Energy

Have you ever walked into a room and felt the mood before anyone spoke?

Or come home from an ordinary day so tired that you couldn't explain it?

You weren't imagining it. You were reading the room. The question is whether you know which feelings are yours.

Most exhaustion that has no obvious cause is either unspoken emotion or unsorted energy. Learning to separate 'this is mine' from 'this is the room's' is not mystical — it's a skill, and it changes how much of your life you spend recovering.

You stop absorbing everything indiscriminately and start noticing what you pick up and where.

Blaming everything difficult on other people's energy. Sometimes the heaviness is your own, and it needs looking at, not clearing.

• Before entering a space, note your own state in one word.

• After leaving, note it again. The difference is information.

• Wash hands and forearms in cold water after draining contact.

• Whose feelings am I carrying today?

• Where do I feel lighter, and who am I with when that happens?

• What did I take home that was never mine?

Black Tourmaline and Shungite; Rosemary and Hyssop; the Deep Cleansing Ritual; Full Moon awareness.