.
When you don’t protect your energy from toxic, external influences, you are leaking energy.
When you don’t preserve your energy by prioritizing and nourishing your wellbeing first, you are leaking energy.
Leaking energy takes away from your innate power to heal.
Here are 11 ways you could be leaking energy and blocking or slowing down your healing:
Involving yourself in too much drama and chaos
Engaging in toxic or abusive relationships
Lacking healthy boundaries
Overloading mind and body with toxic foods, especially sugar & alcohol
Doing too much and not asking for help and support
Suppressing your emotions
Functioning at chronically high stress levels, including worry and anxiety
Putting others needs ahead of your own
Ignoring your intuition
Avoiding mental health issues like depression and anxiety
Harboring resentments
Checking off even one of these means you are leaking energy and you could benefit from pausing to reflect on what areas need your attention.
Here are four steps you can take to shift from leaking to protecting your energy and optimizing your innate power to heal:
1. Pause and Take Inventory
There is power in the pause. Take time to take inventory. Set the stage with a nurturing environment where you can sit quietly and BE. Dim the lights, light a candle, put on comfy clothes with some relaxing music. Create an energetic space built for self love.
Make a list of the what and who in each category above. Don’t overthink. Allow what’s meant to come through to flow onto paper. Once it’s in front of you it’s easier to bite one piece off at a time.
2. Set Boundaries
Setting boundaries is one of the most empowering ways to take personal responsibility for your healing.
It begins with identifying needed boundaries within yourself first. Looking at your list will help you see what you hopefully are no longer willing to tolerate, receive, and accept from yourself.
Doing this first is key. It’s from this place of self honesty that you can begin to establish clarity to build healthier boundaries for your relationships and external environment.
3. Stop and Go
Now that you have your list and more clarity around boundaries for yourself, you can create a stop and go list, or red light-green light.
Red means stop and represents the things you need to stop allowing into your energy field: people and things that drain you and your energy.
Green means go and represents the things you need to start doing and being for yourself, like setting boundaries, hydrating or meditation.
4. Release to Receive
Receiving what you want or need (like healing) oftentimes requires releasing what isn’t serving you (like stress and toxicity).
Allowing yourself to receive is preceded by allowing yourself to let go. Releasing creates space for the new.
Energetic and emotional releasing is one of the most powerful ways to achieve this.
Releasing emotional and energetic attachments to trauma and the things keeping you stuck in the sabotage loop is key to healing. Because once your body can let go, you can let go.
There are two levels to this. First is releasing stuck emotional energies out of your physical body. The second is to release them out of your eight main energy power centers – the chakras.
Clearing your body and energy field emotionally creates expansion to receive deeper levels of healing and freedom.
You get to decide what your healing looks and feels like. Understanding this starts with embracing energy as a foundational healing principle. It means recognizing that if you are leaking your energy everywhere you are slowing down or blocking your own progress.
Taking responsibility for your healing begins within by taking inventory, digging deeper, setting internal boundaries first, then external boundaries. And becoming willing to release who and what is no longer serving you so you can receive the infinite healing that awaits you.
You are a powerful creator and you hold the power to heal within. If you would like further guidance on empowering yourself energetically for deeper healing, please reach out and send me an email. I’d love to connect with you.
Jen Russman, Executive Contributor Brainz Magazine
Jen Russman is a self-healing expert and advocate, trauma guide, energy healer, and tv host of JenergyVibes, your power hour for the energetics of self-healing. She is known for going from seven years sick, disabled, and homebound with MS to healing and running a 5k. She has self-healed from trauma, addiction, mental health, and chronic illness both holistically and energetically. Jen is a graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, and her vision is to make self-healing mainstream instead of an alternative or last resort option. She is passionate about changing the narrative around trauma and turning pain into power by giving it purpose.
