Are negative influences real?

​One advice you have or will likely come across as you traverse the energetic territories of consciousness is to protect yourself from negative influences, from the negative intent and energies of forces outside of you, be they from others or from some unknown or unseen source. Is there such a thing as negative influence? Are negative influences real?

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Relatively speaking there are different degrees of influence you can allow into your experience, some that will elevate you and others that will slow the spin and velocity of your consciousness – the key concept here being “allow”. Almost every upbringing is filled with its own version of tales of negative forces. From the monsters in the closet and under the bed, to the crazy old great aunt who casts spells on her enemies, to the evil sorcerer or sorceress going around doing harm in just about every fairy-tale story you can find, there is a wealth of information and folk lore embedded in both your personal and cultural history to suggest that your life isn’t just about your intentions. It’s likely that at some point in your life you’ve even had ill-wishers driven by envy and jealousy give you their own stare of malice.
 
If you at all feel like or resonate with the idea that the negative intentions of others can influence your or can interfere with your life, that is a belief that you want to work to clear from your nervous system or at the very least update it to a more empowered version or relating. As you believe something to be so will you experience it. Every belief you hold is orienting and wiring you to bring about experiences that validate that belief. So check in and see, do you in any way and on any level feel that negative influences are real and have impact on your life? If the answer is a clear and resounding ‘no’ then you are in full possession of your power. If the answer is any degree of ‘yes’ then you have given your power away to this belief and it’s time you gather those energies of yours back from whoever and whatever you have distributed it to. 

An affirmation you can use to strengthen your boundaries energetically if you’re working with the belief of negative influence is "I am now and always only available to higher energies. I am now and always only available to positive influences."  You can meditate on that and really integrate it into your body, from head to sits-bone. While you focus on your references, memories, and any sense you have that someone or something is trying to negatively influence you, or has negatively influenced you, you can through your own intent and focus close the door on them and disentangle the cords of that relationship completely. There are a variety of ways you can close any energetic openings you may have created through your belief system and through the suggestions you've received from your environment. It's your energy field, it's your psyche, it's your bubble of perception, it’s your nervous system, so no one has a right to send anything into it without your permission. Access not granted!
 
You can also do some visualization here regularly until you feel completion where you envision pure golden and white light encasing you like the shells of an egg healing any and all impact you feel you’ve had around this. You can extend this containment back into your childhood and infancy and forward into your future selves and generations. You can also see your higher self, your guardian angels, your guides, or gods/goddesses you feel affinity to patching any holes or cracks in your aura, your energy field. Anchor the experience that you are clear of any openings to receive negative intent from elsewhere. This visualization is to communicate to your subconscious that you are fully and completely free and always protected from any negative interference.

​Any model that says other forces influence and determine your life experiences, whether that be a form of astrology, ancestral or lineage karma, or anything else, you want to take a close look at how that model is portraying you in the equation. Many of these types of models or maps of reality make it seem as though you are simply a receiver of energy and only that. Anytime you come across those types of lifeline forecasts or you remember being told that your destiny is written in the stars or by the stars, ask yourself, what influence do you have on these stars? In reality, at least in a model where consciousness is primary, you come before influence, astrology, karma, and ancestral lineage. You as consciousness precede all of these.
 
You as an embodied being are also constantly and continually emitting forces, energy currents of your own. You’re not an inert or static clump of matter passive and porous to your environment. You are a living dynamic center of energy and information able to open and close yourself any which way you desire. So take a look at the other side of the equation, you – you are an energy emitting center of power yourself and you are also bigger than any power or force on the material plane. You have the ability to change whatever pattern (e.g. destiny) is recorded onto the nervous system/DNA at any time through focus and intent. Factor that in and see how that shapes the picture you have of how the rotation of the cosmos and linear lineage incarnations influence you and how your own rotations influence them in return. 
 
Any model that paints you as an object being moved about is an incomplete picture. You're not a piece of inert non-conscious presence, you're an energy generating center of living intelligence that is able to self-evolve and self-expand – so those old models of powerlessness need a good update. Wherever have any resonance with the maps and models of this embodied life, defining and broadening your current understanding (and updating it) will help shift the impressions/concepts of external determination, influence, and interference. Own your neurology. Own your energy field. Own the mindsets and scripts you make use of moment after moment. Stay in your full power.

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