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@Kati, Well framed question. Many good answers; I'll try not to repeat. I've not been around for a while, a pleasure to read. a few quick thoughts: - water is cleansing. taking a shower after being with others helps cleanse your aura of ... accumulated static. - standing and stepping practices (obviously), most Daoist systems have them. a bagua stepping video. - hands' qi sphere - developing your hands w/ qigong can help cleanse your space while at home. - don't expect this to ever be completely solved. it's common for advanced practitioners to become more solitary as the decades go by. I once heard an advanced teacher quip, "don't wear deodorant" in order to keep people at a distance, and “if someone is thinking about you, you might as well be in the same room”. - Marsha Sinetar's book, "Ordinary People as Monks and Mystics" is a well researched book on healthy lifestyles (not specific practices) of secular monks and mystics. - some version of wishing well prayer towards all beings, the Tibetan paraphrased is "may all beings be free of suffering and free of the causes of suffering. may all beings have happiness and have the causes of happiness". We tend to accumulate ... others thoughts and residue of interactions, that we sort of chew on and battle with later on our own. At least part of that is a kind of psychic battle. Some broad benevolent prayer kind of .. resets psychology (and psychic interactions) towards deeper unified ground. A difficult topic. Can't say that I've got it whupped. - Keith