Thank you for this reminder. I started doing this years ago when I was working as a hairstylist and realized I spent my whole workday taking on other people's energy and just felt so heavy and exhausted by the end of the day. Visualizations like this were really helpful. Now I work as a massage therapist, and I tend to think of myself more as a conduit than a vessel, like I can let energy pass through me and back into the earth or the air, rather than hold it. But I think both are really useful--sometimes we want to hold, sometimes we want to let it pass. Also from an anarcho-punk background, I used to think this was all silly until I was forced to recognize how much I was feeling it and being affected.
Thank you for this reminder. I started doing this years ago when I was working as a hairstylist and realized I spent my whole workday taking on other people's energy and just felt so heavy and exhausted by the end of the day. Visualizations like this were really helpful. Now I work as a massage therapist, and I tend to think of myself more as a conduit than a vessel, like I can let energy pass through me and back into the earth or the air, rather than hold it. But I think both are really useful--sometimes we want to hold, sometimes we want to let it pass. Also from an anarcho-punk background, I used to think this was all silly until I was forced to recognize how much I was feeling it and being affected.