Eikon: Hello and welcome all of you. Nice to see you.

Today our topic is about protection, sensitivity, vulnerability and growth. And each of these is a volume in itself, but they have been blended together to help shed some light on their interconnectedness. So let’s jump right in and look a little on how each of them looks to us in the Spirit Guide world.

There are different types of protection. But let’s take the one you are most accustomed to. Let’s say you are in a room with fifty or sixty people having a wonderful dinner together or a wonderful event, such as is going on here in other rooms. As you near the energy field of others, particularly those you have never met, your body goes into a protection mode by instinct. Part of you hardens or closes or is cautious. It is an energetic way to bring you into a state of alertness that something new is at hand. And according to your habits, this type of protection can be integrated into your structure, into your muscles and even bones.

Most humans are carrying or suffering from the way they protect themselves from other people. They are clenching or holding. It is a holdover from the natural protection that comes when you enter the energy field of another. For once you enter near the energy field of another human, you are truly next to the unknown. For now you do not know what they will do or what they will evoke in you. And this protection at first works to close part of you off. And in a sense, shut you down.

What is developed is something called a social personality. It’s kind of like a wind-up toy that you bring out when part of you is paralyzed in these new situations. It can be very polished and beautiful, but it is not really you. For you are protecting your core. For there are questions about safety in the emotional sense of you being accepted when you are with an unknown person. This is one type of protection. It is a closing.

Sensitivity is how you go out. In your body sensitivity is how you sense, thus the word. Sense with your senses and sense with your non-physical sense. Sensitivity requires an openness. What you would experience as an unprotected state – your deepest intuition is often buried when you are tense, stressed or overly alert. Sensitivity for those here, we know, is an attribute that you are interested in. For through your sensitivity your most meaningful life experiences unfold and are assimilated. Yet your sensitivity to all that is going on around you energetically and sensually is at the expense of the amount of protection of the first kind you are involved with.

That is the need for safety, safe places to open your sensitivity. So for example, if we were sitting in the hallway as people walk by it would be a much different situation to take in what is going on now and to be open to what you are feeling. So the safety of the closed door and the room has allowed for an increase or opening in sensitivity.

When you are sensitive, it is like opening a window or opening a door or opening double doors, according to how far you go and what your mode is like in your life. This can lead to painful consequences. For when all the doors and windows are open, you are vulnerable. You are no longer guarded. You are not in a state of protection. And if you live your life in a sensitive way, meaning you have been labeled by others a ‘sensitive person’ perhaps or you know you are this way, then you are in a sense always vulnerable to the attacks of others. For unbridled sensitivity is going to sleep with the door open.

So the dilemma is how to be sensitive without taking hits. For truly you are ‘hit’ by other peoples energetic outbursts, if you are completely unguarded and wandering around the population of your world.

And this is why we have the fourth word in our theme – growth. For you have been given gifts. For each of you here have a gift of sensitivity. And have a need and knowledge of protection up to a point, which we would like to encourage and assist in educating you about. For the vulnerability is from unconscious sensitivity, habitual sensitivity, being open and available to anything, which is a natural state for humans. But growth is understanding how to clear and protect and how to balance. And turning the qualities of protection and sensitivity from passive, habitual reactions to actively called modes in yourself.

For example, if you are going in a public place…. Robert considers the mall a dangerous place. Too much energy, too many people, too many strong motivations such as ‘I must eat. I must get to my car. I must get this. I must find my children.’ Too much direction. Too many fluorescent lights. If he needs to go in, he takes some intention for protection with him. And we suggest something like this for all of you whenever you have found yourself to be in a place of unpredictable energy. And there is no right way, but this is a different kind of protection. It is savvy protection. It is intentional protection. It is active protection. It does not cause tension in the body. It causes or allows freedom and energy to flow.

For it comes from a connection to Source and remembering that you have Divine protection. And all you are doing is amping it up by asking for it, however that works for you. If it’s a crystal or a mantra or a prayer or an essential oil or a ritual or remembering. This intentional protection creates freedom and openness and does not interfere with sensitivity. In fact, it invites sensitivity, because sensitivity has allowed it to enter into your life. For remembering about spiritual truth in a moment of your ordinary life, however you do, requires all your sensitivity and all your honest understanding of your life, however you are with that. It could be a few breaths and just say ‘I wish to feel safe and protected as I walk through this room.’

It is a good idea the more you go through life, you will find more and more reasons to be protected. For even a gabby conversationalist can suck your energy dry just by calling you over and having a heavy, long-winded conversation about trivia. The person could be actually intentionally, though subconsciously taking your energy. Your attention turns them into a feeling of validation. You go away drained and they are invigorated. This is a good thing to ask for protection against. For your energy is your own and it is often desirable to not give it away. For your life is not a raffle.

So conscious protection invites sensitivity. When sensitivity is working in alignment with protection, your vulnerability is greatly reduced. Because at this point you have increased heightened awareness. An awareness which from Spirit’s point of view means awareness of meaning. This is what psychics tune into – awareness of meaning.

When your sensitivity is alive and your protection is active, your sensing of safety and guidance towards safe places is enhanced. And you will know immediately when to shut the windows and doors. So it is about bringing protection and sensitivity into harmony instead of keeping them at polarity which is where they are when they are subconscious.

This is the most – we will not say ‘the most’– this is one of the most profound, growing experiences you can have in your life. Understanding that your sensitivity is a treasure and that it deserves protection. And that your sensitivity, protected and thriving is what allows you to grow in your life. It takes you out of the school of hard knocks and into a school of higher guidance.

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