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Hello! I recently attended a 'psychic self defense' class at my local metaphysical shop and in it, we did a bit of energy work, like working with a partner and letting energy flow from us into the other and then letting it flow back into us from the other person. I could give energy but according to the instructor, I've got natural shields up and if I could lower them slightly (not completely drop them), it would help with my energy work.

Only problem is I'm not really sure how lower shields I didn't intentionally erect in the first place. Any advice?

I've got good news and bad news for you guys concerning psychic shields. The good news is that I've been told a way to lower them by one of my old mentors, the bad is that I never was able to remove them because I didn't know where the shields were, how they were placed and what they were protecting. It's more or less like meditating, except rather than clearing your mind completely or focusing on one thing in particular, you have to get insode your own mind and find where protective energies are stronger than others. Those will most likely be the shields that you want to lower or at least familiarize yourself with so that you know where to go later when you need to weaken it some. The harder part though is figuring out how to remove it, since its more likely that you didn't even know you placed it and there for don't know what kind of spell was used to make it.

That's really all I can tell you that may help. Again, I don't know how well this will work since I've never been able to hold concentration long enough to fix the issue in myself.