Feel Overwhelmed, Burned Out, Scattered and Out of Rhythm...

How to Reset and Return Home to Your Energy

Have you ever had those moments where you were hoping for a little quiet - a chance to settle, ground, and just catch your breath - only for life to turn the volume right back up?

When things get intense, like that, we don't just feel it in our minds or our schedules.

We feel it directly in our personal space and our body's energy.

It's usually in those exact moments that we are reminded just how much our subtle energy system is carrying. And if you don't know what our subtle energy system is .... don't worry, I will explain soon.

We all have those daily routines that usually shake off the day ----- perhaps a favorite drink while sitting in your favorite spot, a long shower, or just a few deep breaths to align your center. Most of the time, these routines make a difference. But there can be days when life hits in a way that goes much deeper than these moments can reach. It can be an accumulation of energy that builds up until your usual way of decompressing isn't enough to clear the weight. I know that when I hit that wall, I can feel energetically depleted and in need of a spiritual reset.

Every person carries a unique vibration, and we all have the potential to manage and clear our energy bodies so that our true, authentic selves can shine through. When our vibrations feel low, there are many ways we can lift them back up.

When our energy fields get clouded with these lower vibrations, it honestly starts to ripple into every corner of our lives. We might notice our physical health dipping, or feel like our energy centers (our chakras) become more susceptible to stress, anxiety, and those heavy emotional triggers are hard to shake.

How Our Energy Moves Through Us

So, what are we working with here?

At it's simplest, your energy field --- your aura --- is just the atmosphere you carry around you. You already know what this feels like. It's walking into a room and instantly sensing when it feels heavy, or sitting next to someone with a calm presence that makes your shoulders ease up before you even realize it.

We are all swimming in this subtle energy --- all day long. It moves through what we feel physically, what we carry emotionally, and what is spinning in our minds, with our chakras acting as the anchors where all those feelings land in the body. It all works together, woven seamlessly into your everyday life.

All these layers working together make up our subtle bodies. They carry our physical energy, our feelings, our thoughts, and our deeper spiritual connection. None of them operate alone --- they're continuously sending information to each other, shaping how we show up and experience our day-to-day lives.

When life begins to feel overwhelming or out of sync, it's usually because one or more of these layers has picked up static or debris that has accumulated, or when one of our chakras is out of balance.

If you're curious about how our energy system works behind the scenes... from our aura to our chakras... I put together a simple introduction here.

The Shift That Happens When We Clean Our Energy

Cleaning your energy creates an immediate shift from heavy stress to inner lightness.

It can help your body relax, your mind grow quieter, and calm your emotions. You may not always find immediate relief. There are many ways you can cleanse and reset your energy; it may take time to find what aligns with you.

Recognizing When Our Energy Needs Resetting

It can be hard sometimes to recognize that our usual self-care practices may not be enough; sometimes we are distracted by the busy pace of life and lose track of what grounds us.

I am sharing below some of the signs I have noticed over the years when I require an energy cleansing.

• Persistent fatigue even when you're getting enough sleep.

• Feeling emotionally reactive to situations that don't typically bother you.

• Experiencing negative thoughts, irritability, unusual anxiety, or mood swings more frequently

• Difficulty focusing, mental fog, or stuck in a mental loop

• A feeling of heaviness or thinner energetic boundaries when you're around others.

• Feeling out of alignment and disconnected from your purpose or inner self

  
  

When you experience any of those, your energy may be clouded by outer influences or internal blockages. A spiritual cleanse can help you regain clarity and emotional balance.

How I Bring Myself Back Into Balance

There are so many different ways to cleanse and balance our energy. I personally work a lot with the chakras and energy. I want to keep things simple for today's post. Below, I am sharing with you some of my favorite daily practices that help me to stay grounded. If you do them consistently, they will not only clear your energy but will also help to prevent stagnant energy from building up.

When life becomes fast-paced with all its challenging twists and turns, sometimes we take shortcuts or have to let something go off our lists. For me, if I stop doing one or more of these little routines, I will quickly find myself getting caught up in outer energies that threaten to throw me off balance.

I do plan to elaborate more on the chakras in the future, as well as more posts on the subject of subtle spiritual energies.

The first intentional energy healing I began routinely using over 35 years ago is something we all do, but when we do it with awareness, it can be powerful.

• Showering: Even before I began consciously to walk on my journey toward wholeness (around the age of 21), I recognized from my preteens the rewards of showering daily... one of the first things I learned around age 21 was to intentionally imagine and feel the debris of the day washing off of me and circling down the drain, going back to the earth.

• Bathing: Who doesn't love a hot, cozy bath? There are so many ways that a bath can nourish (think essential oils, soft music, candlelight) and re-center us.

• Handwashing: I never thought of this as a rebalancing practice until much later, but it does help us come back to ourselves, especially if we begin to feel overwhelmed by the energies of others or even our own anxieties.

• Connecting to the Outdoors: Every morning except in the middle of a snowstorm, I sit outside on my front porch and connect to the world around me. Each season is different, of course, but just being outside for a few moments while drinking a cup of coffee or doing a meditation not only centers me, it also brings me back to myself when I feel ungrounded.

• Touching the Earth: Working in my garden without gloves, walking barefoot at a wooded park these are very nourishing. I also have plants in my home, which helps during those colder months.

• Listening to Windchimes: windchimes, the wind, music ... all of these help to nurture and bring me back to myself so I can be aware of what no longer aligns with me and release it back to the air.

• Breathwork: especially when added with visualization

• Burning: burning scented candles, burning incense (which itself is air), burning away the stagnant energies, any energy really that is not welcome, not ours, or no longer aligns.

There are way too many to place here... even as I wrote above, I thought of many different ones that I engage in. I hope by sharing a few of my favorites, it will inspire you to dive deeper and discover your own.

Coming Back to Center

The truth is, even when we are on top of taking care of ourselves, life often has a way of becoming unpredictable and overwhelming, and this is when clearing our energy can help us reset.

But sometimes, a cleanse can bring up emotions or memories that need attention. This is a natural part of releasing old energy. This is where grounding our energy can provide that anchor. I may in the future write more on the subject of grounding.

I plan to write more posts on subtle energies and how to work with them, so if you have any ideas of what you would like to learn more about, please feel free to let me know in the comments below.

Thank you for reading,

Angela