When others are negative, it can rub off, stick to you, change your mood and even ruin your day. Yet there are times when our day forces us to deal with family members, coworkers and others in the world at large who fill the air space around us with their misery, fear and anger… leaving us drenched in feelings of negativity.
We asked our psychics, who get calls daily from people who have been dragged through issues rife with negativity, for advice on how to neutralize the counterproductive effects of bad energy. Here's what they said.
"Negative energy feels like nausea, confusion and fatigue. Positive energy feels like happiness and levity," describes Samantha ext. 5138. "It's important to understand that negativity sticks to people who expect it, cooperate with it, or have been beaten down by it… though it can also be so aggressive that it just attaches to you, your office or your home. If it does manage to find you, don't feed into it - it gets stronger when you react with fear, anger or aggression. Without sustenance, simple negativity is nothing that a bath, shower, meditation or a cleansing can't fix right up."
"Bathing washes away the muck that sticks to you. Muck is a negative thought that attaches to everything especially dust," explains Lucrecia ext. 9326, who has a plaque that says "What did I let in today?" as a reminder to keep bad energy from building up in her life.
The first thing Samantha does after a rough day is to wash her hands, face and feet, finding that sometimes it's all she needs to do to rid herself of negativity. She prefers long hot showers to baths, because a bath leaves the person sitting in "all that goop."
On the other hand, a hot bath with Epson salts or sea salts helps release energy toxins from the body. TeriLynn ext. 9625 tells clients to enhance the purifying environment of a bath by setting up candles, burning sage and using music to induce a meditative state for emotional calm.
Smudging with sage or cedar is another good way of shooing uncomfortable depressing vibes away. You can smudge yourself as well as your home, office or even your car. (Find smudge sticks at metaphysical book stores or gift shops on Indian Reservations. Light the end, then blow out the flame, to get the required smoke for smudging.)
"If your energy is low because you've spent time around negative people, pass the sage over yourself slowly and breathe in deeply and calmly. You will notice the difference at once," Snow ext. 9383 advises. "For a peaceful night's sleep after a day tainted with negativity, break off a single leaf of sage and burn it carefully in a safe container."
To keep negativity away from specific areas of your home or office, Samantha says that keeping the space clean is vital. "Negativity hides in clutter, dust, dirt and cobwebs." Once the area has been tidied up, chase off any energy that you feel is seriously negative by smudging. The intuitive also hides black stones (jet, onyx or obsidian) in all corners of a room and places a mirror directly opposite the entry point to help deflect negativity before it enters. "It's wonderful to watch what happens when a negative person tries to walk into an energetically clean space. They balk and just don't want to go in."
For another space cleansing option, "Peel an orange and put the peels in a bowl of water. Walk through your home and flick the water around the house, spending extra time where the energy seems heavier," Jacqueline ext. 9472 prescribes.
When an area has been neutralized, all that is left to do is to fill it up with positive thoughts or prayers, or items from nature - particularly flowers, several of our psychics advise. You'll know the cleansing worked because your space will feel lighter... more comfortable and safe.
Our psychics say that walks in fresh air, deep cleansing breaths, exercise, yoga and meditation, enveloping ourselves in white light - especially when done as a regular practice - can all send negative energy back to it's rightful place in the universe, and serve to help us become less vulnerable to it.
"I have a client whose children would come back from their father's home each weekend draping the house with a heavy blanket of negativity. I suggested that she work with the children, teaching them to meditate and surround themselves with white light. Her kids loved it and the house, my client reports back, feels better and better all the time," Rondalafay ext. 5102 tells.
"Never underestimate the power of sleep, comfort food and a good multivitamin, because negativity depletes us at all levels," Samantha adds. "I always wear a protection piece that has a black stone to absorb negativity over my 3rd chakra, so if I feel energetically soiled I put that out in the sun or in sea salt to cleanse it. If you know you're going to come into contact with darker energies, it's always wisest to go into the situation armed with some sort of protection piece on your person that can be cleansed and recharged as often as necessary."
Ariel ext. 9775 keeps her imaginary psychic umbrella ready at all times for just those situations. The umbrella fits over her body and sends bad vibes back to the sender with a boomerang effect, she describes.
Feel free to use any of these cleansing and protective measures, whenever you need a postive boost.
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