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Psychic protection: 7 techniques you can use today
A good proportion of the people who contact me do not need clearing. They need shielding, and nobody ever taught them how. Everything on this page is free, works tonight, and requires no belief system at all. If clearing is what you actually need, why people come to us sets out what that usually looks like.
If you are the person who arrives home from a family gathering feeling as though you have been unplugged, this page is for you.
Being highly empathic is not a fault and it is not an illness. It does mean you are porous, and porous things need edges. What follows is what I teach first, in the order I teach it: three visualisations, three physical practices, and one habit that matters more than the rest put together.
1. The golden bubble
The one to learn first, because it takes thirty seconds and works immediately.
Close your eyes. Picture a ball of golden light enclosing you completely, over the top of your head, under the soles of your feet, all the way round. Leave a gap between your skin and the inside surface; you are not shrink-wrapping yourself, you are giving yourself a room to stand in. Hold it for a few breaths until it feels solid rather than imagined.
Do it before you go into anywhere you know will be difficult. A hospital, a family visit, a supermarket on a Saturday.
2. The purple flame
This one is for afterwards rather than beforehand.
Picture yourself standing inside a bright purple flame that burns away anything you have picked up. It does not burn you. It only consumes what does not belong. Stand in it until it feels like it has finished, which is usually less than a minute.
Use it after an uncomfortable conversation, after any spiritual or mediumistic practice, and after being anywhere that left you feeling coated in something.
3. The golden shower of light
The daily one. Best in the actual shower, which gives your mind something to hang it on.
Imagine golden light pouring down over your head and running the whole length of your body, carrying everything heavy down through your feet and into the earth. Then let it rise back up through you, clean. Down and up, two or three times.
This is the one I would pick if you only ever did one, because it becomes automatic and you stop having to remember it.
4. Sea salt
Cheap, old, and effective out of proportion to how simple it is.
- In the bath: a good handful, and get your head under if you can
- Around the bed: a light sprinkle at the corners, hoovered up and replaced weekly
- At doorways: a pinch at the thresholds of any room that feels wrong
Sea salt, not table salt.
5. Clearing the house
Smudge with sage, or burn a good incense, and go round every room including the corners and behind doors. The places nobody bothers with are the places it settles. Open a window while you do it; you want somewhere for it to go.
If one room stubbornly refuses to feel any better after several attempts, that is worth taking seriously, and a property clearing deals with it properly.
6. Stones and symbols
Black tourmaline and black onyx are the two I recommend most often, carried in a pocket rather than left on a shelf. A worn protective symbol works for many people. Bach Flower Remedy Holly is worth knowing about.
None of these do the work on their own. They are reminders that hold an intention, and the intention is the active ingredient.
7. The one that matters most: what you let in
This is the least mystical item on the list and the one I would fight hardest for.
- Recreational drugs, and hallucinogens in particular, are genuinely dangerous here. They loosen the connection between your spiritual and physical selves, and that gap is exactly the opening that lets something else in. This is the single most common origin story I hear.
- Keep alcohol modest. Same mechanism, slower.
- Do not use a Ouija board. I have lost count of the people whose difficulties date precisely to one evening that everybody present treated as a joke. There is a whole page on why.
- Put distance between yourself and persistently negative people where you are able to. You cannot always. Where you cannot, use the bubble.
- Meditate, even badly. Ten minutes of doing it imperfectly beats an hour you never get round to.
Chen adds one more, and refuses to stop adding it: laugh every day. He is not being whimsical. He means it as a technique, and in twenty years I have not found a cheaper or more reliable one.
When protection is not enough
If you have been doing all of this consistently for a few weeks and nothing has shifted, the problem is probably not permeability. Something may already be in place, and shielding does not remove what is already inside the shield. Negative entities covers what that can turn out to be, and spiritual warfare covers the rarer case where somebody sent it on purpose.
That is the point at which a health check is worth the money, and if it turns out there is nothing there, you will be told that too.
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Jayne and I run live courses in protection and safe development, for people who want more than a page of techniques, and for practitioners who need to protect themselves while working on others.