Healing Insights

 

The level and role of psychic protection that you use is a hot topic for debate. The following is based on my views and my experiences throughout my spiritual unfoldment.

In the early days.

You can pick up any psychic book and the first thing you will read is about protection.

This is important to you as you start to experience the realms of psychic unfoldment.

See yourself as an energy source that is vibrating at a certain frequency and other spiritual energies see you as a mass of varying colours of light and sound, they see you on an energetic level not a physical level. Spiritual energies sense your emotions and they see the "cracks" in your aura. They will see parts of you that you cannot or will not recognise in yourself, because you are energy and it holds the unseen energetic aspects of you. It is very important that in these early days you learn to open and shut down…image yourself as a broadcasting radio station…if you are left on you are buzzing then anyone can tune into you. In the early stages the trick is open up, experience and then shut down. The difficulty with this is that intention is the trigger to opening and shutting down so in the early stages we get very excited at the prospect of being open to such information, so we stay open too much. We may shut down well and then we bump into someone and our intention says “Oh I wonder if I can sense anything from them?” and bang…there you are…you are open again. In all the excitement we forget to shut down afterwards. So we carry on like a beacon wandering around open to all. We are sensitive to both human and spiritual interaction when we are open. Shutting down is like re-tuning your station again so that you are not a buzzing beacon.

Psychic development and personal self development go hand in hand. In the early days most of us are relatively less self aware. We may be great psychics but not very self aware. We may not have worked towards introspective self assessment or we may be so absorbed by the psychic world that we forget the self. We have yet to realise the importance of self healing and dealing with our “stuff”. We all have buried subconscious issues and they are in our energy, we open up and they are there for all to see.

In the early days protection is important but this has to embrace the concept that we are aware that we have "stuff" to deal with ourselves too.

I tend to use the analogy of a headache. Often the first thing that we do when we get a headache is reach for some painkillers and yes most of the time the pain goes but does the original reason for the pain go.....no....all we do is we use the painkillers to mask the pain and keep us back in our comfort zone. It is the same with protection...we can do a variety of things to get rid of our troubles but all that does it mask the real reason why we are attracting such experiences into our life in the first place. Many people will continue to take pills with no concept of finding the source of the headache ...as many people will keep using protection with no desire to find the original reason either. They will continue to need protection for the rest of their life until they look at why they need it.

So in the early days you need protection if you have not addressed issues around the self or if you are not willing to accept you have such issues.

So for now I would advise on using protection. In my early days this is the technique I used.

Find a place to relax, sit down and close your eyes. Take 5 deep breaths and feel your chest expand and then let the breath go. Imagine or visualize from your feet strong roots are holding you to the ground. Now imagine that above you is a beautiful white light filled with the love, it is pure unconditional love. Imagine this light totally encasing you and filling around you to include your aura, feel the love and the safety in this place in space and time. Ask for this energy to be with you when you request it. It is important to feel this energy and remember how it feels as it will help you retrieve that feeling in future. Thank spirit for helping you and protecting you. Now imagine all of your chakras as flowers slowly closing down and that this light is all around you. Take 5 deep breaths and slowly open your eyes again.

As you become more adept with this you will find you will be able to shut down pretty fast…retrieve that loving feeling and it will come as second nature to you. I am not going to talk about opening up as the mere words of “I want to open up” will do it…honestly.

Now having said all this, spirit cannot protect you from yourself, your thoughts and your experiences that you need to grow by. So if you are taken out of your comfort zone and things are happening to you that you do not understand my advice is to speak to someone who has been there and look inside to see why you are experiencing this.

Psychic attack can be very draining, human and spiritual energies can attach to you and create links that can impact on your physical health. All thoughts are energy. Watch your thoughts wisely, if you are angry you will attract energies that see your anger. If you are a developing medium and you are working with these energies then know yourself inside out, learn when you are feeling an energy that is not you and feel it. Then reflect on what it saw in you and what did you need to learn by this experience. Make changes to the self.

Some classic signs of psychic attack are:

· Excessive and continuous tiredness, irritability, extreme and unprovoked changes in emotional state, this includes rapid mood swings.

· Major changes in clarity of thinking and analytical ability. This can become chronic and to the point that your thinking is so unclear that you are unable to even work out why you feel this way.

· Strange and re-occurring accidents.

· Negative and obsessive thinking of sudden onset.

· Sudden feelings of unease in rooms where you live that were not present before. These can be associated with thought form projections or spiritual activity.

· Links with human psychic attack can involve them appearing in dreams, or them keep popping into your thoughts for no reason and are often associated with tiredness of a quick onset if they contact you.

· The same entities may be appearing in dreams repeatedly and sometimes associated with violence. These entities can be human or astral in origin.

· An unnerving feeling of being watched or followed, presences around you which just “feel” fearful.

· In extreme cases, unexplained marks left on your skin when you wake up in the morning.

This list is only a short synopsis and signs can be very varied.

It is wise to seek someone who has experience and is able to identify the source of the problem. Spirits and thoughts forms can attach to humans but are relatively easy to remove as long as you accept that you played a part in facilitating the attachment.

The cause of the problem can be and often is a complex scenario with a mixture of your thoughts, your energy projections, thought form presence and spirit entity involvement often all involved to varying degrees.

It is best to understand that within each of these experiences there is something to learn about energy or yourself. Once you have been able to recognise how and why this has occurred to you, the chances are that it will not happen again.

As you progress and this includes understanding yourself more then you may find that you no longer use regular protection or that you don’t feel the need anymore. This is fine.

I rarely use protection anymore. Held within our energetic fields is the true essence of this self that sits here, everything that we have ever been and experienced. If I attract something to me then I stop, use self analysis, reflect and address as to WHY this has attracted to me. What did this energy see in me that it was magnetically attracted towards? Was it anger, fear, intolerance? Do you give your energy too freely is that why you are being drained and becoming more vulnerable to such activity around you? Are you working towards increased self respect perhaps? Many energy workers are high on the compassion front but have yet to incorporate discernment. They will work for the benefit of others and forget about the self.

These experiences become a tool for self understanding. They are a gift. See them as an opportunity for growth.

 

Protection within Mediumship

Traditional models of teaching will insist on protection. My personal view is that I trust my higher self to ensure my safety in this arena. Although I maintain that my higher self cannot protect me from my own thoughts and judgements but I trust that no direct harm will come to me whilst working in altered states of consciousness during mediumship.

I have worked in trance in a rescue circle and in that scenario there is no place for fear. If you are truly working to your highest potential then you KNOW you are protected and it is this KNOWING that protects you! Ponder on this…If I cannot trust my guides or my higher self then to what purpose am I working spiritually?

To fully understand the role of protection one has to do much inner work and release existing belief systems around duality. If you protect whether you accept it or not you are existing in fear and that fear will be held within your energetic field. Thoughts are energy and fear is a useful energy source for some entities. They will use your fear as an energy source for their own agenda. The best protection is to deal with your own fear. So my advice is don’t treat the symptoms deal with the cause!!

"We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are." -The Talmud