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.

By Bart Sharp

The other day a client, Deborah called and asked if she was receiving the ‘evil eye’ from someone.  It felt true.  We quickly identified the person, her mother-in-law, who was psychically intruding into her world.

We began to explore the dynamics of why this person was attacking her.  We discovered the woman was jealous of my client.

Jealously can motivate people to do a variety and non-active things.  Jealousy can be a combination of emotions with the basis of its source fear and often with an underlying emotion of shame.  In this situation an aggressive form of anger was present.  The in-law was projecting anger at my client.

Deborah was a highly intuitive young woman whose highly refined abilities could sense the energy of someone penetrating her energetic being.  However, she was reacting as if something was wrong with herself or her body.  Deborah felt the imbalance within her yet did not consider the cause was from someone attacking her.  She felt that she had created it.  By judging the energy as something was wrong with her Deborah’s stomach and colon starting aching.

The situation was so unusual that she began to speculate that someone had placed a spell upon her.  She then called me.

One of the common application of spells are a mental projection.  In other words someone consciously focuses on another while feeling an emotion, (often anger through aggressiveness).  For most attackers they are mostly unaware that they are attacking another, they are simply obsessed with their own angry.  There are some with the intention of hurting another.

Some people have the power to affect another thru psychic attacks yet do not understand what they are doing.  Deborah’s mother-in-law fit into this category.  She could not let go of the notion that her daughter-in-law was the attention of her son’s love.

I processed the experience with Deborah and when she realized where the attack was coming from and was willing to stop resisting her mother-in-law the pain in her abdominal area began to recede.  But the energies were totally not resolved.

I asked Deborah a question that stopped her in her tracks.   We had not gotten to the core of the pain.  “Are you willing to receive your mother-in-law’s jealousy?”

Deborah’s first reaction was no.  She shared with me that other people being jealous of her had always resulted in Deborah being victimized as a child.  As a result she had learned early in life to hide herself to not be seen, admired or in notoriety.  When she did her family members descended down upon her aggressively in some way.  As a result she had created a defensive position to others being jealous or in envy of her.

When Deborah realized how the fear of her past was creating the defensive position in the present the pain receded more.  We then began to do clearings around the defensive systems she had created and the discomfort totally diminished.

What we judge as bad or wrong and begin to defend ourselves from it we actually create an energy that attracts that specific energy.  Deborah was a magnet for others to resent her.  The more she tired to protect, she would create an opposite affect.  The reason being was Deborah attracted aggressive people to her because she judged them as bad and wrong.  There is something in our greater self that always attracts these situations that we fear as a way to get us to approach our fears.  It is why people seem to create the same kind of relationships again and again.

For Deborah receiving jealousy from her in-law and not resisting the woman opened Deborah to see another possibility.  As a child she could actually be hurt or judged by her siblings and mother when they were jealous of her.  It was not the case as an adult.  She could easily protect herself from her mother-in-law.  In fact Deborah was the person in power.  It has taken her a while to believe this.

Now Deborah is willing to receive the jealousy.  What opened for her is that she no longer is resistant to her mother-in-law and can see her as a different person.  Now she can have a different relationship with her in-law and others that are jealous and angry.

We that were raised in  angry or co-dependent home environments often bend over backwards as a response to parents or siblings.  The question we need to ask as adults when we feel this type of stress is, “Are we reacting from memories of the past or the present situation?”  Generally if it feels very uncomfortable than the situation should logically warrant, it is from our past.

The more that Deborah uncovers how she has created and defended her fears the more that she will not be the affect of others projects of jealousy, anger or other negating emotions.  It is a process of understanding us and willing to receive the awareness that our fears are hiding from us.

By Bart Sharp

Sometimes we become lethargic or stuck.  The creative process of our magical life is affected by a variety of things.  Often there is an emotion or project that we have not come to completion with that is taking our energy elsewhere and out of the present tense.  Sometimes it is the simply our surroundings that affect our magical life and creativity to receiving inner wealth.

I awoke one morning from a dream that felt like it had slapped in the face.  It was an abrupt awakening that was not physical but the immediacy of it had struck inside of me.  I could not remember the details of the dream but I knew its message.  “You are sluggish, it is time to change things up.”

The message rang all too true for the past week I had been slowly working around my home.  My productivity as a writer was less.  My business as a counselor was down.  I was doing less in general.  It was summer time in Texas and the heat takes its toll on everyone as it sucks energy from everyone.  But, I was spending the days in an air-conditioned home, so I had little excuse.

The dream had a more direct message.  The dream stimulated my awareness to a plan.  I needed to clean my home and finish projects that were annoying me.

We as creative and active people have an intimate relationship with our home.  The condition of our home affects us.  If our space is disorganized it can steer us away from our top creative efficiency.   Our home and own energies do flow together.  Completing those unfinished projects and maintaining an environment that is visually pleasing opens us.  It is why we should always spend time cleaning, organizing and straightening.

We are connected to everything, everybody in some way.  Our immediate surrounding and relationships have the most direct affect upon us.  In most cases it is the thing we are most able to change as well.  Be willing to be aware of what changes within and around you could best facilitate your creative growth and magical life.

By Bart Sharp

I was recently doing an ghost and entity clearing in a home where the bedroom had an disturbing smell.  Whatever my client did to improve it would not change the odor of the room.  As we talked about her recent significant relationship she shared how once they had broken up it took a month before he could afford to move out of the apartment.

I asked, “Did your former boyfriend sleep in the bedroom after you broke up?”  She told me he slept in the room for a month after they had broken up.  In a flash it came to me why the odor and the negative energy in the room would not leave.  For the month he lay in the bed in his emotional distress about the break-up; angry, processing and resenting.  Much of those negative feelings went into the bed itself and remained dormant in the energy of everything in the room.  No one used the room since.

It was fairly easy to clear the energy and invite something new in.  The woman, the bedroom and bed wanted something else.  However until the limitation is recognized it cannot be released.  It remains.  However when we come clear of what it is and place our intentions on change, it can happen very quickly.

When we are thinking negative thoughts we are projecting them out as well.  We cannot internally hold what we feel inside.  The feelings emanate out of us for other people and things to absorb.  Like the man in the bedroom projected his anger out.  The bed, bedroom, apartment and former girlfriend were penetrated with it.  This is especially more powerful if the emotion is not resolved or is directed specifically towards someone or something.

A person who curses at their computer and is angry at it will more likely have computer breakdowns.  A sensitive electrical instrument is more susceptible to anger than most of our things.  Even plants will absorb negativity and have a shorter life.

It is another reason why we need to recognize the negating power of our anger whether it is suppressed or active.  It affects everything around us.

However. If we are joyous and have resolved our negativity at a deeper level we become the opposite.  Our homes are happy, plants grow, computers last longer and have better relationships.

We can clear our homes of negative energy and receive powerful results.  The real power is us and when we heal the source of us to find deep joy we share that awesome gift with the world just by walking in the world with it.