Avoiding Psychic Attack

[Ninjabear]

I've been going to work recently and spending time around a very deeply aggresive/negative person. Every time I am around him his harmful energies seem to be passing through the air and hurting me deeply. By the end of the 8hr day I feel like a dithering wreck and go home to prepare myself for another day.

Last night however I discovered a technique to shut my chakras and to avoid his harmful energy. As a result i got through the entire day and only felt my feelings compromised once or twice. At each point I left and redid the technique, thus protecting myself further.

I assume that the reason I happens to be me and not other work colleages is because I am a deeply caring person, I have read that this makes you more open to attack. Are there any other things I can do to protect myself? Is my technique of shutting the chakras a good one?

http://www.southville.net/chris/chakras.htm (bottom of the page)

[AmbientSound]

Look up shielding. There are endless amounts of techniques, most involve visualization.

[Tayesin]

Hi Ninja;
Our chakras are not meant to be closed down, at all, ever.

They may fluctuate regularly with what's going on with you, but they never close down, otherwise you will suffer.

There are numerous ways to deal with this person at work.

1. Just imagine you are invisible to all his negativity, and allow that energy to pass through leaving no traces.

2. Mirroring, which is a visualization to begin with and that becomes easier to do everytime you do it so that only the intent will be required to establish it.

3. Protective Shielding, again a visualization technique that works well and that becomes created with your intent with practice.

4. Just top up your energy by bringing White Light into yourself... that's INTO yourself, through the Crown Chakra. This allows Universal energy to flow where it is needed and in doing so it will not drain you. Do it as often as you feel the need.

5. My personal favorite and what I always use...... Find something to Love this person for. If you can see that this person is suffering, that they are a human being just like you, that they are a soul just like you, then you can Love them and not suffer for yourself.

eg: When I look at a being (human or otherwise) I seek out the light in them, and they all have light no matter how dark they appear, and once I have found the reason I need to Love them I can then pour Golden Light energy from my heart chakra into them, which begins a healing process for them.

You can find how to use these methods at my website.

[Aluna6]

I use the Black Lightpen from www.heavylight.de which I shine on people and environments.  It's amazing how quickly it strips dark energy from people and makes them more peaceful and sane. A real psychic self-defense tool. 

Also, at least 4 times a day i shine it on my head which keeps the energy picked up from others moving down and out of my energy system.  It keeps the agitations of the ego nice and settled. 

[AmbientSound]

One thing that is effective is grounding your energy. Place awareness on your connection with the earth by feeling/being aware of gravity and the direction of force. It's amazing how strong this makes you feel (it is just a reminder of the strength you have always had).

[Vitruvian]

Ninja,
The shielding technique works, and it's simple: just outside your aura build a white light - push it out and hold it there whenever you are under a psychic attack (don't do it all the time). Then go about your business at work; the negative energies will flow around you without impact.
Vitruvian

[kamals]

Much of this is controversial and may be contrary to the beliefs of many people – one is free to accept it or reject it as one wills. Some may take this as "a load of hooey" or think it is misleading.

Take it or leave it as you will; Rejection entails consequences as does acceptance, "You can't have my tea without emptying your cup" as Bruce Lee used to say

I do recommend that before blasting it in criticism, one reads it thoroughly, and contemplates it – really. Consider it and where you find truth follow it, where you don't then leave it...

So posted in the hope this is helpful....

Avoiding a "spiritually Poly-Anna" mentality is important... everything is "sweetness and light" but sometimes.. there really are bad guys who want you dead

Naïveté can be a shield of sorts, just as crude disbelief in anything of a psychic nature – really - but "manifesting light and love" can occasionally result in someone manifesting a club over your head – in a metaphorical way. The path of the "spiritual warrior" is one that is full of common-sense precaution, and a lack of precaution is naïve to the point of  vice..

Hence people who are often VERY nice, and VERY compassionate, occasionally find themselves attacked in nasty ways, physically as well as spiritually. Which results in their physical and psychic wounds, which is a sad thing.

Expect good from all, and be open, but also able to defend oneself, without animosity, is the best attitude.

Check out Robert Bruce's book on Psychic Attacks, really it is the best, the best, I've seen on the subject.

For the VERY astute person Julius Evola's "Introduction to Magic" will contain advice that can be used along with Mr. Bruce's material with a degree of efficacy.

Lastly, for a conceptual framework to see HOW this can all be integrated see Guenon's chapter on "Sorcery and Shamanism" in his "Reign of Quantity" and his chapter "On Ceremonial Magic" and "On The Powers" in his "Perspectives on Initiation".

Lastly, with GREAT discretion and care, I recommend the first three books of Carlos Castaneda's "Don Juan" series. For reasons I really don't care to go into now, I do not recommend later books. The first three have real efficacy especially when integrated into a perspective informed by the above sources.

One thing that MUST be remembered is that these attacks MAY NOT even be conscious... really. Certain basic human emotions, in one with a latent predisposition or ability to manipulate the psychic, may tend to produce certain results without their even being aware of it.

This was VERY well known in ancient civilizations, modern Westerners make fun of the concept of the "evil eye" without stopping for a moment to examine the possibility that it may have some real basis in fact...

"The Eye" is usually an unconscious form of psychic attack generated through intense envy by an individual with a natural and unconscious possession of certain unchanneled psychic abilities. "It just happens" and they may consciously be HORRIFIED to know that they may be "attacking" someone. Other emotions, types of neediness, etc. may generate this. So this person may be unaware he or she is hurting you.

Traditional protections against the evil eye in Chinese culture, Christian European culture, and Islamic middle eastern culture, may have some benefit. A good deal of "Fung Shui" in its native original form consisted of recognizing adversarial flows and nexuses of subtle forces, and taking sensible protections to neutralize their effects or redirect them.

Approaches:
You can fight it on its own level – sorcery to sorcery / magic to magic. Etc. (not recommended)

You can try to redirect such attacks as alluded to above, or strengthen and armor yourself on the psychic level.

You can betake refuge in "the Pure Spirit", if you have access to such. This is the traditional "religious" approach and for someone with a truly religious soul may have great efficacy.

Last two first

The next two approaches increase in subtlety and are contingent upon making certain lifestyle changes Robert Bruce's book has surprising good advice on this point, and though such matters were not chief in Evola's aims. "Tightening up your life" is the key

Visualizing shields and such may have relative degrees of efficacy, but the more one pulls one's life together, the more useful such techniques may be.

Watching how you spend your energy in all things is a good exercise, most of us are used to many thing sin our environment draining our energies in small and subtle ways, plugging up the "holes" in your life, tying up your "loose ends" (it is VERY interesting these metaphors, they point to operative knowledge that was once commonplace and even mundane but has become very rare in today's world), living a "tight" life is one step. It's not about being A--l Retentive :=) it is about knowing when where and how to expend your energies and when where and how to conserve it.

These sort of daily practices indirectly strengthens your subtle nature, increasing the general amount of energy you retain... and lessening attachments that can be attacked by others. Keeping track of your loose ends, consolidating them, bringing yourself "together" in increasing focus.

One who floats on every sundry wind, who does not stand firmly grounded and rooted and make herself manifest a principle without ambiguity or wavering, such a one has an open being that is subject to attack to a greater degree than some others.

"Standing up for yourself" in your day to day life is a materialistic every-day reflection of something far more profound.

Strengthening your will and "hardening yourself" selectively.... Cultivating the ability to bend when bending is needed, and to remain firmly rooted when firmness is needed – these are internal attitudes that conditions and strengthens your self. Developing increased focus of will.... It's hard to explain exactly what I mean by this without just doing it...

A trick, perhaps, is that when around this person, try visualizing a strong mirror shield around you.

Another matter is taking weapons from a superior domain: by this I mean symbols. Symbols are misunderstood and commonly viewed as reflecting archetypes in our "collective unconsciousness" – in reality a symbol is a prolongation of a distinct aspect of the divine reality itself. In this manner everything is a symbol, you and I included, because everything represents and reflects a divine reality.

By knowing how to manipulate images and symbols in the subtle domain one can manipulate things in other realms. By operating on things in a "higher" (and the terms higher and lower are problematic, but are also easily understood and have some utility here) realm one can operate on things in realms lower than that...

This is a controversial point, not often accepted in today's world; but the spiritual, and the psychic, cane really be seen as ontologically distinct realms just as the physical and the subtle/psychic realms are. They overlap, and are in a sense simply part of a spectrum or a continuum, but they can be viewed as distinctive from one another from a certain perspective – in that one realm is "higher" than another.

Certain religious symbols from an intact religious tradition may be charged with a good deal of subtle force as well as spiritual force, because the spiritual uses the psychic and subtle realms as "supports" just as your physical body is at once simply one modality of one being in one realm, as well as a support for the manifestation of that principle and being in a particular realm, so to is the Soul and psyche a "support" for the spiritual.

Such Symbols from a spiritual tradition that is living may be bridges to spiritual forces THROUGH the psychic realm.

Sacred words, mantras, prayers, and the like are symbols in their own right possessed on an ontological status beyond their formal manifestation. "Om" is a word, a syllable, a word, a sound. "Allah Hu' is word, sound, syllables...

"Ti'en ("Heaven" in Chinese) is a word, is a sound, is a syllable...

But this is the FORM that manifest an ESSENCE that ESSENECE being the inward reality, the meaning, of that symbol.

Symbols from traditions that have died are much like corpses or shells, they may be charged with psychic forces but are no longer subject to an ordering principle and will "from above" – they are egregores in the intermediate "astral plane" but ones that can be used, manipulated, "possessed", etc. because they no longer are tied to that which is "above" it.

Talismans and protective incantations from within those traditions may have some efficacy BEYOND the psychic.

On the psychic, look at chaos magic, one can make the name Bugs Bunny into an egregore with specific images and charge "Bugs Bunny" with force and direct him to do such and such... Jumping above the psychic to the spiritual entails entirely different attitudes of the self, and by in large many people today are incapable of it due to a lingering creeping materialism in our souls... it is easier to conceptualize the psychic world, for a post-religious, post-modern Westerner, than to really conceptualize and be open to "the Spirit" in its most rigorous sense...

Someone within a reasonable intact spiritual and religious tradition may be able to take refuge to the principle that that tradition manifests. The method: "invocation" and "prayer" of the heart.

The metaphysics here seem complex at first, but they start to make a good deal of sense... symbols that are "holy" by a large segment of humanity are holy because they manifest a superior principle in this world, and people recognize it – this is the opposite of Jung's view, it's not that people make up symbols and they become part of the collective unconsciousness, rather it is that we INTUIT symbols and perceive them and their power exists outside of our recognizing them..

A "true" symbol or system of symbols may confer great protection for one if it is still tied into its "heavenly origin" and forms a portal, of sorts, through the intermediate psychic world, through which a superior force can descend.

A system of symbols from a civilization or tradition that has "died"  - that is its heavenly archetype withdrawn, leaving a psychic shell – again, an egregore or "thought form" lingering behind, sometimes for centuries or longer. All corpses undergo dissolution, some just take a longer time to lie down and rot....

And LASTLY this leads to the "first" suggestion, which I really don't recommend anyway, and that is... fighting fire with fire.

Fighting fire with fire has risks. People are welcome to disagree with this as they will... the Wiccan understanding of "karma" and "threefold law" is, in reality, a crude approximation and somewhat of a pious platitude.. but like all crude approximations does reflect some truth.

A being can take certain actions within a certain realm if she is strong enough to resist the consequences and forces evoked, or better to USE the consequences and ride the forces evoked ... riding the lightning so to speak.

This is equal to a person's strength, and a person's strength isn't like a Japanese anime cartoon of psychic dudes blasting each other, it is partially a matter of self knowledge – or as one of the responders to this thread pointed out "being aware of how strong you already are" Just as your PHYSICAL body is far stronger than you realize, so too is your subtle body..

HOWEVER just as your physical body has limits according to what it is conditioned to doing, so too does your soul. Fight someone stronger than you on their own level and, they have an advantage.

I don't recommend responding to psychic attack with counter attack - from a certain perspective it's rather stupid. I suspect that some people can get away with it, in a sense, or at least "delay" the counter-effects for some time.... But why bother? For ego? To feel like a "powerful magus"?

Magic for most people is ineffective at best, auto-suggestion and self-delusion, or actually ends up compromising them to further attacks at worse, and a good deal of it is ego tripping, a "service to self" focus.

Someone who is a trained magician may be able to redirect such attacks and even use them, himself.... Frankly you are better off just tightening up your life, sincerely praying, and doing some common sense "fung shui"

A good start may be confronting the person in question with beauty, approaching him or her and letting them know that you perceive there may be some difficulties in your relationship, you can't put your fingers on it, but have you offended them or have they any reason to be offended by you? Is there anything you can set right? DO THIS FROMA  POSITION OF STRENGTH, and confidence, and be open to what they say. It may simply be a result of unconscious anger and frustration at you or something close to you...

Speak softly, and have your stick