October Has Become "Psychic Vampire Awareness Month"
Thursday October 26, 2006
In the Lifestyle section of my local paper there is an article this weekend entitled Soul Suckers reporting on the types of people who are considered to be Energy Vampires. In recent years during the month of October these types of vampire articles have begun surfacing in newspapers. Why? Because the Halloween season is when we naturally think about blood thirsty vampires featured in late night horror movies. Reports about psychic vampires are really about journalists attempting to present a different twist in their annual reporting of the bewitching season. Our local "celebrity ghost-buster" also gets a nice write-up each October. I'm sure she appreciates the extra boost, which results in free advertising for her investigative ghost services and haunted house workshops each year.
Many people in the healing community do not like the label "vampire" when discussing the characteristics of people who drain us emotionally and physically. They feel it is mean-spirited to label them in derogatory terms. And, this is understandably so. These folks are not intentionally "sucking" us by annoying us with their needy personalities, or are they? Nope, most of them aren't aware of what they are doing. But, that doesn't mean we shouldn't be aware that having boundaries in place to keep attention-seeking individuals at bay is needed. Protective boundaries are important. Also, anyone who is doing the sucking can seek help and learn how not to take energy from us.
For the past several years October has become the month for educating the general public about energy exchanges and how to protect themselves from this sort of attack. And for that reason, I'm okay with the label, psychic vampire. Whatever it takes to get the word out. How do you feel?
Are you able to recognize the characteristics of these so-called energy-suckers?
Energy Vampire Traits
- Feeling alone or abandoned
- Needs constant reassurance
- Never feels satisfaction
- Poor listener, talks non-stop
- Low energy or easily fatigued
- Basks in being the center of attention
- Cannot make a decision without seeking advice from someone else
- Clingy, projects himself into situations where he is not welcome
Affirmation of the Day
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Comments
Unfortunately I do believe there are people who move from one psychic/medium/clairvoyant to another to try and hear what they want to, without listening to what is being shared. There are other people who consciously take energy especially when you forget to protect yourself. I have seen energy being drained from one person right into the top of another person’s head. It does exist.
I’ve never liked the name psychic vampire. While I understand that it is an apt simile for a person who sucks the energy out of you, it also has connotations of the occult which I am not sure are necessarily accurate in this application; and it also has a certain ring of comic kitschyness that detracts from the concept itself. I get distracted by images of long-fanged Draculae when reading about this topic. Psychic leech might be more appropriate. Or how about psychic drain, psychic vacuum, or psychic cling-on. It doesn’t offend me, but the cartoonish quality of the term is distracting.
I find the term psychic or energy vampire the best way to get the point across when talking about energy. People get the point right away. If two words will suffice instead of a long explanation, I’ll use the two words. Where I come from, I don’t think vampire is considered a derogatory word. It sounds better than blood sucker.
I am okay with the term psychic or energy vampire. It is self explanatory. Another way to look at it, is that at that time, it is part of that person’s nature. It is something that is so natural to them that at times, they are not even aware of it. Very much like in stories we read a vampire has to follow its nature. The difference is that as people who draw psychic energy become aware of what they are doing, they can learn to centre themselves and realize that they do not need to go to other people for that energy, but that the universe has an abundance of it, and once connected, will always provide. They drain other people because they are not consciously aware of taking energy from other people and this puts them into a fear survival mode, a fear of lacking, that there is not enough to go around and they will be
left out.
Once this cycle is realized, they will have evolved into another space and time and will no longer depend on others, but know that it is within themselves and their connection to the universe that will always keep their energy flowing.
From where I stand I see the title as one sided. Energy cannot be taken without the consent of the person being drained whether consciously or not, consent must be given. I feel that people need to be made aware that blaming others for their loss of energy is self defeating and misguided. People need to be taught how to see truth and the truth is that no one can take anything from you without your consent. If you feel drained don’t blame the vampire they are what they are, but you stuck your neck out and said willingly feed from me and then mope and blame and continue this distructive cycle.
One option is to avoid vampires, but a better option is to learn to realize you are full of unlimited energy eternally and can easily replace all faster than any vampire could ever drain you, if you so choose. The need to drain is a fear response based on illusion and the feeling of being drained is also a fear response based on illusion. Recogize the fear and it has no power over you, you no longer need shields and avoidance but can face every day with joy and abundance regardless of another’s personal state.
Just my opinion
I was once a victim until I realized there is no such thing, all victims are willing victims. We create our own reality and if you create a reality where people are draining you the answer lies in you not them.
Many blessings
Tame
I think the term is appropriately descriptive. I prefer it to leech or many other terms I’ve heard used.
Some people do not know how to give of themselves and drain you constantly. If you can’t avoid them, you try to protect your energy, but at times, it just doesn’t work as well as other times….depending on your own state at the time.
I have a mother in law who has never given an exchange of energy for one second in her life…and I can’t avoid her. I do my best to protect myself, but then it disrupts my natural flow of energy for a brief, but uncomfortable period of time.
I have been drained when my own health was compromised, and I wasn’t able to protect myself efficiently.
We ALL have vulnerable times in our lives when the unlimited energy of the universe is just out of reach….no one is that strong in reality, though in theory we may wish to believe it and strive for it.
I think the term is fine; it describes my experience with such people. My mother is the most spectacular one I have ever encountered. Three thousand miles between us is not a inch too much! That is my defense. I don’t allow them in my world. Poof! As if by magic, they vanish.
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Psychic Vampire is an appropriate term. That is what it is.
Seems graceless, pejorative, unpleasant though the effects are, less pleasant is the condemnation. It’s where some folks are, an observation, no judgement is needed.
I find the ‘trait’s to be very offensive and way off track.
I consider myself to be a psychic vampire and didn’t realize what I was doing until I actually saw it happening with my own eyes.
For starters I am happily married and do not feel alone, I am not a needy attention seeker…
Psychic vampires are the way they are due to a leak in their aura, and most do not know what they are doing. However I am also pagan so therefore I know how to control such things. If you want to protect yourself from a psi learn to shield, I do it all the time to make sure others around me are not affected. Do not rely on this article for what it is, do your own research and you will find that there is much more to it than being an attention seeker.
Someone in Georgia.
Well i am a “energy sucker” as you say.
I consider myself a psychic vampire as do all the others that are part of us.
We do have a code we follow to where we do not just “steal” energy from people.
I find your information actually quite rude because your facts are not straight.
I can reccomend researhing more and talking to more of us psivamps.