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How to Release Energy from Your Body

by Vickie Gould

To release energy from your body, start by shaking your limbs, exhaling deeply through your mouth, making a sound: a sigh, a hum, a groan, or even a full-on scream if that’s what your body needs. 

Follow by brushing your hands down your body, from head to toe, like you’re sweeping away anything that doesn’t belong. Finish by planting your feet firmly on the floor, imagining the heaviness draining out through your soles and your breath.

Energy releases best when you give it permission to move.

Why This Works

  • Shaking resets your nervous system and helps discharge tension
  • Breath + sound move stuck energy through your throat and chest
  • Body brushing clears your energetic field
  • Grounding helps you release what’s not yours into the Earth

At Life Changing Energy, we teach healers and seekers how to release energy in a way that feels safe, clear, and aligned. Our courses are bite-sized, heart-led, and designed to help you use your gifts without confusion or burnout.

Keep reading to discover real techniques that help you feel lighter, more intuitive, and fully supported on your healing path.

What It Means to “Release Energy” From the Body

Releasing energy from the body goes beyond a simple metaphor. It’s a tangible, physical, emotional, and spiritual process.

When energy becomes “stuck,” it can show up as tension in your body, emotional overwhelm, or even chronic fatigue.

And if you’re highly sensitive or energetically open, it’s easy to carry more than your fair share.

What is Stuck Energy, Really?

Stuck energy is unresolved emotional charge, unprocessed trauma, repetitive thought patterns, or energetic debris you’ve picked up from others.

It lives in your body, nervous system, muscles, and even your posture.

  • Emotional stuckness looks like looping thoughts, resentment, anxiety, or fear you can’t seem to shake.
  • Physical stuckness shows up as chronic tension, shallow breath, digestive issues, or clenching.
  • Spiritual stuckness feels like disconnection from your intuition, feeling “off,” or energetically heavy for no clear reason.

Energy doesn’t disappear, it transforms. If you don’t move it intentionally, it gets stored in your tissues, your organs, and your energy field.

Where Does Energy Get Stored?

Your body is wise, and it has favorite places for holding emotions.

  • Grief: Often stored in the lungs and chest. You may feel pressure or tightness here.
  • Shame or guilt: Commonly held in the solar plexus or lower belly. This can feel like queasiness, knots, or heaviness.
  • Fear: Frequently stored in the hips and pelvis, leading to tightness, pain, or a sense of stuckness.

What Are the Symptoms of Stuck Energy?

You might be dealing with trapped energy if you notice:

  • Sudden waves of anxiety, sadness, or irritation
  • Fatigue that rest doesn’t fix
  • Feeling heavy or emotionally numb
  • Random tears, tremors, or body sensations with no clear trigger
  • Difficulty making decisions or feeling disconnected from your intuition

How Do You Release Trapped Energy From the Body?

Releasing trapped energy is not about force. It’s about awareness and gentle action. Here are the most effective ways:

  • Somatic practices like shaking (TRE), breathwork, and mindful movement
  • Emotional expression like crying, journaling, or yelling into a pillow
  • Energy work like Reiki, sound healing, or crystal cleansing
  • Grounding rituals like walking barefoot or visualizing light moving through your body

What Are Physical Signs Your Body Is Releasing Trauma?

When your body is letting go, you may feel:

  • Tingling, buzzing, warmth
  • Yawning, shaking, sudden sighs
  • A spontaneous need to cry or move
  • A sense of lightness or spaciousness afterward

These are not problems. They are signs your nervous system is finally letting go.

What Causes Energy to Get Stuck in the First Place?

  • Unprocessed emotional experiences
  • Suppressing feelings instead of expressing them
  • Repetitive trauma or long-term stress
  • Absorbing others’ emotions without clearing your own
  • Operating out of alignment with your truth or purpose

And here’s the truth no one tells you: you don’t have to hold onto this forever.

With the right tools and support, your body can release, reset, and remember how to feel whole again.

Genuine Techniques to Move Energy Out of the Body

Energy doesn’t go away because we want it to. It needs to be moved, released, and transformed.

Below are spirit-aligned methods that help release what no longer serves you, without forcing, bypassing, or retraumatizing.

Breath & Voice-Based Tools

Your breath is a direct line to your nervous system, and your voice is its amplifier.

Together, they form a powerful duo for clearing blocked energy.

Breathwork Techniques:

  • Box breathing (inhale-hold-exhale-hold) calms your system and clears mental fog.
  • Alternate nostril breathing balances both brain hemispheres and helps regulate emotions.
  • Deep belly breathing grounds you and creates a physical shift in your energy field.

Vocal Expression:

  • Toning sounds like OM vibrate your energy centers, especially the throat and heart.
  • Sighing, roaring, or yelling into a pillow helps release pent-up tension from the nervous system.
  • Humming or singing can shake loose what words can’t reach.

Wondering how to get rid of energy blockages? Start with your voice. Sound is one of the fastest ways to move energy.

Visualization & Energy Clearing

Your imagination is a sacred tool for healing. Visualization lets your nervous system experience safety, flow, and release.

Microcosmic Orbit Meditation: 

This Taoist practice involves circulating energy up the spine and down the front of the body. It’s incredibly powerful for clearing stuck patterns without physical movement.

Inner Child Dialoguing: 

Gently talking to the parts of yourself that feel scared, angry, or ashamed helps shift emotional energy and rewrite the story stored in your cells.

Chakra Color Releases: 

Visualizing colored light flowing through each energy center helps dislodge blockages gently, especially when combined with breath or affirmations.

Tools of the Trade

Healing doesn’t require fancy tools, but the right ones can deepen your practice and create consistent results.

These tools don’t look pretty. They work.

Crystals:

  • Black tourmaline: Grounds and protects.
  • Selenite: Clears energy fields and environments.
  • Amethyst: Soothes the mind and supports emotional balance.

Tuning Forks:

  • Especially 528 Hz (heart chakra) and 174 Hz (pain release).
  • These vibrational tools help dislodge stuck frequencies in the body and recalibrate your energy.

PEMF Mats:

Journaling Prompts + Forgiveness Letters:

  • Sometimes, energy is trapped in your words left unsaid.
  • Writing a forgiveness letter, even if you never send it, clears emotional residue and rewires your energy.

Looking for how to remove negative energy from your body immediately? Pair crystal sweeping with breath and intention, then ground yourself with movement or nature.

Want even more support? In the next section, we’ll talk about what to do when you’re not sure it’s working, because healing doesn’t always look how we expect.

What If You’re Not Sure It’s Working?

Healing doesn’t always look like bliss.

Sometimes it looks like yawning through breathwork, crying without warning, or shaking on the floor wondering, “Is this normal?”

If you've ever asked yourself…

  • “What if I’m doing it wrong?”
  • “Is it safe to let go this much?”
  • “Why do I shake when I lie down?”

…this is a common experience.

Let’s Normalize the Signs of Release

When your body begins to let go of trapped energy, it doesn’t ask for permission. It acts.

That’s why you might feel:

  • Yawning or sighing during deep breaths
  • Crying out of nowhere, even if you’re not sad
  • Tingling, buzzing, or warmth in your limbs or spine
  • Nausea or sudden fatigue after emotional release
  • Tremors or involuntary movement while lying still

These are not signs of danger. They are signs your nervous system is finally coming back into regulation.

It’s your body doing the work for you.

Trembling in the butterfly position or buzzing through your arms? Those are tangible, physical signs of energy unwinding from your system.

Why Doesn’t It Feel the Same Every Time?

Energy work is not one-size-fits-all. What you release, how you feel it, and how long it takes depend on:

  • Your trauma history: The deeper the pain, the more the body protects.
  • Your current stress level: Overwhelmed nervous systems might release slower.
  • Your sensitivity: Highly sensitive people often feel everything more intensely, and more subtly.

So yes, if you feel tingles while someone else feels nothing, or if you sob while your friend yawns, it’s still working.

It’s working your way.

As a visionary healer and guide, I’ve helped thousands of students through this exact discomfort.

The truth is, healing rarely looks graceful. But it always creates space for something more aligned.

Why DIY Healing Isn’t Always Enough

Yes, you can learn a lot from YouTube. And yes, your intuition matters.

But when it comes to deep energy release, trying to figure it all out on your own can sometimes do more harm than good.

YouTube Can’t Hold Space for You

Watching a video on how to use a tuning fork or move trauma through breath might help you grasp the concepts, but it won’t hold you when things come up.

There’s no one to guide you when your hands start shaking or your voice catches in your throat.

Lasting healing requires safe space, structure, and support.

Without Guidance, You Risk Re-Traumatizing

When you dive into energy healing without heart-led education, you may open energetic doors you’re not prepared to walk through.

This doesn’t slow your progress. It can reignite pain you’ve worked hard to suppress.

That’s why it’s vital to work with practices and teachers who know how to move energy ethically and gently.

Misusing Tools Can Backfire

Tuning forks, crystal bowls, and energy clearing tools are powerful, but only when used correctly.

Striking a fork on the wrong point can stimulate instead of soothe.

Using a frequency that doesn’t match your energy can cause headaches, emotional surges, or disorientation.

Even “simple” tools like crystals can amplify what you’re not ready to feel.

Energy tools are sacred instruments, not toys. Like any instrument, they require training to master.

Spiritual Overwhelm Is a Reality

Energy healing is not always light and love. It’s also shadow, grief, and unraveling.

Too much too soon can dysregulate your nervous system, especially if you’re an empath or trauma survivor.

It’s not about doing everything. It’s about doing the right thing, at the right pace, with the right support.

Why Life Changing Energy Is the Support You’ve Been Craving

If you’ve ever felt like your healing journey is “too much,” “too weird,” or “too overwhelming” to figure out alone, you’re exactly who we’re here for.

Here at Life Changing Energy, we don’t hand you tools.

We teach you how to use them with heart, ethics, and alignment.

Bite-Sized, Accredited Certifications You’ll Actually Finish

Whether you’re diving into sound healing, crystal healing, or energy medicine, our courses are:

  • Accredited, making them ideal for continuing education or building a soul-aligned career
  • Self-paced, because healing doesn’t fit into someone else’s timeline
  • Spirit-led, with functional practices that deliver results

You’ll gain techniques to move stuck energy, not for yourself, but for the people you're called to help.

Genuine Support From Fellow Healers

You are never without support. Our community includes graduates who started out as burned-out empaths, massage therapists, reiki practitioners, and yoga teachers.

They now confidently use their tools to transform others and stay grounded themselves.

Because when your energy is clear, you become a clear channel for healing.

Whether You’re Healing Yourself or Others…

You deserve training that doesn’t feel magical. It is magical, because it’s rooted in both spiritual alignment and practical guidance.

Healing should be ethical, supportive, and intuitive, not something you have to figure out from random internet searches.

If you’re ready to learn how to release energy with integrity, and finally feel safe doing it, this is your next step.

Ready to Clear What’s Holding You Back?

If you’ve ever felt heavy, blocked, or unsure how to protect your energy, know this: the way out is through intuitive, empowered healing.

Whether you’re an empath who absorbs too much, a healer who gives without replenishing, or a seeker beginning to explore your gifts, there’s a path forward.

You need the right tools, the right guidance, and the right support.

Our work at Life Changing Energy helps you reclaim your power with training that’s heart-centered, accredited, and actually doable.

Explore our most transformative offerings:

Each course is bite-sized and accredited, perfect for continuing education or launching your spiritual business. Start learning how to release energy in a way that feels safe, soul-aligned, and effective, so you can finally feel light again.

Your healing ripples out. Let’s make sure it starts with you. 💫

Disclaimer: The practices and information shared in this blog are for educational and entertainment purposes only. They are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease, nor are they a substitute for professional medical advice. Life Changing Energy and its representatives are not licensed medical doctors. Always consult with your healthcare provider before starting any new wellness practice, especially if you are pregnant, have a medical condition, or are currently under medical care.

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