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Spiritual Protection: Should We Be Doing It and If So, How
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Should we be buttoning ourselves up in sacred bubbles of spiritual light in order to feel protected from negative energy? Or should we be moving through the world like spiritual warriors emitting love and light wherever we go?
It seems that many people have strong opinions about 'protection', and in this episode, Karen shares her thoughts on the how and why of protection, acknowledging that different times require differing strategies. As always, a few things to think about and use or not - as you see fit.
Karen has studied many forms of spiritual and energetic healing, initially exploring the Radiance Technique and Reiki. For many years she worked under the guidance of a team of Healing Guides and has also explored Trance Healing.
For more information and bookings go to her website www.soulfulnwild.com
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Transcript
Intro
Introduction to Spiritual Protection
00:00:16
Karen Seinor
Hello, this is Karen and I wanted to talk to you about today spiritual protection. Now...
00:00:25
Karen Seinor
Some people get their knickers in a really big knot and they're very definite that protection is a thing that we need to do when we are working with clients or we need to protect our home and other people think that that's just not a thing at all.
00:00:42
Karen Seinor
So I thought I would address the issue.
Energetic vs Physical Security
00:00:45
Karen Seinor
Now when we're talking about protection We're talking about energetic protection. We're not talking about security cameras and 12-foot fences around your house and things like that, but more your energy, your space, shall we say. So when we're looking at protecting your home, we're talking about the energetic space that you don't want. Yeah, sure, you don't want people that
00:01:13
Karen Seinor
inappropriate coming into your space, but it's more the energy of it rather than the physicality of it, shall we say. So I'm going to share with different things that I've thought at different times. And I'll speak briefly about my thoughts on how things are now.
Foundations of Spiritual Healing
00:01:33
Karen Seinor
Now, you know, like you, my opinions change dependent on where I'm at in my life, what's going on. And what's happening out there in the world too.
00:01:45
Karen Seinor
So when I first got involved in spiritual healing, one of the things that I was taught was that I needed to open up my energy centers.
00:01:57
Karen Seinor
So I'm speaking about chakras here. If you're not familiar with chakras and the subtle bodies, you can have a look at either of my books, actually, Tarot and Aromatherapy or Tarot Healing.
00:02:10
Karen Seinor
They both address that and there's quite a few things on the website in the reflections area in the blog, basically. I like to call it reflections because it sounds nicer. And then I'm constantly referring to it as the blog, so I don't know what the wisdom of that was. But anyway, so there's a few things that touch on the subtle anatomy there.
00:02:33
Karen Seinor
So I've lost my train of thought here, but anyway.
Understanding Chakras
00:02:37
Karen Seinor
So yes, when I first started my training as a spiritual healer, we were taught, or I was taught, that I needed to open each of my energy centers. So the base chakra at the base of the spina and the crux of the body
00:03:01
Karen Seinor
you know, I suppose, you know, the juncture between your legs basically depends on, you know, training as to which and at what level you are sensing energy. So let's just talk about the base of the spine. We'll use that. The colour there is red, orange the sacral centre and We're talking about life force energy, that kind of stuff. There's certain organs that apply to each of these chakras.
00:03:29
Karen Seinor
So each of these, I'm talking about it now, so sort of explaining it. I hope that's okay. Because each of these major energy centers, and we have squillions of them, like even at the tips of your fingers and in the palms of your hands, many, many, many energy centers And a chakra is the Sanskrit name for an energy centre. That's more New Age talk.
00:03:53
Karen Seinor
Either terminology is fine. And the word chakra means wheel of fire. It's a vortex of energy, unseen mostly, you know, to the normal eye.
00:04:07
Karen Seinor
Many clairvoyants can see them, like some people can see the aura. So I was taught basically that you need to open each of these energy centers from the base center, red, orange, yellow, green at the heart, throat, blue. This is the asana center. Some people call it the third eye, sort of like a very dark, dark purple, like an indigo color, like the color of a juniper berry actually. And then above the crown, quite a bit above the crown, there's the crown center where we take in energy from the universe or, know, universal life force energy comes in from there. Now they're the main recognized and long spoken about chakras, but, we have many energetic layers that go out from the physical and there are vortexes of energy in those as well. So it's not all static, but any who,
00:05:04
Karen Seinor
Yep, so I was taught that each of those energy centres had to be opened from the base chakra up to the crown and that then we would do invocations and clear the space and all that sort of stuff, protect the energy within which
Evolving Spiritual Practices
00:05:19
Karen Seinor
we're working. And then after the healing work was done, needed to close each of those energy centres and seal it with a flaming cross, right?
00:05:30
Karen Seinor
So it was sealed with love, basically. and that would keep my energy intact. And yeah, that's what I learned at the very beginning in spiritual healing.
00:05:45
Karen Seinor
When I did Reiki and things like that, there's a slightly different approach, but they sort of use the Reiki energy to set up the healing space.
00:05:56
Karen Seinor
Now, I did that for a long time. used to do an invocation to spirit, ask for protection while I was doing the work, basically channeling energy, clearing entities, all that kind of sort of thing. And then over time, was almost as though was an integration or some kind of shift happened energetically.
00:06:24
Karen Seinor
I moved away from doing that and it wasn't really from laziness or being lackadaisical, but it was more I really felt that that was no longer required, that this integration of the spiritual, the healing team, like the spirit that I was working with, had sort of integrated into my field and I kind didn't need to do that anymore.
The Waterfall Metaphor
00:06:48
Karen Seinor
And that at that time, just wiping little sage crumbs off my desk, sitting at my desk talking to you.
00:06:59
Karen Seinor
Yeah, so and I started to see that, I queried it and what I kind of got was, the answer that I got was, when you are standing under the waterfall and if you imagine that you are under a waterfall and that water is falling down onto the crown of your head and running over your body and basically cleansing you with the water, if that water was pure, unconditional love and you're being, know, you're in it and it's running over you constantly, do you need to set up a protective field?
00:07:36
Karen Seinor
And so that was kind of the answer that I was given that time. And so I stopped doing, as a general rule, this opening, closing of the chakras and being so diligent about my own energy space.
00:07:53
Karen Seinor
Now, at different times, I went backwards and forwards with that. But I've always done things like clearing space. So, for example, I've If I'm doing counselling work with somebody or doing readings, you know, I set up the table in here and do the card. Somebody's sitting one of the blue chairs. I'm usually sitting in this one. And, you know, sometimes there's a lot of emotion.
00:08:20
Karen Seinor
And people have come in with a lot of stuff, heavy emotion, fear, anxiety, those sorts of things. And it's like, I always think it's a bit like, what are they, post-it notes stuck to us, yeah? And then in the course of the reading or even in a counselling session, You know, as things are being resolved and the person is relaxing, they're getting clarity about things, they're dropping those post-it notes, for want of a better term, off.
00:08:53
Karen Seinor
And they kind of collect down there on the ground, you know, speaking metaphorically. So once they've gone...
00:09:05
Karen Seinor
don't want to leave that pile of post-it notes there or heavy energy because the next person that's going come in is going to come and sit on that chair and they're to sit in that.
Clearing Energies Post-Sessions
00:09:15
Karen Seinor
So it's very important from my perspective that I take responsibility for clearing that space so that when the next person comes in, they're coming into a clear energetic space physically energetically clear and so it's just them, their energy and in this case me and that the work begins.
00:09:38
Karen Seinor
So genuinely I do feel that it's important for all of us whether you are working one-to-one with clients or just in your own space. Just say you're having a coffee with a friend at the kitchen table and they're blah about their partner or something like that.
00:09:57
Karen Seinor
And they drop all that stuff. You want to clean that up too. You don't want that sitting around, floating around in your kitchen. So things like using sage is a great thing to do.
00:10:09
Karen Seinor
You light the sage, usually put a little plate under it. I've got a conch shell. And not a conch shell, one of those New Zealand ones. You know, it's got the beautiful Mother of Pearl stuff in it. I forget what it's called now, but they're lovely. And light it with a lighter.
00:10:26
Karen Seinor
and I just hold the shell underneath. And what you do, if you just say you're clearing your house, is you come in your front door, and then you move from left to right. So the first room on the left, so say you come into the living room, you will walk around that living room to your left, and do that whole room, and then go into the next room towards the left, so that you end up doing a circle, do
Sage and Cultural Practices
00:10:52
Karen Seinor
everything, including your Your bedroom, your bathroom, your toilet. Bathrooms and laundries and toilets will hold stale energy a lot more.
00:11:04
Karen Seinor
There's less flow usually in those kinds of rooms. And the intention, of course, we're using history here. And much, we're using plant medicine.
00:11:16
Karen Seinor
Sage is the wisdom keeper. Ferment energy, big time. So that wise energy. Smoke is very clearing. It makes the space sacred. It's lovely.
00:11:30
Karen Seinor
And there's, you know, for millennia, like Aboriginal people use eucalypt and they use the smoke in a similar kind of way to what I'm describing with the sage. The sage is more Native American sort tradition.
00:11:47
Karen Seinor
But... many cultures you smoke. All right. So you can just adjust accordingly, but the intention, it's your intention backed by action.
00:11:58
Karen Seinor
All right. equally, you can use spray bottle, something like this. This a lovely bottle with sage, oops, bang, bang, crash, sage essential oil in it.
00:12:14
Karen Seinor
And, you know, pure water shaken up. Or you can use things like the sage. If people are diffusing essential oils, you can actually buy the water aspect that comes off in steaming process. And that is often what sage, this sage spray actually is. You can get rose water and things like that too. But sage is a good cleanser.
00:12:41
Karen Seinor
And you can, you know, you can spray it over the top of yourself as well if you feel like you've picked up something. So cleansing your space is a really good thing to do.
00:12:55
Karen Seinor
Even in your office, if you're an accountant, for example, you know, dealing with the pressure of phone calls and stuff like that, all of that energy builds up, even the other people that come in and out of your workspace. You might like to clear that energetically and it just lightens the mood, the frequency in the space in case people are coming in grumpy and dropping their grumpiness there.
00:13:20
Karen Seinor
So space clearing is important. Clearing our own field is important and we can do that many ways. So one of the ways that I often share with people something that I call golden bodies. I've learned that in India and it's a specific meditation practice where you're actually using your will. It's kind of a bit of a different practice.
00:13:45
Karen Seinor
I think I've spoken about that on a different podcast actually, so won't bore you with that here. But, you know, so we'll talk about white lighting because there's some sort of similarity, although it's different.
00:13:58
Karen Seinor
You can imagine, like if you want to clean your own space, you can do this, but you can also clean a room or a house. If you want to be really fun with this, one of the things that I used to do when I used to travel from Broadmeadows area in Melbourne and travel right across to the South Yarra area on the train every day for work.
00:14:21
Karen Seinor
And that's back at a time when I was really learning about white lighting and working with energy and Reiki and things like that.
White Lighting Techniques
00:14:30
Karen Seinor
So what I would do is I would white light myself, then I would white light the carriage. Now that had an impact on all the other people there.
00:14:40
Karen Seinor
And then I would sit there sort of in meditation as I was traveling to work and I would white light, basically energetically clear, every carriage. from where I sat all the way to the front and usually I sat at the back the last dumb carriage but if there was any behind me I'd do those as well.
00:15:01
Karen Seinor
Now I did that as a bit of an experiment initially and it was very funny to me because what I discovered is that it would change the way people looked And I would encourage you to do something like that if you travel on public transport, if you ever go on the train or anything, or a bus, you know.
00:15:22
Karen Seinor
In just the same way, you can white light the office before you get there. So what do I mean when I say white light? Basically what we're doing is we are bringing the light of spirit, which is in essence pure unconditional love.
00:15:43
Karen Seinor
We're bringing it in to our body. We're filling our body. And darkness cannot exist where light is. You know, when you think about it at midday, under the burning sun in the summer, there's no shadow, right?
00:15:59
Karen Seinor
So everything is absolutely crystal clear. You can see everything. In the light, there is no shadow. There is no darkness. So that's what we're working with.
00:16:10
Karen Seinor
We are... with intention bringing the light in and you can do it I like to do it with my breath actually it's a really good way to learn to do it so especially if you've got a fair bit of time you can imagine that you're breathing in that pure unconditional love or golden light or white light whatever makes sense to you I like my light to have a little golden fleck in it, you know, little sparkles. It can be really fun.
00:16:44
Karen Seinor
you might be drawn to a particular color. So go with that. Trust yourself on that. Trust your own intuition. So just keep that breathing that in until you have the sense that the whole of your body is full of that light. And then keep bringing that in and filling the space around your body like your personal space or your aura and then you can extend it out into the room.
00:17:09
Karen Seinor
Now if that doesn't speak to you what you can do, especially if you've got a connection with guides or a real strong connection with spirit yourself, you can actually ask and claim bringing that pure light energy down into the centre of the room and filling the room like that.
00:17:32
Karen Seinor
All right, so you don't have to do it through yourself first. But it's always good to be clean and clear yourself as well as your space. Now, so this is just like basic spiritual hygiene, right?
00:17:45
Karen Seinor
Now,
00:17:47
Karen Seinor
this sort of brings us to the whole question about, well, what do you need to protect yourself from?
Light and Dark Energies
00:17:54
Karen Seinor
Now, it's a tricky one. I don't want to too kooky, although I'm sure that I do sound kooky, is that, mean, there's love and there's fear, isn't there?
00:18:08
Karen Seinor
They're two totally different frequencies. And you could say that love is light and that fear is dark.
00:18:18
Karen Seinor
So in truth, if we talk about the light and the dark, it's really understandable and it's not too woo-woo to these are two forces of energy that we are dealing with on this plane within which we live and move and breathe, right? And think that's what we're working with.
00:18:37
Karen Seinor
There are times when the world and the majority of people in it are very light. Things are flowing well. And there are times where things are darker.
00:18:51
Karen Seinor
And wonder myself, and I do actually think that we are in a very challenging time now. There are many shifts happening in our world.
00:19:02
Karen Seinor
And to me, the light and the dark are really working out who's going to rock the roll. So if you are a bright, sparkly, shiny light in the world and dark is trying to put that light out, it's a good idea to put some protection in place.
00:19:26
Karen Seinor
That's all. Now you might just clear yourself and clear your space on a regular basis. You might also do things like, see this beautiful piece of selenite?
00:19:36
Karen Seinor
It's a gift from a friend, actually. And I usually put this on my tarot deck after I've used it. But I have some very small slivers that I bought from local crystal shop. I've actually got them from the Goddess Emporium.
00:19:55
Karen Seinor
And have a piece, just really tiny, sitting on top of the architrave of the door, front and back. So basically, because what selenite does is it balances and clears, clears and balances. And it's one of the crystals that you don't have to always clear. You know how they say you've got to put your crystals out in the moon to clear them of negative energy. Selenite, you never have to do that with.
00:20:19
Karen Seinor
It's sort of a self-cleaning one, shall we say. It's like a self-cleaning oven.
00:20:28
Karen Seinor
Sorry there was that little interruption there. But anyway, let's continue on. So I'm talking about selenite and putting that over architrape of the door. And the intention is that you're setting up a cleansing, balancing space. So anything, anyone who comes in, they'll be balanced and cleared. And that includes us. You know, we go out into the world We might have a difficult day. Somebody might cut you off in the car. You can get bit crabby. You don't want to bring that into your home.
00:20:57
Karen Seinor
So, yeah. Now, I do think that clearing and cleansing and protecting is more important now than it has been before.
00:21:10
Karen Seinor
So, but I'd really invite you to check in with yourself to see if that's right for you. Now, when I talk about this, it's not in a place of fear or weakness or victimhood or anything like that. It's about taking care of business.
00:21:30
Karen Seinor
Like, you know, we want to have good dental health, so we clean our teeth. And that keeps our teeth in our heads much longer. And it costs us less when we go to the dentist. And so,
00:21:41
Karen Seinor
Spiritual protection and clearing and cleansing on that level. It's kind of the same So that's the approach that take with it now What else can talk about? You know, there's things like I have some crystals around about my garden, different places, some up near my gate, some in the driveway.
00:22:09
Karen Seinor
I've got a crystal grid on a shelf on the front veranda. And actually there's a blog post on crystal grids, creating a crystal grid on the website, which you're welcome to have a look at.
00:22:23
Karen Seinor
that might be something that you want to do. You can use your crystals to set up an intention hold an intention. I use mine mostly for the bees, the crystal grids.
00:22:33
Karen Seinor
But, yeah, I think that self-clearing and energetic protection, it's basic, logical, sensible stuff.
00:22:43
Karen Seinor
You know, if you're going to go away for the weekend, you don't leave your house unlocked. It's basic common sense. You lock the door. You know, somebody really wanted to get into your house, of course they will. But you take care of business, deal with the obvious things. And if something significant happens, then you can get some assistance to resolve that.
00:23:03
Karen Seinor
But I think that most of the time we can take care of stuff ourselves. So there's some other little things that people do, like some people put witch's bells on their back door.
00:23:17
Karen Seinor
And it's like a protection amulet. Different cultures have different things. Having a broom or an indicator of a broom, little... I've actually got one over the top of my front door. I bought one at the expo. I just thought, oh, that is so fun. I've got to have one. And even though I've got the... even though got this beautiful crystal over the top, the selenite shard over the top.
00:23:50
Karen Seinor
But it's a good thing to Even things that you grow in your garden can be protective. They say that there are certain herbs that set up protection. Fennel is something that is often grown in a witch's garden as a protection and also Artemisia.
00:24:11
Karen Seinor
Mugwort, that is also protection. There are certain trees in the Celtic tradition, the Rowan tree, you'll see them in the UK growing around cemeteries because they make a space sacred.
00:24:27
Karen Seinor
The other thing that you can do for yourself, and I've done this quite a lot, is get a drop of sandalwood, real sandalwood essential oils. And just let one drop fall onto my finger. And then you put it onto C7 at the back of your neck.
00:24:42
Karen Seinor
And just pop it there. And because what that does, it's for some reason, I don't know why, I've done this for many, many years, when it's been appropriate. And it stops your energy being pulled.
00:24:57
Karen Seinor
All right. It's kind of like sealing a soft spot. And sandalwood itself, the essential oil is all about creating a sacred space.
00:25:09
Karen Seinor
So sacred spaces are safe, are they not? So there's some thoughts for you consider on spiritual protection.
00:25:20
Karen Seinor
Very happy to hear your thoughts on this. You're very welcome to contact me if you've got any questions around this. It's an interesting space to explore and play with and work out what is right for you And really notice that there are some times when it's really important for you to do lots of protective, setting up protection for yourself and other times not so much. But you might even want know this for, you know, kids or family members or friends too.
00:25:49
Karen Seinor
All right. All the best. Have a wonderful day. Stay safe.