Saturday, October 21. 2006
How to protect oneself from other peoples negative energy - reader asks
A reader, Tracey Scully, has emailed me with a question about a problem that she has. Tracey appears to have strong empathy, which results in her feeling dizzy and nauseous when around some people. Tracey has agreed that I post her mail here. You can read my advice to her below her mail and if you have similar experience or have more advice, please write in the comments. Here’s her email:
Hi Jacob,
I have been growing up in a not very safe environment, a lot of anger surrounding me and confusion energy to say the least. And have always been vulnerable as a child and very lost. I have been going to counseling the last 2 month and I am becoming aware of certain things, the more truer I am becoming to myself the more aware of what’s going on inside me.I have now come to the conclusion that I have intuitive empathy, which seems to all make sense to me now. I carry other peoples negative energy with me and do find it hard to shake off.. I am somewhat relieved though now because I have been confused for along time in the way I was feeling and that it a lot of it couldn’t be connected to me, always seemed other people around me. So i am happy to hear of this ‘condition’ (sorry not sure what to call it) and realise i have been suffering everybody’s hurts and negativities.
I have started getting into to massage therapy lately, has just seemed to come to me and am happy with doing this. But having received a facial massage from my niece a few days ago, a few seconds later i felt very dizzy and nauseous. The next day I received a massage from her again, (not aware the first time of what happened) and I felt nauseous again. When she left my house though i could feel myself becoming better, and realised it was some sort of energy.
Also when i go out socially to meet a friend which usually ends up meeting friends of friends, i feel so outa sorts and awkward, I just don’t know what to do. I make sure I have my car outside ready to escape. I feel so lost with this sometimes.
After speaking to my counsellor she sensed that i am a receiver in this life and that i do have a lot of positive energy around me. I had never heard of this before. Having knowledged myself through the net, it all makes perfect sense to me with the way of have been feeling.
My question jacob is I really don’t know what to do with this. It is involuntary receiving peoples energies to the extent that i behave exactly like them until i start coming back to myself.. I really don’t know what to do, can you please advise as I really want to live my own life and not those of others….
Kindest regards and thank you for your time Jacob,
Tracey
Dear Tracey.
It does look like other people’s energies can penetrate and affect you in an undesirable way. I believe that in order for you to overcome this, you’ll need to learn several things, namely: grounding, centering and shielding. A good resource to read about all three is a tutorial called Playful Psychic. I’ve written a little about this book a year ago in article: Playful Psychic – online book on developing psychic abilities.
There is a chapter called Basic Skills and it contains the 3 above mentioned techniques. I advice you to read it since it writes exactly about your case:
Staying Centered in Crowds
With practice, you will be able to pause for a few seconds to center yourself in almost any circumstance. If you tend to be susceptible to empathic overload, staying centered in crowds will reduce the flooding. It may take practice to get good at, but will help significantly.
You may find that you have trouble staying centered around certain people. Their pushiness, their ideas, and their feelings overwhelm you. When you notice this happening, strengthen your grounding and centering. Stay as strong, stable, and calm as you can. Once you learn to shield, you may also want to add a shield around yourself. The shield will keep your energy separate from theirs, and give you more distance from them. The section on shields discusses this in more detail.
I’ve also written myself before about grounding, see Grounding exercise. It is a little different but I like its effect.
Good luck to you Tracey and keep us updated on your progress,
Sincerely,Jacob.
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Sometimes, I feel sadness from all around as though EVERYTHING around me is miserable.
This feeling..like I'm being overwhelmed by some powerful presence. Is this a sort of empathy? How can I increase my power with it, and how can I teach myself to see ghosts? Lastly, are there excercises I can do to help with concentration? I have ADHD-Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder-and I find it difficult to focus on anything for more than a second or so. I understand that these things require a lot of focus and if I can't focus then I can't do them.
Single Entity Intelligent Universe;
I believe personally (and this view is shared by many different shamanic/traditions/peoples all over the world, throughout history) that the universe is a living entity..
for simplicity/understanding i use humans as an example; mitochondria exist within the body to produce "energy", energy is another form of thought (or visa-versa however you look at it). each different "thing" on the planet (animal, plant, mineral, misc. ect. whether animate/inanimate) has a purpose and I feel the underlying purpose is to produce thought energy. now that i've covered that... look at humans(animals),plants, minerals, ect. as individual nanocells that make up larger communities of cells and then micro-organizms(planets/galaxies) that make up the universe and provide it with thought energy.. now lets examine the different forms of thought energy:
earth- solid,structured,rigid (i.e.laws,definitions,science,logic,ect.)
water- flowing,formless,complacent (i.e.understanding,tolerance,acceptance,ect.)
wind- chaotic,disordered,uncontrolled (i.e.anarchic,disorganization,lawless)
If you look at this the only one of the elements seemingly unrepresented is fire, which isn't an element at all really.. It is the universal representation or itself, It is alive (as it eats, breathes, moves, sleeps, and.. thinks.. just as any firefighter you know if you dont believe me) so, looking at this you can see the universe as an infinite flame, burning brighter and brighter, we however only see the "sub-atomic molecular level" of which is mostly empty space to us, LoL!!! the reason we and the rest of these nanoorganizms exist? to produce the thought energy that keeps the fire burning..
now lets take science out the picture and try and use philosophical analysis. our microorganizm created "dinosaurs" (whose entire existance revolved around instinct which revolved around growth and propagation, which in turn led them to their ultimate demise through sheer size {as mammals were tiny with larger brains they relied more on emotions and a critical thinking process, they were able to survive through hiding and propagate later on developing their brains... i.e. US!}) when they passed on the torch to us it was literally instinctual death for the dominant species, and now more species use critical thinking combined with emotion than ever before. now we have overpopulated just as the dinosaurs did and we have created our own problems.. need for control and a separation/misunderstanding of the three forms of thought, leading to war,famine,and worst of all apathy. these have all exploded way out of control and now we've led ourselves down the same path as the previous dominant. our ages demise.. I feel the next experiment nature (our microorganism) will try is a balance of instinct and intellect.
(those of you who disagree with me and feel we still have instincts.. we have for the most never had a concrete grasp on instinctual thinking, science assumes we have instincts, when in reality they are critical thought processes and emotional wavelengths that are commonly shared among our species (sort of self-conditioning over the years) this is NOT instinct as other species knew it, and in fact the "instincts" we feel we share with other species are actually shared thought processes and emotions.. science just refuses to see it as such due to the fact that most analysts throughtout history have wanted to think of humans as separate from the animal world)
now that that is all clarified, what is the purpose of a dominant species? this is my most perplexing question, as most people refuse to accept themselves as a dominant species if they think symbiotically (positively), because parasitic (negative) thinkers have tried to force their theories on man's "supremacy" or "deification of self" so as to exert control over others within the species... this is all a fallacy since we all think symbiotically/parasitically we just lean one way or the other (it is very hard to walk down the "middle-path" as taoists call it). the purpose of a "dominant" species isn't to dominate, or to preen the world, it is to do as we have always done. we are leading to our own destruction for a very good reason, the learning process of the singe entity of the intelligent universe! once the majority of us "move on", which isn't to say we'll all die per se, our energies will be recycled and reused as the dinosaurs fueled us for a great many years (bad example for a lot of you i know). the universe will only be destroyed if ALL thought ceases, and eventually it will die out. not within any micron of time we could even begin to perceive, but it will die as well.. as it is an organizm in another sense beyond our comprehension, in another world far larger than our perception can grasp. you see it's all a circle of energy when you look at its entirety that never ends.. thats one thing science and I agree on, energy cannot be created nor destroyed it just changes form from one to another. and thats the single entity intelligent universe in a nutshell!
now that you understand that i hope, i can explain mans mental misunderstanding of awareness (or lack thereof)
mankind has used many different terms for the internal, innate, and intuitive abilities mankind has always possessed and developed through our (sub)conscious throughout the ages (and thank nature for subcon. otherwise we might not have the understanding and growth we have possible today, it is our greatest tool and possibly even our own salvation!)
magic, witchcraft, mantra, meditation, psychic ability, whatever fantastical terminology humans have used to describe the mental abilities we have within our minds it's all relatively a realistic thing and not mystical, or spiritual at all..
(in fact "spirituality" is a misnomer of mans energy and thought energy of the universe which i covered earlier, mankind used that term and other theological terms to exert control/limitations over others/self when in reality it was just a description of the astrological process of the sun and its "birth, death, rebirth cycle" watch zeitgeist! i wont go into it here)
mankind has only recently given a good representation of terminology to our abilities:
telepathy-you all know this as "reading the minds of others" if you take the time to think about someone and critically analyze what theyve thought before or how theyve acted before then its very easy to see the critical analysis of others is this so-called "psychic" ability.. you've all know someone well enough to say or think something right before or when they said it.. thats true realistic telepathy.
precognition-everyone laughs at this one because they really fear it for no good reason really. they think its the ability to see the future! to predict someones success or demise. in reality it is, but not in the way you think.. take any situation, study the history of cultures and others' actions, critically analyze (in microseconds or decades) what the most likely-least likely and all the shades of grey in between and you are a precog! nothing too magical about that, just critical analysis of situations and interactions of people (instead of individuals as in telepathy)!
psychometabolism-not too hard to explain, people think this is auto-regeneration or growing limbs or instant healing (think wolverine from x-men) but instead think of the body as a combination of organizms understand each purpose of these organizms, feel them all moving, try and exert not control but symbiosis with your body and you can regenerate at your normal human rate, or if stifled, you can cause a stasis of this healing process (doctors/healers always say the will to live determines whether or not a human will survive..) I myself have seen firsthand two monks, one who caused a papercut to heal almost instantly right before my very eyes! also, in video, i've seen a monk literally shut his body off and die.. because he was asked to by a scientist who wanted to understand, so for the sake of understanding and "science" he let himself die.. very sad thing to watch, really. this is uniting your thought energy throughout your body. thats all, very realistic now eh?
psychokinesis-this ones fun! most people assume that its moving objects at a distance with "..just your mind.."-spooky voice ends there- when in reality its just uniting your thought energy with motion in the world, we've all felt that moment, when every motion felt right, fluid, perfect, from walking and avoiding objects to sports and that perfect rush.. then you stumble, and the constraints you place on yourself based on everyday perceptions of others pull you back into their "reality" if you acknowledge that you have your own "reality" among this organism we live on you can use true realistic telekinesis to flow through motion, although with so many outside factors involved it's no wonder you're scratching your head about now (im using telepathy you sillies)
metacreativity-this one makes me laugh! parapsychologists, "psychics, and magicians" claim you can use "ectoplasm" a mysterious substance made of "non-matter" which is nothing really except a hoax a viscus goo that some people in the 1920's used to cover themselves in (haha) to "prove" the existance of "spirits". the only spirits i know of are jack, morgan, and popov, this is the easiest to explain but the most critical for alot of "scientists". it's just another term for man's own ingenuity, our ability to pick up a stick and use it to grab ants; to see lightning make sparks make fire, and copy it; to take base components or parts of seemingly a heap of "nothing" and turn it into "something" useful. we can fly for chrissake, we can literally make our imaginations "virtually" real in a "virtual" world made of electronic energy (your computer screen is proof of that!)
every inventor should appreciate this mental ability and understand the reality of it instantly.. to those scientists who have stepped away from invention and gone towards so-called "explanation" i say go back to creating so you can explain something you can understand.. the world needs no more explanation other than we are just parts of a whole mechanism, quit wasting your time and breath trying to measure the immeasurable! and go invent something!!!
that's my feeling on the whole universe, and mankind. oh, there's one more that im still studying..
psychoportation-man has always thought this to be the ability to traverse time/space with just thought, so far the only explanation i've been able to grasp.. when you die this is the term you should use. the universe recombines your old energy, hence you become one with space/time and therefore traverse it beyond the speed of any mortal comprehension.. of course to reach the destinations wherever your energy might be needed at the time, even multiple destinations, then recombinated in whatever forms necessary.
I hope this was a learning experience for you all, as it has been/will continue to be for me, if you have any questions comments or other. feel free to email me: headwyvern@yahoo.com I love to hear other peoples reactions to this lil theory of mine(ours actually since it was my studies of history and social operations of mankind that developed/continue to develop this theory) and hopefully through dialoge and discourse i can make this as seamless as possible for digestion, i know it can be alot to take in at once. my name is Matthew, thank you for your time... =P