Psychic Attack Response: Emergency Defense When Under Attack

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Psychic attack response requires immediate emergency action to stop ongoing energetic assault, remove attachments or intrusions the attack created, block continued negative energy from reaching you, and restore your compromised energy field after the damage attacks inflict on your boundaries and vitality. As a Registered Nurse with 20 years of healthcare experience combined with my Reiki Master and Intuitive Mystic Healer expertise, I can tell you that responding to psychic attacks is genuine emergency requiring the same urgency you would apply to physical assault because energetic attacks create real damage to your field, nervous system, mental clarity, and physical health that worsens the longer the attack continues without defensive intervention. The attack depletes your life force, weakens your immune system, destabilizes your emotional state, clouds your thinking, and creates openings for additional problems to compound the assault already underway. Effective emergency response involves stopping the panic response that weakens your defenses further, implementing immediate energetic clearing to remove attack energy from your field, establishing emergency shielding stronger than your normal daily protection, cutting energetic cords connecting you to the attacker, grounding yourself to stabilize the destabilization attacks create, and calling on spiritual protection from whatever sources you work with to provide defensive support your depleted system cannot generate alone. The Professional Spiritual First Aid Kit provides comprehensive emergency response guidance including spiritual grounding techniques for stabilization when attacks fragment your field, consciousness shift navigation for processing the disorientation attacks create, emergency energy clearing protocols for removing intrusion energy, and meaning-making frameworks for understanding why you are experiencing this assault and how to prevent future attacks through stronger ongoing protection.

Key Takeaways

• Panic weakens your defenses further during attacks — Your first emergency response must be stopping the fear reaction that makes you more vulnerable to ongoing assault
• Immediate clearing removes attack energy before it embeds — The faster you clear intrusion energy, the less damage it creates and the easier complete removal becomes
• Emergency shielding must be stronger than daily protection — Attacks require upgraded defensive barriers beyond what normal circumstances demand
• Cord cutting stops the energetic connection feeding the attack — Severing the attachment between you and the attacker interrupts their ability to continue sending negative energy
• Grounding stabilizes the destabilization attacks create — Connecting to earth energy provides the stability your compromised field cannot generate internally
• Spiritual protection provides support your depleted system cannot create alone — Calling on guides, angels, or divine light supplies defensive energy when you are too drained to shield yourself
• Response must address both stopping current attack and preventing continuation — Emergency defense is not complete until the attack stops AND you have protection preventing resumption

Why Emergency Response to Psychic Attacks Matters

When someone mentions psychic attacks, many people dismiss the concept as paranoid or dramatic. But as a nurse who has witnessed the real physiological impacts of directed negative energy and as a Reiki Master who can perceive the energetic damage attacks create, I can tell you that psychic attacks are genuine emergencies requiring immediate response with the same urgency you would apply to physical assault.

Attacks create measurable damage. Your cortisol levels spike from the stress of ongoing energetic assault. Your immune system weakens under the sustained barrage of negative energy. Your sleep becomes disrupted by intrusive energy preventing rest and recovery. Your nervous system stays in constant activation trying to defend against threat it can sense but cannot fight through normal physical means. Your energy field develops holes, tears, or areas of darkness where attack energy has penetrated and embedded itself.

The longer an attack continues without defensive response, the more damage accumulates. What starts as acute distress becomes chronic depletion. What begins as energetic intrusion becomes physical illness as your compromised field can no longer support your body's health. What feels like targeted negativity escalates into cascading life problems as your weakened defenses allow additional challenges to compound the original assault.

This is why emergency response matters. You are not overreacting by treating psychic attacks as crisis requiring immediate intervention. You are appropriately protecting yourself from real harm that will worsen without defensive action. Every moment you delay response is a moment the attack continues damaging your field, depleting your vitality, and creating problems that will require more extensive healing once you finally implement protection.

My nursing background taught me to recognize emergency situations requiring immediate intervention versus problems that can wait for scheduled care. Psychic attacks are emergencies. The energetic equivalent of someone physically assaulting you. You would not ignore physical assault or tell yourself you are overreacting for seeking help. Do not minimize energetic assault either. Respond with appropriate urgency.

Step One: Stop the Panic Response

Your very first action when you recognize you are under psychic attack must be stopping the panic and fear reaction that makes you more vulnerable to the ongoing assault. This seems counterintuitive because attacks are genuinely frightening, but panic is one of the attacker's greatest allies in continuing to harm you.

Why Panic Weakens Your Defenses

When you panic, your nervous system floods with stress hormones that fragment your energy field rather than strengthening it. Fear creates energetic chaos that opens more vulnerabilities for attack energy to penetrate. Panic clouds your thinking so you cannot implement effective defensive strategies. Terror makes you feel powerless, and that sense of powerlessness becomes self-fulfilling as your belief that you cannot protect yourself undermines any defensive work you attempt.

The attacker's negative energy also feeds on your fear. When you panic, you are generating intense frightened energy that actually nourishes whoever is attacking you. Your terror gives them more power to continue the assault. This creates vicious cycle where the attack frightens you, your fear strengthens the attack, the strengthened attack frightens you more, and the escalation continues until you break the cycle by refusing to feed the attack with your panic.

From a nursing perspective, I have watched countless medical emergencies where the patient's panic made their situation worse while those who stayed calm despite serious circumstances fared much better. The same principle applies to energetic attacks. Your calmness does not mean you are not taking the attack seriously. It means you are responding effectively rather than reactively.

Techniques for Stopping Panic

When you notice panic rising in response to recognizing you are under attack, use these immediate techniques to shift out of terror and into effective defensive action.

Take ten slow, deep breaths counting each one. This is not spiritual bypassing or pretending the attack is not happening. This is nervous system regulation that allows you to think clearly enough to defend yourself. Breathe in for a count of four, hold for four, breathe out for six. The extended exhale activates your parasympathetic nervous system, pulling you out of fight-or-flight panic into the regulated state where effective action becomes possible.

State aloud or think clearly: "I have power to protect myself. This attack is real but I can defend against it. I am taking action right now to stop this assault." This verbal or mental assertion interrupts the powerless narrative that panic creates. You are not denying the attack. You are refusing to be helpless victim and claiming your capacity to respond effectively.

Ground yourself physically through immediate contact with your body or environment. Place both feet flat on the floor and feel the solid ground beneath you. Press your hands against a wall or table and notice the physical sensation. Pinch your arm or leg to bring awareness into your body. These physical grounding techniques interrupt the dissociative floating sensation that panic creates and anchor you back into your body where you can access your defensive power.

Remind yourself that attacks, while harmful, are not fatal unless you allow them to be. The attacker is sending negative energy at you. This creates real problems but it cannot destroy you unless you completely abandon all defense and allow the assault to continue indefinitely without any protective response. You have survived to this moment. You will survive past this moment. The attack is serious but not insurmountable.

Step Two: Immediate Energetic Clearing

Once you have regulated your panic enough to think and act effectively, your next emergency action is clearing the attack energy that has already penetrated your field. The faster you remove intrusion energy, the less damage it creates and the easier complete clearing becomes.

Why Immediate Clearing Matters

Attack energy does not just bounce off your field. It penetrates, embeds itself, and begins creating damage from within your energetic space. The longer it remains, the deeper it integrates into your system and the more harm it causes. Fresh intrusion energy that has only been present for minutes or hours clears much more easily than attack energy that has been embedded for days or weeks creating chronic damage.

Think of attack energy like a toxin entering your body. The sooner you eliminate it, the less damage it creates. Delay allows the toxin to spread throughout your system, affecting multiple organs and creating complications that require more extensive healing than if you had expelled it immediately upon exposure.

From my Reiki practice, I can feel the difference between fresh attack energy and embedded attack energy when working with clients. Fresh intrusion sits closer to the surface of their field and moves out relatively easily with clearing work. Embedded attack energy has woven itself into their field structure, creating distortions and damage that require more intensive healing to fully resolve.

Emergency Clearing Techniques

These techniques work quickly to remove attack energy before it has time to embed deeply into your system. Use multiple techniques in combination for most effective clearing.

Visualize brilliant white or golden light filling your entire body and energy field from the inside out. See this light pushing outward from your core, forcing all foreign energy out of your system like water flushing toxins from your body. You do not need to know exactly where the attack energy is located. The light finds it automatically and pushes it out. Spend at least five minutes with this visualization, seeing the light expand through every cell and every layer of your energy field until nothing foreign remains.

Take a salt bath or shower immediately if possible. Add a full cup of salt to your bathwater or bring a small bowl of salt into the shower with you. As the water and salt touch your skin, intend that they are drawing out all intrusion energy and washing it away down the drain. You do not need elaborate ritual. Simply the combination of water (which naturally clears energy) and salt (which absorbs negativity) with your clear intention creates powerful clearing effect. If you cannot shower or bathe right away, at minimum wash your hands and face with salt water, focusing on clearing your hands which often absorb attack energy, and your face where your third eye and crown chakras are located.

Use sound to break up attack energy embedded in your field. Ring bells, use singing bowls, play drums, clap your hands sharply, or even play loud music if these tools are not available. Sound vibrations physically disrupt energetic patterns, breaking up the cohesion of attack energy so it cannot maintain its structure in your field. Move the sound all around your body if using bells or bowls, or stand where music washes over you from multiple directions. Continue for several minutes until you feel a shift in the heaviness or darkness the attack created.

Burn sage, palo santo, or incense and move the smoke around your entire body and through your living space. The smoke carries away intrusion energy as it dissipates. Focus particularly on areas that feel heavy, dark, or uncomfortable, allowing extra smoke to clear these concentrated areas of attack penetration. If you cannot burn anything due to living situation or health concerns, essential oils like frankincense, sage, or rosemary can be diffused or applied to your skin with similar clearing effect, though smoke is more powerful for severe attacks.

Call on divine white light to flood through you and your space, dissolving all attack energy. State clearly: "I call on divine white light to clear all foreign energy, all attack energy, all intrusion from my field and my space. Clear me completely and restore my natural vitality and protection." Then visualize or simply feel brilliant white light pouring down through the top of your head, filling your entire being, and expanding outward to fill your entire home or wherever you are located. Trust that this spiritual light is doing the clearing work even if you cannot perceive it directly.

Step Three: Emergency Shielding

After clearing attack energy from your field, you must immediately establish emergency shielding to prevent continued assault. Your normal daily protection is not sufficient when you are under active attack. You need upgraded defensive barriers specifically designed to block directed negative energy.

Why Normal Protection Is Not Enough

Daily protection techniques are designed for normal circumstances where you encounter general negativity, mild draining from energy vampires, or ambient stress from your environment. These standard shields work well for everyday challenges but are not built to withstand the concentrated force of someone deliberately or unconsciously directing intense negative energy at you.

Psychic attacks require emergency-level shielding similar to how serious physical threats require more protection than everyday safety measures. You lock your doors for normal security, but if someone is actively trying to break in, you need additional barricades, alarm systems, and possibly professional security support. The same principle applies to energetic defense.

From my Reiki training, I understand that different situations require different levels of protection. Teaching someone daily shielding versus emergency attack defense is like teaching someone to protect themselves from cold weather versus protecting themselves from a blizzard. Similar principles apply but the intensity and specific techniques must match the severity of the threat.

Emergency Shield Visualization

Create the strongest possible energetic barrier around yourself using visualization techniques specifically designed for attack situations.

Visualize yourself surrounded by an impenetrable sphere of brilliant white light extending at least six feet in all directions around your body. This is not a thin bubble but a dense, solid shield with substance and weight. See it as thick as a concrete wall, glowing with divine white light that nothing negative can penetrate. The shield is not just around you but also below you (covering your root connection to earth) and above you (protecting your crown and connection to spiritual support).

Add mirrors to the outside surface of your shield, facing outward toward the world. These mirrors reflect all negative energy back to its source, preventing it from even reaching your shield much less penetrating it. Any attack energy sent at you bounces off the mirrors and returns to whoever sent it. You are not attacking back. You are simply refusing to accept the negative energy and returning it to its origin. This mirror technique is powerful because it makes attacking you uncomfortable or even harmful for the attacker, often causing them to stop unconsciously once they start experiencing the reflection of their own negativity.

Reinforce your shield by calling on divine protection. State clearly: "I surround myself with divine white light. Nothing harmful can penetrate this shield. All negative energy reflects back to its source. I am completely protected." Feel the shield strengthening as you speak, becoming even more impenetrable and powerful. Trust that divine forces are supporting your shield, making it stronger than what you could create through your own depleted energy alone.

Check your shield for weak points or holes, especially at your chakra areas where attack energy often penetrates most easily. Your solar plexus, heart center, and throat are common entry points for attacks. Visualize extra layers of shielding specifically over these vulnerable areas, creating reinforced protection where you need it most.

Physical Objects for Passive Emergency Shielding

When you are too depleted or shaken to maintain visualization-based shields, physical protective objects provide passive shielding that works without requiring your constant attention or energy.

Carry or wear black tourmaline, obsidian, or black onyx. These stones provide automatic protection against negative energy, absorbing attack energy before it reaches you. Keep a piece in your pocket, wear it as jewelry, place it on your desk at work, or put it under your pillow at night. The stone works continuously without requiring your focus, making it ideal for emergency situations when you cannot actively maintain shields.

Create a salt circle around your bed or around your meditation space if you are home. Pour an unbroken line of salt in a complete circle, stepping inside the circle and declaring that this boundary protects you from all harm. The salt creates physical barrier that also functions as energetic barrier, preventing attack energy from reaching you while you rest or recover inside the protected space. This technique is particularly useful at night when attacks often intensify and when your conscious defenses are down during sleep.

Place protective symbols around your space. Religious symbols that hold meaning for you, sacred geometry patterns, or images of protective deities or angels create energetic presence that helps defend you. Hang these on your walls, place them on your altar if you have one, or carry small versions in your wallet or phone case. Their presence provides continuous protection without requiring your participation.

Step Four: Cutting Energetic Cords

Psychic attacks often involve energetic cords or attachments connecting you to the attacker. These cords allow them to continue sending negative energy and draining your vitality even after you have established shields. Cutting these cords is essential emergency response that stops the direct pipeline of attack energy.

Understanding Attack Cords

Energetic cords are connections between your energy field and another person's field. Not all cords are harmful. Healthy relationships create positive cords that allow love, support, and positive energy to flow between people. But attack situations create toxic cords that function as conduits for draining your energy or sending harmful energy to you.

These attack cords often attach to your solar plexus (draining your personal power), your heart center (creating emotional manipulation), or your throat chakra (suppressing your voice and truth). The attacker may not consciously know they have created these cords. Unconscious attacks still create energetic attachments that function just as effectively as deliberate magical cord work.

As a Reiki Master, I can perceive these cords when working with clients under attack. They appear as dark, thick tendrils extending from the person's field toward the attacker's location. Sometimes there are multiple cords if the attack has been ongoing. The cords pulse with energy flow, visibly draining vitality from the person being attacked and sending that energy to the attacker who feeds on it.

Cord Cutting Technique

You can cut energetic cords yourself without needing professional help, though severe attacks may benefit from experienced practitioner assistance for complete removal.

Sit or stand comfortably and close your eyes. Take several deep breaths to center yourself. Then visualize or simply sense the cords connecting you to whoever is attacking you. You may see them as ropes, chains, tentacles, or threads. You may simply feel where they attach to your body, often in your stomach area, chest, or throat. Do not worry if you cannot perceive them visually. Your intention to cut them is sufficient even without clear vision.

Visualize a sword, scissors, or knife made of brilliant white light. This is a spiritual tool created by your will, sharp enough to sever any energetic attachment. Hold this tool in your hands (physically moving your hands as if holding something can strengthen the visualization) and state clearly: "I now cut all cords between myself and anyone sending me harm. I sever all attachments that do not serve my highest good. I reclaim all my energy that has been drained through these cords."

With decisive motion, cut through all the cords you perceive or sense. Make the cutting motion sharp and complete, slicing through the attachments in one clean movement. See or sense the cords falling away, dissolving into light, or shriveling up and disappearing. Feel the immediate relief as the constant drain or intrusion stops. You may feel tingling, warmth, or sudden energy return to the areas where cords were attached as your vitality flows back to you instead of being siphoned away.

Seal the areas where cords were attached so they cannot reattach. Visualize white or golden light filling the spots where cords were connected, healing any damage and creating impenetrable seal that prevents new cords from forming. See these areas glowing with protective light, completely healed and defended.

Finally, return any energy you absorbed from the attacker back to them while calling all your own drained energy back to you. State: "Anything that is not mine returns to its source. Everything that is mine returns to me now." Feel your vitality flooding back into your system while any residual attacker energy flows away from you back to where it came from.

Step Five: Emergency Grounding

Psychic attacks create severe destabilization of your energy field and nervous system. Emergency grounding provides the stability and anchoring your compromised system cannot generate internally when under assault.

Why Attacks Create Destabilization

When someone attacks you energetically, the assault fragments your field and knocks you out of centered, grounded state. You feel scattered, floating, dissociated, or completely disconnected from your body and physical reality. This destabilization is partially your nervous system's protective response to overwhelming threat and partially the direct effect of attack energy disrupting your field's normal coherent organization.

This ungrounded state makes you more vulnerable to continued attack because you lack the solid foundation needed for effective defense. Imagine trying to push back against someone attacking you physically while you are standing on ice versus standing on solid ground. The solid ground gives you stable base from which to resist. Ice makes you slip and slide with no stable position from which to defend yourself. Grounding provides that solid foundation energetically.

My nursing training taught me about the physiological signs of nervous system dysregulation including the dissociation and destabilization people experience during severe stress or trauma. Psychic attacks create similar physiological responses as physical trauma because your nervous system registers the energetic assault as genuine threat requiring emergency response even though the threat is not physical.

Emergency Grounding Techniques

These grounding practices work quickly to stabilize your destabilized system and restore the solid foundation needed for effective continued defense.

Make direct physical contact with earth if at all possible. Go outside and stand barefoot on grass, dirt, or soil. If you cannot go outside, touch a tree, hold a rock, or place your hands on a potted plant. The direct connection to earth energy provides immediate grounding that your compromised system desperately needs. Stand or sit this way for at least ten minutes, breathing slowly and consciously directing the scattered, fragmented energy in your field downward into the earth which absorbs and neutralizes it. Feel roots growing from the bottoms of your feet deep into the ground, anchoring you so solidly that no attack can knock you loose from this stable foundation.

Eat grounding foods immediately. Heavy, dense foods pull you back into your body when attack energy has knocked you out of embodied presence. Bread, potatoes, meat, cheese, nuts, or chocolate all create grounding effect through the act of eating and through the physical weight and substance of the food itself. This is not the time for light salads or juice cleanses. You need dense, substantial food that anchors you in physical reality when energetic attack has made you float away from your body.

Use grounding stones like hematite, black tourmaline, or smoky quartz. Hold them in your hands, place them on your body (particularly on your lower abdomen or between your feet), or carry them in your pockets. These stones have natural grounding properties that work whether you actively focus on them or simply have them in your proximity. Their dense, heavy energy pulls your scattered field back together and down into solid, stable state.

Practice intensive physical grounding through movement. Stomp your feet firmly on the ground, feeling the solid impact with each step. Do jumping jacks or run in place, bringing awareness to your body moving through space. Press your back against a wall and slide down into a seated position, feeling the solid support. Physical movement and sensation pull you out of dissociative floating and back into your body where you can access your defensive power.

Take a very hot or very cold shower, using temperature extremes to shock your system back into body awareness. The intense sensation demands your attention and forces you to be present in your physical form rather than floating in scattered, destabilized energetic state. This technique is particularly effective when you feel completely disconnected or like you are watching yourself from outside your body during attack-induced dissociation.

Step Six: Calling on Spiritual Protection

When you are under psychic attack, your own depleted energy may not be sufficient to create and maintain the level of protection needed to fully stop the assault. Calling on spiritual support provides defensive assistance that supplements your compromised capacity.

Why You Need External Protective Support

Attacks specifically target and deplete your personal power and vitality. By the time you recognize you are under attack, you are often already significantly drained. Trying to defend yourself using only your own depleted energy is like trying to fight off a physical attacker when you are already exhausted and injured. You need backup, reinforcement, additional support beyond your own compromised resources.

Spiritual protection from guides, angels, divine light, protective deities, or whatever sources align with your beliefs provides that backup. These spiritual forces are not depleted by the attack. They can supply defensive energy that you lack. They can shield you when you are too weak to shield yourself. They can fight on your behalf when you need to rest and recover.

My experience as an Intuitive Mystic Healer has shown me repeatedly that people who call on spiritual protection during attacks fare much better than those who try to handle everything alone through personal will and effort. The spiritual support makes the difference between merely surviving the attack and actually stopping it completely while preventing future assaults.

How to Call on Spiritual Protection

The specific spiritual sources you call on depend on your personal beliefs and practices. The technique works with Christian angels and saints, Buddhist bodhisattvas, Hindu deities, pagan gods and goddesses, shamanic spirit guides, or simply divine white light without personification. What matters is your sincere request for protection, not the specific name or form you give to the protective force.

State your request clearly and directly. Speak aloud if possible, as vocalization adds power, but silent mental request works if you cannot speak. Say something like: "I call on divine protection now. Archangel Michael, please surround me with your shield and defend me from this attack." Or "I ask my spirit guides to protect me. Please block all harmful energy and keep me safe from this assault." Or simply "Divine white light, please shield me completely from all harm and attack."

Visualize the protective presence surrounding you. If you called on Archangel Michael, see him standing guard around you with his sword of light, cutting away attack energy and preventing any additional harm from reaching you. If you called on divine white light, see yourself bathed in brilliant light so bright that nothing negative can penetrate it. If you work with spirit guides, sense their presence creating impenetrable barrier around your entire being. The visualization helps you receive and work with the protection being offered.

Trust that your request has been heard and that protection is being provided even if you cannot perceive it directly. Spiritual protection often works subtly without dramatic signs or visions. The key is your faith that the protection is present and active, which allows you to relax into being defended rather than staying in hypervigilant panic trying to do everything yourself with depleted resources.

Thank the spiritual forces for their protection and maintain awareness of their continued presence. This is not one-time emergency call. The spiritual protection remains with you as long as the attack continues and as long as you maintain your request for support. Periodically reaffirm: "Thank you for protecting me. Please continue guarding me until this threat is completely resolved."

Step Seven: Addressing the Source If Possible

In some situations, you may be able to address the attack source directly, either by confronting the person sending negative energy or by removing yourself from proximity to them. This is not always possible or advisable, but when it is, it can stop attacks more permanently than defensive techniques alone.

When Direct Confrontation Makes Sense

If you know who is attacking you and you have a relationship with them that allows direct communication, sometimes addressing the situation can stop the attack, especially if it is unconscious rather than deliberate. Many people sending harmful energy do not realize what they are doing. Their jealousy, resentment, or anger operates beneath their conscious awareness. Bringing it into consciousness can interrupt the pattern.

This approach works best when the attacker is someone in your daily life like a coworker, family member, or acquaintance whose negativity toward you stems from specific grievances you might be able to address. It does not work well with ex-partners who cannot let go, severely dysfunctional people whose attacks are deeply rooted in their psychological problems, or anyone who practices conscious harmful magic.

From my nursing experience with conflict resolution and de-escalation, I know that direct calm confrontation sometimes defuses situations that indirect avoidance allows to fester and escalate. But this requires assessment of whether the person is capable of reasonable conversation or whether confrontation will intensify their attacks.

How to Confront If You Choose To

If you decide direct confrontation is appropriate, prepare yourself energetically before the conversation. Shield yourself heavily. Ground thoroughly. Call on spiritual protection. Have support people available if needed. Do not confront when you are still in acute crisis from the attack. Wait until you have stabilized and can approach the conversation from centered, powerful place rather than wounded, defensive place.

State clearly and calmly what you have noticed without accusing them of deliberately attacking you. "I have noticed that I feel drained and unwell after spending time with you. I sense tension between us that needs to be addressed." This opens conversation without immediately putting them on defensive by claiming they are magically attacking you, which most people would deny or react badly to hearing.

Set firm boundaries about the relationship going forward. "I need space right now. Please do not contact me for the next month while I work through some things." Or "I cannot continue our friendship with the current dynamic. Things need to change or we need to step back from the relationship." Clear boundaries often stop unconscious attacks because the attacker no longer has access to you through which to send negative energy.

If the confrontation goes badly or the person denies any issues, end the conversation and implement complete energetic and physical separation. You tried the direct approach. If it failed, defending yourself requires cutting off their access to you entirely. This may mean blocking them on all communication platforms, avoiding places you know they frequent, and asking mutual friends not to share information about you with them.

When Complete Separation Is Necessary

Sometimes the only way to stop psychic attacks is complete separation from the attacker. No contact physically, energetically, mentally, or emotionally. This is particularly necessary when the attacker is severely dysfunctional, deliberately harmful, or incapable of changing their behavior regardless of what boundaries you set.

Physical separation means no in-person contact. Change jobs if they are a coworker. Move if they are a neighbor. Cut them out of your life if they are someone you can choose to avoid. This is not always possible, especially with family members or in small communities, but when it is possible, it is often the most effective long-term solution.

Energetic separation means cutting all cords daily, refusing to think about them, and maintaining constant shielding specifically against their energy. When thoughts of them arise, consciously redirect your attention elsewhere. Do not engage with them even mentally or emotionally through anger, fear, or obsessing about the attacks. Any attention you give them creates energetic connection they can use to continue assault.

Social separation means removing them from all social media, blocking their number, asking mutual friends not to discuss them with you or discuss you with them, and creating clear boundaries that anyone in your life must respect if they want to remain in your life. "If you remain friends with this person, do not tell them anything about me or bring them to events where I will be present."

Ongoing Defense and Recovery

Emergency response stops acute assault, but complete recovery and prevention of future attacks requires ongoing defensive work beyond initial crisis intervention.

Daily Maintenance After Attack

After you have stopped the immediate attack, you must maintain heightened defenses for weeks or even months to prevent resumption and to allow your damaged field to heal completely.

Continue daily clearing practices even after the attack seems to have stopped. Clear your field morning and evening through salt baths or showers, white light visualization, or sage burning. Attack energy can linger in your system creating ongoing problems even after new assault has ceased. Consistent clearing prevents this embedded energy from continuing to cause damage.

Maintain stronger-than-normal shielding until you are certain the threat has ended. Do not drop back to minimal protection just because things seem better. Attacks often come in waves. The person may stop for a while then resume assault when they think you have dropped your guard. Stay defended until you are absolutely certain the danger has passed.

Monitor yourself for signs of returning attack. Sudden fatigue, renewed anxiety about the person, nightmares featuring them, or physical symptoms reappearing all suggest the attack may be resuming. Respond immediately with full emergency defense rather than waiting to see if symptoms worsen. Early intervention stops renewed attacks before they regain the intensity of the original assault.

Work with an energy healer or experienced practitioner if attacks persist despite your best defensive efforts. Some situations require professional intervention to fully resolve. There is no shame in needing help. Severe or skilled attacks can overwhelm individual defensive capacity, and professional support can make the difference between ongoing suffering and complete resolution.

Healing Field Damage

Attacks create actual damage to your energy field that requires healing beyond just stopping the assault. Your field may have holes, tears, areas of darkness, or weakened sections that leave you vulnerable even after the attack ends.

Receive Reiki or other professional energy healing to repair field damage. Practitioners can perceive where your field has been damaged and work specifically to heal these areas. What might take you months to repair through self-practice can often be addressed in a few professional sessions because the practitioner has stronger, clearer energy to work with than your depleted system can generate.

Spend time in nature allowing natural environments to restore your field. Forests, beaches, mountains, and gardens all provide healing energy that gradually repairs damage and strengthens your field without you needing to do anything actively. Simply being in these spaces allows your system to absorb the healthy vital energy present in natural environments.

Practice daily self-Reiki or energy healing meditation where you consciously direct healing light to areas that feel damaged or weak. Place your hands on your body over areas that feel depleted or painful and visualize golden light flowing from your hands into these areas, filling holes, mending tears, and restoring strength to weakened sections.

Give yourself adequate time for complete healing. Just as physical injuries need time to fully heal even after immediate crisis has passed, energetic damage from attacks needs time for complete restoration. Do not rush back into normal life and stress levels before your field has healed. Protect yourself carefully during recovery period.

Frequently Asked Questions About Psychic Attack Response

How do I know if my emergency response actually worked or if the attack is still continuing?

Several indicators reveal whether your defensive response successfully stopped the attack or whether ongoing assault continues despite your efforts. First, notice your physical and emotional state in the hours and days after implementing emergency defense. If symptoms that indicated attack (sudden illness, unexplained exhaustion, intense fear, intrusive thoughts) begin improving, your defense is working. If these symptoms persist unchanged or worsen, the attack continues and you need stronger or different defensive strategies. Second, pay attention to your sleep and dreams. If nightmares decrease or stop, if you sleep more peacefully, if you no longer wake with the attacker's energy present, these indicate successful defense. Continued sleep disturbances suggest ongoing assault. Third, notice whether new problems stop appearing. If the cascade of mishaps, obstacles, and complications that clustered during the attack begins to ease and your life stabilizes, your defense is effective. If problems continue accumulating, the attack persists. Fourth, check your energy field through body awareness or working with a practitioner. You should feel your field beginning to strengthen, expanding back out from your body, and restoring its natural density and vitality if the attack has stopped. If your field continues feeling thin, collapsed, or depleted despite defensive work, ongoing assault is likely. Finally, trust your intuition. You will sense whether the threat has ended or continues. If you feel ongoing unease, vigilance, or sense the attacker's attention still on you, the attack likely persists and requires continued or escalated defense. However, be careful not to mistake trauma response or hypervigilance from the attack experience for actual ongoing assault. Working with a trusted practitioner can help you distinguish between residual effects of stopped attack versus actual continuing assault requiring additional response.

What if I implement all these emergency techniques and the attack continues anyway?

If you have implemented comprehensive emergency response including panic regulation, immediate clearing, emergency shielding, cord cutting, grounding, and calling on spiritual protection, yet the attack continues with undiminished intensity, several possibilities exist that require different approaches. First, the attacker may be unusually skilled or powerful, either through natural ability, deliberate magical training, or intense unconscious focus. Some people send negative energy with such force that standard defensive techniques are not sufficient. You need to escalate to advanced protection practices and likely professional help from experienced energy workers who can assess the specific attack and implement specialized defense. Second, there may be multiple attackers rather than a single source, each sending negative energy that compounds into overwhelming assault. Defending against group attack requires different strategies than defending against individual assault. Third, you may have underlying energetic vulnerabilities that allow attack energy to penetrate despite your defenses. Past trauma, chronic boundary weaknesses, or unhealed energetic damage create openings that attacks exploit. These vulnerabilities need healing before defenses can be fully effective. Fourth, the attack may be feeding on your own fear, anger, or obsession with the situation, creating a self-sustaining cycle where your emotional response nourishes the assault. Detaching emotionally and mentally from the attacker and the situation can starve this cycle. Finally, you may actually be experiencing severe spiritual emergency, mental health crisis, or medical condition that resembles psychic attack but requires different intervention entirely. Seeking professional assessment from medical providers, mental health professionals, and experienced spiritual practitioners helps distinguish actual persistent attack from conditions that mimic attack symptoms. Do not suffer alone through severe ongoing assault. Reach out for professional support when self-practice proves insufficient.

Is it harmful or wrong to use mirror shields that reflect negative energy back to the attacker?

Using mirrors in your shielding to reflect attack energy back to its source is not harmful or wrong, and in fact is one of the most effective defense techniques available. Some people worry this constitutes attacking back or creating harmful karma, but reflection is fundamentally different from retaliation. You are not creating new negative energy or deliberately sending harm. You are simply refusing to accept what someone is sending at you and returning it to where it originated. Think of it like someone throwing a ball at you and you holding up a shield that bounces the ball back toward them. You did not throw anything. You just refused to be hit and the natural physics of reflection sent the ball back. The same principle applies energetically. The person attacking you created the negative energy and sent it. Your mirror shield does not add to or amplify this energy. It simply declines to absorb it and allows natural energetic laws to return it to its source. If the reflected energy harms the attacker, that harm comes from their own negativity encountering their own being, not from anything you created or did to them. This often has the beneficial effect of making the attacker aware of what they are doing. When they start experiencing the unpleasant effects of their own negative energy reflected back at them, they frequently stop sending it either consciously or unconsciously. The discomfort they feel is their own creation affecting them, which can interrupt the attack more permanently than just absorbing their assault would accomplish. From an ethical perspective, you have every right to refuse harmful energy sent at you. You are not obligated to absorb someone else's negativity, and returning it to sender is completely appropriate self-defense. However, if you are deeply uncomfortable with reflection despite understanding it is not attack, you can modify the technique to have your shields transmute the negative energy into neutral or positive energy before releasing it. This requires more of your energy and is generally less effective at stopping attacks, but it accomplishes defense without any reflection component if that better aligns with your personal ethics and comfort level.

How long do I need to maintain emergency-level defenses before I can return to normal protection practices?

The duration for maintaining heightened defenses after psychic attack varies based on several factors including the severity and duration of the attack, whether you have identified and addressed the source, how damaged your energy field was, and whether any signs of resuming assault appear. As general guidance, maintain emergency-level shielding for at least two weeks after the last sign of active attack even if you feel completely better. This ensures the attack has truly ended rather than just paused temporarily. During these two weeks, continue daily clearing practices, maintain strong shields, keep protective objects on your person, and stay vigilant for any indication of resumed assault. If you successfully addressed the attack source through confrontation, separation, or other direct intervention, you may be able to reduce to moderate protection levels after this initial two-week period, gradually returning to normal practice over the following month. However, if the source remains in your life or you could not identify who was attacking you, maintain elevated protection for several months. Some situations require permanent increases in baseline protection because the threat persists at low level indefinitely. If you experienced severe attack that created significant field damage, maintain heightened defenses until you have received professional energy healing and your field has demonstrably restored to healthy state. This may take several months depending on damage severity. You can tell your field has healed when you feel energetically robust rather than depleted, can maintain shields easily without exhausting effort, can be around people without immediate drainage, and no longer sense any weakness or vulnerability in your field. Signs that you maintained emergency defenses long enough and can transition to normal protection include consistent good sleep without attack dreams, stable energy levels that do not crash unexpectedly, absence of attack-related physical symptoms, no sense of being watched or followed, successful interactions with people including former triggers without absorption or distress, and your intuition confirming the threat has passed. If you drop to normal protection and symptoms return, immediately resume emergency defenses and maintain them longer. Better to be overcautious about protection than to drop defenses prematurely and allow attack resumption.

What should I do if the person attacking me is someone I cannot avoid like a family member or coworker?

When the attacker is someone you cannot completely avoid through physical separation, you must implement maximum energetic boundaries and defensive strategies that work despite ongoing proximity. This is significantly more challenging than defending against someone you can cut out of your life entirely, but it is possible with consistent effort. First, minimize contact to the absolute minimum required by circumstances. If they are a coworker, interact only for essential work communication and keep all interactions brief, professional, and focused on necessary tasks. Refuse social contact, lunch invitations, or any interaction beyond what your job requires. If they are a family member, attend only mandatory family events and leave early. Decline optional gatherings. Do not engage in phone calls or messaging beyond absolute necessity. Every interaction gives them opportunity to send negative energy, so limiting contact limits their access to you. Second, maintain maximum shielding whenever you must be near them. Before any required interaction, spend extra time building strong shields, calling on spiritual protection, and grounding thoroughly. During the interaction, maintain awareness of your shields and reinforce them if you feel attack energy hitting. Immediately after the interaction, practice intensive clearing to remove any negative energy you absorbed despite your shields. Third, cut cords daily regardless of whether you had direct contact with them that day. If they are thinking about you or focusing negative attention on you, cords can form even without physical proximity. Daily cord cutting prevents these energetic connections from strengthening. Fourth, create strong physical and energetic boundaries through your behavior and communication. Be formal, distant, and minimally engaged even if this seems rude or cold. Your safety takes precedence over social niceties. Set firm boundaries about topics you will not discuss, time you will not spend together, and behaviors you will not tolerate. Enforce these boundaries absolutely. Fifth, document everything if they are a coworker, especially if their attack manifests through undermining your work or creating professional problems. Keep records that protect you from false accusations or sabotage they might attempt. Finally, work on exit strategy even if immediate departure is not possible. Start looking for different jobs, saving money to move away, or developing plans that will eventually allow you to escape the ongoing proximity. Knowing you are working toward freedom helps you tolerate the current necessity of continued contact.

Moving Forward After Emergency Response

Successfully responding to psychic attack is tremendous accomplishment that demonstrates your power to protect yourself even in dire circumstances. The experience teaches you about your vulnerability but also about your strength, your capacity to defend yourself, and your right to refuse harmful energy directed at you.

After you have stopped the immediate assault and begun your recovery process, take time to reflect on what this experience revealed about your boundaries, your relationships, and your need for ongoing protection. Attacks often illuminate weaknesses in your normal defenses that you can address going forward so you are better protected against future threats. They show you who in your life genuinely supports you versus who drains or harms you. They teach you that energetic self-defense is not optional spiritual practice but essential life skill.

Many people emerge from attack experiences with significantly stronger boundaries and protection practices than they had before because the suffering forced them to take energetic defense seriously in ways they did not when operating without direct threat. Let this be your experience as well. Use what you learned to strengthen your ongoing protection so that if future attacks occur, you can respond immediately and effectively rather than being caught unprepared again.

Be gentle with yourself during recovery. Being attacked is traumatic. The violation of having someone direct harmful energy at you creates psychological and emotional wounds alongside the energetic damage. You may feel angry, betrayed, frightened, or violated. These feelings are valid. Process them through journaling, talking with trusted friends, or working with a therapist if needed. Do not suppress the emotional impact in favor of only addressing the energetic dimension.

Remember that you are not powerless. Yes, someone attacked you. Yes, it hurt you. But you defended yourself. You stopped the assault. You are recovering. You have power, and this experience proved that to you even through the suffering. You can protect yourself. You can set boundaries. You can refuse harmful energy and people who send it. This knowledge serves you for the rest of your life.

As an RN who understands the physiological impacts of energetic stress, as a Reiki Master who can perceive and heal field damage, and as someone who has navigated attacks personally, I can tell you that recovery is possible and that you can move beyond this experience to thriving with strong, healthy boundaries. The attack does not define you. Your response to it does. You chose to defend yourself. You chose to fight back against violation. You chose your own wellbeing over someone else's desire to harm you. That choice is powerful, and it will serve you in countless ways going forward.

Important: This article provides spiritual support for defending against psychic attacks as part of comprehensive energetic self-care. This is not mental health treatment, medical care, or substitute for appropriate professional help if you are experiencing severe distress, thoughts of harming yourself or others, or symptoms significantly interfering with daily functioning. If attacks are creating psychological crisis, please contact mental health professionals. If you are experiencing physical symptoms, seek medical evaluation to rule out conditions requiring treatment.

Professional Boundaries and When to Seek Emergency Support

I provide: Educational guidance about responding to psychic attacks based on nursing crisis assessment skills, Reiki Master energetic perception, and lived experience defending against attacks.

I do not provide: Mental health therapy, medical diagnosis or treatment, or emergency psychiatric intervention.

Seek immediate professional support if you experience:

• Thoughts of harming yourself or others
• Inability to function in daily life due to fear or distress
• Severe paranoia or difficulty distinguishing reality
• Physical symptoms requiring medical evaluation
• Psychological crisis from attack-related trauma

Emergency Resources:

• 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline: Call or text 988
• Emergency Services: 911
• Crisis Text Line: Text HOME to 741741

About the Author

Dorian Lynn, RN is a Spiritual Emergency Response Specialist combining 20 years of nursing crisis intervention experience with Reiki Master expertise and Intuitive Mystic Healer abilities. She specializes in emergency spiritual defense including psychic attack response, providing practical protection guidance grounded in medical crisis assessment skills and deep energetic understanding.

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