Energy Management and Protection 3-part series.
When talking about energy and how we can take responsibility for and manage our energy, it’s important to look at the connections between spirituality, energy and how it affects us, and mysticism and mental health issues. (You can read more about how to manage your energy in part one of this series - if you missed part one you can catch up here).
Because many people, (including myself in the past) experience symptoms, particularly mental health challenges, which are actually spiritually related but they don't realise it. For me, I thought at best that I had an overactive imagination, and at worst I feared that I was going mad, going to die or that something really serious was wrong with me!!
A lot of people who experience depression, anxiety and other mental health concerns often don't realise that they are awakening spiritually. People experiencing addiction problems, often don't realise that they are seeking to numb out and escape difficult-to-handle emotions which are caused by spiritual emergence. It is a well known fact to many within the spiritual communities, that M.E./chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia symptoms are classic signs of the body going through genetic upgrades where they receive higher light codes which help to raise their consciousness and overall frequency.
Many indigenous cultures take a very different view of mental health than the current perspective largely agreed upon by western medicine. Frequently, spiritual emergence experiences can be misdiagnosed here in the west, because we are still living in a system which doesn't have the awareness that spirituality or awakening symptoms exist and instead we are sometimes mis-labelled by the medical professions and prescribed harmful drugs to treat something physically, when the cause of the problem itself is often non-physical.
I do see there are a lot of hugely valuable physical, emotional and psychological treatments available today with some very well qualified and talented people, but whilst we are still not incorporating the spiritual cause of these symptoms in the overall diagnosis process, then we leave out a huge piece of the jigsaw and are only half armed with information instead.
I’ll share a personal story of mine that I hope will help illustrate how important it is for us to understand how our energetic, mental, emotional and physical health are ALL interconnected. (And why it’s vital to keep a strong energy protection and management routine in place, practicing regularly.)
I had the experience in my early 20’s of going to see a crystal healer one time, who quite accidently catalysed ‘an opening’ in me, shall we say. This led to about 3 months of sleepless nights and horror for me when I was speaking in tongues (and not in a good way), picking up on dark forces all around me and my housing seeming to ‘come alive’… I would wake up screaming to find huge entities standing over me on my bed and I became utterly terrified to go to sleep at night and be on my own in the house.
After about 2 weeks of stopping off at the off license on the way home from work, to down some brandy in the car whilst being parked outside of my house so I could find the courage to go in on my own, I eventually arranged to get my house exorcised. Myself and my mum did it actually. We had some help from some remote energy workers. That helped, but as I was later to find out when I moved to different houses and each one was haunted in some way, it was MY OWN ENERGY which was the problem, not my house…
I, myself, spent far too long and wasted far too much (sparse) energy just about ‘coping’ with life when I was young due to my extreme sensitivities and lack of understanding about energy management and protection and why it’s so important for us to practice regularly.
My sensitivity pretty much wrecked my enjoyment of life from ages 18-29 and I then subsequently spent many years ‘recovering’ from various addictions and destructive behavioural patterns which were mostly born out of this empathic sensitivity to external energy. I sat in therapeutic support groups and addiction recovery groups for many years, surrounded by other sensitive souls who were also struggling to handle life and what I notice now is that NOBODY IN THERE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS STUFF.
The mainstream (and even some of the more ‘alternative’ therapeutic and recovery programmes available) just aren’t set up at the moment to delve into these areas, and whilst I certainly feel unbelievably grateful to these institutions, people and organisations for keeping me alive long enough to find out what the magic formula that works for me is, I do feel there is a need to integrate their existing models and approaches with more progressive spiritual teachings, which incorporates the damaging effect that intrusive external energy can have on our wellbeing.
One thing which is helpful to know, is a list of common symptoms which arise as a result of external energy influencing our energy system. We all react and respond differently of course, but some of the common symptoms are as follows:
Rapid shifts in mood (mood swings)
Anxiety, depression, feeling stressed out for no apparent reason
Sudden shifts in our energy - going from feeling highly energised to lethargic and sluggish
Feeling vacant, spaced out, having a ‘foggy brain’
Headaches, nausea, feeling dizzy
Experiencing vertigo like symptoms
Body tingles and energy rushes (especially around our chakra centres)
A ‘buzzing’ feeling in our bodies, or feeling like we are vibrating very fast (we are raising in frequency)
Exhibiting behaviour which is out of keeping with our natural character
Aches and pains in our bodies, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia type symptoms
Skin conditions (itchy, flaky, sore etc)
Sore eyes, blurred vision
Ear ringing and hearing different tones
Changes in sleep patterns (often sleeping for a few hours, then waking up at 3am/4am for a few hours, then sleeping again)
Fluctuations in eating habits and weight
Energy stored up in feet and hands (often fluctuating between hot & cold)
Crown chakra and 3rd eye tingles, feeling them expanding and ‘pushing out’
Acid reflux type symptoms
Sensitivity to chemicals, sugar, hormones in food etc
The above list is not exhaustive, but it gives you a good idea about how energy symptoms can be experienced and it is worth noting that a lot of these are the same for the signs and symptoms of spiritual awakenings too. (For more information on spiritual awakenings, then please read my blog post on this topic here)
Of course you should always go to the doctor to check out your symptoms to ensure they are not physically based - I am a great advocate of all types of healing and therapy, including some mainstream approaches.
But I have personally found that taking an INTEGRATED approach to healing and raising in consciousness is the best way forward, and in the same way that I see people becoming unbalanced when they just solely focus on the physical, going to the other extreme and solely relying on spiritual healing solutions, can lead to much imbalance also. The key, as it so often is, is in finding that balance, and taking a holistic approach where we consider not only our mental, physical and emotional well-being as vital to our overall health, but also our spiritual well-being too.
If you don’t already have a regular energy management protection routine in place, which will help you to manage your energy and keep your spiritual well-being at its best, then make sure you catch up on the first part in this series, where I share my personal tips to support you in setting up your own daily routine.
And look out for my third and final part in this series on energy management and protection, where we’ll explore intrusive energy and attachments. What they are, how they could affect you, and what you can do about it.