Protecting Ourselves, Can Other People’s Projections Really Harm Us?

Protecting Ourselves, Can Other People’s Projections Really Harm Us?

I have heard it so many times from a variety of different people.  “I need to learn how to protect myself from other people’s stuff  (aka: projections, thoughts, judgments, psychic attacks).  I shrug my shoulders knowing that doing an energetic protection from other people’s energies upon you limits you as much as it helps.  In addition, can you really protect you from other people’s projections, thoughts, psychic attacks by the means of an energetic shield?  In my opinion; ‘with limiting success’.

There is a much more affective perspective that you can use in your life.  Receive everything that people project at you.  Allow people to judge you.  Have no defenses from attacks that people send out through anger, jealousy or fear based thoughts.  Be willing for it to come.

When we create a defense in our attitudes and beliefs it is from a judgment that a certain experience or energy is bad for us.  Then we start creating different ways, means, strategies and defenses to make sure it does not come to us again.  Unfortunately this strategy more likely works in reverse for us.  Through the defensive posturing we attract more of the same energy to us.  We are literally using lots of energy to make sure something does not come our way.  That same energy attracts more of the same thing that it was created from.  Fear.   The fears that we create as reactions to our past experiences we have judged as bad or wrong.

When we judge and create a defensive position we begin to turn off our perceptions to that area of our life.  For example in my like I grew up in Texas and experienced that young men that dress as cowboys were generally aggressive and often bullies.  For a long time I was wary around them and that attitude seemed to attract their negativity and aggressiveness.  When I saw how my perception limited me I began to see the western men differently.  I could see they were much more that aggressive.  Now I do not feel uneasy around cowboys and they seem to react to me differently.

This fear goes much deeper than my acquaintance with cowpokes.  It originates with my father who saw violence as an option to solve many of his confrontations and as a tool for disciplining his children.  When I looked at those issues I began to get real freedom and I could receive my father at a level that I had never done before.  I no longer had to create a defensive posture to men like my father including cowboys.

I now have more awareness towards of their world, my father and myself as a result of letting down my defenses.

If someone is aggressive and is projecting that towards you the best strategy may not be to react or defend.  The question to ask is “What fear inside of me is reactive to this situation?”  You would not be reacting to someone unless you have experience it before and judged it negatively.

When we encounter these situations with curiosity and be willing to receive the awareness of them something opens for us.  We will see it differently in some way.

If we  come to a conclusion it is bad or wrong when we see it again with such a mental statement as, “Oh no, here it comes again.”  We will generally create the same negative result.

So shields, energetic protective devices, meditations or rituals (for example, placing visualized energetic mirrors around us to protect us from negativity) may not be our best strategy.  Learning the lessons that these encounters offer to us will free us to where we never need to create a defensive position again.