Energetic Protections

Energetic Protections

How do we build energetic protections?

The path into the energetic world is filled with wonderful and moving encounters, extrasensory experiences that grant us new understandings about the world and about ourselves, and also somewhat strange encounters that we might prefer to avoid – yet they are every bit as essential.

In the energetic world everything is connected. Our emotional world intertwines with the energetic world, and the energetic world intertwines with the physical. In other words – every being we meet will communicate in some way with our emotional world, or influence it.

If we are performing a ritual and have a meaningful lesson to learn, we may meet pleasant and wise beings, or perhaps beings who come to teach us through challenge and confrontation – according to what is right for us in that moment.

The point is that there are no “evil” beings. But there certainly are those that demand confrontation, and it is good to prepare before we meet them. Another influence we will want to be ready for is that of the outside world. Let’s face it – the world is not only fluffy and cute. There are people who are more pleasant and less so, there are memories and emotions floating in the air under the influence of those who felt them (more on this in the chapter on energetic formations), and there are influences we would not want entering our inner world. That is why it is sometimes worth creating an energetic barrier before doing deep work.

These barriers we call “energetic protections”.

Exercise – building an energetic circle

1. Imagine a white light rising slowly and gently from the earth. Centimeter by centimeter… Imagine the light covering your feet, and from there rising to the pelvis and then to the back. It covers the belly and the chest as well, and finally the crown of the head. Imagine the light protecting you and enveloping you (if you prefer – you can imagine a purple light, or any other color that empowers you in that moment).

2. Raise your hands and imagine the light radiating from them as you move them around yourself, strengthening the circle more and more until it is strong, pleasant, and stable.
3. In your heart you may ask:

“Earth, powerful Mother! I call upon you to be here with me in this space. I ask that you protect me during this journey and guide me toward a deeper understanding of myself.

Goddess, Mother, deep Earth – surround me in a circle of protection and of love”

(or another version of a request for protection, as you choose!)

The request may be repeated again and again, if needed.