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The One Spiritual Protection Practice I Wish I Knew Sooner

• Minnie Courtney

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Have you ever wondered why you can't seem to follow through with your best intentions? That moment when you're crystal clear about what needs to change in your life, only to find yourself back in the same patterns days later? The truth is more profound than simple willpower.

Breaking free requires "starving" these parasites by refusing to feed them with old behaviours. The first days are hardest as they fight desperately to maintain their energy source. But with persistence and connection to a higher power, you can transform these patterns and manifest the life you truly desire. Ready to reclaim your power from the voices that have been derailing your growth? This episode will show you how.

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Spiritual connection is a hot topic, but what do we really need to protect ourselves from? What do we mean when we say this? Is it other people? Is it negative forces in the world? And if everything is always guided by the light, by a higher power, by the Creator, by God, how is it possible that these negative forces could have any power over us? Isn't it true that we are stronger? Isn't it true that we are creating our reality? So, if we believe in these negative forces, are we giving power to them? Negative forces Are we giving power to them? That is exactly what I want to dive into in this episode and help you to understand my perspective on this.

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Through years of studying many different paths, many different spiritual paths, understanding different religious philosophies on this, understanding different religious philosophies on this and practicing what had the most powerful effect in my life for me to experience the most possible peace. This is something that I wanted to speak about, because I was speaking about this with a client recently, because she was very frustrated that she was not taking as much action as she knew she should be. She knew that doing certain morning routines, doing certain studies to change career, would be helpful for her, and every time that we sat in a coaching call, she felt that she wanted this. However, once she got out of that sacred space of the coaching call, where your higher self is naturally able to come up, and she went back to, if we could call it, her resting state. Resting state, her automatic state, her autopilot mode she suddenly didn't feel like she wanted to do it anymore. She didn't feel drawn to these things. She either couldn't be bothered, something else came up or the really special thing here is she would actually warp the facts so that it made sense for her to not do what she said she was going to do. She would find facts and find a way and find a perspective to look at it that she was like actually, I don't even need to do this right now. It's actually not bad for me to just not do these things that I said I was going to hold myself accountable to do. And the reason that I'm sharing this is because I have been there myself and I think that every single person unless you're a super, super woman listening to this you've probably experienced the exact same thing. And what I shared with her and what I want to share with you today is that and what I shared with her, what I want to share with you today, is that oftentimes, that voice within us saying you can do that habit again, that one that you're trying to quit, that one you said you're not going to do anymore, just one more won't hurt. Just one more morning of sleeping in instead of getting up, going and jumping into the shower, doing your workout, doing your eft tapping, doing your affirmations, whatever it is, one more won't hurt, it's really not that bad. It's really like. If I just respond to his text like what? What's it really gonna hurt? It's not really gonna make that big of a difference. I'm fine. Actually, I don't even need him Like, why not Right?

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That voice that keeps us comfortable is not you, it is not our higher selves. And when I say our higher self, it makes it sound like it's some special version of us that we have, like the real you, the one with all the flaws and the procrastination and the self-sabotage and the toxic excitement. And then we have the higher self. But no, our true essence is our soul. Everything else is contamination spiritual contamination, ego contamination, society contamination. Everything else is not our authentic self. And so when we spiritually protect ourself, all we're doing is having boundaries physical boundaries, spiritual boundaries, energetic boundaries that let us hear our own voice, boundaries, energetic boundaries that let us hear our own voice. So if this voice is not our true essence, it's not our soul.

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Who or what is it? A couple of things here. One is the one that we're probably most familiar with. The second one's a little bit more in depth, but I do want to explain it. But the first one that we're more familiar with is usually what we call our ego. So this is the part of ourself that is animalistic in nature. So this is our evolutionary self, the one that wants to just avoid pain at all costs and seek pleasure at all costs. And so it does tell us narratives and stories based off of what it learned growing up, what it learned through trauma stories Act like this, don't act like this, stay safe, don't put yourself out there, don't be too big, don't be seen. It tells us these types of narratives, depending on how we interpreted the love we got growing up or the rejection we got growing up. It tells us these narratives to keep us safe. It is not our true spiritual essence, but it is a very valuable part of our human being here on earth right.

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And so what we do with this ego part is we seek to understand it. We seek to not reject it and push it down, but to understand it, to hear it and to reintegrate it back into ourself. What does that mean? It means that our ego understands and is on board with the same plan as our soul. The time that we get really stuck, and when we find that we're just not doing what we should be doing, is when our ego has a different idea of what's good for us than what our soul thinks is good for us. And so reintegration, or this healing work which I work on with my clients, this reparenting all of these sorts of practices and even like nervous system regulation work all that is trying to do is get our ego to feel safe with what our soul already knows is meant for us Helping our ego to catch up, validating it, giving it the love it needs so that it can catch up with our soul. The second part of spiritual protection and coming into alignment so that we can actually do what is required for us to live the life that we want for us to build, the business that we want for us to build, the business that we want for us to be in the healthy relationship and not go back to our past patterns.

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This second part is the opponent forces that exist in the world, and you may have heard of concepts like evil eye, negative forces. You know some religions. We call it like the devil right, and so the way that I understand this and what Kabbalah teaches about this is that in the world there is a force that opposes our soul, that opposes the light, it opposes the higher power that we know, and this opponent force is there to help us to grow and to give us a challenge, because it is really through challenge that we are able to grow, isn't it? You would never want to play a video game where you win every single round, right? There is no point of it here on earth. We are not here just to exist as pure love and light. If we were, why on earth would we choose to incarnate into these human bodies, in this human realm, in this game-like realm where we have so many restrictions? Bodies in this human realm, in this game-like realm where we have so many restrictions? We have time, we have space, we have our emotions, we have our trauma, we have all of these things so that we can be in this game mode and grow.

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What does every game require? A baddie, right, not like an insta-die, but the opponent, right. We need some type of enemy, an enemy force that is there to provide the shade from the light, like the, the shade and the light, the dark and the light, the black and white. We need this duality in order to highlight the areas that we need to grow in order for cosmic balance. And does that opponent force exist outside of this realm that we're in? Maybe not right, because the truth beyond human life is that everything is God, everything is energy and God is energy. There is no wrong, there is no bad, there is no evil beyond human life, right In the true realm of the endless, in the realm of God, if we can call it that. So the opponent, the evil, exists, but it's also an illusion. It's an illusion because this force was placed in the game for our benefit.

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So do we need to start like, running around, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, everyone's out to get me, people are putting bad vibes on me, evil eye, this, that the other like. No, okay, there's no reason for fear or paranoia. But do we also need to be aware of what the rules of the game are, so that we can be smart and win against this opponent force, this enemy that we're in this game with, of course. And so that's why I always approach energetic protection and spiritual protection from a place of gamifying it, from a place of knowing if we want to take it to the next level. Every single day we wake up, we're in a spiritual warfare between the light and the dark. That war is happening within us, that war is happening all around in society, and every single day, those opponent forces are awake, rearing, ready to go warmed up and in the ring. And so, if we are not preparing ourselves in the same way, if we are waking up in our human body, but spiritually we're still asleep and we're not remembering that we're in this game and that the opponent is trying to bring us down and we need to fight back even harder. We need to chase the light with more passion and determination than what the opposing forces are chasing us. We're already winning, we're already losing the game before it starts. If we don't have this awareness and if we don't chase this now.

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As I've said multiple times as well, the more awareness that you have, the more that this applies to you, okay. So sometimes people also ask me like well, how about all these other people that have never even heard of such a concept or they don't believe that these things exist? Is it still happening for them? For a lot of them, it is still happening. It is still influencing them, it is still affecting them, however, on a much, much lower level, because they are basically not in the game right.

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As soon as you know these things, as soon as you have awareness of this, you enter the game. You're now a player, right, and that means that the opponent has divine permission to come after you in a way that matches the level of awareness and knowledge and capability that you have. The opponent that you're playing against in any given day is always going to be a perfect match to the level of spiritual strength that you have. So that is why the game never ends, because the higher and higher that you evolve, so does your opponent evolve with you. This opponent has divine permission to share thoughts with you, to plant thoughts in your head, to plant negative thoughts in your head, to instruct other people, to do things that interfere with your spiritual growth, and anything else that it needs to do to guide you towards the growth that is required for you to learn your soul lessons and for you to, in effect, manifest your dream life right? So we're not alone in this game, and we also need to understand that your spiritual awareness because I know that you have some type of spiritual awareness if you're listening to this podcast, right, that's a given your spiritual awareness means that you also have a higher responsibility.

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There are more negative forces that will be interested in you. Negative forces also want. What do they want? They want energy, they want light. These forces are forces that don't have their own um life source, they don't have their own supply, and so what they do is they are able to sustain themselves off of our life force, right like parasites. So the more life force that you have, the more spiritual connection that you have. Therefore, the more light you have, the more that these beings will be able to see you as a supply. How do we attract these forces? We attract these forces by having an opening for them. Okay, what does an opening for them look like? An opening for them looks like any area of disconnection from the light. So any parts of yourself, any moments, and again, I just like want to reiterate a million times throughout this that fear is not the answer. Fear is an opening for negative forces. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. This is not about fear. This is about awareness and preparation for you to go into the game and get the best scorecard that you can, every single day. You are not going to win all the time, right, you are not going to overcome every negative thought, every negative force, every opportunity for negative forces to be around you.

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Right, because it's kind of like bacteria they're around us all the time there's or in terms of bacteria, it's inside us all the time. Right as well. Good bacteria and bad bacteria. If you test any single person's hands or guts, no matter how healthy or how clean that person is, there's also going to be bad bacteria there, right, but they can handle it. Their immune system is strong enough to handle it. What's important is that be bad bacteria there, right, but they can handle it. Their immune system is strong enough to handle it. What's important is that the bad bacteria is not outweighing and controlling over the good bacteria. Right, and it's exactly like that in the spiritual game.

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Negative forces which might look like negative emotions, negative thoughts, negative inclinations all of that is going to be surrounding us all the time, and that is life. That's normal. That is not something to be scared or paranoid of. However, it's our role to make sure that we are making sure that the light within us, the positive forces that we're attracting because, of course, there are so many positive forces that are here to support us as well are outweighing the negative. So, as I was saying, the way that we attract more of this or the way that we let this quote-unquote bad bacteria, bad spiritual bacteria, grow, is, by any way, that we are disconnected from the light, the universe, higher power. The light has certain qualities, right, qualities like it's endless, it's loving, it's joy, it's peace, it's freedom, it's abundance, all of these things that I don't even really need to spell out to you, because when I just ask you, like what? What is the universe? What is the like endless force of good, what are the, what are the qualities of that? You just know it in your soul, it just feels right, it just feels light.

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Okay, and then anything that causes you to separate from those, causes you to separate from those, causes you to not be in a state of joy, not be in a state of acceptance, not be in a state of trust, not be in a state of peace or freedom could be an opening for you to attract negative forces. So things like jealousy, things like judging other people, things like having bad vibes between people like just you know when you people like just you know when you feel like if you would walk into a room with someone and it would be like off with that person, it would be like a weird energy. This is an opening of separation. Any times where you're not following through with things that you said that you were going to do, you created a vessel by setting the intention to do it and then your lack of completion of that leaves that vessel open. That's now an open space that can be filled by negativity.

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Any open spaces attracts negative forces, just the same way as bacteria. You can literally think about it as bacterial parasites and I I just love to do this because we are taught everything we need to know, hopefully, about physical cleanliness, you know. So you know if you have, like, an open crevice, if you have an open wound, that space that that crack can attract negative, negative bacteria can grow there right, and it's exactly the same spiritually, any crack that you haven't cleaned up. You know there was. You felt some jealousy today, you felt some resentment. Today, you felt some anger. Today you got like really down on yourself and started beating yourself up about why am I not where I need to be today?

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That's an opening, that's a crack of separation, and so what we need to do is go and clean that up. Okay, maybe you're going to journal about it. Maybe you're going to just sit with those feelings and ask for cleansing, ask for acceptance, allow those feelings to flow through you. What you're not going to do is leave all that dirt there, leave that open wound there and let all of this negative bacteria be attracted to and build up to it. Right, that's how we become overrun with negative spiritual parasites. I want to check in here if I'm following, if this is making sense for you, if this is opening up some new thought pathways for you, or if you think this woman's completely crazy, let me know. Drop me a message over on Instagram, because I would love to open up this conversation with some of you guys.

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But that is how we get overrun is when we leave all of these open spaces without tending to them with healing, with spirituality, with love, with bringing it to a trusted person and talking it through, getting co-regulation with that person, whatever it is that we need to do to clean it up. When these things build up, we get these parasites. Of course, they're attracted to us and they're feeding on our light, and so what do they want us to do? It wants us to feed them more and more, right. It wants to keep draining our negativity. It wants to also keep you stuck in the pattern of whatever it was that attracted to you. So all of these forces can come from different things.

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Let's say, you have a habit of overeating or binge eating or just eating a lot of sugar when you feel stressed, and you know that this is something that you do. You know it's not aligned to your goals, because maybe you're trying to really work on health or fitness or glowing up your body, and so you know this is not aligned, but you just seem to not be able to keep doing it right. This is an indication that you have attracted multiple parasites that come from this habit. These parasites want more and more and more of this type of negativity, this specific type of negativity, and so they are going to be the voice within you that is saying do it again, eat more sugar, just another cookie, it's going to be fine. Like you can start again on Monday. One cookie won't hurt anyway. They are going to be asking and craving that and that they need that because that is their life source.

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If you do not continue that habit, you are starving off these negative forces and they're going to scream, they're going to cry, they're going to protest to keep living within your spiritual ecosystem and keep feeding off of you. And so the way that you do it is by starving them off. And every time that voice creeps up in your head again saying just go back to it, it's going to be fine, we'll start again tomorrow. That is the moment where you remind yourself this is not my soul talking. I will not let these spiritual parasites win. I am stronger than them. And just that little gap of awareness that I don't have to that some of these thoughts might not even be coming from me. Maybe I even picked up some of the spiritual parasites by hanging around with certain people today, and now I'm starting to get thoughts that I don't usually get. That's fine, I'm stronger than this. And you have to starve it off, just the same way again when you have stomach parasites, right, they have to be starved out. They feed off sugar, right.

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And so the the hardest part is always going to be the first part. When you've been feeding them and feeding them and feeding them, they've been getting stronger and stronger and they're happy, right, they're happy and they're strong and they're rearing to go. And so that first minute, that first hour, that first three days, when you don't give in, you don't go back to the same bad habits, the same thought patterns, the same self-sabotage, whatever it is for you that is going to be the hardest part, because all of your negative, addicted parasites, spiritually, are going to be screaming for you to do it again. And it's only by connecting to a higher power, asking the higher power, all of the positive forces that are available to give you the strength to not give in, that you're going to be able to starve this, these negative parasites, and actually break free from these habit of being your old self, which you are now wanting to outgrow. And that is really what is required for us to manifest a new life, for us to quantum leap into a totally different reality. It is to starve off all of the spiritual parasites that are screaming at us every day to keep being the same and to keep indulging in all of the negativity that keeps us low vibrational and keeps us a match for them to be able to feed off our life force. So how do you do it?

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Of course, as I said, the most important thing is going to be your willpower to actually starve them off. Anything that you know about breaking addictions like you can research this hashtag GBT like what are the five most important things for people to break addictions and it's going to give you, like a really great place to start and the first things that you need to just be remembering in the first five days of you breaking this habit, of whatever it is, because it's no different and there's no super fancy spiritual cleansing, like revoking these negative forces from your life, that you need to do. It's really just about you starving them off, and so it's going to be also accepting that it's going to be uncomfortable at first, but this discomfort is the price that you're required to pay to earn everything that you dream of. All of the things in life that you dream of can be earned this way, so it's hugely, hugely powerful and worth it. Of course, there are things that you can do every day as well to help you with this, which is just reducing the amount of negativity, increasing your connection to the light, having regular practices. You can listen to the previous episode as well that I have specifically about energetic hygiene. So keeping on top of it, which I think is called like energetic hygiene or something like that, that will also be helpful. But it's really just you waking up every day and remembering I am in a spiritual, I'm in a spiritual war right now and I am not gonna lose. I. I am chasing the light faster, harder and more powerfully than the dark forces are chasing me, and with this mindset, you can overcome any sort of negativity that comes into your life. You can achieve any goal that you want to manifest, and so, as always, I want to share some affirmations and some hugely powerful shadow work prompts for this specific topic, and I want you to go away from this episode. My wish for you is to go away from this episode with more strength, with more determination and with more understanding, and with a lot less confusion, fear and laziness. If you feel that you need deeper support with this, if you want to know how to implement this step by step and have me, walking you through it, guiding you through it every step of the way. You can apply for personal coaching, and the link for that is in the show notes. And with that I'm going to leave you your affirmations to get started with.

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Okay, I am not afraid of darkness because I carry the light to transform it. Because I carry the light to transform it, I chase my growth harder than the opponent chases my comfort. I am a warrior for my soul's evolution. Every moment that I pause and choose awareness, I weaken the reactive voices inside of me. I am always safe and guided because I walk with a higher power and the shadow work prompts for this topic. Where in my life am I spiritually sleeping, choosing comfort, distraction or avoidance over growth?

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Number two what reactive behaviors do I justify as just part of who I am, instead of seeing them as opportunities to transform? Number three are there situations, habits or people in my life that drain my energy or leave me feeling off, aka creating space for negativity? What would it look like to set a boundary or protect my energy in those moments? And number four on a scale of one to 10, where is my spiritual effort level at each day to beat the opponent? What would be required of me to make it a 10? So one to 10, one being. I'm putting in no effort. The negative forces are having a filled day with me and they're draining all my life, force, energy and number 10 being.

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I am a powerful spiritual warrior. I have my mind, body and soul prepared and strengthened each day so that negative forces cannot touch me. Where are you on a scale of one to 10? And what would be required of you to make it a 10 today? I hope that this has brought some value to you and I will see you in the next episode. Have a beautiful, beautiful, blessed week.