{"id":33578,"date":"2021-04-20T10:30:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T14:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=33578"},"modified":"2021-04-30T10:28:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T14:28:20","slug":"energy-blockages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/energy-blockages\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Have Energy Blockages? Stop Living in the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What are energy blockages? What are the signs that your spiritual energy is blocked? And more importantly, what can you do to unblock it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Energy blockages are knots in your spiritual energy that form as a result of past trauma, preventing your energy from flowing freely. Once an energy block is established, your present life experience will always be polluted by the past until you release the block and allow the free flow of experience through your consciousness again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep reading ot learn about energy blockages and what to do to release them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What Are Energy Blockages?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The yogic concept of <em>Samskaras<\/em> provides a useful handle for understanding energy blockages. Like the orbital energy patterns of atoms and planets, Samskaras are stable cycles of blocked energy patterns. Over the course of your life, you\u2019ve stored many of these in your heart charka.<strong> <\/strong>Here\u2019s how Samskaras occur:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>When an energy blockage happens, you initially try to process it through your mind, but this fails, as the only way to resolve a block is to release it.<\/li><li>When you can\u2019t resolve your energy blockages in your mind, they move to your heart, where they generate emotions.<\/li><li>When you resist the blockage in your heart, your heart puts it in deep storage, where it becomes a Samskara, an \u201cimpression\u201d from the past that runs your life.&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>A stored Samskara becomes a trigger that makes your heart open and close on autopilot.<\/strong> Whenever you encounter something that resonates with its energy\u2014for instance, if you drive past another blue mustang like your girlfriend\u2019s\u2014this disturbs your heart. You were fine, but suddenly you feel moody and irritated. Your heart flow is still being affected in the present by something that happened in the past.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What Energy Blockages Do<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Energy blockages make you hypersensitive to imagined injuries. <\/strong>Consider your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/protective-instinct\/\">survival instinct<\/a>, for example. Despite its evolutionary shift from bodily to psychological protection, this energy pattern still produces the same physical response. When our ideas or identities are attacked, we experience the same fear, the same adrenalized fight-or-flight reaction. This protective response is tremendously unbalanced; we worry about insubstantial non-threats such as what people will think of us or how we sounded to them. We\u2019re like psychological hypochondriacs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Releasing Trapped Energy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The key to keeping your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/inner-energy\/\">inner energy<\/a> flowing lies in relaxing and releasing: letting go of the old, stored energies whenever they come up in the course of daily life.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\" id=\"block-330a62e9-167c-45c3-9519-c8bbfedb22d4\"><li>First, notice your energy flow starting to tighten into anger, jealousy, or whatever it is.<\/li><li>Second, relax and remember yourself <em>as <\/em>the self, as the objective witness of the disturbance. Remember that your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/spiritual-heart\/\">spiritual heart<\/a> isn\u2019t you. Rather, you\u2019re the one who <em>experiences<\/em> your heart.<\/li><li>Third, use the opportunity to release the negative energy through non-reactiveness. Just let it flow through you and out of you.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cultivate this process of spiritual purging and cleansing until it becomes your automatic, default approach. <\/strong>Learn to let your entire psyche surface. Accept anything that wants to present itself, no matter how unpleasant it feels at first. It might be helpful to initially practice this discipline with small upsets, like accidentally locking your keys in your car. Then progress to bigger ones like broken relationships and the death of loved ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are energy blockages? What are the signs that your spiritual energy is blocked? And more importantly, what can you do to unblock it? Energy blockages are knots in your spiritual energy that form as a result of past trauma, preventing your energy from flowing freely. 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