Protection
What protection technique/ritual do you use in preparation for healing if any?
What International Madonna Ministry Members have to say about Protection
Intend to be protected / KNOW that we are ALWAYS protected. - Visualize a midnight blue full-length cloak which has a hood that covers my face. - Visualize silver boots for magnetic grounding. A star trek "beam me up Scottie" beam of white light. - Visualize a mirror between me and the other reflecting their stuff back at them.
2nd description. When I am feeling vulnerable, I chose to use protective measures BECAUSE IT HELPS ME FEEL SAFER. I feel that a large part of protection is the psychological factor of having focused on being protected, we feel protected. Not being clairvoyant, I cannot say if I actually AM protected!! Although my intuition says if you believe it, it is. My most used protection is mirrors all around my body reflecting outwards. It really works for me. It helps me to remember that it is THEIR stuff and I do not need to absorb it. Next is a "beam me up Scottie" type white shaft of light. I find this very energizing. Finally if I feel ungrounded, I use silver boots - they are magnetically attracted to the gold in the earth and keep my feet on the ground. I love clumping around in them!
I find it hard to pin down my intuition and hunches into language .... I'll do my best to try to put it into some form of understanding. Hard to explain a Inner Knowing. What I call a 'Interconnectedness'.
Bottom line, I do not feel my soul/essence needs any protection. It IS protection, it IS protected, and nothing, ever, can harm the essence of me unless I allow it. I create my own reality at all times. Having said that, when I am feeling vulnerable, I choose to use the following protective measures such as working with wrapping myself in 'cobalt blue light'. I also use Reiki symbols for protection. I visualize a crushed velvet cape of cobalt blue being wrapped around my auric field and this allowing positive energy through but stopping all negative energies from reaching my auric field. Finally if I feel ungrounded, I imagine my legs becoming tree trunks and the tree roots tapping deep into the earth and keeping my feet firmly on the ground. Also I use Reiki symbols for grounding.
Protection: The "boogy man" lurks! Protection is keeping out a lower level of consciousness. Most of us no matter how metaphysical we are still have "stuff" hanging around in our mind that we sometimes can let in if we are having a particularly stressful time. Protection is putting ones attention on the "one mind" or "whole", or God, or a Universal Intelligence, Love, that has the unquestionable capability in the mind of the healer that there is nothing except the above named qualities and there is nothing except those qualities of consciousness. I surround myself in a blue bubble for protection. This blue bubble acts as a filter and allows only that which is in harmony with me through. All the other stuff is not allowed to enter. Yes I feel successful when I protect myself.
I understand that as a Lightworker, I am in the care of the higher Beings, but having had experience of the "shadow" always take care to be in the light by intention. Where there is light the shadows show more and are brought to the surface. Shadows are always a possibility but only when there is light.
I have had several occasions when unpleasant thoughts or even evil intentions have been directed at me and so I am careful to protect myself. Shadows are not harmful if one deals with them just as traffic is not dangerous unless one inadvertently steps in front of a vehicle or looses concentration when in charge of a vehicle.
For many years now I have started my day by saying The Great Invocation channeled by Alice Bailey, but in a modified version with language acceptable to me, as she commented in her writings, is as it should be.
When starting a healing session or meditation, I visualize a point of light which represents for me, my God. I reach out to that light and draw it in through the crown chakra to fill all levels of my being.
I then breath in the light and expand my own inner light, with this light, to surround myself with a bubble. I take a second breath and coat the inside of my bubble with color and then on the third breath fill the bubble with light.
I had been negligent a while back and feel that bad thoughts have managed to be directed at me and affect me. For this reason I am being more diligent with bringing in the light and keeping myself in a safe place ( I don't mean a physical place, I mean spiritually).
When healing I surround myself and the client in the same white light and then separate out to our own bubbles when the session is over. I use the breath to declare my intention. I am aware that some group members do not consider protection necessary but for me personally, it is essential. Standing in the light, (Cobalt Blue and Silvery Pink )
I believe that Protection, is necessary and yes I use it. Most times it is running on automatic pilot. But there are times when I bust it up for certain times when working on different projects. I protect myself by surrounding myself with the "White Light" from Creator God and the Angelic realm.... this protection I have placed around me and is always with me, I never turn it off. Sometimes, when I am asked to work with negative energies I bust it up with prayer, smudging, using Y.L.E.Oils that have protection qualities such as White Angelica, and gemstones...
I may also, go out side the home and place cedar branches on the four corners and smudge all around the perimeter of the home. This again depends on what it is that I have been asked to do. I have other techniques, but this is the simplest that I could discuss at this point.
Protection - Protection from what?
The healer must first protect himself from his own thoughts. Having a firm unwavering intention NOT to let unwanted thoughts, particularly of a scaring nature, influence him can do this. These thoughts can come from the dark side of his nature, but also can be inserted by outside influences. It is not always easy to tell the difference. Thoughts can take form, and the 'viewer' can see them as real, probably either good or bad. In fact, they are usually deceptive, and are colored by the upbringing, mores and beliefs of the recipient. In an emergency situation a religious person will claim a thoughtform seen is, for example, Jesus, or Buddha, or Mohammed, etc. A Spiritualist will claim it is a guide, or a high level entity. Any of these *could* be true, but common sense rarely gets a look-in! It is probably a manifestation from the healer's mind, or from an external entity's mind.
Having excluded these spurious thoughts, we are left with genuine forces, of varying levels of badness, trying to stop our using the Light. We can build protective shields round ourselves by our own invoking of the Light. The question is, how strong are these shields? The Light is of infinite power, but at what level can *we* tolerate the tremendous energy that is available? The level of development of our own subtle bodies limits us. These subtle bodies (physical-etheric, astral, mental etc.) can be strengthened by our work as healers, by meditation, etc. The material of these bodies gradually becomes more refined, and then can withstand the tremendous forces that are available to any of us, as long as they won't harm us. Almost any technique to put a protective shield around us is valuable, but the quality is dependent on our own spiritual development.
I believe protection is very necessary, for, most people, having had no real contact with the outside 'evil' forces, truly believe evil doesn't exist. They could be living in a fool's paradise. The higher you reach, equally the deeper down you get. If you can communicate directly with those who say they are protecting you from a high level, then almost certainly you are being fooled (but possibly with good intentions). This is because it is not possible for us at physical level to communicate directly very far 'up'. Messages have to be relayed, and it is then that distortions occur.
Reach up as far as you can, and bring down the strongest possible Light you can withstand. Flood yourself with this Light. Visualize Light above your head and bring it down to the heart center. Extend it in all directions around you as if it were a starburst. Do it when you wake up. Do it when you go to bed. Do it many times a day. Do it when you think of it, so you do it even when you don't think of it! But, above all, DO IT!
My teacher told us that the best protection is no protection at all. Then he proceeded to give us all sorts of ways to protect ourselves, and cleanse, and gave us a warning that working in the spiritual world is dangerous. He said:
"Don't be afraid. That's the worst thing that can happen to you. Don't be careless. That's the second worst thing that can happen." - Dr. Gregory Antyuhin
It seems that spiritual lessons always have paradoxes.
First and foremost i see protection as an ongoing thing , not just something that is done whilst doing spiritual work or just in preparation for doing spiritual work .
I feel that the surest way of protecting yourself is to keep your energy system well and truly Topped up , clean , and clear . This can be done with various different exercises such as meditation for that purpose , Colour breathing , Visualisation exercises e.t.c there are a vast amount of these available to those who wish to use them .
The second surest way of being protected IMHO is to * Know * that you are Protected . To know that there is Nothing to fear but Fear itself . I believe that when we keep our own energy system in tip top condition , and operate from a base of Love for the highest Good of All we can be assured that we are safe . Unless we stupidly place ourselves in Threatening Situations , or situations that we are not prepared for or capable of handling .
There are Times however when for whatever reason , we may be tired or emotional or frustrated , angry e.t.c we then need to take steps to Protect ourselves . There are several protection exercises i use and it depends on the circumstances i am in which one i use .
They are :
1. The simple act of folding your arms across the solar plexus , this has the effect of closing perhaps one of the most sensitive aspects of our energy system the Solar Plexus . This can be used in crowded places such as supermarkets , or pubs and cafeterias , or business meetings , it must be used wisely at a business meeting if your Body language is likely to have an effect on the situation you are dealing with .
2. The simple act of Visualising a Golden Disc placed over the Solar plexus is equally effective .
3. Visualise a Cloak being placed over your shoulders and know that you are protected as a result .
4. In a meditation situation you can cocoon yourself in a Golden sphere of protection like an egg .
5. Of course the simplest quickest and arguably the best is a simple Prayer asking for it .
I would stress though that these exercises are not substitutes for proper care of our energy systems
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