Inappropriate Shielding

Sometimes people have an almost neurotic need to protect themselves. This is especially true of people who have been traumatized (no surprise there). But even as they move forward in their healing, they find it hard to accept the fact that they are inherently safe. The truth of the matter is that your safety depends on your vibration. Victims and their victimizers, like everything else, have to be a vibrational match. The Law of Attraction applies to this issue every bit as much as any other issue.

As people on a spiritual path move away from and heal the hurts of their pasts, their boundaries change, and consequently, so does their vibration. 12 Step recovery is a powerful example of this. Yet, for a person to feel safe, s/he has to own his or her safety. You have to accept it. Remember that feelings are not facts. Just because you feel threatened does not necessarily mean there's a real threat. Trauma distorts your perceptions.

In practical terms what does this mean? As you learn metaphyscial principles of psychic protection, you apply them by using energetic shields. An appropriate use of shielding is to not use them unless you sense danger. As a reaction to their traumas, however, when people feel inherently unsafe, they feel the need to shield themselves all the time. I have heard of people casting a shield of a mile radius when they drive along a highway, or cast a half-mile shield over their neighborhood! The rationale is that they and other drivers will be safe, that their neighborhoods will be safe. A sweet thought, steeped in compassion, but very codependent.
This is wildly inappropriate for a number of reasons:

• You're making yourself everybody else's Higher Power. You are declaring yourself responsible for other people's safety, and disallowing them the priviege and ownership of their own safety. You have declared that you know what's best for them. So who died and made you Sovereign Ruler of Everything?
• You only have X amount of energy at any given time. We as human beings are not conduits for unlimited long-term sustained out-pourings of energy. Our own electrical systems will short out after a while. Shielding yourself indefinitely leaves you exhausted.
• If you're pouring half your energy into shielding, that leaves only half your energy to run your body and health, and be functional in the world, including manifesting prosperity and money, maintaining your relationships, and dealing with new stuff that comes down the pike.
• When you over-extend your energy, energy "vampires" can easily siphon it off. A note on vampires: they are every where: the person who calls you and talks your ear off for half an hour and doesn't bother to ask how you are, and leaves you drained. The drama queen at work who wears the victimhood on the sleeves and tells you all about their latest mishap. The *** in the grocery store who complains about everything - loudly - while standing in line. In short, people who are a pain in the ***.
• If you leave up permanent shields, they cut you off from others. As you go through your daily life, the Rose filtering "shield" is more than adequate. Think of it this way. Would you buy a suit of plate mail armor and put it on every time you leave the house? No, of course not. It would be physically exhausting, very expensive (a full suit of armour costs several thousand dollars), and it would interfere with your daily life. No one would really want to interact with you. When you leave yourself heavily shielded, it has a similar effect on your life and people around you. And it does drain your wallet, because your energy is tied up and not available for manifesting.

The truth is that a person is equally safe at any given moment: in their car, in their town, in a another town, on the street, on the seedy side of town, in the day time, at night, etc., etc., etc.. Your safety depends on your boundaries. Remember, your guides expect you to use your intelligence and prudence. If you dress skimpily and go down a dangerous street, you'll get dangerous attention. You have to do your part. If you want to be safe, don't engage in risky behaviour, and over-extending your energy doesn't help.

Appropriate shielding
Shields are for special circumstances, not for every day use. Again, only shield when you sense immediate danger, and take them down when you're back to being safe. When you use a shield, unless there are special circumstances, you really only need a shield of 6 inches, even in a car (i.e. extend the shield no further than a foot around the exterior of the car). You simply need to not be touched. A car careening out of control is scarey, but so long as you're not hit, it's all good. Similarly, standing in the presence of a dangerous criminal doesn't harm you. If you're not an energetic match, you're safe. You can even smile and nod at them! If you truly want to be safe, take a self-defence class, and work a 12 Step plan of Recovery. Learn new boundaries.

Love, Light and Laughter, and Joyful Abundance,
- Caitlyn
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