If you feel like you’re drowning in your life, can’t get ahead, or even get a grip, it might be more than a mindset obstacle you’re facing. Quite often we do mind-work and all the things we logically think we should do, but overlook one key factor.
The body remembers everything.
Energetic patterns you’ve activated hundreds of thousands of times are now part of the automatic program the body runs as “normal”. In order to change these programs, you need to interrupt the system that runs them. Neutralize the energy to release the attachment of thought to emotion, and set yourself free.
Understand your current energetic imprint
The energy you carry around an aspect of your life reinforces a story and pattern. Once embedded, it runs subconsciously underneath the surface, and drives your behavior on autopilot.
Your words, thoughts, feelings, actions, and beliefs make up the energetic imprint of “you”. When you’ve rehearsed an imprint consistently, your everyday life reflects it.
For example, if you are experiencing a lack of money, what energy are you putting forth around your current (and future) situation?
If you continually speak and think about what you don’t have, you block the energy needed for it to come to you. When you say, “I can’t afford that”, or “I’ll never have enough” you’re resisting the energy of “enough”. Feeling like money is bad, hard to get, or is “for everyone but you” keeps you locked into the imprint of lack.
For things to change, there needs to be a willingness and ability to receive. And that requires an energetic shift.
Find where the imprint lives in your body
Every thought and feeling share a connection that lives in your body. This is why when you remember something painful, you feel like it’s happening in the moment.
The brain and the body can’t tell what’s real and imagined. Each time you relive an experience, you are strengthening the connection between a specific thought, emotion, and a repeated response.
Sitting with yourself in your “cringe” moments can be difficult and uncomfortable, however, nothing can be resolved if you’re not willing to feel your emotions.
When you bring up a past memory that’s painful, what do you feel in your physical body? Not thoughts surrounding the original moment, but actual physical sensations your body’s producing.
This is a huge clue as to where the energetic imprint (story) lives. Giving attention to the physical side of the emotion, even without knowing what the emotion is, allows the energy to unwind.
Change the narrative
The more we repeat our old stories, the deeper they set in. However, breaking the connection by feeling into the emotion helps change the narrative.
You set yourself free when you can fully be with your emotions. When you “sit with it”, you’re effectively telling your body that it’s safe to feel what you feel (while it may not have been safe within the original experience). That safety of expression is what the emotion has been looking for. Once it’s resolved, the energy around that aspect of your life changes.
Telling your body that it’s safe changes the story and energy around the experience. Since your body remembers everything, it used to activate a survival pattern when in a similar situation. Now it can run a program where the threat has been neutralized.
Explore your feelings around your old stories. Ask yourself how old you feel. Then, write a new script that describes the experience, but now from your adult point of view. Put a new pattern in place that no longer holds the emotional attachment.
Swim to the top
Remember, when you hold tightly to things, particularly emotions and thoughts, you attract more of the same to you. It’s energetic. So while you may consciously think one thing (I want to be happy) if your energy doesn’t read “I am willing to experience joy in this moment”, you’ll stay exactly where you are.
It only takes a moment of awareness to check in with what type of energy you’re holding around a particular thought, memory, or experience. Once you recognize where you’re at, you have the ability to change it.