Energy Wounds: What are they? How do they happen? How can we treat them?

What Are Energy Wounds? 

An energy wound is any kind of damage to our Human Energy System (HES). We can identify energy wounds by their symptoms. Often conditions caused by energy wounds are dismissed as a passing phase, a temporary emotional state, nothing to worry about.  Here are a few energy wounds that are misunderstood:  A Broken Heart • A Loss of Direction or Purpose • Lethargy • Depression • Anger • Loneliness • Anxiety and Inability to Enjoy Life. 

Energy Wounds are a kind of hurt we just can’t seem to fix. We can’t walk, talk, or think our way to peace. We can’t seem to recover our energy, our joy, nor our sense of purpose. Sure, there are some life experiences that are very hard to shake but energy wounds seem "deeper". With this kind of pain we are hurting, and the hurting won’t stop, in spite or our best efforts to suppress or deny the pain. Wounds to our energy bodies are events we are not taught to identify much less to heal. 

Human beings are multilayered beings. We have an inner and an outer energy identity.  Common terms for parts of that self are chakra, aura, avaduti, meridian, channel, drop, wind, or etheric layer. We can be in excellent condition, or simply worn down by the day to day demands we now face in a very technologically “advanced” society.  Energy wounding can happen either way. 

If people are telling you to “Snap out of it”, or if they ask “Are you still grieving?”, or if they say “You have to get a hold of yourself”, then you are probably suffering from an energy wound. These wounds happen far more often than you might think. Sometimes the wounding is written off as “just a part of life”.  Sometimes the wound is self-inflicted and sometimes we have run into an abuser, an “energy vampire” who does mean to hurt us, and does mean to cause us to “leak” energy. Once we are “punctured” those abusers seems to enjoy “feeding” on our distress. 

Regardless of the cause of the wound, the one thing all energy wounds have in common is that they require energy medicine. Many of us have watched friends try to “Get Over It!” in self destructive ways. Common efforts to self-cure include drinking too much alcohol, smoking too much (anything), and eating too much food. All these efforts are relatively easy to do and for a short while they provide a sense of comfort.  We soon see the comfort is temporary. 

Many people will try to return to a comfortable state by repeating the ”fix”, until the fix becomes the problem. I will expand on this idea by presenting one view of the Human Energy System. (HES). The idea of the energy system isn’t mine, In fact there are many ancient views and many medicines based on each view. I am not a doctor. I am not presenting any information here that is to encourage you to walk out of the care you are receiving now to try Energy Healing. 

What is healed?

The view I use when talking about Energy Healing begins with the idea that we are “Luminous Eggs”. This is a useful analogy because it presents a person as having a “shell”.  I refer to this barrier as the Auric Shell. The contents I refer to as the Aura. These two parts make up my base reference for the Human Energy System.** 

Within the Auric Shell are the Chakras. These “Wheels of Light” affect/represent/are connected to organs in the physical body. These Wheels also affect our emotional, spiritual and mental well being. Throughout the day we are all “bombarded” to a greater or lesser degree depending on the demands of our work by negative energy. Sometimes that energy is simply disruptive to our natural condition. For this reason, all of us are somewhat out of balance at days end. There is nothing wrong with some disarray. 

If we have good physical health, good sleep, good nutrition we most likely are restored to prime function by morning. If we are under stress, in very industrial settings, or are physically run down for what ever reason, we may not wake restored and are more vulnerable not only to colds or flus, but also to energy wounds inflicted during the next 24 hours. I will use the example of a sudden break up to illustrate the ideas of energy 

wounding and repair. 

Let’s say that you think you in a love relationship and that relationship is honest and solid, and that both partners are enjoying a “settled” and happy life. Then, one day, your partner announces that he/she is leaving the relationship…. that they have been seeing someone else, have fallen in love with someone else and they are finished with you. You are invited to please collect your belongings and move out or move on.

This can feel like a punch in the heart, or like a terrible stabbing pain in the back. These words can cause a very deep pain, although no blow is struck. This is an emotional pain of course, but then we begin to question ourselves, the mental pain begins. We try to figure it out, what went wrong? why didn’t I see this coming? We ask ourselves all kinds of questions that only hurt us more deeply as we can’t find the answers.

Most people are very hurt by this kind of loss. Each of us will display the pain differently and cope differently. I want to talk about the things that are the same for all of us in the short term, and the long term.

How could this wound affect me? 

In the short term the words “It’s over, I am leaving” are so sharp that they pierce the Auric Shell and go straight into the Aura, and then straight to the Heart Chakra. First the protective Auric Shell is broken and following that piercing, all manner of other wounds can penetrate and do greater damage to that first wound if it is left untreated. 

Vital life energy we need to function can “leak out” from that piercing. The size of the “blow” will vary from person to person but the principle of leaking will apply to all. When the wound (let’s visualize an arrow) reaches the Heart Chakra, it will throw that wheel out of balance, off its center, and will cause it to wobble (at the least). This one wheel off center will affect all the other chakras to some extent and an imbalance begins. If a person is already a little off balance (as most of us are naturally) the wound may have a greater impact. 

Because all the Chakras are connected by the Avaduti (Central Channel) the disruption in the Heart Chakra can flow up, down or out into the HES. If there is no energy healing offered to the Heart Chakra, then the HES will also go off balance, and who knows what will follow? The Auric Shell might self repair, but the pain in the Aura is still “in” there, and the wounding to the Heart Chakra is also there. The regular, everyday person still has to put their life back together, start over, field all kinds of questions, get up and go to work… with this brutal energy wound…. as well as a broken heart. 

As people “pull themselves together” and “get over it” from an everyday perspective, they are still “leaking”. I have previously published my “blood in the water” theory of the risks of allowing this kind of wound in particular to go untreated.  In fact I posted the “leaking” perspective  back in 2006 to this very blog. Here is the link if you are interested in the full presentation: Shark Attack.

To restate, if you allow an “energy wound” to go untreated, you may very well keep attracting lovers who have this same inability to commit. Or this same style of breaking your heart.  You may find that you are attracting unfaithful lovers…. not because you don’t deserve love, not because you can’t find a good partner, but because you are still leaking the damage from that earlier betrayal into your environment. Those people who “feed” on that relationship style will find you just as the Great White comes to see what is for dinner when there is blood in the water.

What can I do? 

There are other modalities to help get pain “out” of your body.  Some people prefer massage, some prefer acupuncture, and others choose an intensive steam to help release trapped emotion. Which ever method you choose, if you are stuck, please consider trying Usui Reiki. I encourage you to ask your friends who they recommend. As in all healing  practices, not every provider will be the best for you. Please try to choose someone with experience, perhaps a “published” healer. Look for someone who is interested in your well-being.

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*Carlos Castenadas’ works introduced me to the Luminous Egg model. I don’t recall which book, but I hope you read them all!. I still do. 

**Please refer to ‘Hands of Light’ by Barbara Brennan for another, far more in depth look, at how the energy body can be hurt. 

*** The State of Florida imposed legal restrictions on the practice of Usui Reiki in the late 1990s. Many experienced healers quit working “in person” and began to work remotely. 

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