Can answering too many energy requests be harmful?

[AuntBooPeaceFrog]

I basically quit doing energy requests for awhile, because I kept getting bad colds and having a hard time getting completely over them before another one would hit...physically, I basically felt like crap from the first couple of months when I started answering them up until the time I decided to take an "energy giving" hiatus...I haven't had anything but the minor and brief ailment here and there since then, and I couldn't help wondering if there was a connection. Has anyone else had anything similar happen to them? The reason I'm asking is because I have seen requests that I would like to answer to, but I am flat out afraid to reply to any more until after the next few weeks - we've got a gig on the 18th and then the big one New Year's Eve, and I can't afford to have my voice going out or even just be sick around that time. :sniffsnif

[Cu Morrigan]

It can be dangerous if you dont take the time to renew yourself and Meditate, Usually I only do so for people I have a relationship with. Other wise I would be very cautious about giving someone I didnt know energy since I dont know the whole situation.

[Teresa]

It is true that its possible to drain Yourself doing energy work.Meditation is an excellent thing to do to help refresh Yourself.There are other things that work well too.

[Nacken]

Well all energy work is an exchange of energy. You get back as much as you give, but the quality of the energy you get back might not be good. You are probably getting back' sick energy' for lack of a better term. What you want to do is to clear out that sick energy from your energetic system. In the summer, you can do meditations with trees. Trees will easily exchange and neutralize anuy negative energy. But it is winter time now. Personally, I use hematite which i carry around with me, but also after work I walk home on the rail trail which is a natural forested path, and stop at one of the big rocks beside the path. I pull up energuy from tyhe earth and push out the energy from inside myself into one of the big rocks or boulders. I havent even had a cold or sore throat in over 10 years even though I do energy work every day on multiple clients.

[Lunacie]

That's the truth about it being an "energy exchange". Nature abhors a vacumn so if you're sending out your own energy you have to replenish it, and the energy that is most readily available comes from the person to whom you're sending energy.

With Reiki energy healing, I learned to channel energy that exists in the universe rather than depleting my own store of energy. I've also learned to shield myself lightly when I do healing work so that I don't pick up energy and other stuff from the person I'm helping.

It's a good idea to do an aura cleansing before you send energy so you don't send anything extra and icky, and to do another aura cleansing when you finish so that anything that came back to you doesn't stay stuck with you. Just visualize energy like white light or a shower washing down from the crown of your head down past your feet, taking anything unhealthy or unwanted along with it. You can use your hands to stroke over your aura to "sweep" it clean energetically if you'd rather do something physical and visual as well as mental and spiritual.

[~Elise~]

If you drain yourself doing energy work--then you aren't doing it properly. You do NOT use YOUR energy, you use Universal healing energy, not your energy. You are a channel for the energy, not the source of it.

This applies to whether you are doing Reiki or some other form of healing.

JMO and YMMV,

Elise

[blindfaith^_^]

As a reiki two student, I have never had a problem with energy requests or healings, but that's because I call in universal energy. I don't give of myself, I'm just the radio, I project the waves but I don't create them. ^_^ If one was using his or her own personal energy I could see though how that could weaken someone and help cause them to fall ill.

[Nacken]

I am not giving energy from my own personal store of energy. I act as a conduit for the energy, but some of the 'sick energy' remains in the pipes. If you were doing this for a living and treated 6 or so people per day, you would have the same issues or worse. I work on people for about an hour at a time. My gungfu is better than your gungfu. :atantrum:
Nature does abhor a vacuum and the exchange of sick and healthy energy occurs whether you have reiki or not. So you must clear your energy after working on someone else in whatever way works best for you. Shielding is useful but some people cannot shield themselves as effectively as others. My main point was that all energy work is an exchange of energy. Actually, all interactions of any kind is an exchange of energy.

[Silver_FireStar]

Actually whenever I answer an energy requestr I feelthree times better. I always understood it as what ye sends out comes back to ye to the power of three. And it always has for me. All I say is give yourself time to recover between them so you don't give out all your energy.

[Lunacie]

I am not giving energy from my own personal store of energy. I act as a conduit for the energy, but some of the 'sick energy' remains in the pipes. If you were doing this for a living and treated 6 or so people per day, you would have the same issues or worse. I work on people for about an hour at a time. My gungfu is better than your gungfu. http://mysticwicks.com/images/smilies/tantrum.gif
Nature does abhor a vacuum and the exchange of sick and healthy energy occurs whether you have reiki or not. So you must clear your energy after working on someone else in whatever way works best for you. Shielding is useful but some people cannot shield themselves as effectively as others. My main point was that all energy work is an exchange of energy. Actually, all interactions of any kind is an exchange of energy.I was referring to the original post when I wrote about using one's own story of personal energy. I agreed that some of the energy that is exchanged can stay stuck and needs to be released or cleansed, you and I both do that but in different ways, eh? I know that some people have more trouble creating a shield, which is why I suggested cleansing their aura (or pipes) as well as shielding.

WTF is gungfu? http://mysticwicks.com/images/smilies/ponder.gif

[~*Ginger*~]

Being empathic, I find it hard to do much reading of the requests.
I feel their needs.
i'm only able to go in and out & answer with a hug for the majority.
a hug is worth more than a million words to me...

Yes, for me, it can be draining.
I still have much more to learn...
:hugz:

[~Elise~]

I am not giving energy from my own personal store of energy. I act as a conduit for the energy, but some of the 'sick energy' remains in the pipes. If you were doing this for a living and treated 6 or so people per day, you would have the same issues or worse. I work on people for about an hour at a time. My gungfu is better than your gungfu. :atantrum:
Nature does abhor a vacuum and the exchange of sick and healthy energy occurs whether you have reiki or not. So you must clear your energy after working on someone else in whatever way works best for you. Shielding is useful but some people cannot shield themselves as effectively as others. My main point was that all energy work is an exchange of energy. Actually, all interactions of any kind is an exchange of energy.

I do do this for a living and I don't have those issues. But also I am VERY rarely sick and I think it is because of the healing work that I do. And, yes, I shield myself. So -- there is really nothing for me to clear out after each healing. There are a very few times that because of my personal connection to the healee I can not shield myself very well. But I am still never drained and I do not take on the symptoms of my clients.

I don't know what I do different and it just may be a mindset, I don't know. I train healers on a monthly basis, as well and they don't have the problems decribed either. So, I don't know what to tell ya.

JMO and YMMV,

Elise

Elise

[Ladylepgirl]

I use to write to someone online that was always asking for energy from me to help with his weekly grind at work and at first, to be a friend I helped out, after all friends help friends right? Well after awhile, it started to take over all my ritual time and I was never able to raise energy for myself of anyone else for that matter so I had to stop. It made me physically drained at times and almost made me sick. Now that I stopped, for the first time at this time of year, I haven't even come down with the flu or a cold because I have been focusing more on myself and kids at home. I think there are some people that will completely take advantage of you if you let them, so I would be careful. Help those sincere, but not those that seem to be taking more from you than you can handle.

[SacredWithin]

I basically quit doing energy requests for awhile, because I kept getting bad colds and having a hard time getting completely over them before another one would hit...physically, I basically felt like crap from the first couple of months when I started answering them up until the time I decided to take an "energy giving" hiatus...I haven't had anything but the minor and brief ailment here and there since then, and I couldn't help wondering if there was a connection. Has anyone else had anything similar happen to them? The reason I'm asking is because I have seen requests that I would like to answer to, but I am flat out afraid to reply to any more until after the next few weeks - we've got a gig on the 18th and then the big one New Year's Eve, and I can't afford to have my voice going out or even just be sick around that time. :sniffsnif

The reason this happens to you is because you must learn to "rejuvinate" yourself after giving energy. Or, you could be an energy chaneller and simply channel the energy instead of taking from yourself. Take it from Divinity instead. It's something I learned. I hope I put it clear enough for you to understand. So basically it's better to act like an energy conductor instead of the source of power. It could really drain you.

[ShamanFeather]

I am also a reiki and la ho chi practitioner. Neither do I give my own energy but rather universal energy set for the highest good, even when I do myself I have learned always for the highest good. I like La Ho Chi a little better as it creates its own natural shield between me and the client and I don't end up with a lash of pain if they have something and i didn't sheild good enough. That doesn't mean I still can't feel if they have pain or something but I rather just know where it is sometimes indictated my feelings of heaviness heat or cold.

Another thought, at first with reiki I did get sick. and that was because I had my own blockages to get rid of so when I did the reiki it released toxins into my system as well as other things. Even with chiropractic and other modalities you can get sicker before you get better its a called a healing crisis.

I have heard nature abhors a vacuum but I was also taught that if it is not filled what was there before is the same type that will fill it if it is not filled in with white light. If I ever do extractions for people I have to work on putting more white light in them so that the problem doesn't return immediately due to the vacuum.

Another type of healing I've done with people is an earth healing, where we pulled it up through us and sent to the person. Though I'd put up filters before doing that so you only pull good clean stuff up and the other filter catches the stuff inside of you and then you both get cleaned. Just imagine grouning out you filters with all they caught when your done.

I'd also try practicing first with less sick people so you can see if you still get sick or just work on yourself a while. Things can really get back up internally when one isn't paying attention >.<

well good luck with eveyrthing.

[SacredWithin]

Neither do I give my own energy but rather universal energy set for the highest good,...

Yeah, this is what I've been trying to get at. :)

[kissesree]

I think it depends on how much energy you have to spare, and how well you can renue your energy:fpoke:

[QUEEN OF THE DAMNED]

Thanks for asking that Aunto Boo, I'd been feeling like crap and getting sick heaps lately...feeling fatigued, thanks to everyone with the advice too, I'll take some more time out to meditate.
Still getting used to all of this.

[AuntBooPeaceFrog]

Thank you and :hugz: to all who replied. :hugz: but no energy, lol! Just kidding.
But seriously, I do appreciate your responses, and I think that maybe I was actually sometimes forgetting to bring it in from the universal energy, thus taking it from my own supply. I should be able to more effectively help others now without depleting myself. I think that's where it gets confusing sometimes, when someone makes a request asking if anyone can "spare" some of their energy to help, maybe? It seems to imply that the help is coming from your own energy as the source...I think that this was at least part of the problem, for me, anyway. I mean, I am still new at this, and while it seems like part of me knew that the energy was coming from the universe, another part of me that just wanted to jump in and help too eagerly, without properly focusing, was leaving me vulnerable.