Have you ever walked away from a conversation or a gathering and felt… hollow?
Not just tired, but as if something sacred in you had been subtly siphoned away—without your consent, without even your awareness?
For most of my life, I thought it was just me being "too sensitive." I now realize that sensitivity was not weakness—it was my soul sounding the alarm.
As a lifelong seeker, my path has led me through the teachings of Adi Shankara, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Lalleshwari, Ramana Maharshi, and more recently, the eternal fragrance of Mahavatar Babaji and his sacred lineage through Lahiri Mahasaya and Paramahansa Yogananda. These masters all pointed me back to one truth: you are the light, not metaphorically—but literally, energetically, spiritually, vibrationally.
But I forgot.
Or rather, I didn’t know how to hold the light in a world filled with subtle darkness.
A recent video I watched (“How to Protect Your Energy From Being Drained Spiritually”) hit me hard. Not because it told me something I didn’t already sense, but because it named something I’ve struggled to articulate.
Energy drain isn’t always loud or obvious. Sometimes it’s a glance filled with jealousy. Sometimes it’s an innocent-seeming compliment carrying a hidden hook. Sometimes it’s just being near someone whose field is so unbalanced that your inner radiance begins to leak without you realizing it.
The video explained what I’ve intuitively felt for decades: that we are multi-layered beings—prana (life force), chit (the energy of thought), and tis (the light of soul)—and all of these levels are vulnerable when we lack conscious energetic boundaries.
As Mahavatar Babaji teaches:
“When a soul does not know how to generate its own light, it will live on the light of others.”
And if we are not awake, we call this love. We call this compassion.
But it’s not love to dim ourselves to uplift someone else. That’s martyrdom without wisdom.
When I read the Yoga Sutras or listen to the silent gaze of Ramana Maharshi, I now realize that energy protection is not a “new age” concept—it is ancient. It’s embedded in the very heart of yogic science.
Lalleshwari once said:
“Do not be like a candle that burns out giving light to others. Become the flame that never burns out, because it knows it is the sun.”
Sri Ramakrishna spoke of spiritual environments in which one could thrive—and also the subtle influences of people who drain us, even while praising us.
Yogananda’s voice still rings in my ears:
“Mix with others, but do not let your mind become a chameleon.”
I used to believe that absorbing everyone’s pain was part of my spiritual service. But now I know this too was a misunderstanding. The masters never told us to bleed ourselves dry. They taught us to stand in the Self, to radiate, and to anchor others in love—but only from a place of wholeness.
The video doesn’t just diagnose the problem—it gives profound and immediate tools I now use daily. Here are a few that have changed me:
Breath Recovery Practice: Sitting quietly, inhaling all my lost energy, and exhaling every disturbance. As I breathe, I say inwardly: “I take back all my energy—whole, safe, into the Light of God.”
Heart-Centered Awareness: Placing both hands over my heart and repeating, “I have returned to myself. No one can hold me but myself.”
Chanting AUM with Intention: Feeling the vibration clear not just my mind, but the very architecture of my energy field.
Salt Foot Soaks & Sacred Sound: Using natural elements and high-frequency music (like 963 Hz) to cleanse the energetic residue I used to just accept as “part of life.”
And my favorite:
“I withdraw all my energy. I return to my center. I am the source of all light.”
I see now that every moment I forget my light, I allow the world to name me. Every time I give without being grounded in the Self, I lose touch with my divine radiance.
As Babaji reminds us:
“You cannot hold the light if you forget to hold yourself.”
“You cannot truly love if your heart is empty.”
This truth doesn’t make me retreat from others—it makes me more whole when I do serve, love, or listen. It aligns me with the core of Advaita Vedanta: there is only One, but that One must awaken in this body, in this breath, in this moment, before it can be shared.
If you resonate with what I’ve shared, I invite you to take this path seriously. Not as a way to isolate yourself, but to sanctify your presence in the world.
Watch the video: How to Protect Your Energy
Then try this:
Practice just one of the techniques after your next conversation or scroll through social media.
Journal about how you feel afterward.
Return
to your breath, your body, your heart. And say out loud:
“I am light. I was made of
light. I was sent here to shine.”
The world doesn’t need more drained empaths.
It needs luminous warriors of the heart.
Let’s remember who we are.
Let’s walk in light.
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