Blocked Energy Doesn’t Always Look Spiritual. Sometimes It Looks Like Survival.

When people think of “blocked energy,” they imagine glowing chakras or someone feeling off during meditation. But energy blockages don’t always show up during ritual or breathwork. Most of the time, they show up in everyday survival patterns, often so quietly that we don’t even recognize them.

Blocked energy isn’t always some spiritual awakening process. Sometimes, it looks like your nervous system screaming for a break.

5 Signs Your Energy Is Blocked (That No One Talks About)

1. Excessive Nervous Energy in the Body

You’re always fidgeting, clenching, bracing. Even in stillness, your body can’t fully relax. Yes, it feels like anxiety, but it’s your energy field stuck in a loop, unable to discharge or ground itself. Grounding by putting those bare feet on the earth or taking a candlelit bath can help, but getting to the root of that nervous energy is essential. Bring in some shadow work, journaling, or pull some cards on where it stems from. 

→ Try this to take that edge off: Grounding Mat, Calm AF Bath Shot, or book a Reiki Session to regulate from the root.

2. Stopping Tears Before They Fall

You feel them build, but your body clamps down before they even get a chance to express themselves. Sometimes it happens on autopilot, and you can't understand why you feel like letting the waterworks start, but your body won't allow it. Maybe you learned it’s safer not to cry. Perhaps it’s just become automatic. Either way, it’s blocked energy trying to move. Sound can be a powerful tool to give your body the healing frequency it needs to help emotion move through and out of the body. 

→ Support release with: Heart Chakra Sound Bowl

3. Restlessness or Shutdown (And Nothing In Between)

You swing between doing everything and doing nothing, wired or flatlined. This is the nervous system toggling between sympathetic overdrive and dorsal shutdown. Your energy doesn’t know where to land. Isn't it exhausting? Reset your nervous system with breathwork, like box breathing or breath of fire. 

→ Stabilize your system with: Protect your Peace Sage spray or read more from Dr. Neff here

4. Not Speaking When You Need to

You have something to say—truth, grief, frustration—but your throat tightens and your mind goes blank. The words get swallowed, your jaw clenches, and your energy gets stuck at the gate. Why does it feel unsafe to speak your truth? 

→ Clear the throat with: Blue stones like sodalite or lapis

5. Living in constant Fight, Flight, or Fawn

Always alert, always scanning, always managing others to maintain a semblance of safety. You’re “fine,” but it’s performative. This is survival mode on repeat. This is your Root Chakra screaming that you need more safety, even if you have to be the ONLY adult in the room protecting that little version of yourself. 

→ Anchor back into safety with: Root Chakra Bath Shot

Why This Matters

Blocked energy isn’t always dramatic. It’s subtle, chronic, and cumulative. Over time, it disconnects you from your body, your joy, and your intuition. But once you start noticing it—really noticing—it gets easier to work with. You stop chasing regulation through hustle or control and start creating space for your energy to move again.

Healing doesn’t require perfection. It requires permission.
Permission to slow down. To cry. To speak. To say no. To rest.

Want to Start Clearing Your Energy?

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