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Many in the spiritual community, and particularly those new to spiritual energies, elect to practice certain rituals for protection. These are designed to keep evil or negative energies from entering the person's field.
Spiritual protection techniques for energetic space clearing include smudging a person's energy field or a physical space with ceremonial herbs such as white sage, cedar or osha root.
Additional protection rituals include affirmations and ceremonies for protection, wearing a blessed amulet or a Medicine Bag, crystals or stones strategically placed in a physical space or around a body during healing work.
Literal protection mandallas may also be created, under the guidance of a Shaman or Medicine Man or Woman, that would contain protective elements that are specific to the individual's weakness and challenges, as well as their unique spiritual objectives.
Spiritual protection with light is also common and involves creating, through visualization and intent, a bubble of light around a person, for the purpose of deflecting negative energies and as a way of energetic space clearing around the body.
While a common practice, is such protection from negative entities necessary?
Question on spiritual healing:
How do I protect myself, as a healer, against negativity energies and evil beings?
Is smudging the best way to keep your personal energy field clear? Or do you have specific affirmations that work?
Healing facilitation response:
When I first became aware of what is termed "negative energies" I became a very fear-based being. Well, more accurately, the collective mindset around this idea that negative energies were everywhere and just waiting to attack Light Workers triggered every dormant fear-based belief system I had ever embraced.
I also was around a very diverse group of spiritual beings at the time and many of them practiced an almost constant ritual of protecting, smudging, saying affirmations, etc., so I had quite a bit of support for maintaining my practice of shielding and protection.
It was only years later that I realized how wonderful that group of teachers was, in the path of my spiritual development. Only by experiencing what it felt like to live in constant fear, could I truly appreciate the absence of it later.
I did what every other fear-based being was doing at the time....I smudged, used essential oils as spritzers for energetic space clearing, used crystals and stones all around me, and said almost constant protection affirmations. I was repeatedly clearing my own field and clearing the space around my healing table, in case negative entities had been drawn to the light of the healing frequencies.
In addition, I kept a vigilant watch during healing sessions and any type of spiritual ceremony, for negative entities that might be trying to infiltrate the Sacred Space. I was not disappointed. I did, indeed, sense negavitity at times and manipulative energy beings, as well as being attacked by what i felt were evil energies. The more this happened, the more I felt I had to shield myself and keep protection from evil foremost in my consciousness.
It was rather exhausting, of course, having to be constantly clearing the space, so vigilant against psychic intrusion and, at the same time, being open to Universal Life Force energies that would help my partners in healing to heal themselves. Looking back, it's a wonder any healing vibrations got through at all.
Somewhere a long the way, my fear-based awareness shifted around this idea of constant spiritual protection.
I realized that it had all been spiritual training. What I was being taught was to fear not. I was being initiated into living by faith. It was a spiritual journey I had to take, if I were to help others mired in fear and living a fear-based life.
Part Two on Spiritual Protection, continue......What you dwell on, increases
Part Three on Spiritual Protection, continue.....What you fear, you attract
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Spiritual Health Disclaimer: It is better to use ritual and ceremony to provide shielding and spiritual protection until you are strong enough in your Self to abandon the use of them. I would not change my journey in any way because, at certain points in my life, I desperately needed to feel safe and to feel that I could protect myself. I needed it until I did not need it. So may you. I also am well aware that negative entities and negative energies both exist. How could they not, with free will and collective thoughtforms that can just as easily generate a gridline of negative energy as positive?