Your Body Is Electrical: How Trauma and Beliefs Get Stored as Energy
By Melissa Chana, MA, LPCC | Founder of Therapize Yourself™
Have you ever felt a sudden wave of anxiety, sadness, or panic — but had no idea why?
Maybe your chest tightens, your breath shortens, or your stomach churns... even though nothing “bad” is happening.
That’s not just emotion.
That’s electricity.
And your body is holding onto it like a battery that never got to discharge.
Let’s break it down.
The Human Body: More Energy Than Matter
Your body isn’t just tissue and organs — it’s an electric circuit.
Every time you have a thought, move a muscle, feel an emotion, or take a breath, electrical signals are firing across your nervous system.
In fact:
Your brain runs on electrical currents.
Your heart generates a powerful electromagnetic field.
Your cells communicate using voltage changes across their membranes.
Even your gut and immune system are influenced by bioelectric signals.
Yes — even your cells have voltage across their membranes.
Your health depends on this cellular electrical balance.
You are not just a “thinking” being.
You are a charged being.
What Happens During Trauma?
When something overwhelming happens (even if it’s subtle or repeated over time), your body launches into a survival response:
Muscles tighten
Breath shortens or stops
Adrenaline and cortisol flood the system
The nervous system prepares to run, fight, freeze, or collapse
But if you can’t complete that response — if you had to hold it in, stay still, be quiet, or just survive — the electrical charge of that experience stays stuck in your body.
It doesn’t disappear.
It gets stored.
Where Does It Get Stored?
The nervous system holds the pattern.
The muscles hold the tension.
The breath holds the freeze.
The cells hold the chemical memory.
So even years later, your body may still react as if the threat is happening — because the charge never got discharged.
This is what somatic trauma work, EMDR, and nervous system coaching are designed to heal.
And What About Beliefs?
This is where it gets deeper.
Beliefs like:
“I’m not safe”
“No one really sees me”
“I’m too much”
“People will leave me”
“I don’t matter”
…aren’t just thoughts.
They are emotional memories + energetic imprints stored in your body.
They were installed during moments of fear, shame, or pain — often early in life.
And the electrical pattern of those experiences still lives in your nervous system.
So when something resembles the original wound — a tone of voice, a dynamic, a silence — the belief activates again, along with the full-body charge.
How to Start Releasing It
You don’t need to talk about every trauma to heal it.
You don’t need to re-live your past.
You need to:
Discharge the charge
Regulate your system
Interrupt the old electrical loops
Rewire the belief through the body
That’s why modalities like EMDR, brainspotting, and somatic coaching work so deeply.
They help the body finally complete the trauma loop and free up the stored energy.
❤️ Final Words
You are not broken.
Your system is just carrying unresolved charge, energy that your body had no safe place to release.
But you can heal.
You can rewire your beliefs.
You can come home to yourself. Regulated, reconnected, and rooted.
Ready to release the stuck charge and rewire the root of your beliefs?
I specialize in EMDR-informed trauma work, somatic coaching, and belief reprogramming.
Whether you’re healing from anxiety, emotional shutdown, childhood wounds, or relationship trauma, this work helps you clear the electrical patterns that have kept you stuck.
Let’s reconnect you to your real signal.
