What To Do About Psychic Attacks
(This is an excerpt from a University Of Metaphysical Sciences course at www.umsonline.org, please feel free to visit the school website)
While you may be privy to the knowledge that using your psychic abilities in anything but a benevolent fashion only brings harm to yourself in the long run, others may not be so conscious of this. There are people who purposely practice black magic and attack people psychically. You will meet many people who come to you with complaints that they have been “hexed” or “cursed” by another who is practicing black magic or voodoo on them. These people are in a terrible state of fear and anxiety, and they feel helpless against the power of this psychic attack coming from another person.
Your job is to help people understand that psychic attacks only have power if they give the other person that power. I especially like Joseph Murphy’s analogy in his book Psychic Perception: The Magic Of Extrasensory Power (1971): “All the water in the ocean could not sink a ship unless it got inside; likewise, negative thoughts of others could not enter… unless [we] open the door of [our] mind and give them entrance.” Someone can have all the negative thoughts about you that they want to, but unless you allow those thoughts to enter your consciousness, they are not harmful.
It is alright if someone is not happy with you, or does not like you, and it is even alright if another person fantasizes about harming you, psychically or otherwise. However, you are immune to these harmful thoughts if you realize the truth of who you are, that you are the creator of your universe, that you are eternal self that never dies and cannot be harmed no matter what, and if you choose to be immune to these harmful psychic attacks, you are. It is as simple as that. If you send love back to the person who is sending you harmful thoughts, even compassion for his or her state of unhappiness, then you have gone a step above and beyond your duty to your fellow human being. You have then become the source of love, and the source of love cannot be harmed. You have risen above the occasion and you are not even present for the harm to happen. This is different than protection. It is simply being unavailable for harm to find you and realizing that you have the power to say no to harm if you so choose.
Protection
Many believe that protection is necessary, but the very idea of needing protection contributes to the thought that the psychic harm is real. However, for those who find it necessary, a useful visualization for protection is to think of oneself as a ball of beautiful love and light, radiating from the inside out, like a star with long rays of light reaching out. This is all the protection that is needed. Rather than thinking of oneself as being enclosed or confined inside a protective cocoon or bubble, as if there is some membrane “keeping something out,” it is better to think of oneself as being so bright and loving that darkness simply cannot penetrate and must be turned into light itself if it is to be near you at all. Let go of all fears of the other person or the belief that the other person has any power whatsoever to influence you. Simply be the light and love that you are, and all the rest will take care of itself.
One of two things will happen to the ill-wisher: either he or she will become harmed by the misused psychic energy, for if it has nowhere to go, it will return to its sender, or he or she will have a change of heart and shift into light and love.