Some highly-sensitive people silently show empathy and compassion by soaking up other peoples’ negative energy. We naturally want to restore balance and heal people wherever we go, but the trouble is we don’t realize that taking negative energy from other folks will eventually make us unhealthy.

Energy from others first engages with the energetic layers or subtle bodies that create the interconnected electromagnetic field of energy (auric field) around our physical body. Information in this auric field is received by the chakras and sent to the brain for processing and sending messages to the areas of the body that correlate with that type of information. Therefore, clearing your energy field is the place to begin working when you decide you’ve had enough of taking on everyone else’s stuff.

There are many easy and effective ways to control and eliminate detrimental energy and entities that may have entered your field during your workday. Here are two techniques I use……

Imagine a wide cylinder of white light extending from the higher realms above you, encasing your body and aura. The light is piercing through you, and passing into the very center of the earth where it locks in place. You are surrounded by this light, and nothing negative can penetrate it, much like a bubble. Since this light is above you, in you, around you, and below you, it is grounding you to the earth’s energy, clearing your aura, and raising your vibration by connecting with higher realms.

Imagine your legs are growing roots from the bottom of your feet that reach deep in the earth just like a large Oak tree. These roots are flexible and pliable, so when you lift your feet, the roots follow you. Then visualize a cord of white light starting at your root chakra and extending deep into the earth. Embody this feeling.

Clearing is an ongoing process. We must clear our energy regularly to be free of other people’s energy. When you first start the above energy clearing practices you may still feel yourself get a little overwhelmed in large crowds, or when experiencing emotional discomfort, but eventually this discomfort will lessen as you continue to develop your intuition and put effort into your spiritual practice.

We are all made of energy and water. Clearing our energy consistently is a powerful practice to avoid, or at minimum reduce, the onslaught of external intrusions from penetrating our energy field, which in turn affects our way of being and how we feel.