Safeguards and Protections

Intuitive Storytelling works under the assumption that we are both a tree and the forest, meaning that we are ourselves with our own bodies, but we are also connected intimately together by some unseen network.

We are the individual and the group. We have our own thoughts while channeling the group experience as well. When such a thing is true, we have access to not only the wisdom of All-That-Is, but the energetic peril as well. Recall instances when you entered a new environment and felt like something was off or even dangerous even if you couldn’t see or hear anything specific to give you that impression. There are likely instances when you interacted with someone and were invaded by them even if they didn’t touch you. When we are sensitive and open to subtle information, many of us can be vulnerable to influences we are not seeking, which is why it is important to establish Safeguards and Precautions when using Intuitive Storytelling.

For the past few years, I have attended concerts, recitals and events at a music school near where I live. I have experienced opera, chamber music, orchestral music, world music, musical theater, and recitals by well known musicians from around the world. I am glad I attended these concerts but I made the decision not to attend any more concerts because of repeated swells of anxiety and headaches that would occur when I would enter the main hall. It was subtle at first but it would build concert after concert and at the most recent concert, things got painful. I had to use a protocol I use when channeling, of bathing myself in white light and to breath out the discomfort. It took a long time and my solution was to stop attending. 

I chose to examine this dynamic with a series of exercises and meditations that will be introduced later, and learned that we can be “tagged” as potential hosts for being possessed by nonphysical entities.  I realize that this sounds dramatic and scary because the images that pop into our head are of the Exorcist or other violent possessions, but the reality is that we subtly become hosts all the time. Little bits of nonphysical “stuff” glom onto us all the time and as is the case with dust and sweat and pollution, we need to clean ourselves off. This energetic detritus can gather and form marks that let nonphysical entities know you are a willing host, or are at least, available. 

I encourage you all to establish clear boundaries, and exercise energetic hygiene so you do not become a kind of target.

In my experience, being marked is like becoming energetic fly paper collecting gnat after gnat like coffee grounds in the kitchen sink drain pipe. It doesn’t seem like a big deal at first until you get clogged and then you need to sluff it off. This can look like getting sick or going into a state of detoxification or even emotional turbulence, but it is generally uncomfortable and unattractive. My recommendation is to develop a filter in advance and then a protocol of regular cleaning. This has been a game-changer for me.

One of the best things you can do is to announce very specifically what kind of energy you are willing to interact with, and then not allow any other energy to access you.  You say this out loud or write it down like a contract. Many sensitive and intuitive people won’t do this because they enjoy spontaneous inspiration and interaction with new entities or flavors of energy. It's exciting and fun to encounter a new entity that wishes to communicate or interact. I get it, I was like that too. But then there are encounters like the one I was having in the music hall where I felt captive to something uninvited. That is the risk. You get to choose how you want to do this work, but I encourage clarity either way. 

I have a hygienic routine that involves prayer, imagining white light and deep breathing to wash away anything sticky from a session.

Even if I love the kind of energy that I worked with, I will wash it away afterwards because I don’t want to keep carrying things around. Like the fly paper, this can get heavy. You have all experienced this when you keep considering an interaction  you had with a coworker or family member. You go over and over the interaction and soon it gets challenging to think of anything else. This is the same dynamic, except you interacted with a nonphysical entity and much of the sticky residue is harder to identify. So I just clean it all indiscriminately. I just shower off the day, whether it was a good day or a bad day. For me, that usually does the trick. 

Exercise: Daily Energetic Hygiene 

Here are some simple techniques you can use on a regular basis

1. Say a prayer or verse that makes clear what you are doing and what kind of energy you wish to interact with. Here is the one I use:
1. I clear myself and this space of any energies that do not support my intuitive session. I will remain safe and protected, and any obstacles blocking my clear and direct channel are now removed. I am willing to learn new things, to change, and to expand. This intuitive experience benefits me, those around me, and humanity. I ask that my guardians of the highest truth, light, and compassion be present with me. I invite your presence and protection as I begin this intuitive session. Thank you, guardians of the highest truth, light, and compassion, for collaborating with me.
2. Then, when the session is over, I use the exercises below to release any leftover psychic energy that is not mine. 
2. Bathe in white light
1. Find a comfortable place to sit and become quiet. Close your eyes and relax
2. Imagine a small white light above you begins to shine indiscriminately in all directions. Believe that the light is a part of the highest good and will not let anything other than the highest good into its sphere. 
3. Imagine the light grows and grows until your entire body and all the space around your body is immersed in the light. 
4. Imagine that anything that is not of the highest good dissolves into the light and is no longer a part of or attached to you. 
5. Express gratitude for being cleaned.
3. Breathe out the bad and breathe in the good
1. Tell yourself that with every breath out, you will let go of anything that does not serve you and everytime you breathe in, you are welcoming in the highest truth light and goodness. 
2. Breathe out a count of four, knowing that you are cleaning out all the energetic detritus you have collected in the day.
3. Breathe in a count of four, knowing that you are fortifying everything that is good, true, and authentic to you.
4. Keep breathing until you feel better. Usually between 3 and 10 minutes. 

Usually this does the trick, but there are also times when you need more. This music school thing needed something more, because I was apparently calling an energetic possession to me.

I learned through a series of meditations that I had a tag that invited a certain entity in the music hall, that I was a willing host. I realize that sounds a little more like a horror movie, so let me clarify that I don’t interact with ghosts of people who have died. This isn’t how it works for me. We are all complex cocktails of energy that we exchange all day long. We are constantly in transformation and are fluid, more like an ecosystem than a specific being that does not change. This is also the case with nonphysical entities. They are qualities of energy, rather than a particular person with a long back story.

I believed I was tagged as attractive and open to this quality of energy, and every time I went into the music hall, I felt like something was attaching itself to me. Because, it turns out, something was, and my usual hygienic cleaning wasn’t going to cut it. I could clean the energy off of me, but it took a lot of work and I didn't want this to happen every time I went to this hall. So I learned a way to get rid of the tag by using the vibrational exercise below. Feel free to adapt it with your imagination, so that it fits better with your understanding of energy. This is a vibrational reset where you can remove old tags or markers. It is like using a virus cleaner on your computer, or clearing the cache and cookies. You dismiss all the dynamics that have become a part of your energetic profile.

But like cleaning your computer, the downside of this process is that you also remove all the tags you want. I have had a daily connection to a group of celestial entities that I enjoyed. When I used the exercise below, my connection to them was removed, and I needed to reach out and find them again we could work together. This is like storing your passwords so that you can re-create the cookies you like. 

Exercise: Sonic Reset 

1. Find the right note that feels like a power washer or gamma ray cleaner. For me it is a sound that is at once harsh and piercing but not unpleasant. Just intense. 
2. Try to make the sound. Hum it or sing it or however you can access it. If you can’t (too high or low or strange), then imagine the sound so you can hear it that way.
3. Start at the top of your head and let the sound move almost like an MRI, bit by bit over the top of your head. If you have ever used a power washer, you know it can be too intense and you can harm the wood or stone. So you need a steady stream at a steady rate to remove the old muck. Move slowly but steadily down your head and into your body.
4. Be thorough. Look around and find the spots you missed. You will feel where you are clean and where you still have muck. The tags get removed and your vibrational body is reset to something clean and like new. 

We live in a stimulating environment which makes clarity and energetic cleanliness more of a challenge than it used to.

Meditating and staying on a particular path is a real challenge for many of us due to the constant barrage of competing images around us. Many of us willingly engage in the distractions by opening apps on our phone, or streaming entertainment, or comparing ourselves to the trappings of others. Marketing strategies have targeted us much like entities that are looking for a willing host. We walk around with a tag that announces “I will buy what you are selling” and we get texts and emails that analyze our digital behavior and attempt to sell us products and experiences. It is a lot, so I encourage everyone to create filtering and cleaning practices that you will use. Build them for success because this is important. 

Journaling Exercise: Exploring Light, Breath, and Sound

• I encourage everyone to communicate with entities of the “highest light, goodness and compassion. What does this mean to you?

• In my imagination, I surround myself with light as a kind of filter and barrier. If you were to do this, describe the light that would surround you.

• Consider cleansing the space in which you are doing your intuitive work. What rituals or practices can you put in place that would protect you and make you feel safe?

• Some people burn sage or incense. Does this appeal to you? Consider doing research about what kind of herb or incense to burn. Make notes here.

• Some people have crystals nearby or on their person when channeling. Common crystals are amethyst, rose quartz, and labradorite. Do research to determine which is best for you. Make notes here.

• People often say prayers or mantras to connect themselves with a higher power and to feel safe and protected. Consider which prayers would be authentic to you.

• Sound in the form of chimes, tuning forks, songs or music can be an effective way to feel safe and protected. What could you use?