Four Ways to Protect Your Energy

• Meditation and Mindfulness
• Relationships
• Awakened Living

As a psychic and intuitive, I’m often asked about ways people can protect their energy from demanding bosses, invasive mother-in-laws, or nutty ex-boyfriends. Since we are all hardwired with intuition and psychic abilities, we can often feel when someone has negative intentions around us. We can also pick up on residual negative energy that’s emanating from random sources. This can result is feeling drained, depressed, anxious, and overwhelmed, and can even lead to lots of health problems.

Here are four tips that might help if you feel others draining your energy.

1. Call on crystals. Since ancient times, people have used crystal to ward off negative energy, bring good health, and manifest happiness and abundance. Crystals possess wonderful protective properties and hold the power to energetically heal. Though many (if not all) crystals have some degree of protection ingrained in them, my favorite crystal shields, so to speak, are citrine, amethyst, and black tourmaline.

2. Watch yourself. One of the most basic metaphysical truths is that we attract that which we put out into the universe. If we put forward positive thoughts, we welcome positivity into our lives. Thus, if we keep our thoughts, desires, and wishes aligned with positive thoughts, we are more likely to attract abundance. When we begin to think negative thoughts, we open ourselves up to the vibration of negative, draining energy. In most instances where someone is psychically attacking you, at some level, you are allowing them to.

3. Use guided meditation. Meditating is an important step in creating a balanced, healthy body. When you meditate, you raise your frequency and overall mood, which helps strengthen your system’s natural defenses against anything negative. Guided meditations can help you stay focused on your inner body instead of dwelling on outside negative focuses. Instead of pushing yourself to meditate for long periods of time, meditate for five minutes to start and build up your strength from there.

4. Get out. One of my big tips for psychic protection is to be aware of what is going on around you. The minute you feel someone pulling on your energy, check out of the situation. Learn how to recognize these “energy vampires”—the people who, knowingly or unknowingly, pull on your energy. Energy vampires typically behave in certain ways, such as invading your personal space and talking at you instead of with you. When you find yourself in a situation like this, immediately remove yourself. Spend as little time as possible in situations that are likely to drain you, such as long parties, business meetings that drag on, and cramped places. One of the best things I did was set some time limits on myself for how long I will stay at a social party or business meeting.

If you take my program at Kripalu, you’ll learn many more techniques, and get to practice with them! You will also learn a ton of other cool stuff, like how to communicate with your loved ones, and how to develop your personal psychic abilities and apply them in your daily life. 

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