Intrusive Entities and Energies
Over the years, people have used many words to describe inner experiences that feel overwhelming, invasive, or “other.” Some traditions, like the one I learned through call these-entities or intrusive energies. That language makes sense because it feels like something or someone “other” than you. At the time we didn’t yet have clear ways to understand how trauma, beliefs, and the nervous system shape perception and sensation.
The experiences themselves are very real, let me state that clearly. What has evolved is our understanding of why they happen - and how healing actually occurs.
When people say…."I feel an intrusive energy”
What is usually happening:
An internal state or protective response has been held in the body or psyche for a long time and is now asking to be released.
When people say …“Something is attached to me”
What is usually happening:
A deep bound belief, or emotional pattern formed during high stress or grief that has not yet been integrated, so it feels separate rather than your own.
When people say… “There’s something stuck in my body”
What is usually happening:
Unprocessed energy related to trauma, inherited stories, or chronic stress has become patterned in the tissue, fascial network, organs or other systems of the body.
When someone says… “It feels foreign, or something that’s not me”
What is usually happening:
The system learned to separate from a traumatic experience in order to survive, and that separation now feels like “otherness.”
What some traditions called “crystalized intrusive energies” are now understood as internal energy that could not be processed at the time it arose. These patterns can live in muscles, joints, organs, or the spine and may contribute to pain or illness - not because something entered from outside, but because the body adapted to survive an overwhelming experience.
Earlier approaches often used symbolic or ritual language and practices because it is highly effective. It’s not deceptive it’s working with the systems of the body and mind. The psyche has it’s own language. It is rooted in symbology, and symbolic language. The nervous system responds to that meaning and safety. Relief occurs when the psyche is able to make meaning through it’s own symbolic language (this is not made up, it is real) and the system finally feels safe enough to relax and release what it had been holding in the body or in the energy field. You are releasing from a state of coherence.
There was no internal argument or resistance happening any longer.
This is how regulation works. Belief 100% matters. It is not pretending, denial, or blind faith. It is the nervous system’s expectation of outcome. The psyches ability to make meaning, which allows the system to feel safe to let go of the hoocha – the heavy energy. When expectation shifts threat decreases, your inner guidance system can relax and becomes less guarded. The system is in a different state of being where it can release what it no longer needs- because it belongs to you, it’s not something outside you, but it absolutely can feel like it is something foreign.
Below I keep my original explanation of Intrusive Energies and Entities because it honors a long-held tradition that has meaning and has helped countless people find relief. That language reflects how these experiences often feel in the body and psyche. Over time, however, my understanding has deepened. I now see more clearly how trauma, belief, and the nervous system shape these sensations, experiences and perceptions. Some can be very very powerful. Sometimes feeling like an attach.
What you feel, sense and experience is 100% real. What has expanded is the explanation - so that healing no longer depends on something being removed from you, but an understanding of the importance of your psyche, our beliefs and your own system feeling safe enough to release what it has been holding. This evolution returns agency to you, without dismissing your experience. I have worked with enough clients to see the experiences are real and I have helped countless people in the traditional way and still do when it is appropriate and helpful to do so.
I do not take any of it lightly. My goal is to help you release what no longer serves you and return you to balance and harmony.
Below I am leaving the traditional way and in red I am adding additional language to help you, the reader better understand the connections.
Intrusive Energies and Entities
The Shaman works with 3 types of energies. Fluid energies, crystalized energies and intrusive entities.
An intrusive entity can either come from another one of our own lifetimes that has awakened from the unconscious and is demanding space inside us, or most often this intrusive entity is a spirit that died, often times a relative that passed. Sometimes when someone passes a fragment of their soul can stick around, not fully cross through the threshold, it’s like an echo of the soul. There are many reasons this can happen-they are worried about you for some reason, they may not have had a proper goodbye, or they have resisted fully transitioning because they died suddenly and are not fully aware that they are on the other side. These are spirits that are caught between the worlds. They aren’t caught, they are just in the transition threshold a little longer. Not stuck. They don’t know how to ‘Go Home’ so we need to help them. Yes, this we can help them do. Not to force them to go but to let them know it’s ok to let go, we are going to be ok. This happens more than you might think. If the person died without saying their good byes, or expressing their ‘I love you’s’ to those still alive or felt they had unfinished business, or maybe they think you need them because you didn’t want them to go, you didn’t give them permission to die peacefully. One of the biggest gifts you can give your dying loved one is to tell them -it’s ok to let go. They can attach themselves to the closest person(usually a family member, many times a child) that is psychically or energetically open. It’s not that they attach to you, but they can stay close to your field, close enough that you feel it like someone is there. They are not stuck, and you aren’t meant to feel like you are carrying another soul around with you. They don’t do it to harm. Many times, the person cannot name precisely what is happening but they describe what they’re feeling. Maybe they are feeling like they have thoughts or feeling that don’t seem to be their own, or just feeling “off” or having pain, constant mood shifts when this is not how they usually are and they don’t know why. You can sometimes feel heaviness somewhere in the body or all over and if it’s a consistent weight, that can become too much. There are also entities that may have died suddenly and they don’t know they are dead or they were angry at life, or they weren’t ready to die, they may have felt no one understood them or that life ‘did them wrong’. There are many reasons a soul fragments and hangs around. Sometimes it’s not a person but a location. They may not have fully absorbed the idea that they are gone. So, they sometimes need someone to help them, to acknowledged for what perhaps they went through in life, maybe they need someone to say you’re not a terrible person if they made some choices that weren’t the best or that hurt others or I see you, I see what you went through, what you held, what you did to try and help at your own expense and I love you. They need to process their trauma because they didn’t while they were alive so they can let go and move on.
No soul fragment will be left behind forever. The Oversoul calls all soul fragment back fully into the soul stream, no matter what. There is no hierarchy of who is more deserving. Everyone is equally deserving simple because you exist and are part of the One. Sometimes it looks to us like a long time because we think and live in linear time. The other side has no time. Some traditions call this the bardo realm – but it is not a punishment, there is purpose. To allow the soul a clear mirror (having just come from the density of the 3D realm) to recognize that all the experiences are projections of the mind and they experience the light of Ultimate Reality. Some traditions might say this is purgatory- a punishment of sorts, meant to clean residual sin before you enter heaven. But in all my experiences ‘God, Source” does not punish. The 3D is meant to expand consciousness through the dense energies of the earth realm. There are no mistakes from this higher perspective only opportunities to learn and expand. So there is no punishment for that, even if you acted in very harmful ways. The life review will help you see, it will mirror those experiences back to you for your own growth, not to punish you.
Next, there intrusive energies these are energies directed at us out of hurt or upset and these take a fluid form. They are more recent. Have you recently ended a personal or work relationship that didn’t end well. Was the other person very angry and directing daggers at you or negative hateful thoughts and energies? Often people project their pain and suffering onto other people. They need someone to blame. They aren’t yet willing to take personal responsibility. Sometimes it is unconscious and sometimes it is on purpose. For those who are sensitive to energy they feel this projected energy in their own field because they are porous. They haven’t yet learned to create their own protective bubble around themselves. Not to block people out but to keep their own field clean.
Lastly, crystalized intrusive energies these are energies that have lodged themselves deeply into tissues, organs, muscles or the spine. You may have some pain or discomfort, chronic illness, chronic joint or muscle pain, low back, neck or spine pain etc. These need to be extracted so they don’t continue to cause harm. You may have had a pain or issue for a very long time and every doctor you go to has no explanation for it. You’re fine as far as they can see from all the tests they do. It could be crystalized energy lodged in the physical body. These crystalized energies usually come from childhood trauma or injury or from the way in which we died in another lifetime, or they are energies that were once fluid and now have become crystalized over time. We hold onto inherited, societal, ancestral stories, deep rooted beliefs that are not of the highest frequency. They no longer serve us moving forward. We hold them in our body, not just in the mind. These patterns and beliefs and stories when they are not acknowledged, held with love and grace, processed, and integrated can linger way too long, they can even turn into dis-ease, and illnesses of all kinds.
Intrusive energies and entities sound a bit scary but it is simply a process of cleansing and extracting these energies or an entity. Again these are not coming from outside you, rather its your own unprocessed trauma, stories and beliefs that we tell ourselves to get through, to survive. They body’s sympathetic nervous system does not know the difference between what is real and the thoughts and stories and beliefs we tell ourselves. It responds to both as if they are the same. Believe it or not it is not uncommon to have many crystalized energies and if you are around very low vibrational people at work or you come across someone who is throwing energetic darks at you. We can pick up this from ill-intentioned people.
We have many conditions that are caused by these intrusive energies that don’t belong to us. This also goes for children and young people too. There are many children that have intrusive energies but what’s happening is they are being medicated for energetic conditions because doctors don’t know about the workings of energy medicine. Many children are highly sensitive, the younger they are the closer to the veil they often still are. They have not yet been programed out of their natural state of clear knowingness. Society programs us out of trusting our innate abilities. Also, sometimes children don’t have the words for something they’re feeling or experiencing and it’s not always so much the experience they are having that can cause dis-ease it’s the environment, the situations, the well-meaning adults around them because they aren’t open or awakened or attuned to their own knowing, their own nature. So, they explain things away or they take them to drs. who they trust know better, but often they do not.
As we become fearless and we raise our vibrations we realize there is nothing in the invisible world that can harm us, but we must clear the field and the affinities. The world of spirit is full of energies and entities that want to work with us, help you, support us and guide us in whatever we want to do and Co-create the life we dare to dream of.