Years ago I wondered what bio energy was. It was mysterious. Hard to find information about. Too much of what I read was “woo” and not grounded in science or physics or anything that my logical brain could grasp on to. And yet, I knew that the issues I was experiencing in life were somehow related to whatever this bio energy was. As you sit there reading this…you might be wondering the same thing. Why else would you be here.
You want to know why energy is often so “woo” or hard to explain? Here’s the thing…energy is everything…it always was, always will be…it cannot be created nor destroyed. (First Law of Thermodynamics.) This is very similar to – I’m not saying replaces or is the same, but its very similar to – God. God always was, always will be…cannot be created nor destroyed. I’m not here to change your beliefs, your religion, or anything like that. I’m just pointing out the similarities. This is why there is so much mysticism around energy. Bio energy is invisible, we cannot measure it, so it takes a level of “faith” to start to experience it. So if you’re still here reading this, thank you, and welcome. Now let’s get into the fun stuff.
Defining Bio Energy
“Bio” meaning biology, meaning plants and animals, meaning all living things.
“Energy” meaning the stuff stuff that holds atoms together, the life force within you and the universe. Defining this is what we’re going to be exploring in this article. Energy is the type of thing that, for someone new, is easier to describe with examples. Unless of course, you choose to go find a way to experience it.
So putting these two together…
“Bio energy” essentially means the energy that powers all living things. its our “life force”. Its what beats your heart, and makes you breathe as you sleep…its what makes our cells work and multiply. Its what organizes everything in our bodies and in the universe…its what babies are FULL of (I’ve felt it) and what the elderly start to lose. In fact…you’re technically dead when the energy from your body is gone…not when your heart stops (we can start them again), not when you stop breathing (we can breathe for you), but its when there is no more of this energy flowing in your body. This energy exists within the body, and also radiates out the body (in a way we’ll discuss in just a moment).
Three types of Bio Energy
In my experience, there are three “types” of bio energy, and they can be thought of as similar to the three states of matter.
- solid
- liquid
- gas
- (plasma is technically a fourth state of matter…but we’ll save that for another article 😉
So you might be thinking what the heck do I mean by “solid liquid or gas” energy? Well, I’m glad you asked…
‘Gas’ Energy
If you’ve read anything on human energy, you’ve probably heard of the “energy field” that we radiate. Or our chakras and how they exist not just within our body but also outside of our body. This “off the body” energy is more accurately called “subtle energy”. This is a key word here and important to understand…it is subtle. Its pre-electric. We can’t measure it with electronics. This is why it falls under being “woo” and mysterious…its there, its just so subtle that most people aren’t readily able to sense it.
So the subtle energy around and in the body is the “gas” form. Now lets talk about the “liquid” form.
‘Liquid’ Energy
By “liquid” energy, what this really means is the energy flowing through your body. It runs in your nervous system, in your brain, and in every cell of. your body. It also flows through your fascia, the “liquid crystalline matrix” that holds all your muscles and soft tissue together. When you have a cut or a wound, energy flows to help heal that wound. When you exercise or move, energy is flowing and firing in your body to do so. This energy is beating your heart for you, breathing for you, and doing so many things for you. Imagine if you had to consciously beat your heart…you wouldn’t be able to concentrate on anything else!
Just a quick note here on liquid energy…notice that this is what powers ALL living things. We humans have thinking brains, and so we are “intelligent” and “smart” because we “think”. According to us…other living things aren’t as intelligent…but they all have this living flowing energy within them too. And it beats their hearts, and powers their breathings, and so much more.
One of the causes of pain and suffering in humans and other living things, is the “solid” energy that’s bound up in our bodies.
‘Solid’ Energy
What I mean by “solid” energy is bio energy that is bound and wound up in the body. It can be in the soft tissues, the nervous system itself, and even in the bones and fascia. Have you ever had a muscle knot? Or an adhesion? Or a chronic pain somewhere that wouldn’t go away now matter what else you tried? This is bound energy. Sometimes there can be a limitation like motion restriction. Rigidity in the tissues etc. We’re going to talk more about this in just a moment.
Why should I care about energy?
The short answer here is if you want to master your life, be the best you can be, then you want to master your energy. Why? Because as amazing as energy is…it can mess us up to. To explain this, we look to the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
The second law of thermodynamics states that the total entropy (disorder) of an isolated system always increases over time, or remains constant in ideal, reversible processes. It fundamentally means energy tends to disperse, heat flows spontaneously from hot to cold, and processes are irreversible.
Humans are amazing, yes (its in our name!), AND, we’re not perfect. There is no perfect system. Waste happens. And since our body is full of energetic processes happening all the time even without us knowing, there is energetic waste. And as “energetic waste” happens in the body, it gets bound up and stored, and this can restrict us in many many ways.
In addition to this “energetic waste”, we also get in our own way as humans because we think. We are such strong thinkers that we can actually stop our own energy from flowing in ways that it “should”. And usually when we do this, we’re actually storing it somewhere else (because remember it can’t be destroyed, so it has to transmute and go somewhere else). Think about this…have you ever felt such a strong emotion such as an immediate desire to cry or scream….but you held it in…for whatever reason at the time. This “holding it in” was you unknowingly saving that energy for later…binding it up inside. It turned “solid”. And solid energy creates restriction and resistance.
Holding it in can happen because of so many reasons…which we can get into in another article. But for now, just know that everyone has some form and amount of bound up energy stored in their human system. So lets start to look at where its stored, and what we can do to release it.
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Bound energy in the somatic body
“Somatic” basically just means “of the body”. In the world of energy work, people say things like “the energy body” or “the etheric body” or “the subtle body”…so I’m mentioning “the somatic body” so you know I mean the actual physical body that you’re grounded in right now.
You probably remember some of the examples I gave earlier of trapped energy in the body…muscle knots, adhesions, pain, etc. These are just a few of the most common symptoms someone may experience, but the reality is that there are so many more subtle symptoms that most people are not even aware of. I can’t tell you the number of times when I started working with a client and they said “oh wow, I didn’t know xyz was still affecting me”. This is one way that bound energy affects us…it affects and limits our perception.
When there is energy bound up in the somatic body, it limits the full and uninhibited flow of energy throughout our entire body. But think of your favorite robot character or something like Iron Man, or your car….imagine if all the internal components and wires were all rusty. It wouldn’t operate very well would it? It would be confused and the buttons and controls wouldn’t work correctly. Any sensors it has would fail to function as expected. This is what life is like when we have energy bound up physically. (And again…we all do).
The bound energy prevents us from experiencing life fully, from seeing situations clearly, from living all out as the best versions of ourselves. And once our mind gets involved (which it always is), we can continue to self sabotage ourselves and our progress.
Bound energy in the unconscious mind
Ok, so far so good…but how the heck does energy get stored in the mind?
I’m glad you asked!
The “mind” is a tricky thing to describe. It doesn’t really have a home…you wont see it if you cut your brain open and look for it. Many people have noisy minds…which means they can’t control them…which means they are not their mind.
So the mind is this nebulous thing kind of like space. Its expansive and “just is”.
And just like some areas of space are denser than other parts of space…the same can happen in the mind. We tend to store things in the mind’s “field” in different places…depending on our relationship with whatever it is. There have been various studies and books on similar ideas, such as the “eye movement” theories of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), and even in books mentioning the quantum field like The Seeker’s Code by Donny Epstein.
Why energy is the root
What these all share is that there is going to be some place in your mind’s “space” that has a density of information about a certain topic, idea, belief, etc. These densities can be helpful, like a really strong belief that you can do anything you set your mind to. Or they can be unhelpful, like a limiting belief of “I’m not enough”. But you’ve never had those kinds of thoughts, right? Let’s talk about someone you may know…
Let’s say someone you know has a repetitive thought pattern, or a limiting belief that they might not be fully aware of and its ruling (ruining?) their life…this is a “bound energy” in the unconscious mind. “Unconscious” because they’re not aware of it, and its “energy” because its stored in this invisible, subtle field that their mind accesses. And its bound up because its a common pattern in their life and they keep accessing it…so it must always continue to be there and in the same place and they know it very well. If someone like this believes “I’m not enough”…how many times throughout the day do you think they’re going to unconsciously access that data and information…probably several. It could very well be behind every thought they have and action they take.
This is why energy work is so important. Not just for surviving…but for thriving.
Releasing the bound energy
Its easy to see how key this stuff is for thriving in today’s world. Ever changing, ever challenging. We must become the best versions of ourselves. And counter to popular belief, the best way to become the best version of yourself is to remove the things that are in the way of you naturally becoming that person. (Rather than trying to layer on more and more and more things like habits, coaches, businesses, etc).
So, to wrap this all up, as you learn to work with and release this trapped, wound up, bound energy (contact me to start learning!) in the magnificent human system that you are, your life changes. It can change in unexplainable ways. And it can change in ways you might not even be aware of. And it can change quickly. As a software developer, I liked to solve problems at the most root level I could, rather than just slap a band-aid solution on something. Working with your energy is the same way. You’re working at the root level. The programming of the super quantum computer that you are.
And as you release the bound energy, things start to clear. The brain fog. The weight on the shoulders. The judgement and biases. I can say all of this from first hand personal experience, and from what I’ve seen in my coaching clients. Its a much better, and lighter, life.
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