How to Transmute Energy: A Grounded Guide
How to Transmute Energy: A Grounded Guide
How to Transmute Energy: A Grounded Guide
You know those moments when you feel stuck in something heavy? The tension behind your eyes, the tightness in your chest, the loop of anxious thoughts that won't quit? Sometimes it’s frustration. Sometimes it’s sadness. Sometimes it’s a mix of a hundred unnamed feelings layered on top of each other. Whatever the texture, the weight is real.
That feeling isn’t just in your head. It’s energy. And that energy wants to move.
In my work as a Licensed Professional Counselor and Intuitive Channel, I support women who are learning how to feel again. Really feel. Not just think about their feelings or try to reframe them. But actually be with their internal experience and allow it to shift.
This is the heart of transmutation. It’s not about avoiding emotion. It’s about allowing it to change form.
What Does It Mean to Transmute Energy?
To transmute energy means to take something that feels dense, stuck, painful, or overwhelming and consciously transform it into something new. That could be peace, clarity, empowerment, or simply a deeper sense of presence. It is an alchemical process, not in the magical-thinking sense, but in the deeply embodied sense.
Energy is never lost. It just changes forms. When we suppress our emotional or energetic experience, we don’t erase it. We internalize it. It shows up as fatigue, reactivity, disconnection, and sometimes even physical illness. But when we meet that energy with awareness and honesty, it can shift. It can move. And in that movement, it can free us.
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Why Most of Us Were Never Taught This
For many of us, especially women, emotional energy has been something we were taught to manage, minimize, or explain away. Maybe you were told to be polite instead of honest. You may have learned to overfunction instead of fall apart. Maybe you were praised for being "low maintenance" when what you really needed was to be held.
Transmuting energy is different than venting. It's different than intellectualizing. It requires presence. It asks us to slow down and get curious. And it starts by creating safety within our own body and nervous system.
Step One: Notice Without Judgment
The first step to transmuting energy is to notice what you are feeling without rushing to change it. This sounds simple, but it’s often the hardest part. We are so used to bypassing our emotions that even naming them can feel foreign.
Ask yourself gently, what am I feeling right now? Where do I feel it in my body? What thoughts or images are attached to it?
You don’t have to fix it. You don’t have to figure it all out. Just notice. If it helps, put a hand on your heart or your belly and breathe into the sensation.
Sometimes energy begins to shift simply because it’s finally being acknowledged.
Step Two: Let It Move Through You
Once you’ve made contact with what’s present, the next step is allowing that energy to move. This doesn’t always look dramatic. Sometimes it’s subtle. But the invitation is the same: give your body a way to express what it’s feeling.
This might look like:
Crying without censoring yourself
Shaking your hands or legs to discharge tension
Making sound, even just a sigh or hum
Dancing or stretching
Journaling what you feel in short, uncensored sentences
Movement is medicine. Energy often gets stuck when we’ve been still or shut down for too long. By giving yourself a safe space to move and express, you create space for the heaviness to shift.
Step Three: Ask What This Energy Needs
After some of the intensity has moved, pause and ask your inner world what it needs. Not what you think you should need. Not what others want from you. What does this energy need to be witnessed, released, or re-integrated?
Maybe it needs a boundary. Maybe it needs a nap. Maybe it needs to be expressed creatively through painting, singing, or screaming into a pillow. Maybe it needs to say something out loud that you've been holding inside for far too long.
Asking what the energy needs is an act of self-respect. It teaches your nervous system that your internal experience matters. That you matter.
What Transmutation Is Not
This practice is not about rushing toward positivity. It is not about pretending everything is okay. It is not about controlling your emotions or trying to manifest your way out of pain.
Transmutation is not spiritual bypassing. It is not dissociating from your body and calling it "healing." Real transformation often looks like crying on your kitchen floor. It looks like journaling through a lump in your throat. It looks like sitting still long enough to hear the voice underneath your anger.
We are not trying to feel better by avoiding the truth. We are feeling our way through the truth until it shifts.
Why This Work Is So Powerful in Midlife
Midlife is a threshold. It brings everything up to the surface. The roles you’ve played, the masks you’ve worn, the ways you’ve coped — they all start to feel tight. You start to crave more honesty. More freedom. More connection with yourself.
That craving is an invitation to transmute what no longer fits. To let go of old energy that doesn’t serve you anymore. To stop absorbing what isn’t yours to carry.
This is the work I do every day with women who are waking up to their own power. They aren’t interested in pretending anymore. They want real healing. Real integration. Real relationship with their intuition, their body, and their emotional truth.
Tools That Can Help You Transmute Energy
You don’t have to do this alone. While much of this work is internal, having external support can be deeply regulating. Here are a few tools and practices that can support the process:
Somatic therapy or any modality that helps you reconnect with your body
Breathwork, especially slow, intentional exhaling
Creative expression like painting, dancing, or singing
Guided intuitive journaling or voice memos to yourself
Spending time in nature to ground your energy
Working with a therapist or intuitive guide who can hold space for the messiness and the magic
If you’re curious about what it would look like to work together, you can schedule a free 30 minute discovery call with me.
If You’re Ready for Support
Transmuting energy is not something you master overnight. It is a practice. A relationship. A remembering.
If you’re ready to learn how to do this in a supported way, I’d love to work with you. I offer intuitive therapy sessions for women navigating midlife transitions, emotional overwhelm, and spiritual awakening. My approach blends grounded nervous system work with intuitive insight and emotional depth.
You don’t have to carry this alone. You don’t have to keep pretending you’re fine.
You are allowed to feel what you feel. And you are allowed to turn that feeling into something honest, clear, and life-giving.
If you're curious about what it might feel like to be supported in this work, schedule a free consultation. Let’s talk about what’s stirring, and how we can meet it together.
What you’re carrying doesn’t have to stay stuck. It can change. And so can you.
