4 Ways To Avoid Taking On Other People’s Energy — You So Don’t Need It
Energy healing can seem either too “out there” or only for the rare special few. However, the truth is that it’s accessible to everyone and extremely practical for helping with overwhelm, anxiety, and boundaries. Also known as the holiday season!
1. Become Aware of Your Energy
You may be wondering, what exactly is my energy? You know that feeling when you’re in line and you can just feel that person standing behind you a little too close even though (despite what you told your niece last week), you don’t have eyes in the back of your head?
That is you feeling when someone else’s energy is coming into your space. That is you, feeling your own energy. This is incredibly helpful because once you know what your baseline is, you can catch when someone or something is draining you. And then you can recalibrate and feel restored.
2. Feel Your Grounding Cord to Anchor You into the Present
Your grounding cord is energy in the form of a cord (but you can picture a tree trunk or an anchor, or anything that resonates with you) that brings your spirit into your body and anchors into the Earth. When you are in your head going over why your sister chose to stay with your brother for Christmas and not you, you are not fully inhabiting your body.
Part of why we do that is because we think if we can just figure it out, we will feel better. We have been taught that the mind is the best place to come up with solutions, but the truth is that when we’re cut off from our bodies, we are cutting off from a huge source of wisdom.
3. Put Up Energetic Boundaries
For people-pleasers, the holidays can be an intense obstacle course of finding different ways to avoid saying no. When we set up energetic boundaries, we will find it easier to connect to our inner “no” and set the boundaries we need in the physical world.
To set up energetic boundaries, you already know the first step: become aware of your energy. Here’s a pro tip: If you can’t feel it at all, it might be because it’s so spread out that it’s too diffuse to get a sense of.
4. Use Light to Clear Out Other People’s Energy from Your Space
Light is a superpower catchall for energy healing. It both clears the energy of people and situations out of your space and also fills you up with the energy of your higher self. This one is fast and easy: Imagine you have a big sun above your head.
Then imagine or intend to have the sun open up and breathe in the light. Or if you want an even faster way, call light to you and intend for it to go through your whole body. You can do this before, during, and after holiday gatherings, and see if you don’t feel much lighter after.
The bottom line is that so much of the holiday hangover has to do with taking on other people’s energy and taking on more than you want to, in general. With these tools, you should feel lighter and like you can more easily experience the joy of the season.
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