Are you taking on energy from your clients?

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Do holistic practitioners need protection from dark energy? That's what we're talking about today. Welcome. I'm Maria Furlano. Welcome to The Art Of Tuning In Podcast. I'm so glad you're here today!

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This is a topic that has mixed reviews, so if you followed my work at all. If you've taken classes with me, if you're a private client of mine, you know that I absolutely 100% believe in energetic protection. I even teach a course on energetic protection. It's called Energetic Protection 101, you can go on over to theartoftuningin.com get on the waitlist for that. I teach it at different parts of the year.

But energetic protection, not quite in my view, what people might think it is.

Sometimes in the spiritual community, they feel that energetic protection is too strong, that if we are protecting our energy, it means that we are asking for dark energy to come at us because we are trying to protect against it.

That is not at all what energetic protection is, in my view, and in my training in Medical Qigong. Especially if you're someone who is a healer, who is a therapist, who is an acupuncturist, who is a chiropractor, who is a massage therapist, who is a psychic, who is a channeler, who is a coach, working with others.

You might be someone in a company that has meetings with others, that is hiring people, that is firing people. You might be a teacher working with large groups of people.

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Everyone has an energy field, and that energy field is constantly receiving an exchange of energy from the outside environment. When you're empathic, you automatically feel more intensely. You're highly sensitive in the best way, right?

I always say highly sensitive people are the best people in the world, because they feel things intensely, and we need that in this world.

But when you feel things intensely, when you're empathic, there's a responsibility that goes along with that, in taking care of yourself. There's a responsibility of understanding that you take in energy.

You see energy, feel energy, no energy, hear energy, taste energy, smell energy. All of these things that you may have, the all of these beautiful, intuitive gifts. You do that in an intense way than other people who may just be moving through their life not picking up that same energy.

So when you're in a situation with someone where you're supporting them and they're having emotional issues they're going through, like, for example, somebody who's going through a deep grief, and you're supporting that, you are in that energy, that energy field of that other person, and that person is with you. If you don't know how to clear your energy, and if you don't know how to keep your alignment and know how to access the earth and access the universal energy, and have that run through you, and have that radiate out through your body into your energetic armor, which are your protective energy fields, then you are always going to be operating about 50% of what you really could. And over time, that tends to go down because you get drained.

Replenishing at night, through sleep is an amazing way to replenish our energy. Replenishing through nutrition is an amazing way to replenish our energy, replenishing through the sunlight. Being in the sun, that is an amazing thing for your immune system and for your energy levels.

And I think people in the holistic field often feel tired a lot, and they don't realize why, and they don't often give themselves enough credit about how much energy they're holding. They're holding space for healing. They're holding space for transformation.

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When you're holding a tremendous amount of healing space for another...

That doesn't just happen, even if you're sitting in a chair across from someone and you're just listening, you're holding a tremendous amount of space when that person leaves, what's left in the room that you're working on, if you're working through the computer, that's still an energy exchange. So clearing your space and clearing your own energy is essential.

All of the energy exchanges that you have in your life, they're in your field.

So as you go in and work with a new person, you're bringing in all of the energy that you have carried with you. If you don't know how to clear your energy, then you're coming into every situation carrying a whole bunch of energy that's exhausting. It's also not great, because it's mixing with the other person's energy, and that person takes. It on. So we're always mixing. We're always exchanging.

That's normal, but it's like taking a personal shower where we're getting the dirt off of our body. We're getting the sweat off of our body. Otherwise it just accumulates and accumulates and accumulates.

It's the same with energy, we want to clear it on a daily basis. If we're working with people a lot of times we're clearing in between sessions, definitely at the beginning of the day and definitely at the end of the day. And as we clear that energy, we find that we are emotionally lighter, that mentally, we can focus better, physically, we feel better. Because a lot of people who are very tuned in this way, energetically, intuitively, they also end up sometimes taking home the physical discomforts of their clients.

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This happened to me many years ago, before I was doing acupuncture, before I was teaching Medical Qigong, I taught and had a massage therapy practice, and I worked especially on injuries, but I also worked with people who had fibromyalgia. I worked with people who were dealing with a lot of emotional injuries. Although the work was beautiful and I was getting great results, I often found that I would come home and I would notice, you know, I worked on somebody today who had a shoulder injury, and, hmm, my shoulder feels funny, and it wasn't strained from the work I was doing. It was actually taking on just a little bit of this person's pain, and there was somebody else's little pain, and then there was this.

And then I was noticing emotionally, gosh, I'm a little bit sad. This was a huge key for me in understanding that we really do exchange energy, that all that stuff that I had learned, you know, I had started martial arts and energetic training when I was 12 years old.

So throughout my whole life, I have been doing martial arts, meditating, understanding energy. It's been in my life, my whole life, but until this time, and this was when I was in my 20s. I didn't really understand that we really did exchange energy, that energy was real, that it wasn't just a concept, that we actually moved within each other's energy fields, and that we actually really could take on things well, as someone who was very empathic and very in tune with people. It's such a gift. It's what I do, but it became very draining.

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Frequencies...

For the past 25 years, I have worked with holistic practitioners, teaching them how to regain their energy, because they have also experienced lots of energy drain, and they don't know where it's coming from. Sometimes they think they're getting sick and they're not. It's it's because they're just not clearing their energy.

And I want to make it really clear that we're not talking about you're taking on this big, bad, dark energy, but you are taking on a frequency, if you are working in a way where you are clearing that, releasing it, you have exchanged your energy. You have given of yourself. First of all, that needs to be replenished, and that can be replenished with tools such as Qigong and meditation and things that allow you to bring in higher vibration of energy, to refill your energy. But first, before you do that, you have to clear your energy you have to clear the space that you're in. You want to clear your energy fields, and you want to tune into your own emotions and see if you were triggered by anything that went on that day. Is there anything in here, in you that you need to clean up?

When I was going through my acupuncture and Medical Qigong training, one of the things that would come up is that when you were treating somebody else, anything that you had not resolved yourself as the healing practitioner would be activated. So, for example, if I was someone who had grief and I had not resolved that grief in me, I had not spent time healing that grief and came to a resolution with it and understood it. If I had a patient that came in who had was dealing with a great deal of grief, that grief in them would trigger my own grief. And you can't be as clear when you're treating someone else when you haven't cleared yourself.

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So when we talk about energetic protection for the holistic practitioner, especially, we're not only talking about the physical practices of Medical Qigong that clear your energy or clear your space. We're talking about the emotional practices that also help to clear your energy, to make you a clear channel of energy, which also helps elevate your energy and gives you more energy.

When you are someone who is highly in tune with energy, when you're highly tuned in you are highly tuned into very positive energy, and you are highly tuned into very negative energy.

And those energies and everything in between have a frequency. It's very important to be very aware of that.

A lot of times in the spiritual community, it just drives me crazy when it's all about be positive, be positive, be positive, because that's not how life works. When you are working with people, when you're dealing with your own life, you have a bandwidth of emotions that go on an entire variety of different emotions and frequencies and reactions and behaviors that happen and it's normal you want to be conscious enough. Is this something that supports me in my life, or is this something that I want to look at, clear, heal and being able to take the time.

So there's clearing your space and your energy with clients, and then there's your daily energetic hygiene that's just for you. And they're different things.

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Depletion and resentment

And I say this because people who support other people tend to give a lot. They tend to give and give and give, and a lot of times, they can become resentful because their energy has just been given and given, and they don't understand their replenishment of their own energy is extremely important, and it's separate. It's separate from the client. They have to replenish their own energy. They have to replenish their own dreams. They have to replen replenish their own needs. Are your needs being met? That's very important. And we can tend to meld ourselves into our environment very easily. So very important to have the consciousness to step back and to be able to tune everything out, tune into yourself and nourish yourself.

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So with the original question about, "Do I feel that holistic practitioners, people who support other people, do they need to know energetic protection so that they don't take on dark energy?" Yes, I absolutely do, but remembering that the frequency of dark energy is a frequency. It's a density. It vibrates in a certain way. And frequency of light, of healing, of health, of joy, of compassion, of creativity, all of that resonates in a different way. It's just about finding the resonance that you want to live in and knowing that you have the tools to be able to move into that resonance whenever you want to.

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And You?

I would love to know if you feel that you can take on energy from people. I would love to know what your experience is with that. How do you feel about energetic protection? Do you have tools that you use?

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Learn more and move deeper into your own energy with medical Qigong...

And if you are wanting to learn more, please go to the art of tuning in.com you can get on the waitlist for the Energetic Protection 101 course. And I thank you so much for being here, and I will see you in the next episode.