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THE FIVE GREAT MYSTIC POWERS
The First Power - Safety and Self Protection Protocol
by Mystic Pete

A vital power that all mystics, healers and spiritual teachers must master is “self protection.” A beautiful pearl can only grow inside a hard shell. Great art masterpieces must be carefully protected in well guarded museums. Similarly, you must protect the treasures of your precious, inner self with a strong energetic defense. You may be the most loving person in the world, but love alone will not keep you safe. However, when you are safe, it is easier to love.

Unless there is safety, art, invention, learning, commerce, and inner development, is at risk. Artists, mystics and other sensitive people have long endured violation, believing that because they are gentle they have no defense against brute force and violent men. In truth, our sensitivity gives us access to spiritual powers that are much stronger than physical aggression. Not only are we able to protect our gentle, sacred self, we have a duty to protect our gentle, Sacred self. It is one of the few things in this world with true value.

The Technique: Push negative energy away with your Will
Push negative energy away from yourself with your Will, mind, emotion, and body. Motion with your hands (like shooing away), shake your head “no,” say to yourself, “that is not mine; I don’t want it,” expel a few breaths and… push it away.

If you’ve felt your own “energy,” through healing work, tai chi, Reiki, prayer, etc., this is the force that you use to push negativity away from you. If you haven’t felt your own “energy,” try imaging a sticky, toxic substance around you, tense your hands and arms, and push it away from you with your intention.

More Details:
Because this is such a personal process, you’ll have to feel your own way into this practice to find its power. Start from the place inside where you feel something is amiss.

Do it several times a day: before and after sleep, after deep contact with another person, when you do healing and while exercising or meditating. And of course, when you are around trouble. Doing this for one second can have a powerful effect. Serious excavation may take an hour or more. You can clear out general muck, or purge a specific problem that is worrying you.

The creation of this shield on a subtle level will program you to instinctively avoid negative situations “in real life.” “Bad” people will steer clear of you and piles of old garbage will be disposed. You will easily maintain your positive mood, centered bearing and healthy boundaries.

The assaults felt by sensitive people on an energetic level, must be dealt with on an energetic level, and not with personality aggression.

Advanced practitioners will do this while dreaming, transforming nightmares into revelations. Eventually this shielding becomes automatic, requiring little attention and becoming a very comfortable environment in which to live.

As an extra sensitive person myself (musician, healer, poet - geeez, you name it) I was energetically battered most of my life, which was terribly incapacitating. Also I would get sick after I performed energy healings because I absorbed the problems of the people I was treating and had to stop that work. Now that I have this protocol, which I do all the time, I can comfortably be around energetically chaotic people and my healing work doesn’t…injure me. For the first time in my life I feel safe here on earth.

Hate:
Ultimately, we hate in order to protect ourselves because hate drives people and threats away. When we are safe, hate becomes obsolete!

We carry hate on our shoulders from countless insults and injuries and it often goes unnoticed because it is ever present. Also, from a complicated, mammalian place, we hate those who spurn our love. Their presence affirms our worthlessness. Hate drives them away and protects our sense of self-worth. When we feel love so abundantly that the threat of losing affection fades away, perhaps we will abandon hatred born of heartbreak.

Ironically, because hate dams our energy, it prevents us from getting all the wonderful things we want - which would otherwise come to us easily if our energy was flowing. Hate, the thing we use in an upsidedown way to protect ourself, ruins the very thing it is intending to preserve, our life.

Lastly, we hate competitors for they threaten our access to scarce resources: money, sex, position. Again, that threat recedes as these resources become plentiful - or we become less attached to them. Perhaps in our lifetime we will have no more use for hate and it will shrink down to a rarely seen, embarrassing little protrusion, as has our unneeded, primate tails.

The World:
This technique flowers when you expand the practice by pushing negativity away from the culture and right off the planet. If the Earth could speak, She would say that She feels greatly relieved when people do this. With only your intention, you can push imbalance and evil right off this world. You can help clean up politics, make wars go away, and stabilize the weather - and just look like someone waving their arms around inside their living room! The next time you hear about dishonest or violent people in the world, rather than getting frustrated or depressed, engage the weighty gift of sensitivity that you have carried all of your life. Use it to push that crappy energy off the planet - along with your frustration and depression. Witness the miracle of your gift: it is an underutilized power that can change the world.

Additionally, by extending your personal “exorcism” outward into the world, your problems get put into perspective. You can then see how your struggles match the struggles of all humanity.

We need a lot of community Will to will away all the cruelty and primate aggression in this world. That is not only possible, at this time in history, it is necessary for us to survive. For more about this, turn on the evening news! The clearing we are about to create will allow us to evolve into peaceful, more advanced beings.

Relationships:
It is not for us to “take on” the negative energy of others - even the problems of people we love. That is their karma, their lessons. Share the love, but don’t take on the baggage. This protocol helps friendships and romances stay sweet.

Many people are enabled in their negativity by others who “take it on,” just the same as addicts get stuck in their dysfunction by “enablers.” Co-dependence is when your partner needs you to consume their negative energy for them to feel comfortable. To change this poisonous situation, you don’t need to battle them. Just push the negativity away with your Will. Either they will get better or they will leave.

Origins:
On the one hand, negativity arises internally from addiction, pain or ignorance. When you get tired of being chained to the resulting obsession, vicitimization, regret and failure, use this technique to sever those cords. Negativity, obviously, also comes from others who are in pain. However, most of the time it is comes from both directions, inside and out, and gets amplified by the resonance. Whatever the source, expel it from your life.

Non-violence:
“Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nature gave you a sturdy sternum and pericardium to protect your heart. Extend nature’s physical body parts to an energetic level - She wants you to be safe. The stronger your energetic defense, the less “offensive” you will have to be. On a metaphorical level, if you let marauders inside your castle walls, they will steal your gold, and you will have to fight them off. Any time you fight, you lose - even if you win.

Intruders should never get past your sentries and fortifications! Contrary to some well meaning, but naïve advice, you must build a protective wall around your heart so it can heal and love. Put up a big, strong gate. Whoever you let though that entrance has access to your precious jewels; so only let in those who will be very careful with your tender, golden heart. Be a steadfast Gatekeeper for your sensitive self. This way, there will be no more fighting. Then, you may embrace the revered philosophy of Gandhi and Martin Luther King: Non-violence. We are entering an epoch when might will no longer rule. Have hope, for violent leaders will be replaced by the wise.

The practice of non-violence reaches its zenith when altercations are foreseen and avoided. You must anticipate intrusion into your vulnerable space and energetically push potential abusers away. Ironically, most of our injuries occur with our own consent! We choose money, sex, status or companionship over safety and sanctity. Furthermore, much of the negativity we project towards others takes place when we are under attack, are overwhelmed, and then lose our graciousness. The sad irony is that we allow the attack in the first place! In our defense, nobody ever taught us sensitive people how to be strong and safe - there has been no model.

Incidentally, avoiding violence certainly does not equate with cowardice. Moreover, you accrue spiritual merit by standing up for what is right, just as King and Gandhi did. Such courage flows naturally from a stance of peace and strength.

I hope you are able to get the hang of this protocol for dignified, non-violent self protection. It will bring compassion, peace and advancement into your life.

Mystic Pete, Copyright 3/2006
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