The Energy of Suppression — How Stored Emotions Become Blocked Vibrations
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Generation X, and many older Millennials, grew up in homes where emotions were not safe to express. These feelings didn’t disappear — they simply sank deeper, settling into the body as tension, contraction, and energetic residue.
This part of the series explores what happens when emotions are never processed, how they become energetic blocks, and how healing modalities like Reiki, the Law of Attraction, and conscious emotional awareness begin to release the stored energy we carried since childhood.
This is where deep healing begins.
How Suppressed Emotions Become Stored Energy
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Emotions are energy in motion.
When they are allowed to move, they complete their natural cycle — rising, expressing, settling, and releasing.
But when a child is told:
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“Stop crying.”
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“You’re fine.”
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“Don’t be dramatic.”
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“We don’t talk about that.”
the emotional cycle is interrupted. The body’s natural release mechanism is shut down. The emotion has no place to go — so it stays.
Over time, that stored emotion becomes:
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tension
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muscle holding
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energetic constriction
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emotional numbness
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reactivity
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dissociation
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chronic anxiety
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difficulty connecting
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a feeling of being “unavailable” even to ourselves
This stored energy forms what many spiritual traditions call energetic imprints — unresolved emotional frequencies still active long after the original events.
This is not a flaw.
It is the body doing its best to protect a child who had no safe place to feel.
The Psychological Side: What Suppression Teaches a Child
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Growing up without permission to feel teaches a child:
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“My feelings are wrong.”
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“My needs are inconvenient.”
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“Expressing emotion isn’t safe.”
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“I must handle things alone.”
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“My inner world doesn’t matter.”
As adults, this becomes:
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emotional distance
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difficulty trusting others
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overfunctioning
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self-silencing
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fear of vulnerability
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a deep discomfort with emotional intimacy
When feelings were unsafe in childhood, they remain unsafe in adulthood — until we consciously begin to heal.
This is why emotional healing work feels unfamiliar to so many adults:
No one ever showed us how.
https://wendylynnjohnson.com/blog/emotional-resilience-in-children/
The Energetic Side: How Emotions Become Blocks
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According to energetic principles and Reiki philosophy, every unprocessed emotion settles somewhere in the body’s energetic system.
Common patterns:
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Throat Chakra Block: from not being allowed to speak or express
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Solar Plexus Block: from criticism, shame, perfectionism
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Heart Chakra Block: from emotional disconnection or lack of affection
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Sacral Block: from emotional unpredictability, instability, or fear
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Root Block: from lack of safety or emotional grounding
When energy is blocked, the flow of life force (Ki) is disrupted.
This can manifest as:
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emotional shutdown
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overreaction
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chronic stress
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inability to relax
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feeling “stuck”
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persistent inner heaviness
Reiki helps these blocks soften by increasing flow and creating safety in the emotional body.
Where there is flow, energy can move.
Where there is movement, healing begins.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/inflamed/202007/how-emotions-are-stored-in-the-body
The Law of Attraction Side: Why Suppressed Emotions Repeat as Patterns
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The Law of Attraction reflects our vibration — not our intentions.
When suppressed emotions go unprocessed, they become vibrational signatures that attract experiences matching the unresolved energy.
For example:
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Unprocessed shame may attract relationships where we feel “not enough.”
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Unprocessed anger may attract criticism, conflict, or disrespect.
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Unprocessed fear may attract instability or unpredictability.
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Unprocessed emotional neglect may attract people who are emotionally unavailable.
These are not punishments.
They are invitations to heal what was never allowed to be felt in childhood.
LOA responds to the active vibration, and stored emotions are active until released.
When we begin to process emotions consciously:
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new experiences appear
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healthier relationships emerge
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boundaries become easier
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inner clarity grows
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attraction shifts naturally
Healing your emotional body shifts your vibrational field — and your life begins to reorganize around your new alignment.
How Healing Begins: Allowing Instead of Suppressing
(Inspired by the emotional “allowing” method in Deep Clearing)
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True emotional healing does not come from fixing or replacing emotions.
It comes from:
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allowing
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witnessing
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breathing
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softening
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feeling what was once unfelt
When we stop resisting old emotions, they lose intensity and begin to release from the body.
Healing begins with simple questions:
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“What am I feeling right now?”
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“Where do I feel it in my body?”
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“Can I allow this feeling to exist for just one breath?”
One breath of permission is often more healing than years of suppression.
Reiki supports this process by creating a safe energetic container for emotions to rise gently.
LOA supports this process by shifting your point of attraction as you release old emotional frequencies.
Your body supports this process because it has been waiting your entire life for permission to feel.
Conclusion: Awareness Is the First Layer of Release
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Emotional suppression created the blocks.
Awareness begins the healing.
Allowing creates movement.
Reiki restores flow.
The Law of Attraction reorganizes your life around your new vibration.
When we understand how suppression shaped us, we can finally start to liberate the parts of ourselves that were never allowed to breathe.
This is how we heal generations of emotional silence — gently, consciously, and one layer at a time.