The Odyssey of Origins • Energy Vampies

Energy Vampires suck. Literally. You can walk into a room in the most fantastic, happy, bouncy mood, full of life but then leave that same room some time later feeling like you need a nap and have no emotional capacity left for the rest of the day. When this happens, it is clear that an energy vampire is about.

Also known as energy parasites, mood hoovers or fun sponges, energy vampires are individuals or groups of people who affect you by pulling the upbeat, life energy from around you and into themselves. Often, they take from the relationship more than they give, are frustrating to be around and they can often inspire feelings of guilt or obligation when asking you to do things for them.

Although there are lot of people who theorise that the energy draining effect is a conscious attack, it is my belief that energy vampires are usually unaware that they are draining people. They don’t realise that their behaviour or their personality is draining on others. As Goldberg (Unknown) agrees ‘…most of these energy vampires are well-meaning, normal people. They are an unhappy lot, and do their damage by a telepathic draining of their victim’s energy resources…’.

Hammer, Hammer & Butler describe the energy they take from us as ‘…our real self … an individual form of pure conscious awareness… united with an objectified vibratory life energy presence animating the body, kind and emotional heart centre…’ (p. 405, 2013) and when this is drained by certain individuals it can leave us feeling empty, low and emotionally drained. It can also make us feel unable to deal with the own things we have going on in our own world which can consequently have greater, long term impacts than just feeling a bit sad for an afternoon. Long term exposure to energy vampires can also cause you to become an energy drain as well on other people.

There are many different ways to deal with energy vampires from spiritual ways to psychological methods to straight up cutting those people out of your lives and the way that works best for you is going to vary from person to person. Separation from the person or people that are draining your energy will definitely make you feel better as it will begin to allow you re-build up the energy you have had drained and will also help you to shake the dark cloud that they may have put you in.

As Dion Fortune (1963) comments in her observations about energy parasites ‘…when two people with the devitalisation of one of them, it is a good plan to recommend a temporary separation and observe the results…’. This way it not only allows for the identification of energy vampires but also can allow work to go on to try and resolve this issue. Obviously separation is not always possible to complete straight away, especially if like me you have classes with those people every week but there are other methods you can use to try to fight against them.

Limit the time you spend around those individuals as much as possible, meditate in order to build your defences against those individuals and to help build the shield around your aura so that less of your energy can be taken. Create spell bags or rituals to help fight against them. If you believe yourself to be the energy vampire, you could seek out professional help to aid working through the issues that cause this behaviour.

 Energy vampires are difficult things to deal with because they often create a feeling of need and obligation so we feel very bad when we try to prevent the energy drain and fix the problem. However it is worth persevering as in the long run, you will feel better and it may help the individual to realise what they’re behaviour is going to others. I’ve been testing out a few methods to try and battle against energy vampire so keep an eye out for next weeks article to find out more methods to battle energy vampires, what worked for me and what didn’t work too!