Psychic intrusion is more common than most people think, and far less dramatic than often portrayed. As someone who works with through Reiki, Aura Cleansing, and Akashic Records readings, I’ve seen how these intrusions can quietly interfere with our emotional clarity, vitality, and connection to self.
This post will unpack what psychic intrusion actually is, how it happens, how long it can linger, and most importantly, how you can protect yourself.
What Is Psychic Intrusion?
Psychic intrusion is an energetic influence or interference that comes from outside your own consciousness. It’s not part of your authentic energy, yet it affects how you feel, think, or behave. Unlike a psychic attack, which is often deliberate and forceful, psychic intrusion can be subtle, unconscious, and even accidental.
It can take many forms – energetic residue from a past relationship, a heavy emotion picked up from a crowded space, or a projection from someone who’s obsessing about you. In more intense cases, it could involve energetic attachments or entities that feed off fear or confusion. More about these entities in the future in another blog post.
How Psychic Intrusion Happens
There are several ways psychic intrusion makes its way into your energy field:
- Thoughtforms: Repeated negative thoughts or emotions directed at you (consciously or not) can form energetic imprints.
- Unconscious projections: People who are emotionally entangled with you may unknowingly send their unresolved energy into your field.
- Energetic parasites or entities: These tend to attach when your system is weakened – through trauma, illness, substance use, or spiritual overexertion.
- Environmental or collective energy: Sensitive people often absorb lingering energies from homes, public spaces, or collective fear.
- Deliberate spiritual interference: In rare cases, psychic intrusion can be intentional, as in the form of curses or dark rituals.
Ultimately, psychic intrusion can only enter where there is a resonance or opening. That might be unresolved pain, low self-worth, energetic fatigue, or lack of spiritual boundaries.
Signs You’re Experiencing Psychic Intrusion
Psychic intrusion often shows up as a subtle but persistent energy blockages:
- Sudden emotional shifts without clear cause
- Energetic heaviness or mental fog
- Recurring thoughts or images that don’t feel like yours
- Disconnection from intuition or spiritual guidance
- Unexplained fatigue or mood swings
These signs don’t automatically mean someone is psychically attacking you. They simply suggest your energy field might need cleansing or reinforcement.
How Long Psychic Intrusions Stay in Your Field
Psychic intrusions can be fleeting or deeply entrenched:
- Short-term: Hours to a few days – usually from external environments or passing interactions.
- Lingering: Weeks to months – often linked to unresolved emotional cords or repeated exposure.
- Long-term: Months to years – when energetic attachments, soul wounds, or karmic patterns are involved.
The more aware and sovereign you are in your energy, the less likely these intrusions stay long.
What Psychic Intrusion Reveals About You
Experiencing psychic intrusion doesn’t mean you’re spiritually weak. It often means:
- You’re highly empathic or energetically open
- You’ve got unprocessed emotional wounds that need tending
- You’re expanding spiritually and becoming more visible energetically
Rather than fear it, use it as a signal. Psychic intrusion can be a spiritual mirror, asking you to claim your energy with more clarity and sovereignty.
Can You Fully Protect Yourself from Psychic Intrusion?
Absolute immunity is rare, especially for sensitives, empaths, or healers. But you can become highly resilient with the right practices.
How to Protect Yourself:
- Daily Energy Clearing: Use sound, smoke, salt, or visualisations to cleanse your field. Explore my remote aura cleanse sessions for deeper support.
- Energetic Shielding: Build flexible protection through intention, visualisation, or light grids. Avoid rigid barriers as energy needs to flow. In this blog post, I have a free affirmation for energy shielding plus I could create a personalised one just for you.
- Grounding and Boundaries: Anchor into your body, say no when needed, and release people-pleasing habits.
- Reiki: A powerful tool to restore balance and heal energetic openings. Learn more about my Reiki sessions here.
- Akashic Records Work: Reveals karmic or ancestral patterns making you vulnerable. Find a reading that resonates with you, to uncover the deeper layers.
Other Key Points About Psychic Intrusion
- Not all intrusions are malicious. Some are projections from those who love you but lack energetic awareness.
- Sometimes the problem is internal. Old trauma, negative thought patterns, or repressed emotions can feel like foreign energy. They’re calling for your attention.
- Discernment is vital. Not everything that feels off is an entity or attack. Use your intuition, but stay grounded in reality.
- Psychic intrusion is never random. It has something to show you about your boundaries, your energy hygiene, or your spiritual path.
Final Words
You don’t need to live in fear of psychic intrusion. With grounded tools, awareness, and energetic sovereignty, you can navigate spiritual life with clarity and confidence. If you’re feeling energetically drained or uncertain about what you’re picking up, I offer multiple services to help you clear, reclaim, and shield your energy field. These aren’t luxuries, they’re essential practices in a world full of noise, and for that reason I always keep my prices very affordable.
- Reiki and Aura Cleansing – Clear stagnant energy and restore balance
- Akashic Records readings – Reveal root causes of energetic openness
- Sound Baths – Release tension, align your energy field
Trust yourself.
Tend to your energy field.
Stay open but stay protected too.
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