Spiritual Truths and Practices
Why Are We Teaching People to Protect Their Energy?
You’re already protected.
I just returned from a psychic conference at the Edgar Cayce Center in Virginia Beach. There were several speakers including Echo Bodine, who was impressive. But there were other talks in the program that focused on how to develop and handle psychic abilities — namely, intuition — and I was disturbed by the number of times it was recommended to “protect your energy” when dealing with psychic activities.
I spend a lot of my focus teaching that everything should come from a place of love. We should not be instilling fear in others about things that they can’t see, hear, or touch. We ourselves have to be vigilant not to give in to irrational fears as well. This kind of thing can send us spiraling into paranoia about being ‘attacked’ by negative energies.
Our efforts are of far better use in the world to increase love and compassion, not to focus on whatever is wrong in the universe that can hurt us. Whatever there is to fear in the spiritual realms has a counterpart on Earth in the physical realm — “As above, so below”. Just as you would be better off not thinking about whatever you have to fear in this realm, you shouldn’t focus on what there is to fear in the higher (or lower) realms. You…
