The Energy Gap: Why Doing "All The Work" Still Isn't Changing Your Lif

There was a time I thought I was doing everything I was supposed to be doing. Journaling. Meditating. Setting intentions. Reading all the books. 

I understood my patterns. I could name my triggers. I had the awareness. I had the language.

And I still felt like something was off.

It wasn't anything intense. More like a weight underneath it all. A heaviness I could not quite name. I would wake up tired after sleeping. I would say yes to things my body was saying no to, I would catch myself bracing before conversations, scanning rooms, performing a version of me that kept things smooth. And at the end of the day I was exhausted in a way that sleep could not fix.

I know a lot of you are in that exact place right now. I can hear and feel it in the messages I get. 

I want to share something with you that took me a long time to understand, but once I got, it changed everything. And it changed everything for the thousands of people I have guided through this work since.

That feeling...that gap between knowing what you want and actually being able to live it...it is not a mindset problem. It is not a discipline problem.

That gap is an energy problem.

What I Mean When I Say Energy

I am not talking about what you see on Instagram. No crystals on the windowsill, "good vibes only" superficial definition of energy. I mean the actual, physical, felt experience of what is happening inside your body right now.

Are your shoulders up near your ears? Is your jaw clenched? How shallow is your breathing?

Chances are, your answers to those questions were yes. Your body was holding tension without you even noticing. That bracing, that low-level hum running underneath everything...that is energy. And it has probably been there so long it feels normal. 

I know that feeling. It is not normal. It is just familiar.

Everything is energy. That is physics, not just spirituality. Every atom in your body is vibrating. Your thoughts carry a frequency. Your emotions carry a frequency. And your body is broadcasting all of it, all the time.

This is why you can walk into a room and feel that something is off before anyone speaks. This is why certain people leave you drained and others leave you feeling alive. This is why you can say "I'm fine" and the people closest to you can feel that you are not.

We can’t hide our energy. We are constantly transmitting it. And it shapes everything: what we attract; what we repel, what we tolerate; and what we are available to receive.

I Had to Learn the Hard Way

It took me years to understand this, and I wish someone had told me sooner. 

The gap between where I was and where I wanted to be was not a knowledge gap. I had the knowledge. It was not a motivation gap. I was showing up every single day.

It was an energy gap. 

I had changed the story in my mind, but my body was still living the old one. My nervous system was still running the original program. I knew what I wanted, but my body...the place where receiving actually happens...was still clenched shut.

Once I understood that, I started approaching transformation completely differently. And now, after years of doing this work and guiding thousands of people through it, I see this same pattern everywhere. Someone who has done the cognitive work. Who understands their patterns. Who can articulate exactly what they want. And still cannot get there.

Sound familiar?

Every time, the answer is the same. They have been working on the thinking level but have not touched the energetic level. And the energetic level is where your body stores everything your mind has tried to move past.

You cannot think your way into a new life if your body is still living in the old one. I learned that the hard way so you do not have to.

Your Body Keeps More Than The Score

We have all heard that the body keeps the score. That it stores our hard experiences in real, physical ways. And that is true.

But here is something I have learned through this work that most people have not been told: your body also keeps the dream.

Your body already knows who you are becoming. It knows the version of you that doesn’t brace before entering a room;hat doesn't perform to feel safe;that does not scan for the worst case before letting something feel good. That version is not as distant as you might feel like it is. It is actually already in your body right now, underneath the weight of everything you have been carrying.

When your energy is clear and in motion, your body does not just release the old. It starts reaching for the new. You feel it as a quiet knowing. A sense of being pulled toward something. A calm that comes from being fully present inside yourself.

I have felt this in my own body. I have watched it happen in thousands of others. And it never stops being extraordinary.

This is what energy work actually does: it doesn't just heal what has been; It magnetizes what is coming.

What Stuck Energy Looks Like in Real Life

Stuck energy disguises itself. Sometimes it looks like exhaustion after a full night of sleep, procrastinating on things you actually want to do, saying yes when your body says no, anxiety that does not seem attached to anything, bracing before a conversation even starts.The scrolling, the numbing, the avoiding…

This is never really about discipline or willpower. It’s almost always about energy that has not yet not been moved.

Stuck energy does not just affect how you feel. It also affects what you can let in. When your system is already full of unprocessed weight, there is no room for what is trying to come toward you. The love, the opportunity, the abundance, the ease...it is not that those things are not available. It is that your body does not have the space to receive them.

Think of it like a glass of water that has been sitting still for too long. The water gets cloudy. Sometimes you can’t see through it. But the water isn't broken. It just needs movement. It needs a little shake. And as soon as you give it what it needs, it becomes clear again.

How Energy Actually Shifts

Through years of doing this work, both on myself and with thousands of others, I have found that energy moves in three phases. And they need to happen in order.

First, you release. You come home to your body. You feel where your energy actually lives, where it leaks, and where it has been stuck. You set down the emotional weight you have been carrying. You reduce the noise. You drop the armor. You let your body lead. This part is simple. but it’s not easy. The work is just to feel what is true.

Then, you magnetize. Once the ground is cleared, you learn to attract from alignment instead of effort. You find your natural frequency...the energy you carry when you are actually being yourself. You raise your baseline. You set boundaries from fullness instead of fear. You practice receiving. And you start to notice that when you shift the energy you bring to something, the thing itself changes.

Then, you embody. This is where the work becomes your reality. You meet the version of yourself that already lives this way. You see life through their eyes. You ask for their guidance. You spend time inside their energy. And at a certain point, when you go looking for them, they are not there anymore. Because you are them. There is no gap. That energy stops being something you’re working towards and becomes something you are.

Release. Magnetize. Embody.

This is the path I walked. It is the path I now guide others through. And it works.

The 21-Day Energy Challenge

I built this challenge because everything I just described to you...the phases, the process, the shift...I wanted to make it accessible. Something you could move through in ten minutes a day, with structure and guidance, without needing to figure it out on your own the way I had to.

Each day includes a new guided meditation or visualization, a reflection, an affirmation, a prayer, and one small action that brings the work into your actual day. Energy work that stays on the meditation cushion does not change your life; energy work that follows you into your relationships and your decisions does.

In Week One, you release. You come home to your body. You feel where your energy goes. You catch the drains. You move what is stuck. You set down weight. You take the armor off. And you let the clearing integrate.

In Week Two, you magnetize. You find your natural frequency. You let desire live in your body instead of just your mind. You raise your energy. You learn what fills you and what depletes you. You practice receiving. And you discover that the energy you bring to something has the power to completely transform your experience of it.

In Week Three, you embody. You meet your Future Self as a felt experience in your body. You see through their eyes. You live their days. You ask them for guidance. And by the end of the week, when you go back to the place where you first met them and they are gone. Because you are them.

I have watched this process change people's lives. I have felt it change mine. And I have spent years refining it into something you can move through in twenty-one days.

If you have been doing the work and something still feels off in your body...if you know what you want but cannot seem to let yourself have it...if you are carrying things that are not yours...if you are ready to stop managing your energy and start living from it...this is what I built for you.

The 21-Day Energy Challenge is available inside SHIFT with Jamie and also as an individual purchase. 

If you’ve been thinking about joining SHIFT with Jamie, now is the time, as the price of the membership goes up on March 15. Join now for your last chance at our Founding Member pricing.

Join the 21-Day Energy Challenge

Ten minutes a day. Twenty-one days. Three phases.

I walked this path. I can walk it with you.

With love,
Jamie 

P.S. You are always just one breath away from coming back to yourself. That is all energy work really is. One breath. One moment of presence. One choice to come home to your body. The challenge just gives you twenty-one days of structure to make that homecoming stick. Start here.