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.

👉 Book a session or consultation now

Melissa Chana

I’m a trauma-informed counselor and coach who helps high-achieving individuals heal the deeper roots of anxiety, burnout, and emotional overwhelm. My work focuses on helping clients regulate their nervous system, uncover unconscious beliefs, and create lasting change from the inside out.

Through a blend of trauma-informed counseling techniques and transformational coaching tools, I guide clients toward greater clarity, confidence, and freedom. I do this by addressing the patterns that traditional talk therapy often misses—working at the level of the body, the subconscious, and the belief systems that quietly shape our lives.

If you’ve tried therapy, read the books, and still feel stuck in the same emotional cycles, my approach is designed for you. This is deep work for those who are ready to move forward with clarity, intention, and a new sense of self.

https://www.therapizeyourself.com
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