Several years ago a person on Paltalk, going by the name of “quietcountryhick”, gave instruction to help natural empaths gain some control over the interference that being around others had on their lives.

Here is a quote from his guide:

You ask how can they do this? How can I? I need to learn how to feel much better. And be alone in my own mind. You have to learn and use a couple of simple techniques. They need to be used every day from now on. Not only when you have a problem, but in the morning when you get up, around lunch time, perhaps after work and (again) definitely before going to sleep. It will take under 5 minutes each time. Probably 1-2 minutes each time after you get used to using them.

The complete guide follows (feel free to copy and paste): 

This is being written only after finding many people who need to find some answers. Some have looked for answers in the usual places. Churches, psychiatrists, friends, neighbours even computer chat rooms hoping to find someone who would both understand what their problem is and how to help them. Unfortunately, churches often say this is evil or at least do not understand how to teach an empath how to limit what they get from other people. The same is true of most others who are asked or told about this.

Some will want to no longer be an empath. This is not something you can change. It is like being white, black, a man, or a woman. It is something that is both a part of you and defines you. You may try to cover it up, but in the end, You are what you are. Like having red hair, you can place colour over it to appear to be a brunette or a blonde, but beneath the façade you are still a redhead. There is hope, It is possible to learn to control your empathic nature. Not to eliminate it, but to have it work or not when you so wish.

I talked to one girl who went to a psychiatrist. She explained how she felt things from people around her. The psychiatrist asked her why she WANTED to feel things from other people. Their training did not include that someone might actually be able to do just that. She was not helped at all. She only wanted to learn how to limit what she felt. Not be asked why she wanted to do something she wanted NOT to do.

Some people have tried alcohol and/or drugs to block out what disturbs them. It does seem to work somewhat for a time. However, they soon find themselves sober and poorer and still feeling the same things. It is not a good solution it simply takes away more from them. The exact opposite of what they want to happen.

That is where I come in. I understand much of what it means to be an empath. Some are stronger than I, some are weaker. We all have the same basic issue. External energy from other people both coming into us and bouncing off of us.

Some people may experience it very strongly. They actually hear thoughts or feel another persons emotions or pain when another person they are sensitive to is around. Some people feel it differently. They may instead feel like they are being pressed upon. Like there is something wrapping itself around them. All they know is they are in a place they feel they must get away from. Some people just have a reaction, they simply feel it as a headache or even migraines.

Many find that either by design or by chance they soon find themselves being largely alone. They tend to avoid groups of more than a dozen people, and for some even that is to much. Some empaths have found that living in a small town is a lot easier on them than living in a city. The reason is obvious. In a city there are thousands and thousands, perhaps several million minds in a very small geographic area. All of that mental energy goes over, around and through almost every part of that city. It creates a background noise that can affect an empath both strongly and badly. To one who is sensitive it is literally sensory overload. In a small town there are not many people living in an area, so the level of background noise is negligible.

Some empaths find that because of all the external energy coming into them from other people their thoughts are always working, and several thoughts running around in the heads at once. This mental confusion can be released, but may take some time to completely get over. Some empaths find they have to get rid of the mental overload a bit at a time.

You ask how can they do this? How can I? I need to learn how to feel much better. And be alone in my own mind. You have to learn and use a couple of simple techniques. They need to be used every day from now on. Not only when you have a problem, but in the morning when you get up, around lunch time, perhaps after work and (again) definitely before going to sleep. It will take under 5 minutes each time. Probably 1-2 minutes each time after you get used to using them.

I see this as a two part protection. Shielding separates you and not you. Keeps you from energies trying to enter into you that affect how you think. It keeps others thoughts, emotions, pain etc. out of you. However, it does have a limitation. Energy still comes and bounces off of you. Like being in a sandstorm, even if you have a jacket on you still feel the stinging of the sand. For this we need a vacuum. It keeps that energy from hitting against you. Makes it a much more comfortable place to live at. The shield and vacuum reinforce each other. Each acts in a way that makes the other more effective.

A NOTE REGARDING WHAT FOLLOWS: Some people find they have a hard time visualizing. It is not really needed. Visualization is just a way for you to see and know inside of yourself that this is working. The true key here is intent. As long as you KNOW that you are doing this… KNOWING that it is real, actually happening and *may* help you…You are doing it correctly. Hope, belief, and intent are what will help you to achieve what you have wanted to do for oh so long. I know it may be hard to be calm at least at first… do the best you can and then shield.

We need to learn now how to shield, and then how to vacuum. Used together the shield and vacuum reinforce each other. Each acts in a way that makes the other more effective and helpful.

I will explain from the very beginning.

First you have to be in the correct mental attitude and place. If not you will not be as effective or accurate as you should be. So close your eyes (for concentration) picture yourself in a very peaceful place, let the energy of this place wash over you. Be aware that all emotions, thoughts, and concerns are leaving you as you just get more and more relaxed and contented. Keep relaxing until you have no thoughts, or concerns left and you are at peace within yourself (Or as close as you can get). When you are peaceful and calm you are in the right state of mind to begin to shield to keep yourself separate and safe from other peoples energies. This shielding puts up a wall that keeps others energies from going into you.

To shield close your eyes (again for concentration) place an image of yourself in your minds eye (a black and white outline is fine) Now say ” I surround myself with the white light of Christ that nothing but good may enter my aura” Do this a minimum of 3 times. (More times may be helpful.) Each time you repeat this notice that a white light, mist, or energy (white) is starting to form around the image of yourself. Each time you repeat this the white light gets stronger, brighter and more complete until it is all around you, top, feet, sides, out past all parts of you. When the white light is all around you and gets no brighter, whiter or stronger and is complete you are shielded. Do this (VARIES BY PERSON) 5 times a day for a week, then 3 times each day afterwards.

You are now shielded. The problem is energy can still bounce off you and make you uncomfortable. Now it is time for the vacuum to do its work.

THIS CAN HELP TO BLOCK OUTSIDE ENERGIES FROM GETTING TO YOU

Close you eyes, Picture yourself. You have a GIANT vacuum cleaner with nozzles above, below, and on all sides of you. It has an on/off switch. You can turn it on or off at any time.

ALL energy coming at you is visualized as dust or sand (your choice). You see the dust (energy) coming at you. When it gets close to you the vacuum sucks it up and spits it out a safe distance from you where it can do you no harm. It can also suck any sand (energy) out of you that is not your own.

Just picture the vacuum and turn it on. Watch the dust (outside energy) be sucked away before it gets to you and any that was inside you be sucked away as well

(THIS IS AN OPTIONAL ADDITION TO KEEP CONTACT WITH ONE PERSON)

You may also want to add an additional on/off switch with a specific persons name on it… then if you wish to “contact their energies” you may open the switch (AND CLOSE IT AFTER) for only them and no one else. Attached to this switch you may wish to add another one with a bar handle. It goes from up position (totally off) to down position (totally open) to let in just a little, half, or all of their energy get through. That way you turn on their particular switch, then adjust to as much or little input from them as you wish.

It is that simple and easy. Once you are shielded and vacuumed you should feel an improvement almost immediately. And given some more time and continued use every day it can only get better.

There is one last thing I want to include. I truly hope no one reading this ever needs to use it. In an ideal world it would not be needed. Sometimes some people intentionally or not intrude on others in a similar way that normal peoples energy bothers empaths. This may be felt as being tired, drained, or even having someone enter into your dreams. If and only if this happens to you will the following be helpful.

Picture yourself as a tempered glass tube, like a beaker. solid sides, with a bottom and no seams. This tube is you… At the bottom there is a small fire burning. You will notice the face of your energy leach (attacker) floating around in the tube. (If you know you are being attacked but do not know the persons identity picture a grey ghost see-through type person with a cape.) Now turn up the fire until it goes to the top of the tube, the person will leave. When they leave place a hinged cover on the top of the tube. Also place 2 shelves just below the top of the tube, one below the other. Place a door on the top one. On the lower shelf place a permanent flame. make sure that it fills that whole shelf. Now you have a hinged top, a shelf below that with a door and a shelf below that. This will get them out with a fire in it. If they try to enter again they will not like the reception. If you like, you can use only the one shelf with the fire under the hinged cover and they will not want to come back in, if they do and get caught opening the door, bad news.

After doing this you may ask “so I’m not to maintain a friendship with this person afterwards?”

The answer is simple. It is up to you, but that link will be severed. They may notice that something is wrong. This may end things but I can’t be sure. And you still risk them trying to do it to you all over again.

THE FOLLOWING IS A SAVED CHAT IT COVERS MOST OF THE SAME THINGS SEE IF YOU FIND YOURSELF IN THIS ALSO

Empathic verses psychic

empathic means that you can pick up energies from other people, feel their pain, emotions, hear thoughts, that kind of thing.

Psychic means that you can see things from a persons past, present, or future.

what if you’re both tho?

quietcountryhick: I think that all psychics are empathic… the big difference is control.

:well sometimes I can’t control mine 😐

:and sometimes I also cannot separate

:you know, as if it’s mine or someone else’s

quietcountryhick: I know, you have someone else thoughts, feelings, <CRAP> going through your head…

quietcountryhick: You need to shield..

drives me batty cuz I feel that way then I have to figure it out and by then I feel really drained

quietcountryhick: it helps to block that from purposeful contact.

some live in other states and countries tho

what’s purposeful contact?

quietcountryhick: irrelevant… time and space have no meaning in the psychic realm… except that it takes more energy to do at a distance.

yes I know

: but I can’t have contact with them if I’m not in person.. well physical

quietcountryhick: empath walks by a house, feels anger… fight going on inside… accidental contact…

quietcountryhick: a psychic with purpose and intent looks to see what they can for another, searches to see what is there…talks to person about it… purposeful contact…

: aaaaahhh ok well what if someone is ‘leaning’ on you on purpose?

quietcountryhick: contact is contact with their energy, not body…

: what would you do? also, they are supposed to be friends so the contact is open.. this is taking advantage tho

: right it took me a min. :))

quietcountryhick: here is the deal, I can tell you how to stop this…. but you will never read them again… can be friends, but no psychic contact ever again…

quietcountryhick: You open another door doing that and you may not be able to close it.

: it’s not someone I read

: just a friend who seems to ‘bleed’ over onto me and it really pisses me off sometimes

quietcountryhick: This may end the friendship… may not… but a possibility… what you will do is drive them away with psychic fire, that will drive them from you…

quietcountryhick: away from within you so they can no longer suck…

quietcountryhick: I will say this, that persona has a hold on you, They have a doorway opened to them, when ever they need more energy they can just enter and suck away… do you want that?

: well noooooooooo

quietcountryhick: I can explain what to do, but you must follow my recommendations exactly… If I say do 2 times I mean 2 times, not 1… If I say do this, do it…

quietcountryhick: many have been told this by me here, and most if not all have said that it helped them… some were getting loose energy crap and had no idea how to handle it.

: I have that tendency as well

FROM HERE DOWN IS HOW TO DO.

quietcountryhick: ok, what I will say is to listen and save this chat

quietcountryhick: I will explain from the very beginning…

quietcountryhick: first you have to be in the correct mental attitude and place… if not you will not be as effective or accurate as you should be…

quietcountryhick: so…

quietcountryhick: close your eyes (for concentration) picture yourself in a very peaceful place, let the energy of this place wash over you. Be aware that all emotions, thoughts, and concerns are leaving you as you just get more and more relaxed and contented. Keep relaxing until you have no thoughts, or concerns left… and you are at peace within yourself.

quietcountryhick: When you are peaceful and calm you are in the right state of mind to do things psychic, but you are not prepared yet. You need to shield to keep yourself separate and safe from other peoples energies. This shielding puts up a wall that keeps others energies from going into you.

quietcountryhick: to shield…

quietcountryhick: close your eyes (again for concentration) place an image of yourself in your minds eye (a black and white outline is fine) Now say ” I surround myself with the white light of Christ that nothing but good may enter my aura” Do this a minimum of 3 times. Each time you repeat this notice that a white light, mist, or energy (white) is starting to form around the image of yourself. Each time you repeat this the white light gets stronger, brighter and more complete until it is all around you, top, feet, sides, out past all parts of you… When the white light is all around you and gets no brighter, whiter or stronger and is complete you are shielded… Do this (VARIES BY PERSON) 5 times a day for a week, then 3 times after

“and I ask that the energies of others be available to me, but be kept separate from me” can help as well if you add it.

quietcountryhick: would be a good idea to add after the shielding is done.. do this at least 3 times as well…

quietcountryhick: always shield before you read or do anything in the psychic arena.

quietcountryhick: It can help to protect you.

quietcountryhick: got that?

: that sounds so very simple yet so very effective

: I’ll try it

THIS CAN HELP TO BLOCK OUTSIDE ENERGIES FROM GETTING TO YOU

Close you eyes, Picture yourself. You have a GIANT vacuum cleaner with nozzles above, below, and on all sides of you. It has an on/off switch. You can turn it on or off at any time.

ALL energy coming at you is visualized as dust or sand (your choice). You see the dust (energy) coming at you. When it gets close to you the vacuum sucks it up and spits it out a safe distance from you where it can do you no harm. It can also suck any sand (energy) out of you that is not your own.

Just picture the vacuum and turn it on. Watch the dust (outside energy) be sucked away before it gets to you and any that was inside you be sucked away as well…

(THIS IS AN OPTIONAL ADDITION TO KEEP CONTACT WITH ONE PERSON)

You may also want to add an additional on/off switch with a specific persons name on it… then if you wish to “contact their energies” you may open the switch (AND CLOSE IT AFTER) for only them and no one else. Attached to this switch you may wish to add another one with a bar handle. It goes from up position (totally off) to down position (totally open) to let in just a little, half, or all of their energy get through. That way you turn on their particular switch, then adjust to as much or little input from them as you wish.

This next part is only if someone is taking your energy or psychically attacking you…

quietcountryhick: try that now though, by the time I am done typing you should be finished.

quietcountryhick: now you are calm and shielded, but you still have a problem… You have a neighbour who can steal your energy. You need to kick em out… that is easy.

quietcountryhick: Picture yourself as a tempered glass tube, like a beaker. solid sides, with a bottom and no seams. This tube is you… At the bottom there is a small fire burning. You will notice the face of your energy leach (attacker) floating around in the tube. (If you know you are being attacked but do not know the persons identity picture a grey ghost see through type person with a cape.) Now turn up the fire until it goes to the top of the tube, the person will leave. When they leave place a hinged cover on the top of the tube. Also place 2 shelves just below the top of the tube, one below the other. Place a door on the top one. On the lower shelf place a permanent flame. make sure that it fills that whole shelf. Now you have a hinged top, a shelf below that with a door and a shelf below that

quietcountryhick: with a fire in it. If they try to enter again they will not like the reception. If you like, you can use only the one shelf with the fire under the hinged cover.

quietcountryhick: ok, it was a friend… same idea… the person sucks you dry of energy, or has and needs to be expelled from you.

quietcountryhick: this will get them out…

quietcountryhick: and they will not want to come back in, if they do and get caught opening the door, bad news.

: so I’m not to maintain a friendship with this person afterwards?

quietcountryhick: that is up to you, but that link will be severed.. They may notice that something is wrong… This may end things, can’t be sure… but NEVER do anything psychic with them… read them or let them read you… NEVER

quietcountryhick: but if he opened a door once, it is possible that he may try again… best to avoid…

: I’m sure he will, no doubt in my mind

: I’m sick of being a doormat tho so I’m going to try this or try to freeze him out

quietcountryhick: basically before you read, calm, shield, then ask ” Let me be safe here and give me the knowledge I need to be kept safe and let me feel when something is wrong or someone is not safe to read”

quietcountryhick: If something doesn’t feel right, just say you can’t read them…

quietcountryhick: and also ask ” If someone is not safe to read please do not make it possible for me to read them… block both of us from contacting the other”