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Protecting Your EnergyA Guide for Healers, Light Workers and Energy Sensitive People
Healers may forget to protect themselves while doing energy work on clients, making tools like oils, brain gym and aura shielding invaluable to healing practitioners.
Why is protecting one's own energy field important when doing reiki or energy work?In the course of our daily lives, we interact with people – and with their energy. But a practitioner who is working with someone's energy field to remove energy toxins and initiate healing gets even closer to that person's energy field. To avoid picking up energy toxins like negative entities or disease energies, a healer needs to ensure that their own auric field is strongly defended against absorbing other people's energy. Healers and intuitives are especially susceptible to picking up other people's energy because they are more sensitive than most people and are uniquely attuned to energies. Tools for Protecting the AuraThere are many ways to make the aura less vulnerable to attack and less likely to absorb other people's energy, from prayer and meditation to physical tools worn on the body. Some of the most readily available techniques are:
Meditation and PrayerThe mind and emotions have an impact on the energy field. Stress, anger, fear or worry can weaken the immune system and the energy field. Meditation has the ability to strengthen the auric field and make it more coherent. Prayer also helps, as does asking your angels or guides for assistance in protecting your aura. VisualizationEnergy work is largely visualization, so mentally projecting a strong, cohesive aura is a big help in protecting oneself. One of the most effective tools is visualizing a shield or bubble of white light surrounding the body. White light contains every color frequency, working on all levels. Energy Medicine and Brain GymEnergy Medicine and Brain Gym provide tools for strengthening the energy field. These tools are simple massaging or holding techniques using points on the meridians (or "brain buttons") and can activate the energy field to make a healer's own protections stronger. Physical Tools: Essential Oils, Smudge, Colors, Crystals For those who want something they can hold on to, or can easily put on and off, physical tools provide a quick boost to the energy field. Essential oils – Angelica, frankincense, myrrh, sage, spruce, and others are known for their ability to strengthen the aura. These can be woven around the body using the "celtic weave" (Energy Medicine) or as part of a white light shield. Smudge – "Smudging" with burning sage, sweetgrass, and other herbs is part of Native American traditions, and is a powerful way to disrupt unhealthy energies. Smudging around the body provides protection. Colors – Color healing offers tools to protect the body. Black is a protective color, as is white. Any color that helps a person feel more calm or confident usually reinforces the aura. Crystals– Stones such as quartz and amethyst are said to provide healing energy, while hematite is a powerful protective stone. Be careful not to wear stones for too long, as they may disrupt the body's energy field if they are overused. Any of these tools may be used in combination with Energy Medicine or meditation. Be CoherentThe greatest tool to protecting the aura, of course, is to be coherent within oneself. When all the parts of your being cooperate - thoughts, emotions, and desires – there is very little weakness for non-beneficial energies to attach to. Until then, many of these tools can be useful when practicing energy work – or any kind of work that brings us in regular contact with other people. Reference:Eden, Donna, Energy Medicine, Penguin Putnam Inc., New York, 1998. Essential Science Publishing (ESP), Essential Oils Desk Reference, ESP, 2001.
The copyright of the article Protecting Your Energy in Energy Healing is owned by Victoria Anisman-Reiner. Permission to republish Protecting Your Energy in print or online must be granted by the author in writing.
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