Talk:Energybending/@comment-90.203.159.65-20120512171944/@comment-4662143-20120515004022

Slight problem though. Recall that Aang also put his hand on Ozai's forehead while energybending him, and that the Lion Turtle also does the same when telling Aang how to energybend. Both those actions were legit. The Lion Turtle didn't fool Aang, nor did Aang fool Ozai. So pushing there doesn't necessarily involve creating illusion. Plus, recall that the Lion Turtle places his claw on Aang's heart chakra at the same time, and Aang does the same to Ozai, yet there's no indication that they did anything to insert (or dispel) grief in their respective targets. Indeed, it would seem that the chakras can only be blocked through "emotional muck" (as Guru Pathik put it) which is accumulated through fear, guilt, shame, etc and unblocked through cultivating the opposite emotion through meditation, as Aang did, and not through merely pushing on it externally. However, we also have to remember that Combustion Man had his Light Chakra hit by a pebble and by Sokka's boomerang, and had his bending screwed up as a result of this, meaning that the relationship between external pressure and chakra blockage, or chi blockage, is more complex. This is still, however, the most cogent and canonical explanation I've seen, assuming that Amon can't actually energybend. An additional point worth making is that he, unlike either Aang or the Lion Turtle, put his hand on the back of Zolt's neck, which is where the chakra that is blocked by lies is located. It could be that he makes his victims believe the lie that their bending is gone, and his pressure on that chakra makes that lie that the victim believes block their chakra. At any rate, I highly doubt that the correlation between chakras and the places where Aang and Amon place their hands is coincidental.