Need to Unwind Anxiety or Pain? Here’s Energy Healing for Your Nervous System

When Your Nervous System Feels Tied Up in Knots—So Is Your Energy Field

A few days ago, I woke up feeling out of sorts for no apparent reason, which is unusual for me. After half an hour of the usual “what’s wrong with me?” thoughts, I remembered my energy body and the tools I use with clients. (Funny how we forget to use what we know for ourselves—when it’s the first thing we’d suggest to someone else.)

I quickly realized that my energy was tied up in knots.

You’re no doubt familiar with the unwind concept—”take time to unwind,” “relax and unwind,” “she is wound so tight.”

You probably know the feeling firsthand. That tightness in your shoulders that showed up sometime around 2020 and never quite left. The low-grade anxiety that’s always there in your gut. The sense that even when you’re not doing anything, you’re still somehow bracing for impact.

Your nervous system is exhausted. But here’s what almost nobody talks about: it’s all held in your energy field. Even physical pain is a tangle of energy that can be released with energy healing.

Because pain doesn’t just live in your physical body. It lives in the luminous egg of light that surrounds you—your aura, your biofield or etheric body—and it doesn’t dissolve on its own just because you finally took an Epsom salt bath, or binge watched Bridgerton for three hours.

Heavy energy accumulates in layers. Old arguments. Unprocessed grief. The ambient dread of alarming headlines. The memory of that thing someone said in 2015 that you still replay at 2am.

It all winds itself into your field like a tangle of old earbuds.

Why Heavy Energy Gets Stuck in Your Energy Field

Here’s where real unwinding comes in.

It’s not about rest in the passive sense (though we need that too). I mean energetic unwinding—deliberately releasing the tangles of stagnant charge that have been sneakily affecting your mood, your clarity, and your ability to feel genuinely alive in your own skin.

Our Celtic ancestors knew that knots and spirals matter here. Energy doesn’t like to move in straight lines. It naturally moves in whorls, vortices, and gyres—the same way water goes down a drain, and the way storms spin. Even the way our DNA coils itself.

Heavy emotions and old memories bind into your energy field as tight tangles that can be released with spiral motion. In many shamanic and energy healing traditions, clockwise is associated with coherence or drawing in energy, and counterclockwise with release or clearing, but it might work just the opposite for you.

The good news: tangles that wound themselves in your energy field can be unwound.

How to Release Energetic Tangles: A Simple Shamanic Practice

One of the simplest techniques I’ve found is what I call the Spiral Release. You can do it sitting outside with your morning tea, lying in the bath, or whenever you feel that dense, heavy quality in your field.

Bring your awareness to the area of your body where you feel pain or heaviness—chest, solar plexus, back of the neck. Imagine you can see the tangle there: dark threads, tight coils, sticky residue from something old and unnamed. Don’t try to identify exactly what it is. (That could take another 45 minutes, minimum. We’re not doing that today.)

Instead, take your finger and turn it in a counterclockwise spiral, visualizing light moving through the congestion—not forcing it, just loosening it the way you’d work out a knot in a necklace chain.

Take three slow breaths as the tangle unwinds. Then pull whatever comes loose upward and out of your energy field to be transformed by sunlight, absorbed into Earth, or handed off to whatever helping spirits you work with.

Then spin your finger clockwise to seal and restore the area. The whole thing takes a few minutes. You can do it in a grocery store parking lot and nobody will know.

On the rare occasion when the counterclockwise spiral doesn’t seem to work, there may be multiple layers of tangled energy. Repeat the process several times, or try spinning the energy in the opposite direction. It’s amazing how fast this process can clear heavy energy or negative emotions.

What Celtic Tradition Knew About Spiraling Energy

Here’s what the ancient Celtic tradition understood about this: the world is always spiraling. Their knotwork art isn’t merely decorative—it’s a visual map of how energy actually moves, how it spins, tangles and untangles, how life braids itself through time.

The Celts built their sacred sites at places where earth energies converged in natural spirals. They knew that human energy fields could be cleansed and renewed by aligning with those larger patterns.

Your energy field is part of that same living system.

The Real Restoration: Tending Your Luminous Field

When you regularly unwind the congested tangles from your energy body, something shifts that no amount of productivity optimization can touch. Colors look a little brighter. Creative ideas surface more easily. You stop feeling braced for impact.

In Irish, céim ar chéim means ‘step by step,’ and it can poetically suggest a gradual return to oneself, as energetic tangles unwind.
So yes, lie in the hammock. Take the mossy path. Let an aimless afternoon restore your nervous system.

But also, tend your energy field. Unwind the tangles. Give the old, stuck energy a way out.

Your luminous self will thank you.

Ready to Learn More About Magical Healing?

Check out my Brigit’s Path energy healing course.

Note: Though everything is made of energy and energy healing can provide amazing relief, it all depends on your openness and deep-seated beliefs. All healing modalities—including diet, prescription drugs, surgery, and herbs—are what Bashar calls “permission slips.” The idea is that they give your subconscious mind something to believe in, creating the conditions for healing to take place.

So don’t discount whatever you genuinely believe will heal you, whether that’s a doctor’s prescription, a shaman’s drumming, or direct energy clearing. Personally, I like to start with the least toxic or invasive options.