How To Prevent Psychic Attacks

Many clients and friends have recently been asking me how best to protect themselves from negative people, places and things, because very often sensitive people will unintentionally absorb negative energy from others.

To begin, I suggest that you construct barriers around yourself, not real barriers but energetic barriers, by visualizing golden, white light, or an egg of protection, or by visualizing mirrors all around your body, deflecting negative energy back at the person who sent it (there are many ways!) You can also put up mental barriers in the form of phrases such as: "I do not accept this guilt, or this manipulation."

Sometimes negativity comes at you when you’re unprepared and it can feel as if you’ve been slammed against a wall! That's a solar plexus hit like the air has been knocked out of you, and it can come out of nowhere! After this kind of attack, it's just a matter of recovering.

But to simplify things, if you do sense negative vibes around yourself, then simply stay away from that person or group as best as you can. Sometimes there is a teaching involved in the whole experience, but that’s another story, for another article.

It’s also not really possible to walk around constantly trying to protect yourself, because this would take way too much energy and because you would be blocking out all kinds of good experiences too. Once you get the hang of how it feels to be strong and steady, to stand alone and on your own two feet, relying upon your own powers of intuition, awareness and discretion, you will be able to make your way through the world in a more empowered and positive way.

You can learn more about the chakra system, healing and energy work here.
I also offer healing message soul readings to help clients with psychic dis-empowerment issues and energy blockages.

Friday is for Gran & the Fiddlehead - Part 2

This Friday post is an ongoing canal boat feature in honour of my Gran, who was the proud owner of her very own English canal boat named "The Fiddlehead." Gran currently lives in a nursing home and this is my way of staying in touch on a regular basis because Friday is her mail day! The pictures in these posts come from Gran's own scrapbook as well as a recent family trip in 2007 that included 35 family members ranging from 8 months to 91 years old (Gran herself) on 5 narrow boats touring along the Leicester Loop.

A Wee Bit of History About The British Canal System
The British canal system of water transport played a vital role in the United Kingdom's Industrial Revolution and the UK was the first country to acquire a nationwide canal network. This was a time when roads were only just emerging from the medieval mud and long trains of pack horses were the only means of "mass" transit of raw materials and finished products. It was no accident that amongst the first canal promoters were the pottery manufacturers of Staffordshire.

The canal system came into being because the Industrial Revolution (which began in Britain during the mid-18th century) demanded an economic and reliable way to transport goods and commodities in large quantities. Some 29 river navigation improvements took place in the 16th and 17th centuries starting with the Thames locks and the River Wey Navigation.

The 20th century brought competition from road-haulage, and only the strongest canals survived until the Second World War. After the war decline of trade on all remaining canals was rapid, and by the mid 1960s only token traffic was left, even on the widest and most industrial waterways.

Here is Post 1 from this series: Gran Part 1

A Lemurian Crystal Experience

This post was told to me by fellow soul-seeker and traveler of the mystic highways. Her name is Suzanne (otherwise known as Dragonsmoon or Lunar Mystic) and this is her Lemurian Crystal Story.

Searching for a Lemurian Crystal

After speaking with a friend who works with crystals, I was on a mission to find a Lemurian Crystal. It just so happened that there was a rock show locally that weekend. It was a very small show and only one booth had Lemurians. I was instantly drawn to one particular Lemurian Crystal, and when I picked it up, I felt an electrical charge run up my arm, straight to my heart and outwards in all directions. I was a bit overwhelmed by this feeling, and it made me nauseous. These kinds of experiences are not unfamiliar to me, but this was different; more powerful and I felt both hot and cold. I knew that this Crystal and I were going to have some interesting times together, and that this was just the beginning.

Crystal Magic

Since then, I have worked with my Lemurian Crystal for dreaming and for tarot card reading. It has helped me travel safely during a potentially problematical trip and has allowed me to clear stagnant energy from a house. This Crystal has also helped others to release anxiety and to bring about many a peaceful night’s sleep. I have had my Lemurian Crystal for a little over a year now and though I don’t really know too much about working with Crystals, so far, it’s been such fun!

What is Lemuria?

Lemuria is a lost continent also known as Mu that is said to have existed in the middle of the South Pacific Ocean. It was a place dedicated to education, training, science and spirituality. Lemuria suffered the same fate as Atlantis and sank into the ocean due to massive volcanic activity. The survivors of Mu are said to have settled in Central and North America as well as parts of Asia.

According to Naisha Ahsian & Robert Simmons, co-authors of "The Book of Stones"

Lemurian Seed Crystals are coded, programmed with the Lemurian consciousness vibrations. There can be wonderful experiences of heart opening and the healing of the emotional body. allowing one to access expanded states of consciousness to receive guidance from the Seraphim and one's Higher Self. This is the gift of the Lemurian Seed - the 'return to the Garden.'

Affirmation: I reconnect with my own soul and the Divine Feminine, and I call forth knowledge, wisdom and power from the ancient realm of Lemuria.

If you want to learn more about Mu and other metaphysical subjects please join Dragonsmoon/Lunar Mystic at her very informative Ning site - Under a Magic Moon.

I also incorporate crystals into most of my soul readings.

Friday is for Gran & The Fiddlehead - Part 1

Gran loved her narrow boat called The Fiddlehead and she would go to England every summer and tool around, all four children in tow.

I missed out on all the fun, because I was adopted into another family when I was born, but I met my Gran when I was 27 and have since been to England with my birth family, on my mother's side (all 35 of us ranging in age from eight months old to 91, Gran herself) to tour around the Leicester Loop on five narrow boats. It was our family reunion a few summers ago, and let me tell you, EVERYONE knew when we were heading to their town - we were boisterous, we were Canadian (with our little flags waving from the back of our boats,) and we were affectionately known as, "The Canadian Invasion."

Gran now resides in a nursing home and one of the attendants makes sure she gets all her emails and letters on Friday, so I have dedicated my Friday postings to my 93 year old Gran and her beloved canal boat - this is my letter to you Gran.

Fifty years and eight days separate my birthday from Gran's so it's probably no surprise that I too want a canal boat I can call my own...one day, but mine will run on solar power not diesel!

A Twitter Conversation About Intuition

Alicia (Twitterer):

I am trying to trust my intuition but the hardest aspect right now is knowing it's there and not knowing how to use it, or at least develop it. I have tried meditation, reiki and meditation on the root and 3rd eye chakra. I have been reading up on it and trying to study as much as I can. I have talked to psychics and other intuitives. I have asked my guides directly, and so on.

I have found the clairaudience (clear hearing) stronger during reiki. The guides will talk to me and tell me where to go next or what to do, or provide guidance and affirmations that the client needs to hear (and sometimes repeat?) I will see the symbol I need to use, or sometimes other insights. It's random, sometimes things just float across the mind, but I am not always certain that its intuition telling me something or just the mind. This insight used to get me in trouble a lot, especially as a kid. I am an empath, but didn't know how to control it and it took a toll on me. Now I am pretty good at blocking it almost completely. I hesitate to open it but I know that sometimes it's needed. Since my reiki attunements (level 2) the desire has strengthed. I feel like a sponge right now just soaking everything in and not knowing what to do with the info, or what to believe. How did you develop your abilities, and get control over them?

My Response (via email):

I developed my abilities in a six month long class that met weekly, where we worked on each other doing psychic readings and medium-ship. I find that working live, in a group, is the best way to learn things - it's so experiential, and it helps to have real live people to share stories and experiences with, and to ask questions also. In regards to trusting your intuition, that does take time and practice, that's for sure! Since starting to do readings online, on etsy I have probably given over 700 or so readings since August of 2008, and I have asked for feedback and chatted with every single person who I have read for, so that is how I built up my confidence, and yes, I know...it's a lot of time and confidence building, but I felt I needed it, to really learn to trust myself and my intuition.

Patience Required!

I guess I should also add that I've spent a lot of time meditating, doing yoga, attending workshops and energy healings, living in nature, enjoying peace and quiet, working with tarot, celebrating the seasons, doing ritual and going to lectures, etc. - it's become a whole way of life that's led up to where I am at this very moment, but it sure didn't happen overnight!

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