How Energy Gets Stored in the Body

Understanding Thoughts, Emotions & Energy

How you think and feel creates your overall state of being. Thoughts trigger emotions, and emotions reinforce thoughts. It's a thoughts and feelings cycle.

This cycle when repeated often enough, doesn’t just stay in your mind—it gets anchored in your body. And most often, it’s the first three energy centres—the ones connected to survival—that carry the weight.

Each of these centres, nerves plexuses or chakras holds specific emotional patterns and, when imbalanced, stores energy in a way that can affect your physical, mental, and spiritual wellbeing.

Third Energy Centre: The Power Centre (Solar Plexus)

Let’s say you’re stuck in thoughts like “my colleagues overlook me" or “I’m overworked in this role and no-one respects me.”

These thoughts trigger feelings of anger, frustration, or a need to control. Over time, that energy builds and stores in your solar plexus—the third energy centre.

This centre governs your personal power and will, but when overloaded with reactive emotions, it becomes stuck in a cycle:

Thought ➝ Emotion ➝ Hormonal response ➝ More thoughts ➝ More emotion...

Before long, the body becomes the mind of anger. It operates on autopilot. You’re not choosing to feel that way anymore—it’s happening without you realising.

Physically, this can show up as:

• Digestive issues

• Adrenal fatigue

• Immune dysfunction

• A quick temper or chronic impatience

Energetically, your power becomes blocked, limiting your ability to create, lead, or feel centred in yourself.

Second Energy Centre: The Emotional Centre (Sacral)

Now let's focus on emotions like guilt, shame, sadness, or unworthiness. Thoughts like, “I shouldn’t have said that”, “I’m not good enough”, and “why does this keep happening to me”? 

This kind of self-talk triggers emotions that store in your second centre, the sacral chakra. This centre is deeply tied to your emotions, relationships, and creativity.

Staying in this emotional cycle can lead to:

• Feelings of deep emotional heaviness

• Chronic guilt or shame

• Nausea or gut discomfort

• Depression or low self-worth

When energy stagnates here, it’s hard to connect to yourself or others authentically. Your happiness, sensitivity, and ability to flow with life get compromised.

First Energy Centre: The Survival Centre (Root)

Let’s say your thoughts are more instinctual, e.g. “I need to be seen and feel wanted” or “I need something or someone to feel complete”.

This kind of pattern activates the first energy centre—your root. This is where energy gets trapped when we’re operating from lust, survival, fear, or over-identification with physicality.

Here, stored energy can manifest as:

• Hypersexuality or numbing out

• Anxiety, insecurity, or fear of lack

• Chronic stress or disconnection from purpose

And when energy gets stuck in this centre, it’s hard to rise into growth, connection, or higher consciousness.

The Impact of Stuck Energy

When we get stuck in these lower energy cycles, we start to live in the past and carry physiological weight. We react to today based on yesterday’s emotions. This drains our energy and limits our potential.

Your body, in a sense, becomes less energy and more matter—dense, reactive, and tired. And when all three centres are overstimulated—you’re angry, ashamed, and anxious all at once—your body has no choice but to go into protection mode. It can’t focus on healing, growth, or creation.

The Liberation: Breath, Awareness, and Choice

But here's the good news: Energy can be liberated.

At AWOKE Life, we teach techniques—like breathwork and awareness practices—that allow you to release stored emotions from these lower centres and reclaim that energy.

When you breathe consciously, when you bring awareness to what you’re feeling—without judgment—you begin to:

• Break from the cycle

• Reclaim your energy

• Rewire the patterns

• Rise into higher frequencies 

It’s not about avoiding emotions. It’s about feeling them fully, learning from them, and freeing them.

Moving from Survival to Creation

As you clear those centres, the energy that was trapped in survival becomes available for creation, connection, intuition and happiness.

• Your root becomes a grounded foundation.

• Your sacral becomes a flowing creative wellspring.

• Your solar plexus becomes a place of authentic power.

This is what empowerment truly means: not bypassing the pain, but alchemizing it into purpose.

Remember, you are not your past. You are not your patterns. You are energy, consciousness, and infinite creative potential.