How do you protect your energy while staying sensitive and connected?

[Kati]

Hello Everyone  
 

I’m looking for spiritual practices to help me stay grounded in my own energy while being around others.

 

For example, Qigong helps me find my center again, and I often ask myself, “Is this feeling truly mine or coming from someone else?” I’m curious if you use other clear techniques or rituals that help with this?

If you’d like to discuss broader personal experiences (such as general sensitivity or longer stories), please DM me — I’m happy to listen privately. Otherwise, the thread can get a bit overwhelming and I might end up missing some helpful tips.
For this thread, please share only practical tips, exercises, rituals related to sensing other peoples energetic

Thank you — I’m looking forward to your helpful, focused tips!

[BigSkyDiamond]

practical tips to stay grounded while around others.

 

if it is unsettling (ungrounding) to be around others, then limit the time and duration.

spend as much time as you can NOT being around others so you can get a clearer sense of what is you and what is yours

 

set and maintain and keep clear personal boundaries in all interactions and association with others. 

 

cultivate activities in your life which are grounding: put your hands in the dirt, lots of time in nature, walk on the dirt paths or grass when possible, hang out with trees, garden, houseplants.  spend time sitting on the floor for any daily activities.

 

when i was working full time in an office, surrounded all day by 30 or 40 people literally all in the same (big) room i took every opportunity that i could to be by myself.  So every lunch and every break i left the building and went outside and either walked in nature or sat in my car reading.  I also willingly took on any tasks and duties during the work day which included walking outside the building.  Everyone on my team loved this because nobody else wanted to do these tasks.  

 

for some, being around other people makes them feel more enlivened (it charges them up like a battery) they find it to be positive and actively seek it out.  For others, being around other people is draining and exhausting and unsettling, they find it negative and actively seek to limit it.  I am in that category.

 

a good rule of thumb i have used is that whatever amount of time is spent "out in the ethers" then an equal or greater amount of time is spent on physical grounding activities such as hands in the dirt gardening, walking in nature.  if someone spends 2 hours where they leave the body, then spend at least 2 hours walking in nature or hands in the dirt gardening.  Balance is essential.

 

same is true for receiving any type of body work.  if a bodyworker knows what they are doing they will tell you this as part of your after care.  if you receive "energy work" then it has to be grounded afterwards for your own balance.  I traveled to Canada to receive a series of sessions of bodywork from a practitioner.  It was all "hands off" meaning without touch.  She requires her clients after sessions to not only rest and drink a lot of water, but to physically go outside and walk in nature for several hours.

 

get in the habit of picturing roots coming out of the bottom of your feet, and growing deep deep into the earth. Root yourself to the earth.

 

Edited Sunday at 04:27 PM by BigSkyDiamond

[BigSkyDiamond]

5 hours ago, Kati said:

I’m looking for spiritual practices to help me stay grounded in my own energy while being around others.

 

and for starters, think of them as physical practices.

focus on the physical, on your physical body.  not spirit, not your etheric body, not energy, not your light body.

feet on the ground

run cold water over your hands and wrists, up to the elbow.

sit on the edge of the tub and put your feet under running cold water.

[Kati]

3 hours ago, BigSkyDiamond said:

spend as much time as you can NOT being around others so you can get a clearer sense of what is you and what is y

yes totally. that is very important

 

3 hours ago, BigSkyDiamond said:

set and maintain and keep clear personal boundaries in all interactions and association with others. 

very true, i am working on this

 

3 hours ago, BigSkyDiamond said:

a good rule of thumb i have used is that whatever amount of time is spent "out in the ethers" then an equal or greater amount of time is spent on physical grounding activities such as hands in the dirt gardening, walking in nature.  if someone spends 2 hours where they leave the body, then spend at least 2 hours walking in nature or hands in the dirt gardening.  Balance is essential

nice rule

 

3 hours ago, BigSkyDiamond said:

et in the habit of picturing roots coming out of the bottom of your feet, and growing deep deep into the earth. Root yourself to the earth.

this is already part of my pratice
 

looks like i am already learning the things you recommend me. nice  thank you

[Krenx]

Equanimity. Stillness. Those qualities are not just developed in your formal practice, but needs to be enforced in your daily life and habits. 

 

That clarity that arises from equanimity, will dispell questions about who's energy is from where, and which is what. You will discern and know for yourself. 

 

Like choppy waters, nothing is clear, it is all muddy, guesswork, impossible to judge objectively. When you make the energies and mind settle to become clear without ripples, you can see and know. 

 

Abandoning alcohol and drugs, stop listening to music passively in the background, decrease your interaction with people who are not involved in your path, abandon harmful people in your life. These are real changes that will make a real difference besides your formal practice. 

[Kati]

On 11.8.2025 at 10:22 AM, Krenx said:

Those qualities are not just developed in your formal practice, but needs to be enforced in your daily life and habits. 

yes since i am doin qigong it is a bit more easy to remain calm, when I listen to people who are emotional. I can see that they are not unhappy because of the situation itself, but because of their interpretation of it — and that they could change that if they wanted to. So it’s not actually a hopeless situation, as they describe it. But for a long time, I couldn’t see that. For a long time, when people were suffering, I thought there was nothing they could do. And… yeah.