Toxicity in the Body
Hello chronic illness warriors, health-obsessed and everyone else! Today, I am going to address a topic near and dear to my heart: toxic relationships and how they affect the body. Specifically, how does toxic energy enter the body through our interactions with other people and the world? How do we notice it? And how can we banish it?
What is toxic energy? Well, my previous post about energy and illness touches on the idea that energy from past traumas, fears, or other low vibration experiences can sit in the body and manifest as illness. Toxic energy from relationships is an important example of a low vibration energy that sits in the body. There are, of course, many types of energy that can be toxic, but these may differ from person to person, since everyone’s constitution is different. However, toxic relationships can be damaging for everyone.
A toxic relationship may be romantic, it may be a friendship or it may be a relationship with a boss or a colleague. No matter the foundation, a toxic relationship is damaging. Not sure how to figure out if a relationship is toxic? Here’s a personal example to help you start examining your own life: I’ve often had trouble picking out toxic patterns in my relationships, especially in friendships, until they are so obvious that they nearly hit me in the face. For years, I held onto a friendship because we had been friends since high school and it felt like such a waste to let a long standing friendship go. But, two or three times a year this friend would seemingly fall off the face of the earth and disappear from my life–but not from the lives of mutual friends–despite my attempts to reach out. These instances always left me feeling frustrated, taken for granted, and undervalued. Finally, this friend disappeared from my life at one of the darkest moments of depression I had ever experienced. When they finally reappeared, they blamed their disappearance on me, saying I had been too demanding of a friend. Fearing that I had somehow been to blame for my friend’s disappearing act, I spent several weeks reflecting on everything that I could have done to deserve this kind of treatment from a friend. Finally, it dawned on me. I had done nothing to deserve someone walking out on a long-term friendship for several months in such an immature and hurtful way. This was a toxic relationship.
Over the last year, I have let go of several toxic aspects of my life, including other toxic friendships. For this reason, I decided to write about toxic relationships today. Toxic energy makes you feel less than great about yourself. Any person who puts you down, who leaves you hanging, who blames you or who burdens you with their problems but doesn’t bother to listen to anything you have to say is a toxic person. Furthermore, any person who leaves you feeling drained or emotionally unstable, also known as someone who is an energy vampire, is a toxic person who exudes toxic energy.
I’m sure you can think of one person that makes you feel down about yourself. Whatever the person you’re thinking about does, try to think about that action by redefining it as “toxic“. Then, imagine how you would feel if you never had to see that person again. Do you feel relieved or happy? That is a sure sign that you are dealing with toxic energy.
What’s the danger of toxic energy? Why does it matter if someone in your life operates on a low vibration of energy? Unless you are extremely adept at protecting your energy field, another person’s toxic energy will easily seep into you and can take up residence in your body. You might notice this as negative thoughts nagging in your mind, or as a stomach ache right after you’re around a toxic person. The problem with toxic energy is that, long term, it can pile up to create the overload of low vibration energy in the body which can manifest into illness, like I discussed in my previous post. Therefore, for your mental and physical health and safety, protecting yourself from toxic energy is paramount. This doesn’t mean that you must immediately cut out every toxic relationship from your life, although if you have the ability to do so, I would recommend trying to. This does mean that your first step must be to protect yourself.
How do you protect yourself? I would recommend sitting in meditation with this thought to see what comes up specifically for you, but I also have a few tips:
First off, I like to use protection crystals. Ruby, iron pyrite, and rose quartz are crystals I have recently started to carry with me at all times. Ruby and iron pyrite help to protect against psychic attacks and therefore protect your energy field. Rose quartz helps to promote feelings of love, so I keep it around to keep situations as positive and loving as possible.
Next, I envision energy leaving my body several times a day. I do this by entering a meditative state and feeling into every part of my body. Anywhere that I feel heavy energy, I imagine releasing it down into the earth through a grounding cord.
I like to imagine that as I am showering, I am washing off all energy that I picked up during the day that is not mine. I do this too while dry brushing my skin. You could also imagine a shower washing any energy that doesn’t belong to you off every time you walk through a doorway.
As a boundary, envisioning an impenetrable sphere of light, your aura, surrounding you and protecting you is a great way to stay protected.
At night, I diffuse essentials oils to clear my space and aura. I love peppermint, orange and lavender.
Finally, I like to use a pendulum, held above my head and allowed to circle for as long as it needs, to reset my body and to release any and all energy that is not serving me.
There are many ways to protect your energy and to release toxic energy if you’ve picked it up. What’s most important is to recognize toxic energy when it’s present, recognize the people who bring toxic energy into your life, and work to minimize your contact with those people and their energy.
It’s important to remember not to send back toxic energy towards anyone from whom you’ve received it. Sending back hateful energy to someone, no matter how much they may have hurt you, does nothing to heal the toxicity in your body. All this does is add to the toxicity of someone else’s vessel. So, once you’ve figured out what toxic relationships you may have in your life, and once you’ve worked on releasing the toxicity from those relationships, or releasing those relationships, send love and light back to that person or those people. Send healing and hope that anyone who has hurt you can heal themselves. And then fortify your energetic boundaries so you can hopefully avoid being influenced by toxic relationships in the future.
Releasing toxic energy in the body is so important in releasing the manifestation of illness. Try some of these protection ideas against toxic energy and let me know how it goes for you! Happy releasing and happy healing!