Quick Answer: A psychic attack or energetic interference can show up as a sudden physical sensation, an emotional change that doesn’t feel like you, unusual or repetitive thoughts, exhaustion, anger, or an intuitive warning that something is happening. In my teachings, these experiences can occur when negative energy is being directed toward you or when you are picking up energy from someone influenced by darker forces. The most important thing is to protect yourself rather than retaliate: Bubble Up, clean your energy, document what you experienced, and pay attention to what happens next.

I had an interesting experience recently that felt like a little classroom the Universe set up just for me.

And just like everything else in my life, I use all of it as a teaching moment.

This is how I immediately put purpose to some of the most painful situations in life.

I was sitting on the couch trying to raise my frequency through meditation. I had been feeling sad from a few recent losses, and my frequency was notably low.

Suddenly, an extremely sharp stabbing pain hit the right side of my head.

I actually blurted out:

“Ow!”

I immediately tried to enforce my protective Bubble.

Over the next several hours, I had what most people would probably call a “random thought.”

A memory suddenly came into my mind about a conversation I had with an Asian friend about ten years ago. She had described the differences between martial arts training in the East versus the West.

It seemed completely unrelated to what I was doing.

Why was I suddenly thinking about that?

The next morning, I understood.

My Intuition Was Warning Me

I woke up to the cruelest and most hateful review I had ever received on one of my online Reiki trainings.

Based upon everything he wrote, the reviewer clearly had not actually taken the training. He complained there were no symbols or Attunements and accused me of trying to brand Reiki as my own method.

Of course, none of that is true. Reiki is a key component of my entire training system.

But what struck me most was his criticism of Western Reiki teaching, my lineage, and Eastern teachings being taught in the West.

Suddenly, that seemingly random thought from the day before made sense.

I believe I had felt the energy surrounding the situation before I consciously knew what was happening.

The sharp physical sensation.

The unexpected memory.

The intuitive warning.

They all connected afterward.

This is exactly why I teach my Psychic Development students to track their experiences rather than immediately dismissing them.

There Are No “Random Thoughts”

I teach my students that there are no random thoughts.

That doesn’t mean we have to obsess about every thought that crosses our minds. It means we learn to notice the ones that stand out.

A person suddenly enters your mind.

A conversation you haven't thought about in years appears.

You see an image.

You hear a phrase internally.

You repeatedly think about the same person.

You experience an unusual physical sensation.

You see one of your personal number codes.

Instead of immediately dismissing it, pay attention.

Write it down.

You may not understand it yet.

Your intuition may be giving you information before your logical mind has enough evidence to understand what you are perceiving.

This is why I constantly encourage my students to collect evidence.

Write down:

• The time.
• What you were doing.
• What you physically felt.
• What thought entered your mind.
• Who you suddenly thought about.
• Any images or words you perceived.
• Any personal intuitive codes you noticed.

Then wait.

Sometimes validation arrives a few hours later.

Sometimes it takes weeks or even months.

There have been so many times when I have been able to return to something I wrote earlier and realize:

I knew.

That is how you build confidence in your intuition.

No one else is going to track your abilities for you.

What Is a Psychic Attack?

When I use the term psychic attack, I am talking about negative energetic interference directed toward or affecting another person.

Sometimes it may be intentional.

Other times, the person may have absolutely no idea what they are doing energetically.

Painful people are often people who are in tremendous pain themselves.

Sometimes during that process, people discover that hurting someone else temporarily makes them feel better.

But it doesn't actually make them whole again.

Revenge and displaced anger ultimately leave the initiator feeling even more empty.

This is exactly how I understand dark forces to work.

They lie to you.

They bait you into anger and spite.

They give you that delicious little endorphin release that can come from retaliating.

And then you're hooked.

You obsess about the person.

You replay what happened.

You imagine what you should have said.

You think about how wrong they were.

You tell someone else about it.

You become angry all over again.

And eventually?

You're drained.

This is one of the reasons I minimize social media.

It can become a dark-force trap when we continually feed anger, outrage, resentment, comparison and division.

Why Light Work Can Attract Resistance

When you are growing in your light work, it can be profoundly annoying to darker forces.

But you have an advantage.

You know about them, and you know how to beat them at their own game with love and light.

In my experience, darker energies try to take away your faith and belief in yourself.

They want you to doubt your intuition.

They want you to question your healing abilities.

They want you angry.

They want you obsessing.

They want you separated from other people.

They want you seeing everyone else as the enemy.

That isn't you.

You weren't born that way, and you certainly don't need to live that way.

You are already intuitive.

You are already a healer.

Sometimes darker energies attached to you—or to the people around you—can make you doubt that.

This is why there is nothing more important than your own Energy Hygiene.

I sometimes feel like a broken record because the more light work I teach, the more often I say it.

But it matters that much.

7 Possible Signs of Psychic Attack or Energetic Interference

1. A Sudden Physical Sensation

A sharp headache, stabbing sensation, prickling, burning feeling, sudden chills, or an unexplained physical sensation may sometimes be an early intuitive warning.

That sharp pain in my head was my first indication that something was happening.

When you experience something unusual, don't immediately decide what it means.

Notice it. Bubble Up. Pay attention.

And of course, use common sense. Severe, persistent, new, or concerning physical symptoms should also be medically evaluated. Not every physical sensation is energetic.

2. An Emotional Wave That Doesn't Feel Like You

You were perfectly fine five minutes ago.

Suddenly you're overwhelmed with sadness.

Or anger.

Fear.

Shame.

Anxiety.

Doubt.

Ask yourself:

“Is this mine?”

Empaths especially need to become very familiar with their own emotional baseline.

When your emotional state changes dramatically and there is no obvious reason for it, notice that change before immediately identifying with the emotion.

3. A Strange or Repetitive “Random” Thought

Someone suddenly enters your mind.

An old conversation appears.

You keep seeing the same mental image.

A particular phrase repeats.

Pay attention.

You don't have to interpret it immediately.

Write it down and see whether anything later validates or explains what you perceived.

4. Obsessive Anger

This is a big one.

The thought that makes you incredibly angry every single time you think about it may be draining your energy.

You replay the situation.

You rehearse what you should have said.

You imagine confronting the person.

You think about how unfair it was.

You tell the story again.

And your body experiences the anger over and over again.

In my teachings, this is exactly the type of emotional loop darker energy loves.

Your anger isn't resolving the situation.

It is lowering your frequency.

And your energy can become contagious. Suddenly everyone around you is being affected by your anger too.

You are left tired, depleted, angry and drained.

Don't keep feeding it.

5. Sudden Exhaustion or Mental Fog

Energetic interference isn't always dramatic.

Sometimes you simply feel exhausted.

Foggy.

Heavy.

Unable to concentrate.

If the change happens suddenly, become curious.

What happened immediately before it?

Who were you talking to?

What were you thinking about?

What were you reading or watching?

Where were you?

Start looking for your own patterns.

6. Sudden Changes in the People or Situations Around You

Sometimes the energetic warning comes through another person.

Someone suddenly becomes unusually hostile.

Drama appears out of nowhere.

A person seems determined to provoke you.

You experience unexpected criticism, trolling, or aggression that seems completely disproportionate to what actually happened.

Protect yourself before you respond.

You do not have to enter someone else's energetic chaos.

7. The Strong Feeling That Something Is “Not Mine”

As you become more intuitive, sometimes you simply know.

This thought isn't mine.

This sadness isn't mine.

This anger isn't mine.

This heaviness wasn't here a few minutes ago.

Don't continually talk yourself out of what you're perceiving.

Protect yourself first.

Then collect evidence.

Over time, you become much better at distinguishing your own energy from energy you may be picking up elsewhere.

What to Do When You Think This Is Happening

1. Bubble Up Immediately

Create your protective Bubble.

Review this in Reiki One until you master it.

Your Bubble is your energetic protection.

Nothing negative belongs inside of it.

It's only you and your own sweet goodness inside.

2. Don't Take It Personally

Know that the discomfort usually isn't actually about you.

You may be experiencing energetic interference or dealing with someone who is under the influence of darker energy.

This doesn't mean allowing someone to mistreat you.

It means recognizing that you don't have to absorb their energy to deal with the situation.

Protect first.

3. Journal It

Make a quick note.

What time was it?

What did you feel?

What thoughts entered your mind?

Did you see anything intuitively?

Did someone's name appear?

Did you notice a personal number code?

Write it down.

This is how you build evidence that your intuition is real.

I'm sorry you weren't taught about this in kindergarten. 😉

4. Respond With Protection, Not Retaliation

This is incredibly important.

We protect. We don't punish.

Don't deliberately send negative energy back to the person.

Karma and the Universe can handle the rest.

If appropriate, I may send Reiki and use Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen.

I ask whether the person's soul wants healing.

Many times, my hands become heavy or hot as my “yes.”

And I Bubble Up before doing it.

Think about it this way:

If you became influenced by a dark energy and another healer had the ability to help remove it from you, wouldn't you be grateful?

Use your abilities for healing.

Not retaliation.

5. Clean Your Energy

Immediately fix yourself.

You've just been affected by what I jokingly call an:

STD — Spiritually Transmitted Disease. 😉

Bubble Up.

Clean your energy.

Take an Epsom salt bath.

Sage if that is part of your practice.

Do a self-Reiki treatment.

Pray.

Meditate.

Cut cords when necessary.

Then pay attention to what works best for you.

Collect evidence about that too.

The next time something happens, you will already know which Energy Hygiene practices help you return to yourself most quickly.

6. Wait Patiently for Validation

You may get validation.

You may not.

Most times, I find out information later.

Sometimes weeks or even months later.

That is why it is so validating to return to something I journaled and see what I was feeling, who I thought it was, and what eventually happened.

This is exactly why I am so confident telling my students to track their abilities.

I have proven these things over and over again to myself.

You can do that too.

What Happened With the Person Who Attacked Me?

There was another beautiful part of this experience.

It was ultimately just a review written by an angry soul.

Over the following week, his soul permitted me to perform a healing on him.

During the healing, I heard:

“I am sorry for what my human form has done. Thank you.”

And then he was gone-gone.

I couldn't feel his anger toward me anymore.

And I haven't felt it since.

That is important.

Because my goal wasn't to hurt him back.

My goal was to protect myself, repair the energetic damage, and return the situation to love.

Pain Can Become Purpose

The best of us—the most extraordinary healers and coaches—often come from some of life's most painful experiences.

Pain can cultivate tremendous depth and compassion for other people.

That familiar knowingness is what allows a healer to sit beside another beautiful soul who is going through their darkest night and truly understand.

That doesn't mean we should seek pain.

And it doesn't mean we should allow people to harm us.

It means that when painful things happen, we can choose what we create from them.

I choose to teach.

Why This Matters

You can defeat the dark forces affecting your life.

It doesn't matter who or what they are.

You have light within you.

The more evidence you create for yourself, the greater confidence you will have in your own intuition.

USE the Reiki with everything you do.

Feel and know that the Reiki light flowing through your hands is carrying your intention of love.

Protect.

Deflect.

And when appropriate, repair the damage rather than adding more damage to the world.

Imagine what would happen if more of us chose peace and unity instead of division and anger.

It's up to us to help create that vibration—and stabilize it when things get rocky.

Continue Developing Your Energy Awareness

If you are sensitive, empathic, intuitive, or doing healing work, learning Energy Hygiene is one of the most important things you can do.

I teach Energy Hygiene, energetic protection, Reiki, intuitive development, psychic development, and how to begin collecting evidence of your own abilities throughout my trainings.

The goal isn't to make you afraid of energy.

The goal is to make you powerful with it.

The more clearly you understand your own energy, the easier it becomes to recognize when something doesn't belong to you—and the faster you can do something about it.