Cultivating psychic and energetic protection as you step into your new reality

As you take more control of your transformational cycles and work on the parts of your identity that felt the rawest, you may find that people in your environment may consciously or subconsciously try to pull you back into energetic states you worked hard to come out of. During a coaching session with a client, this exact expectation came up, and I remember grappling with it during various moments of my own journey as a fear, thought, and energetic state that made it almost paralyzing to move forward. Expecting 0 resistance as you reclaim your authentic self can be dangerous especially if you have not been cultivating psychic and energetic protection.

To explain this in the best possible way I can, I want you to imagine that for some months or years you have been working on certain parts of your identity that once kept you stuck. Maybe you are learning to show parts of your authentic expression you were once punished for so you hid it and out of nowhere, a familiar face critiques, projects onto, or judges you. During this fragile time of your inner work journey, you may be tempted to withdraw, revert to old patterns or energetic states, or think the inner work you have done until that point is completely useless because you felt challenged. I have felt this many times.

Making sense of this phenomenon requires an understanding of two factors that must be considered. Firstly, as you begin to come out of your cocoon, there will be opposing forces who will want you to go back into hiding as oppositional forces in the 3D realm want to snuff out originality and authenticity. Individuals who are used as vessels to carry this out are not always conscious of the impact of their actions, but please note that unconscious individuals are more likely to spew out words that hurt the most. Dealing with this facet does require more grounding, psychic, and energetic protection. Secondly, a core part of ensuring your new identity becomes integrated into 3D reality on a deeper level requires a little bit of friction. By this, I mean that integration is not always smooth. In fact, the times where I have experienced opportunities for deeper integration and thus a more ‘solidified’ new identity was when I have been reasonably challenged. This is because your nervous system expands more when it can register that old things that used to trigger more are no longer a threat so it can relax. However, this does not mean you should tolerate abusive behaviour. It just simply means you can use certain moments as a tool for deeper integration by alchemizing residue of discomfort and unease.

Going back to the first facet, understanding that there will be people who will respond to you with aggression, bitterness, envy, or callous comments should be expected. Authenticity and the reclamation of one’s own power are rarely ever celebrated. Knowing that how people respond to you is none of your business is one thing and practicing psychic and energetic protection is another. Both are highly crucial because many people will not understand and or support your becoming and your vision and may speak fear or scarcity into your life. Psychic protection ensures that other people’s thoughts and beliefs do not greatly impact yours while energetic protection creates a barrier between your energy and theirs. This is very important for the highly sensitive person who easily picks up on the thoughts and energies of others. Examples of psychic protection are protecting your vision by not sharing it carelessly with others, rooting down in who you are and what you know to be true about your life path while acknowledging other realities exist, knowing when to and whom to share sensitive facts about yourself. While psychic protection created a ‘rooting down’ effect, energetic protection creates a seal by deepening the embodiment of your own authentic energy vs that of others. This can be achieved through deeper work of shedding inauthentic layers of yourself AND ritual practice where you connect with a purer more refined energetic state and your Divinities (the Most High God, your spirit guides, guiding ancestors etc). Both take practice and repetition but also does not mean that you will never ever be affected by other people’s energies or beliefs.

Next, the second facet of using moments of friction for deeper integration is a crucial. Deeper integration does not always happen when you feel unchallenged. Being challenged, while energetically embodying your new identity (even a little bit), reaffirms to your nervous system that your new identity is safely sprouting. When you feel energetically challenged, your will be tempted to revert to old patterns or shadow tendencies as a protective mechanism. However, this is a great opportunity to show your 3D reality that you have shifted energetically by taking a more aligned action and or feeling the new energetic state, you have been meticulously cultivating. Even if you can do this to a very small capacity, even when you feel anxious, or an immense pressure to revert to shadow tendencies your brain and your nervous system will realise “even when she feels pressured or anxious, she was able to energetically hold onto this new, expansive energy”. This pushes you deeper into your new reality. As you make these shifts ‘in the moment’, you can also use ritual to sweep away the residue of whatever unhelpful emotions crept up to make future instances of integration smoother. This process, while understanding that having old emotions, coping mechanisms come up does not mean failure. For me, it shows how energetic states highly influence our experience of reality and whilst this can be altered almost swiftly with practice, entering a new reality simultaneously demands sincere and genuine transformation.

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