Do dreads somehow hold energy?

:hat:Okay, rather spiritual one here.
Last time I cut them of was also because I had the feeling that energy somehow got stuck in my locks, and I coulndt get the negative out.
Now im growing them again (out of shorty short hair, but in a year I'll have some nice ones ) but I dont want to face the same problem again! Any of you know how to solve this> some sort of cleaning method? I really regret losing my last set and I dont want to chop these of when they start growing longer!
Oh and a detail: In my last set I had human hair extensions in them (dreads made out of) and had worn synthetic hair extensions for about a month. Does that have anything to do with it?

 

that might have something to do with it. it could be your dreads kinda saying to you energetically that they weren't really you. they weren't really naturally you. but yes, my dreads DEFINITELY catch and hold energy. when i wash them at the end of every week, i can feel my head going "YES!" and then they're clean and free! washing with a shampoo that has good energy (i like avalon organics, peppermint) is always a good thing too.

the other thing you might have been feeling was the intention with your previous locks. what stage in your life were you at when you started them? were your dreads helping you hold on to things that you were ready to let go of? i know i'm SUCH a different person now than i was when i started my dreads, and i had to rip mine apart to help get rid of the energy that was stuck in them. i have itsy bitsy dreads now, but they're really me, and they have good energy now!

 

Well, I really grew a lot, but I forced them too much to look good, grow longer and mature..
now I'm going au naturelle (although I cheated a little by teasing up the hair today)

 

Maybe that has something to do with it

 

dreads absolutely hold energy
actualy your life experiences are all bound up in your hair
every substance you take can be found through your hair
just as everything ypou experience becomes locked in
normaly ppl trim yheyre hair every couple months severing the connection to the lessons of the past so they never learn from mistakes
dreads hold in both possitive and negative energies so its important to try to keep alittle more possitive then negative at all times
but there are lefgit reasons to cut, the loss of a long term loved 1 if the moynrning just goes on and on without reaching any point of resolution cutting the hair can free you from the pain of the past and start you off fresh

in general though you want to lock in all those energies and experiences and grow wisdom from keepomh ythem with you as long as you can keep as much posdssitivity as you can in your life so the energies are generaly possitive
keep on mind as well even negative experiences can have possitive lessons so you sjhould try to bear the burdon and learn from it, but if your truly overwhelmed and nothimng else helps cutting maybe an option

but have u tried just smudgimng with sage then sweetgrass? sage removes negative aenergy sweetgrass draws in possitive


with crystals salt or salt water is used to cleanse them of negative energies perhaps this works with dreads as well?


you could always just go out in the woods meditate and celebrate and recharge yourself with possitivity

let your dreads touch the ground
grounding releases some energy into the earth..

 

that was totally what was going on with mine. i had started them and liked them, even though they weren't perfect, but then i had this panic attack that they weren't thick enough the tips weren't rounded enough.. and i spent a lot of time and effort "perfecting" them, combining them, etc. they stayed that way for 8 months, when i reached a spiritual point in my life where i was about the chop the fuckers off. when i get to an intense growth point, i get the urges to change things about my outside to signify the changes going on inside. i pierced my lip and stretched my ears but it wasn't enough... i was going to chop the dreads, because they didn't feel RIGHT on my head anymore. but i didn't want to cut them off, they just didn't feel like me. so i started ripping them back apart from where i had combined them (and i had braided these fuckers together TIGHT, then they had matured for 8 months lol!) and i ended up getting back to where the dreads were when they started, maybe a few more, and some babies that kinda separated. i had a few break off too, which sucked, but it's kinda my own damn fault i guess.

but my point is, yeah, i totally get you. sometimes the energy you've put into your dreads making them look "perfect" is really hard to get rid of. sounds like you're doing the right thing this time around to keep them from absorbing so much negative energy! good luck with this new set!

 

This is a really nice thread. I really like hearing about people's journeys and it's really nice to hear about what could happen to me over the course. It's a beautiful thing, going natural and it excites me more and more every day. One can only hope that excitement comes out in positive energy.

p.s. Nakedtreehugger: LOVE your new sig. pic. Dlish.
x

 

I feel they hold energy... in the same way that a cluttered home holds energy. During the first year that energy really overwhelmed me at times, and I almost regretted allowing my hair to dread. I was able to work through it though, and work through the emotions that seemed magnified during that time. Maybe it was because I had long, loose hair for so long I went through a mini-mourning period when my hair completely changed? Or maybe the dreads just seemed to exaggerate things in some way because I know I looked different and, consequently, felt different? I just don't know. But I do know that I became more emotional for awhile. Just know, however, that you really don't have to do anything about it but wait it out. Our bodies and minds have an amazing ability to achieve homeostasis with time. In other words, you'll adapt and get used to it if you wait it out. At least I did.

 

thanks hippyshake!!!

gaiabee: yeah, i went through a very emotional period as well. i think it was partly just the growth process of watching the superficial pieces of me that i thought WERE me die. the pretenses that i was consciously casting away were kinda hard to let go of for a long while. they still are sometimes, lol! but the growth process with dreads is huge. emotional, spiritual, etc. which of course are one and the same, but it's often WAY more intense than expected it seems. it was for me anyway!

 

i feel mine do. it makes me feel very positive and happy. i was not like this before my hair was dreaded, its hard to explain but i have made many life changing choices after dreading. and all of them have made me happier than ive ever been.

 

well
hair is like a battery that stores experiences emotions and energies but dreads are like antenas thar arreact and draw in energies experiences and emotions ftom all around you supercharging your hair u might say

i know when i dreaded both times i was such a possitve stepn for me both times dreaded it was at times i was headed in the wrong directions

i didnt even dread in an attempt to turn thingfs around i just knew i had to and everything turning around and working out for the best was just a biproduct
i hate to even think where i might be today if i hadnt decided to dread so long ago

 

I have chopped my hair of like 2 years ago before my first set because my boyfriend back then had broken up with me. I also dyed it black.
After another unsuccesfull relationship I decided after a few months to dread, and spend less time in insecurity.
At the moment I have a very loving sweet guy with me for more than a year, and he's very supportive also (although he is afraid that he'll have to help me comb them out after months again because I changed my mind about my locks last time and we were busy for a week with a fork ripping them out)
But now I'm sorta in a spiritual phase of life. He has also tought me not to wander about things to much in my mind, and I have recently decided to stop eating meat again, but this time it seems to be easier for me. I've come to a point where I don't see animals as animals anymore, but as fellow earthlings, brothers.
And i have been accepted to art school so everything is right working out for me, and I hop this stream of positive things will be held as well

 

rastafarians belive they can think clearly, to sense danger upon them, thanks to their dreadlocks. They belive that thankfully to those natural receptors they can recive visions from Jah. Dreadlocks are a symbol of purity, they are primary sign for their belive. They are a symbol of the connection between the human and God (the cosmical energy power bla bla) .They symbolize the decline of rastas to be distant of their old and natural way of life. In some scripts its said that its forbiden for the holy man to cut of his hair. Many rastafarians belive theirs dreadlocks are highly sensitive sensors of God`s powers and visions from jah. Something like the caller and the man who answers the call. So in every culture dreadlocks always go with the spiritual flow . If you make them special and belive they hold your energy, they will! They are what you make of them, really dreads are just matted hair the important thing is the mind and the thoughts you put in them, thats when they become special , energy holders, vicion receptors and all else.

 

Thought equals creation

 

they can also hold diodes, resistors and stuffs for you.

 

And if you're not careful they will hold fuzz, lint, dirt and bugs LOL

 

My hair is not dreaded right now, but I can relate with space.
I used to "Need a change" when things wern't going well, in life, school and relationships. OR when I was ready to move on and have something more exciting, I'd colour my hair.
Since my first 'love' which ended in october last year, I haven't dyed my hair.
It feels so good, to finally not change me, but instead to 'get out' of the situation that was making me feel that I needed to change myself. For example : High School, working at a shit place.

My hair is starting to dread by itself. I think it knows we're at a great point in life.

 

from the bible:

Delilah lulled Samson to sleep in her lap and then called a man, who cut off Samson's seven locks of hair.

hmmm.. seven dreadlocks?

 

so what do you mean by diode?

 

sounds like you're off to a great start!