OK...so I work in a pharmacy and deal with mostly sick people all day, some terminally ill. There are 7 other staff members. It is just continual bickering backstabbing and downright hatred sometimes. The woman I work closest with is a voracious psychic vampire and I am at the end of my rope. I do not mind one little bit the ill people I deal with thru the day. As a matter of fact being a Reiki practitioner I feel I am in the right place and can give some comfort at times. Ashamed to say I have found myself becoming cynical and hateful and that is not me. How do I protect myself from all this battering. Especially the psychic vampire. I try protecting myself with that white light but dealing with so many people thru the day it is hard to continually think along those lines.....any suggestions....I'm exhausted.....
LOL...for them or me. Read up on Nootropics. Sounds like omega 3s might do the trick. I don't mind taking it. Do you think the others would mind if I drop some in their coffee. LOL. Just kidding. Thank-you.....
Wow - this sounds painfully close to some of my workplace experiences a few years back, and I don't think I dealt with it very well, most of the time. But I'm going to think about your situation, and see if any ideas come to me. Please explain what it is about this person that makes her a "psychic vampire." I've heard this term before, but I'd like to have a better idea of what it means, exactly - and to consider whether I've known one - or been one, heaven forbid.
Hi Zen LOL, no doubt I have been one but not to this extent...a little karma maybe? Well, let's see, psychic vampire. She needs to hold my attention all the time. If I try to politely turn away or walk away she keeps talking to me and following me around. She has been working with me for 3 years and cannot do anything on her own. Constantly needs help and always has a crisis. She is a friend of the MANAGER. UGH. Have you ever been around someone who just drains you. Leaves you with no energy after a 10 minute conversation? Well look out it's a psychic vampire LOL. I feel drained and depressed working with her. I guess that and all the hatred that runs rampant in the place is hard to take. I know they say that surrounding yourself in white or ultra violet light is protection but it's hard to focus on that in the middle of it all. Maybe I'm just not trying hard enough. Does this sound familiar? Is this what was happening in your workplace?
wouldn't hurt to look around for a different job. I've had jobs that left me really really sick... I left and presto chango I was healthy as an ox within a couple of months. sometimes the energies you come in contact with just can't be transmuted. They're there to tell you it's time for a change in your life. You could also try talking to her about it. Call her out and see if that helps. It's great to deal with the subtle energies of others around you but sometimes dealing with the physical situation can do things that the energy work just can't. It sounds like the whole place is kind of volatile too. If they have an energy bank/dumpster then they don't have to look at the energy they're throwing. Good luck. It seems there's a lot of this kind of thing going around lately.
You know jrnyman, here I am thinking of ways to cope in a place that is painful to work in, when maybe I should really be thinkin' of movin' on. Why am I trying so hard to stay???? Thanks jrnyman excellent advice.....
it's pretty much literally saved my life. I worked at the college I graduated from for a couple of years and the day I began working there was the first day I was symptomatic of mono it developed into some other things, basically chronic fatigue, and after I quit I was fine. It was a bit more involved than that. I had to make major life changes, I had a fiance (we broke up) and I made a major move away from my family and lost pretty much all of my friends.... I still love them but nothing is worth that. I've realized how much the body isn't breaking down it's speaking. When we don't listen....
Psychic vampires deliberately go out of their way to create conflict and by doing so invoke intense emotions in others in order to steal their life energy. Your environment at work sounds like the perfect feeding ground for a psychic vampire. What you can do to thwart the vampire is by treating your fellow employee’s with respect conducive to a positive business environment While there's no cross you can carry, you can limit the damage done by staying focused on the job at hand and staying level headed. Hotwater
Windy, I see I have been a psychic vampire to some extent, God help me. I see also that you're in a job situation that is draining you, and to this extent your situation is very similar to mine about five years ago. I think there was probably nothing I could have done to prevent what eventually happened. I said something in an e-mail that could easily be misconstrued, and I lost my job. It hurts like hell - and yet, I'm in a much better place now than I was then. It all seems inevitable now - they would have gotten me sooner or later, no matter how hard I tried to maintain. It seems like your situation might be somewhat similar. Would it hurt to put out your feelers for other jobs? It might not be a bad idea, Windy. Sure, you could try to be saintly in the midst of demonic influences, and there's something to be gained by that. But I just wonder what would happen if you looked around for other opportunities... And my thoughts are with you.
oh yeh theyl suck the living daylights out of u allright.. yeh its the same at my place, nothing is ever good enough to them. what ive found is let them winge, dont say anything, look them in the eyes, smile efficiently, and sing them a song that mirrors their perception... i'm sure you'll find plenty, oh it works...and they suddenly stop..and dont know what to do...
Interesting letter I found in an old back issue of OMNI Magazine From Transylvania with Love It was nearly enough to arouse me before my accustomed nightfall when, among the cards and letters that have been wending their way here for the last, oh, 600 years or so, with word of my supposed affliction. So now it’s my need for energy that drives me to seek my lovely victims? Human auras? How Plebeian! You pseudo-scientists should stay home at night with your doors bolted, if they can’t tell the difference between me, the prince of Walachia, and my modern contemporaries, those psychic thieves who have brought shame to our order, but just slightly though. The Amazing Randy has debunk them. But I digress. I, the most prominent inhabitant of Transylvania, have never in my life used my psychic powers to drain the life’s energy out of anyone. It would be ludicrous to suppose that I had. Then what purpose would I have for my two-inch long canines, one of my most recognizable features, and that would be a pity, don’t you agree? As for biting indiscriminately I can only suggest you review my history. I prefer women as you call them these days liberated women, of good breeding and translucent skin. These ephemeral qualities have always appealed to me. Perhaps I inherited this taste from my Mother. From my father though I inherited my fondness for the night and my desire for the jugular vein which courses so conveniently up the neck. I become enraptured just thinking about it. You see my father as his before him, and his before him has a slight ailment, a condition we don’t boast about, it called Porphyria. Mary Queen of Scots passed it on to King George III and so on. When I knew her Mary had a lovely neck, porphyria is mainly an inherited metabolic disorder in which pigment is over produced, but I shan’t bore you with the details. Let it be that the disorder makes my skin sensitive to the light, and I enjoy the night, naturally. Over the years from the exposure of moonlight, some porphyrins have leeched into my bones and teeth causing a miserable case of erythodontia, a reddish staining of my rapier canines. I rather fancy the effect. If you are interested, erythrodontia shows up best under long-wave ultraviolet rays, but few people care about this anymore, alas Count Dracula Whereabouts withheld Hotwater
i agree to all of the above. jobs are often very difficult in the sense that we tend to feel like we depend on the job (and in $$ was we do)... therefore we have more access to those energies around us. which is good and bad. if you're surrounded by good energies at your job, or whatever you do for work... it can be a tremendous experience. but when you're surrounded by negativity, and people who are energetic "dumpers" or "vampires" it can be sheer hell. i agree with jrnyman and zengizmo... it feels to me as though your spirit is trying to tell you it's time for something new. i often find myself beating my head against a wall, trying to break it down... not realizing that the doorway through is like... 10 feet away, and the beautiful playground is just waiting there for me. gah... that's why it's great to have other people to lend their input and perspective at times, eh?
haha NTH, good one,... prince wallie sounds kinda sexy...windy, mabbe you could dress up as mary, stretch your neck a bit with them africaan hoola hoops put on some face talc,,,and give out sets of plastic fangs...hint hint
Hey, Eden just gave me a brainstorm! Everybody knows garlic wards off vampires - what if you ate garlic bread for breakfast and lunch and got up nice and close to your vampire, exhaling your garlic breath...
zen, vamp on there!! oh shit everyone , my singing dosent work too well anymore... the women ego's have found another comeback..oh god.. i have just returned to night shifts where i work, because the nurse women are demented, more so than the patients i care for.... theyre on my case, and the other night staff, for not pleasing them. oh dear. they have already gotten rid of one woman for allegations of abuse, which never materialized, and last night when i came on shift, i had this feeling, one of the women was winding up the poor manager with fuel to fire. which hasen't yet materialized, but eden has found evidence of intuition, a letter to management. crime: not making 4 beds properly. what ever is the world coming to? this is sheet scandel at its very worst. verocious crimes against matresses they cry. how am i ever going to live this down, my whole record will be smeared with duvet droppings... geez..
LOL LOL....Ya know I love ALL of your replies and am sooo grateful for this forum. Geez...I think...oh ya ...there it is...a smile back on this face LOL. Now all of a sudden I look at them, and think how big, how vast this world, this universe is, and realize how trivial all this shit is. As for the "vampire", maybe I should just give her the energy she needs so badly. After all, aren't we all hooked up to an unlimited supply from Source? I'm thinking of Reiki, jrnyman. You know how you hook up to an unlimited source of healing. Same goes for any energy right? ( or maybe it's all one energy, right? in different form) I'm grasping and hanging on but I should just let it flow....does this make sense?
