Dealing with External Energies Part 2: Shielding & Energy Protection
Beginners in the art of managing subtle energy are often taught to protect and shield themselves from outside influences. One of my own mentors, an advanced healer with staggering talent, caught me before I learned this type of skill—and put the nix on it.
A Viet Nam veteran, my mentor could discourse for hours on everything from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder to contributions to our understanding of consciousness from different Buddhist sects throughout history. He
told me shielding is like a Band-Aid; not a real solution. He maintained that becoming transparent to energies and letting them pass through without sticking was a much higher art than attempting to keep influences out.
Before I we go on, I will admit that I felt extremely vulnerable and chagrinned at the time. I had no idea how to manage my sensitivity. We were in a whole house full of people at a healing workshop in which novices were messing with each other’s energy. My mentor had me sit still, carefully sensing my body and feeling my safety issues instead of running around or jabbering. Apparently I survived.
Protection may provide a quick way to feel safe. I have endured situations that did require measures of protection, which I learned later from a powerful clairvoyant healer who had participated in military Remote Viewing programs. While perhaps essential over the short term in unusual circumstances, I agree that protection is not the best way to deal with sensitivity to external energies. This is why:
- Trying to protect from the outside does not address the energy issues on the inside that cause us to be unsafe.
- Most methods of protection do not lead to or enhance spiritual and emotional development.
- Fearful motivations cultivate defensiveness.
- Putting layers between yourself and the world may reduce contact with energies that benefit you.
- When you do pick up external energy this is a form of guidance. It shows you where you need to work on yourself to be clear.
- You may mask information that it is useful or important to be aware of.
- It’s easy to confuse your own mental, emotional or energetic material with something from the outside and try to remove or repel it.
- Working on the energies in yourself that allow influences to impact you makes excellent use of your experiences and will help you to develop depth, strength, discernment, and clarity.
Advanced healers and energy masters do strengthen their energy fields. They may even build in structures that are protective. But the intention is not defensive. They are working with positive intention, not from fear. There is a major difference between bringing in energies that unsavory energy will not stick to, and trying to wall it off.
Bringing in positive energies successfully relies on the personal clarity that comes from 
acknowledging and handling our own energies and issues. Protective actions, taken by someone who does not confront their issues, are like locking the front door when a punk in the basement is going in and out without shutting the door.
Defensive energy without looking inside yourself at your own issues works about the same as refusing to talk about things when we’re feeling uncomfortable in a relationship. The energy hangs around without being dealt with. And that beaver-dam of blocked energy causes disturbances.
Becoming aware of our own interior contents allows us to deal with the energy that belongs to us. Situations become less charged, simpler, and more manageable when we’re not aggravating them by reacting from a stockpile of unresolved issues.
We’ll go into more detail in the next post. My book discusses energy protection in even greater detail, including specifics about when and why we pick up energy from others, and what to do about it.
Please share these posts with those who may benefit.
What does your energy feel like when you are defensive compared to when you are using good sense to stay safe?
Have you noticed that the things you want to do when you are uncomfortable stop you from doing the things that can get you past it once and for all?
Dear Teresa,
Wow. I found your site from a link you placed on the beingherd.com site, which I found because Teri on that site shared her article on the Human Empowerment group I set up on LinkedIn. The wonders of the Internet.
I’ve just spent half an hour or more taking a look at many of your articles. In my opinion, you’ve done a truly wonderful job of elucidating many important principles and key understandings pertaining to living with greater energetic sensitivity, developing healthy and effective boundaries, being grounded and connected to the body, and oh so much more. Beautiful. Thank you for sharing as you do.
With heart,
Jonathan
Dear Jonathan,
Thank you so much for your comment, and your work in the world supporting consciousness.
Since I don’t really have the time or stomach for marketing, and my work makes people think, I don’t have heaps of readers, so it’s really fun for you to turn up! It is a labor of love to wrestle the realm of energy and intuition into every day words.
Your heart really comes across in your writing. Thanks again for your note, and do drop in again!
Sincere blessings,
Teresa
>> “It is a labor of love to wrestle the realm of energy and intuition into every day words”
Yes, indeed, although you do it well. In recent years I’ve become increasingly aware of just how much and how significantly the vast majority of people are affected by “external energies” most especially “entities”; or what are called Malu (Life-taking spirits) in a tradition I was introduced to through two Kahuna (Shaman Priests of an ancient Hawaiian tradition). I devoted a small section to it in a book I published back in 2008, but I often feel I gave it far too little attention, and almost feel inclined to write a small book (or website) dedicated to this subject alone. Anyway… Life has me writing other things at present, so that’s taking priority.
I’ve read more of your articles, and even the above one in more detail, and I can only reiterate my commendation of your work. Thank you.
I hear you regarding “marketing”. Not something I excel at. At least not for my own work. I’ve been publishing web content online since the late 90′s (over 400 printed pages, or so my editor tells me)… yet as far as I can tell, it continues to mostly be for my own expression and entertainment… and for a few who take the time to read. I enjoy it, and that’s what matters. Life takes care of the rest.
Regarding avoiding the influence of outside energies… I agree, Transparency is the key. The Yogi, the Mystic, the Sage… is free to go anywhere because she is transparent to the world around. Nothing sticks.
With heart,
Jonathan
Hi Jonathan,
Thank you for this lovely note.
The topic of external energies is vitally important, rarely handled with clean intelligence. I wrote an entire book to create a context within which to share information on this topic, and to bring it forth. I was ready to promote it, and to get the e-book form into print. At that point one of my mentors–who was very enthusiastic about my book–stopped me in my tracks. He had reflected on my situation and said that my intuitive sensitivity would be a liability for me if I got my book out there to a lot of people. He said that people with intense energy issues who DID NOT want to do their inner work to release them would stew about it and think of me, and this would impact my energy. (This man teaches energy boundaries and protection and is a genuine Qi Gong and martial arts master.)
Yes, by keeping my personal balance at every moment I might be able to allow energy from this source to pass through. We do, however, come in and out of ideal balance as we address life situations and deeper spiritual work. I am happy to say that I rarely pick Stuff up any more.
Taking a successful stand on this topic might have made me the person to go to with type of issue. I prefer to work with people on profound integration and wellness instead of being in the front line dealing almost exclusively with the most negative of energies.
This being said, I still feel drawn to help those who–like myself initially–are good hearted people who are compromised by energies that do not belong with them. I made a website that sells gizmos that take these energies out. They seem silly but they actually work. The url for that site is http://positiveenergytools.com
My e-book is at http://keepyourenergyclear.com should you find it of interest.
All Good Wishes,
Teresa