Cleaning Your Fish Tank: 4 Practical Ways Energy Healing Enhances Leadership

If you don’t regularly clean a fish tank, it can get pretty dirty with murky water and bits of overgrown algae. Now, imagine if you were the fish inside that tank. You might’ve been the strongest, fastest fish at the pet store, but there’s simply no way you’re going to thrive in such an environment. You can’t swim freely. You can’t find your food. If it’s bad enough, you can’t even see what’s in front of you.

A leader’s emotional energy is a lot like a fish tank. Too much subconscious baggage can create a terrible environment from which to lead. Repressed emotions such as fear, resentment, and self-doubt can “muddy the waters” and make it difficult to make thoughtful decisions and build meaningful workplace relationships. Consequently, these leaders never achieve their full potential.

What’s worse, they can even negatively affect their teams at large. In fact, studies have shown that managers impact their employees’ mental health just as much as a spouse — and even more than a doctor or therapist.

Fortunately, there are multiple mental and physical therapies that offer the energy healing necessary to move beyond these obstacles — to clean your fish tank. The mind-body connection is incredibly powerful, and practices like meditation, muscle testing, and guided forgiveness can improve your well-being in a way that comprehensively affects your leadership for the better.

But how? What exactly does releasing these repressed emotions do for your leadership? As one of the  foremost experts on achieving wellness through the mind-body connection, I’ve outlined four distinct benefits for those leaders who take the time to clean their fish tanks. Let’s discuss them individually, then talk about a real-world example of how those issues might manifest themselves in the workplace.

1. It expunges emotional baggage from your decision making.  

Leadership never happens in a vacuum. Every leader has past experiences that shape their management styles and general personality. However, when emotions like fear, doubt, and unprocessed frustration start to outweigh what’s positive and uplifting, leaders can become trapped in an irrational cycle of highly emotional decision making. As a result, all their decisions are rooted in fear and not aligned with their highest potential.

Energy healing practices help identify and release trapped emotions. This empowers you to make decisions from a place of clarity, as opposed to a place knowingly or unknowingly influenced by subconscious emotional weight. Mental health has a direct impact on our abilities to make decisions, and its impacts are even grander when those decisions come from the C-suite.

A real-world example:

• A leader who experienced betrayal in a past partnership may unknowingly project distrust onto new opportunities. Releasing those emotions allows the individual to assess situations based on present reality, not past wounds.

2. It removes subconscious roadblocks preventing you from progress.  

Leadership is a journey — one that is constantly evolving and changing with every phase of progress. When leaders are resistant to progress, or even outright hostile to change, such roadblocks are often a symptom of a deeper emotional problem, such as imposter syndrome, self-sabotage, or subconscious prejudice. All of these are the result of imbalances in the subconscious mind, as well as very real physical symptoms courtesy of the mind-body connection. Not surprisingly, recent research continues to show that the unconscious can have a very real influence on executive control.

Energy healing can help you uncover and clear away these subconscious blocks, whether they are the product of inherited emotions, previous trauma, or some other repressed experience. You can’t get around some of these obstacles alone, and there are many paths to take in the world of energy healing, each with varying degrees of focus on both the mind and the body. However, all of them will take leaders one step closer to cleaning their fish tank and freely moving forward in both their personal and professional life.

A real-world example:

• A leader who subconsciously associates success with loneliness may hesitate to fully seize their own potential. Addressing this imbalance allows them to lead with confidence.

3. It encourages employee engagement through heart-centered leadership. 

What’s that essential and intangible thing about leaders that inspires others to follow? Well, it has many names, but it mostly amounts to their energy. Positive, uplifting, and heart-centered leaders tend to perpetuate happiness and inspire others to follow in their footsteps. Fortunately for the business world, negative, demoralizing, and heart-absent leaders tend to inspire little more than compliance — and often overt derision. After all, people don’t follow titles; they follow energy.

Only 23% of employees are engaged at work. To make matters worse, up to 15% are actively disengaged. Much of this stems from a lack of heart-centered leadership and leaders unwilling to do the hard work necessary to remove the yolk of their repressed emotions. With such subconscious weight, building healthy relationships as a leader can feel almost impossible. Energy healing removes the emotional barriers preventing leaders from making authentic connections, which in turn makes it easier to build trust, communicate honestly, and foster genuine engagement among employees.

A real-world example:

• A leader with unresolved feelings of rejection may struggle to connect with their team. Clearing away those emotions allows them to lead with openness and trust, creating a stronger, more engaged workplace culture.

4. It makes stress management a natural part of your leadership routine. 

Stress is an inevitable part of leadership. In fact, one in three executives is suffering from fatigue or poor mental health, and many in the industry are convinced this is some sadistic badge of honor. As if that wasn’t bad enough, executives also routinely underestimate the stress being felt by those who work in a subordinate position.

Stress is nothing to be proud of — or to interpret as a sign of “hard work.” It is an energy imbalance and a direct manifestation of trapped emotions. These often include anxiety from past failures, fear of future failures, guilt over work-life balance, and resentment toward fellow workers. If a leader is engaged in active energy healing, then removing these subconscious stressors is a natural part of their daily routine. If they aren’t, then it’s only a matter of time before their fish tank is absolutely filthy.

A real-world example:

• A leader who frequently experiences anxiety before front-facing presentations may have trapped emotions of fear from previous trauma. Releasing it allows them to approach challenges without automatic stress responses.

Leading (and swimming) with emotional freedom.  

The best leaders aren’t just strategic thinkers — they’re emotionally free. They feel at ease to connect, delegate, and engage with their team whenever possible. Simply put, they live in clear and uncluttered waters. That said, if your fish tank is clouded with the dirt of trapped and misunderstood emotions, you can’t possibly hope to swim (or lead) with confidence. That’s why energy healing is your means of taking true control of your emotional health and becoming a better leader in the process.

Written by Dr. Bradley Nelson.
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