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Most of us need to be a bit more worried about muggers than monsters. Road rage is a bigger danger than demonic possession in day to day life. The point? We need to protect our bodies as well as our minds. While we are at it, maybe we could protect our wallets as well. Most of time when you read an article on topic of psychic self-defense, you get lectured about not using a ouija board and a basic primer on shielding. These are wonderful tools to use if a Svengalli is trying to take over your mind or your pushy neighbor is having a bad day and projecting it full power to everyone within fifty miles, just when you need to go to bed.

How about protecting your body though? Can psychic self-defense help you out in that regard at all?

Surprisingly, answer is yes!

Here, briefly, are some techniques that can help you protect yourself from physical harm. These are all methods I have used personally and tested in real life situations. One note of caution however, do not take these methods lightly. You must approach these techniques with a serious mind and proper intent if you wish to use them successfully. After all, you are not trying to make a plant grow a little taller or guess who will call you next on phone, you are trying to protect your life. Do work and make it count.

First Technique: Empathic Field Generation

It may sound a little weak at first, but think about it for a moment, most people that are attacked are dealing with an enraged person. If you can produce a feeling of calm in them before attack takes place, they are much less likely to even try.

*Relax and quiet your mind. You will wish to hold a conceptual mind state as much as possible. Think in ideas rather than words or pictures.

*Define space of effect. To do this hold idea in your mind of a bubble around your body that goes out about twenty feet or so. Remember, you simply “know” field is there and how big it is. Your subconscious mind will take care of rest. This should be done for at least five minutes.

*Once you have defined space you wish to condition to your satisfaction, shift concept you are holding to one of relaxed calm and friendliness that fills entire field, make sure you define idea that it will effect those around you and not yourself, unless you want it to do that as well. This should take around ten to fifteen minutes.

*The next step is to make field self-sustaining. Hold concept of field as you have generated it. Then add to concept idea that each part of field will tell every other part to continue to function at full strength at all times. Hold this whole, organized field for at least five minutes.

This will give you around a week of very solid coverage. If you wish you can arrange structure to reflect any emotion or mental state you can think of. It is best to keep idea simple to start with, a basic field that does what you want is much better than a complex field that has “strange” consequences. Here are some variations you could use just by replacing central idea you use.

1. Aversion. Hold idea that anyone who would do harm to others will simply not wish to stay around you. I have used this to very good effect in some very dangerous situations.

In course of discussion, Guy asked if attendee was certain that her family member actually wanted to heal, observing, "Most people don't really want to heal. Most people just want to stop hurting."

Once again, an off-hand comment by Guy Williams completely rearranged furniture in my head. (If you'd like to see results of some of Guy's other off-hand comments, check out The Relationship Handbook: How to Understand and Improve Every Relationship in Your Life. The sections on forgiveness and anger are both inspired by Guy's wisdom).

Most people don't want to heal. Most people just want to stop hurting.

Most of us want to wave a magic wand and make pain go away. Most of us focus on treating symptoms: we'll take pills, injections, or have surgery. We claim that we want to heal, but we rarely choose to heal. We remain motivated as long as we're in pain, and once that pain has become bearable or manageable, we choose to return to our normal lives.

This is not healing.

For most of us, healing is a big, scary, and uncomfortable prospect. Healing requires that we do two very simple, yet incredibly unappealing tasks. First, we must accept that we are responsible for creating our own illness: Our thoughts, beliefs, choices and actions are directly responsible for imbalance and dis-ease we are experiencing in our physical bodies. Second, we must be willing to change our lives and eliminate thoughts, beliefs, choices and actions that created and supported imbalance and dis-ease, replacing them with new choices that support balance and health.

The process of healing really is very simple, and if we break it down into small, manageable steps, following process can also become easy as well. As with most challenges we encounter during our human experience, healing requires that we first become familiar with and learn how to master our egos.

THE CARE AND FEEDING OF THE EGO Let's begin by remembering who we truly are. We are each whole and complete, eternal, multi-dimensional beings, individualized aspects of All That Is. We are also each currently having a human experience, in third dimension of matter and form, on planet Earth.

When we begin our human experiences, we're given a very useful tool to help us to interact with third dimension: ego. The ego is entirely a third-dimensional construct. In a sense, we put on an "ego suit" so that we can experience and explore third dimension from a unique and specific point of view. The ego helps us to pretend that we are individuals; more specifically, ego helps us to pretend that we're not, in fact, connected to each other as a part of All That Is. Ultimately, our egos are designed to help us to remember where we left our car keys, and not much else.

The problem is that our egos don't know this.

Our ego believes that its job is to protect us from what it perceives to be a very cruel and dangerous universe. Since ego was created to help us maintain illusion of separation from Source, separation is all that ego knows. The ego feels lost, isolated and alone. In an attempt to protect us from pain of world, ego increases our sense of separation. Of course, greater separation, more pain. The more ego tries to protect us from pain of separation, more pain it causes.

The ego's single greatest fear is death. Everything ego does, it does to try to prevent itself from being destroyed. The ego _can_ be destroyed-it's a product of third dimension, and therefore it's fragile and finite. _We_, on other hand, are eternal, multi-dimensional beings who can never die or be destroyed because we are a part of All That Is. We get into trouble when we start to identify with our egos and forget our true natures. When we start to believe that we are our egos, we see world from our ego's point of view and experience fear and pain.

All fear comes from ego. All fear, in fact, is directly related to ego's fear of being destroyed. Fear can only exist when we believe that we are separated from Source. The more we believe ego, more we believe we are separate from Source, and more we experience fear.