In the first part of the article, we discussed the cyclical nature of energy in the human body, as well as the main functions of the chakras.
In this material, you will learn how excess energy in the body manifests and how to neutralize an excessive charge.
Excess energy in the body. What happens when the energy charge is strong
Sometimes a very strong charge arrives, which most people are unable to handle.
According to psychologists, several typical instinctive reactions to stress (in life-threatening or survival situations) can be identified. Among them is “freeze, become numb,” where a sudden threat to life literally immobilizes the body.
Another common reaction is “fight or flight.” In this reaction, there is a surge of adrenaline, and all body systems are activated so that the person can make a sudden burst of effort.
If a person is permanently in a state of life threat, their body wears out quickly.
Another type of reaction to stress (most characteristic of women) is the so-called social contact, social agreements.
When you feel an excess of energy in the body, a “freeze” often occurs — the ability to absorb this energy, assimilate it, as well as the ability to expend and release energy, becomes frozen.
The consequence of such a “freeze” can be anxiety, restlessness, loss of sensitivity (when you become insensitive, emotionless).
See also: On exacerbation after working through emotional blocks
Freezing of energy in specific chakras
The second chakra is responsible for the emotions that pass through a person. This center collects all information and transmits it to the brain for analysis.
Despite the fact that the second chakra is commonly associated with sexuality, femininity, and desires, it is important to understand that all organs of touch also work through the sacral chakra.
When too much energy passes through the second chakra (there is too large a charge there), a person can become emotionless.
Everyone is familiar with situations where you experience overly intense joy, drive, anticipation of some expected events, but once you are “in the event,” you feel nothing.
This is how the numbness reflex (at the level of the second chakra) works, which can also manifest on the physical plane (sexuality, condition of reproductive organs).
Another example. The solar plexus is the center of action and activity.
When too much energy “freezes” here, in life this can manifest as familiar states: you wanted something so badly, you strained with all your might, “I will do this, and that, and the third,” but as a result, you deflate, you lose the desire to act.
Too large a charge blocks the solar plexus, and you slide into doubt.
When a large charge “freezes” in the heart center, your breath may catch, you cannot breathe. Too much energy comes in, and breathing is suppressed.
From an excess of energy in the throat center, your throat tightens.
The 6th chakra – “I see,” the 7th chakra – “I think.” “Freezing”/excess of energy in these chakras can manifest as:
- confusion of vision (when you see but interpret distortedly);
- confusion of thinking (loss of focus, chaotic thoughts, lack of logic, mythical thinking (connecting the unconnectable).
An example of such an excess is fantasies that arise internally from overstimulation. Overstimulation is an increased charge that the chakras cannot conduct.
See also Energy Imbalance. How it manifests in the human chakra system
How to neutralize an excess energy charge
When the charge is too large, and you cannot express it emotionally or expend it physically, a blockage occurs.
The energy center seems to freeze, ceasing to move at the natural speed (for a state of equilibrium).
Releasing energy through physical methods and emotions
Many women intuitively release excess charge through emotions. It is important to release emotions ecologically, not to dump them on children and loved ones, and not to engage in energy ping-pong (when you are “wound up” at work, and at home you pass the charge down the chain to others).
An excess of energy in the body becomes uncontrollable when you do not track or acknowledge it.
You can “scream out” emotions – release them through the throat chakra.
When any bodily reaction of numbness occurs, the main task is to release the excessively large charge of energy accumulated inside.
Unfortunately, most people lack the skill of releasing (excess) energy. Some find it more comfortable to release the charge through movement, i.e., to expend it physically.
For example, psychologists recommend, when you are overwhelmed with emotions, going and beating a pillow. Another common option (favorite among women) is breaking dishes.
Recall your own methods by which you release charge in everyday life.
For example, some people immediately start doing physical exercises, going for a dynamic walk (at a brisk pace). Others immediately start cleaning, rearranging things. All of this allows them to feel physical fatigue, and thus helps them discharge.
When you throw yourself into physical activity, you thereby (unconsciously) release the charge.
Crying can also serve as one of the ways to discharge. At the same time, you unburden your heart.
Note that often small children – from overwork and oversaturation with emotions/impressions – fall into hysterics and thus release the excess charge. At the same time, “illiterate” parents often scold children for such behavior and force them to swallow it all.
Regardless of which chakra has an excessive charge, the principle is the same: excess air in a tire is let out, and energy is released. Some release it through emotions, others through physical actions.
If you understand that you are releasing an energy charge and it is causing harm to someone, you need to learn to switch yourself into an eco-friendly mode of release. In other words, you need to find a substitute – how else you can do the same thing.
During a physical release, it is worth paying attention to what the body is doing at that moment. The charge demands an outlet, and the body itself suggests what needs to be done.
For example, some people note that during meditation, the body suddenly starts to sway, hands want to rise up, etc. Follow the body – release, let the charge pass through. Trust the wisdom of bodily intelligence. Over millions of years, the body’s intelligence has accumulated certain reflexes, among them the natural release of excess charge.
Note that there is no mental way to discharge – you cannot release a charge mentally.
If you are not inclined to physically discharge, find an acceptable physical substitute, such as dancing.
Observe children. Your children are sages. When they have an excess of impressions, they scream to release excess energy. Or they start acting wild to the point of collapsing into bed from exhaustion and sleeping soundly.
Children’s wisdom ends when you try to suppress their natural expressions. By doing so, you lock inside the child’s body a charge that should have been released. As a result, the child develops traumas, emotional blocks, physical ailments, and so on.
Expressing energy is necessary. It is a natural phase of the life of energy.
See also: Excess of feminine/masculine energy. How to achieve balance
Releasing excess energy through breathing practices
A good way to release excess charge is through breathing practices.
This is specifically about exhaling. When you inhale, you take in energy. When you exhale, you release it.
If during a burst of release you begin to breathe slowly, steadily, and deeply, you will thereby evenly lower, drain, and release the excess charge.
Physical ways to release excess charge
These methods are borrowed from the books of author Anodea Judith, “Wheels of Life: A User’s Guide to the Chakra System” and “The Global Heart Awakens: Humanity’s Rite of Passage from the Love of Power to the Power of Love”.
According to Anodea Judith, the physical body has four ways of releasing energy.
1. Downward through the legs or feet
When you direct energy downward through the feet, this energy essentially goes into the earth. At the same time, you ground yourself, directing the flow from top to bottom.
Think about what you can do in life through your legs/feet.
Remember what little children do: they kick, bang their heels on the floor, stomp their feet, and jump. At that moment, they activate active points in the center of their feet and direct energy downward, where it goes into the ground.
Thus, any actions that involve your legs are suitable.
When you feel overwhelmed, when anxiety, doubt, or chaotic obsessive thoughts intensify, go for an active walk or run in the park.
If you cannot run or move, do not deprive yourself of a way to release through your legs.
For example, Anodea Judith, during client psychotherapy sessions, asked her clients to move their legs.
Remember how little children love to dangle their legs while sitting on something.
In contrast, an average adult’s legs are hardly involved in anything. They only walk and sit. Little children, unlike adults, actively use leg movements.
Incidentally, if you are in fear and start “stomping” your feet, the emotional intensity of the fear goes downward. You experience relief.
See also: How to Activate the Foot Chakras
2. Through the Palms
Remember how during the project’s group meditations, you learn to radiate energy from one palm and receive it through the other. The palms are very active.
When a person is unpleasant to you, you (unconsciously) tend to shield yourself from them with your palms, to push them away. When you like someone, you want to hug them.
For this reason, after many practices, there is a desire to wave your arms, stretch, and move your hands. Such movements also help to get energy flowing when you feel sluggish.
One way to express (release) emotions is to press your hands hard against something so that they tense up. For example, press your hands against a wall with your whole body. Or stand in a hallway or some passage/opening, stretch your arms out to the sides, and forcefully press them against opposite walls.
See also: Two exercises for opening chakras in the palms
3. Through the throat
The throat is another physical point for energy release.
Singing is beneficial, especially if it is singing that flows naturally from within.
A good way to release excess energy is to shout it out. But if you are a modest, civilized person not used to shouting at everyone, it may be difficult for you to do this.
Chanting mantras, unlike “shouting it out,” is usually used to raise vibrations.
Track for yourself what happens to you while singing — whether you are charging yourself with energy or, on the contrary, releasing the excess.
The method (path) that releases energy can similarly serve to receive energy. For example, if you are stagnant, have no energy, and you stomp your feet, energy begins to flow. In both cases, you physically activate energy.
For this reason, one person may feel a surge of energy after exercise, while another may feel a decline and exhaustion.
What happens to you at any given moment (whether you are expressing or letting in (raising) energy) is known only to your body.
4. Through sex
Orgasm is a powerful energetic release, after which calmness sets in.
Thus, when you realize that you have accumulated an excess of energy, you can also expend (release) it through sex.
How to use excess energy in the body to realize your plans
Energy increases from any action. For this reason, if you crawl out of bed in the morning “in a state of non-standing,” do something.
For example, take a contrast shower to jumpstart your energy, do some light exercise. Or resort to any of the above-mentioned methods to express energy.
When you feel a surge of energy, you can direct it wherever you want.
For example, you have a task that isn’t moving forward, or the realization of some plans and desires is dragging on. Understand what action would be most optimal for you in this situation (in the direction of what you want to achieve), and invest the energy into that action.
It’s good to have a ready list of your “stalled” tasks on hand so that you can react immediately during the next energy surge.
This way, you will begin to take some actions (intermediate steps) towards what you have long postponed, resisted, or lacked energy for (due to the grandeur of your plans), and so on.
Charges of energy constantly pass through you, and you, without realizing it, expend them. You can consciously invest them in specific actions, your intentions, projects, and creations.
Thus, you will nurture the seed that you have been carrying up to a certain point, adding energy and strength to it.
Energy comes for action. When you do not invest it in action, energy becomes blocked, starting to get stuck in the body in search of an outlet. On the external level, this can manifest as restlessness, anxiety, fidgeting, nervousness, agitation, insomnia, and the like.
Therefore, if you don’t have the opportunity to immediately invest energy into a constructive action, use one of the aforementioned methods to release the energy surplus.
See also: Who owns the energy of your desires
Lack of energy in the body. What helps to recharge
When you are upset or feel empty, recall warm moments from your life.
When you evoke such mental images within yourself, a positive wave, a positive charge, rises inside. With practice, you will learn to easily readjust.
In moments of emptiness, watch comedies, engage yourself in things that evoke positive emotions (for example, listening to energetic music, spontaneous dancing, etc.).
Such “external things” charge you well, filling the formed internal vacuum, the emptiness.
Why negativity leads to emptiness
There is an opposite situation – when you recall sad events.
Despite the fact that before this you might have been in a balanced state, because of such memories you suddenly get overwhelmed. You feel an outflow of energy, you literally drain it.
Negative memories, rumination, and worries build up a charge, and at a certain moment it is discharged, and emptiness sets in.
Someone who does not know how to stop and switch themselves can sink very deep, moving from a state of soaring to a state of “face down on the asphalt.”
Thus, chakras are not only the gates through which energy enters. They are the space in which this energy is accumulated, assimilated, and then becomes part of the physical body, memory, and influences your behavior.
Write in the comments what you most often experience: a lack of energy or an excess? In what ways, consciously or not, do you discharge energy, and what helps you replenish your energy?
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