I have been thinking about old energy lately, especially because I just finished a new Reiki session around clearing it, and I realized I have a funny habit. I can finally decide I am finished with something, feel really good about that decision, clear it out, move forward, and then the minute it wanders back into my life I start reconsidering the whole thing.
Apparently some things get unlimited free trials.
And I don’t only mean people or old relationships. We can do this with worries, habits, expectations, guilt, old jobs, arguments we’ve already had, decisions we’ve already made, and even old versions of ourselves. Something reminds us of it and suddenly we’re mentally right back there giving it our time and attention again.
I have caught myself doing this plenty of times. I can replay a conversation long after there is anything useful left to get from it. I can wonder what somebody thinks about something I did when, really, I have no control over what they think anyway. I can even compare myself to an older version of me and forget that I don’t live there anymore.
That is what I have been thinking about when I talk about clearing old energy. It sounds very spiritual, but a lot of it is actually pretty ordinary. Sometimes old energy is simply something that is over and is still taking up way too much room in my head.
I think that is why calling our energy back has always made so much sense to me. I am not imagining little pieces of myself scattered all over the universe that I have to collect. I am looking at where my attention has been going and whether I still want to keep sending it there.
There is only so much of me to go around.
I would rather have more of that energy available for what I am doing now, the people I love now, the work I am creating now, and whatever I want to build next.
I also don’t think we have to become angry with something before we’re allowed to release it. There are people I can care about and still know the relationship doesn’t belong in my life the way it once did. I can appreciate something I learned from an experience and still be very happy that the experience is over. I can look back at an old version of myself with a lot of love and gratitude without handing her the keys to my current life.
That is really how I think about cord clearing too.
For me, it isn’t some dramatic spiritual battle where I am hacking cords away from myself and banishing everybody involved. That sounds exhausting. I would need a snack and a nap afterward.
I would much rather acknowledge that there was a connection, take whatever wisdom belongs to me from the experience, release what I don’t need anymore, and come back to myself.
When I do Reiki around this, Archangel Michael is always someone I want with me because I love that grounded strength around releasing and clearing. Archangel Raphael brings in the healing piece because sometimes there is still something tender underneath what we’re trying to let go of. We can be completely ready to move forward and still have feelings about what happened.
I think we sometimes forget that.
Being ready to move on doesn’t mean the experience suddenly becomes meaningless. Something can have mattered tremendously and still be complete. We can miss someone and still know we don’t want the relationship back. We can wish something had turned out differently and still decide we’re finished waiting for it to change.
I also invited Archangel Zadkiel and Archangel Sandalphon into this Reiki because I wanted the session to have some movement to it. Zadkiel’s energy works beautifully with transformation and release, and Sandalphon brings everything back down into our actual lives.
Because eventually that is where the change has to happen.
I can clear my energy, meditate, journal, ask Spirit for guidance and have a wonderful realization about something, but eventually Tuesday morning comes around and I have to decide what I am going to do differently.
Maybe I stop checking on something that I already know is over. Maybe I finally get rid of the thing I’ve been keeping for no real reason. Maybe I notice myself starting the same old mental conversation and decide I don’t feel like having it again. Maybe I take that energy and put it into something I actually want to grow.
I think that is where this has become much more interesting to me.
We spend so much time talking about releasing old energy, but what are we making room for?
That is the whole point.
I don’t want to clear things just so I can have a beautifully cleared empty space. I want that space because I have a life I want to fill it with. I have work I want to create, people I want to spend time with, things I want to learn, places I want to go, and ideas I haven’t even had yet.
And sometimes old things do come back around after we think we’re finished with them. Someone reaches out. A memory pops up. Something happens that reminds us of an old situation. I don’t automatically assume that means Spirit is telling me to reopen the door.
Sometimes I think life gives us another look at something so we can notice how differently we see it now.
Something that once would have pulled us right back in doesn’t have the same hold. We can look at it from where we are now and realize we genuinely don’t want to go backward.
I actually love those moments.
They remind me that growth isn’t always something we have to keep searching for. Sometimes we get to see the evidence of it.
That is really the heart of my new Reiki to Clear Old Energy session. We work through the chakras, clear some of that stagnant energy, call our energy and attention back to ourselves, and work with releasing cords and connections that don’t need so much space anymore. Then we start turning our attention toward what we actually want to do with all that energy we’ve reclaimed.
Because I think that is the more interesting question.
What do I want to give my energy to now?
That could be a new project, a relationship, your health, something creative, a goal you’ve been putting off, or simply having more energy available to enjoy your own life.
We don’t have to keep picking something back up just because it happens to wander past us again.
Sometimes we can smile, remember what it taught us, and keep walking.
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Reiki to Clear Old Energy 💜 Release Blocks, Cut Cords & Move Forward
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Much love,
Lisa 💜