4 - Psychic Protection And Clearing

For it is very easy now to become bound up in the frequencies of fear, and we say to you that there is nothing to be fearful about — all fear begins within. Remember always that where there is light there can be no darkness. Work to increase your light and you will free yourself from fear.

(Ortan)

In almost every channelling class we have taught, people have asked whether it is necessary to protect themselves - to keep their energy clear of the influence of others. You will find that learning to take care of yourself at every level is a very good way to develop self-love, which is the key to protection.

There is no such thing as negative energy, only energy you cannot yet handle.

Ortan and I have developed our own approaches to protection, and they are simple to use. There are two stages: the first is to clear your energy of negative influences, and the second is to stay clear once you have done so. Both these techniques are available as guided meditations from the School of the Living Light (see p. 15 8). You do not need to be able to channel to follow our angel meditations: calling on the assistance of the angels is one of the most powerful ways to keep your energy clear and sparkling with light.

Clearing Your Energy, Cleansing Your Aura

The most direct way to clear your own energy is to work with the angels of purification and your guide. These angels are in service to humanity and will help you to release negative energies from your aura.

Meditation: Clearing Your Energy With The Angels Of Purification

Find a quiet place where you will not be disturbed for a few minutes. You may like to burn incense or perhaps aromatic oils to clear the environment around you and to help the angels come easily to you. Settle down into a meditative position with your back straight and call in your guide. If you wish, get some friends together so that one of you can read the meditation out loud for the others. If you are on your own you can just read through the meditation and try to imagine as much as you can of the description given. This meditation is available on our tape set Gifts from the Angels (see p. 158) ....

Take a couple of deep breaths into the abdomen, breathing in light, and as you are breathing in this light let go of any thoughts, let go of any worries, let go of any tensions so that your body is becoming relaxed, safe and comfortable, freeing you to play in the energy with the angels.

You are going to play with the angels, those beings of light who are so closely connected with the energy of the divine, the Creator. These beings of light are here to assist us in every aspect of our spiritual growth and in every aspect of our everyday lives. All we need to do is to be open to their beautiful energies. Start to imagine that your energy is becoming very beautiful, starting to call light to you. You are filling up with light. You are becoming light.

Spend a moment now to send away any energies that are not your own, releasing them to return to their rightful place in the universe, and calling all your own energy back to you wherever it may be scattered. Calling it back so that you are whole and complete, very balanced, and as you do this you feel stronger. Many times in your everyday life on the earth plane you will collect energies that are not yours. In the process that we will now follow you will be able to release all these energies. You will be able to clear your aura and to let go of grasping or holding on to influences that are not going to contribute to your growth and to your joy.

Continue to call light to you. Fill up with light, feeling more and more peaceful. With your inner sensing you may have a sense of a dancing energy being drawn towards you, perhaps just catching it at the corners of your inner vision. You may see or sense flames or dancing lights. You may see tiny forms of exquisite human shapes, you may see sparkles of colour as you and your guide call in the angels of purification. Allow the angels to move closer and closer to you. Open your heart, affirm to the angels: 'I am ready to release all influences and energies that do not contribute to my highest good.' As you make this affirmation, open your heart to allow the angels to start to move into your energy so that they are at the edges of your aura.

You may notice an increase in light, you may see colours, you may have a slight tingling sensation in the hands or in the body. Allow it to be as it is, not trying to do anything, noticing the light now as the angels hear your affirmation. Feel the love they are starting to send you as they connect their hearts with yours, sending lines of light, lines of love from their pure hearts to yours, open to receive their love. Feel the beauty and purity of their energy and their joy at being able to work with you, their joy that you are opening to receive their love and their assistance, for all they want to do is help you. It is as if you could say that these angels have a mission in their hearts, a mission of love.

The angels start to fly around your aura. They weave beautiful patterns of light all about you. At first you may just sense this, or you may be able to see this with your inner vision. Be very quiet within now as the angels begin to weave light about you - many, many rainbow colours of light. They are starting to join together now within the weaving of the light and the colour. You are surrounded by a cocoon of rainbow light, and this light is moving into your aura, filling your aura with all the colours of the rainbow. Feel the washes of colour as the angels start to purify and cleanse your aura, strengthening it and preparing you for the final processes of purification.

The angels are gathering together now for the process of purification. They are forming a circle about you. Moving into place as they connect heart to heart with each other. You are in the centre now of this group of angels of purification preparing for the final process. Affirm once more that you are ready to let go of all energies and influences that do not contribute to your spiritual growth. You are ready to let go of all influences and energies that do not take you higher, that do not help you to be a more beautiful and loving person.

The angels are starting to spin about you, forming a continuous circle of light. Slowly at first they are turning, they are catching on to that rainbow weaving that they prepared earlier. That cocoon of rainbow light about you is starting to turn very gently and they are anchoring you now to the planet, sending light down from your base chakra to the centre of this beautiful planet earth. You are secure now, safely connected to the planet.

Imagine that your energy is growing more beautiful. The angels are starting to spin, forming a vortex of rainbow light all about you. Turning, all you can see is spinning colours all about you. You are immersed in spinning colour, and as the angels begin to spin about you, you are forming a vortex of light and this light is rising up all about you. The angels are clearing your energy, purifying your aura, lifting up all influences to the higher realms where all is dissolving in light and you are left with a deep sense of peace.

You may have a sense of pure colours as the angels have lifted all influences from your aura. Your aura now is clear and pure, filled with light, filled with all the colours of the rainbow, filled with all potentials for your good and for your growth. Feel the joy that this clarity brings to you, as if your emotions are clear and free. Your body is serene and strong. You are connecting to your path of spiritual growth, of personal growth, connecting to all your potential, all your ability to be strong and pure in the light.

You may feel a sense of tingling in the light now, and the angels start to come back. You notice them once more dancing about you. They are so happy that you have chosen this path of light. Send them your loving thanks and feel their love coming back to you, feel the lightness and purity of your energy. Feel the cocoon of rainbow light that the angels have woven about you to protect you, to assist you in keeping your energy pure and clear. From now on you can always use this process whenever you wish to clear your energy with angels.

It is their joy to serve you and to assist you in your growth, and it is our joy to assist you in making that connection with these beautiful light beings. So say farewell to the angels just for now, taking a couple of deep breaths into the abdomen and noticing your energy. You are strong, you are clear, you are focused, you are balanced, you are light. Very gently and easily start to bring your awareness back to the physical body, to the time and the place of the earth plane.

This beautiful meditation will work very well as a method of clearing your energy. If you have trouble visualizing things don't worry - many people only sense the shifts that the clearing brings, while others hardly feel anything. The cocoon of light that the angels weave about you will help to repel negative energies and will last a day or so. After a while you will find that you can easily follow this process whenever you need to.

Another effective way to cleanse your aura involves sun and water. Lying in the sun will cleanse and nourish your aura -though obviously you don't want to risk sunburn, so follow this advice with care. Five minutes is all it takes. Just sitting with your face turned to the sun and your eyes closed is very relaxing and invaluable in clearing your aura. Precede or follow this with a bath in which you have dissolved a handful of Epsom salts or Dead Sea salts and you will be sparkling clean once again. This is a lovely way to end your day.

Building Protection From Negative Energies

It is also important to protect yourself from taking on these negative energies in the first place. You are on a path of spiritual growth and you are a sensitive and caring person, so you may attract people who are not so far along the path of growth as you are. It is a law of the universe that those who are more evolved attract those who are less evolved. You have probably experienced this yourself. Think how good it feels to be with a person who is more spiritually developed than you are - there is a sense of peace, of expansiveness and of happiness. You make your less evolved friends feel like this.

You will attract those who realize, probably at a subconscious level, that just being with you makes them feel better and enables them to release a lot of their negativity around you. Unfortunately you will pick up these negative energies as they move through your energy fields. Eventually, however, you will find that you can transmute any energy that is around you. Call on your higher self and your soul for assistance if you want it - but remember, you have to ask for it.
In the meditation for clearing your energy you will have noticed that at one point you are asked to release any energies that are not yours and to call back all your own energy to you.

This simple process is very helpful as a regular practice, enabling you to feel whole and complete, balanced and stronger. It is an excellent way to start your daily meditation session, as you will feel stronger and lighter. You don't need to know where your energy has been scattered, just call it back to you. In the same way, you don't need to know whose energy has been attracted to you, just release it from your aura and let it return to its rightful place in the universe.

When you are channelling for other people it is a very good idea to take a few minutes to centre yourself in your own experience and to clear your energy. After a reading I always clear my own energy just as a precaution. Your guide will protect you whilst you are doing the reading but you also need to learn to take very good care of yourself, this is all part of taking responsibility for yourself.

Clearing Your Room Of Negative Energies

The room in which you meditate, do readings, maybe write your diary and so on would ideally be one in which you did nothing but these high activities. But not many of us can dedicate an entire room like this. The answer is to know how to keep your rooms clear of negative and unwanted energies that are not aligned with your own. It is good practice to do this regularly, about once a fortnight or even more often if you have lots of visitors. Trust your own intuition. There are several techniques that you can use. Those listed below are ones I use myself and have found to be effective.

Crystals In The Room

In my workroom I keep a few friendly crystals to help hold the energy steady and to cleanse the energy for me too. Often during readings and healings people release a lot of energy, and the crystals can absorb it for you. A favourite of mine is amethyst: I have a couple of amethyst crystals in the workroom and I cleanse them very frequently (see below). Amethyst transmutes lower energies to higher energies and is a stone of spirituality and peace. It is also said to be useful in protection against psychic attacks by transmuting the energy into positive and loving energy. Clear quartz clusters also seem to be very effective, bringing harmony into your workroom and holding a high, steady energy.

There are three ways of cleansing a crystal. My favourite is to take a good-quality crystal glass bowl, fill it with enough freshly filtered water to cover the crystal, and then add a couple of pinches of sea salt. Place the crystal in the bowl and leave outside for twenty-four hours so that it is exposed to a full cycle of the sun and moon: the best time to do this, if possible, is at the full moon.

Then bring the crystal inside, wash it under running water and polish with dry, lint-free cloth. As an alternative to this some people bury their crystals so that the earth can renew their energy. You can also cleanse crystals using Reiki techniques.

Smudging

Incense is a wonderful cleaning influence in a room. I don't burn incense during readings as some people find it unpleasant, but I do use it to set up the room and to cleanse it afterwards. You can use specially made smudging bundles which are easily available, or you can just use ordinary incense - frankincense is very good. Just light your incense and walk around the room in a clockwise direction. As you do this imagine that all negative and unwanted energies are dissolving in the cleansing smoke.

Oils

Many aromatherapy books are available, giving details of how to use the oils. I use khella in my oil burner for clarity, mint for focus, lavender to cleanse and tea tree to ward off germs. When you are seeing many people they often come with coughs and colds; I find tea tree oil very effective to protect me from infections.

Vortex Of Light

This meditation can be used to cleanse the energies in a room. It dissolves negative energies in a vortex of light.

Meditation: Clearing Your Room With Light

Call in your guide as you move into a meditative state, asking your guide to help you to release any energies that are not aligned with your highest purpose. Call in the angels to assist you as well. Let your own energy become very tranquil and centred.

Begin to imagine that the light of the higher realms is shining down all around you and you are filling up with this light, breathing it deep into your body as it fills every cell of your physical body. Imagine this light radiating out into your aura and then out into the room so that the room is filled with this high light.

Now imagine that all the negative energies that have accumulated here are being filled with light, and that this light is forming into a vortex spinning in a clockwise direction like a small tornado of light. This vortex of light is gathering all the energies that are not aligned with your highest purpose and highest good, and lifting them up into the higher realms so that they may be transmuted and dissolved in the higher light. Continue to do this until you feel quite sure that the cleansing is completed.

Thank the angels and your guide for their assistance before you finish.

Tibetan Bells

The little Tibetan bells, which look like two small cymbals on a length of cord or thong, are rung by letting them knock gently against the edges of each other. The sound they produce is very clearing. Crystal healers sometimes use these bells to clear and protect their crystals. They are lovely to use before and after a meditation or channelling. When you are clearing space just walk about with the bells, sounding them in the four corners of the room and anywhere else you feel drawn to. The sound is very calming and beautiful.

Clean Regularly

One of the most obvious and effective ways of cleansing rooms is to combine esoteric techniques such as those discussed above with keeping the room scrupulously clean at the physical level. So vacuuming, dusting, polishing and regular airing are also very important. Throw open the windows and let the fresh air clean out the room - sunlight is a very effective cleansing medium. Fresh air recharges the air in the room.