When I do talks about psychic self defence, I always mention verbal attacks. Although normally I'm a pretty down to earth person who always believed that for something to be a psychic attack there had to be :
1. Evidence of psychic activity
and
2. Evidence of an actual attack

verbal attacks seem to have a field of their own. THis might be in part due to the increased use of swear words that in my day you never heard and only rarely encountered as anonymous graffiti (usually in the school toilets, should you ever be brave or desperate enough to venture into one.)

Make no mistake though, language can do immense damage. So can constant criticism unless you have some means of dealing with it on a psychic level. This last bit is important, because not everyone is affected in the same way. Some people are deeply hurt, wounded even, while others seem to take it in their stride.

Since we cannot stop these sort of attacks altogether, it seems to make sense to try and find ways to allow the words to just roll off us, like water off a ducks back.

The other reason it pays to be aware of these attacks is because if we're not careful we can also - weirdly - attack ourselves. Still scary.

But it's true - if you are constantly negative, always looking for the worst life has to offer, never expecting anything good to happen…. Then one of these days you will end up hexing yourself. You probably won’t even realise you’re doing it.

The problem is that negativity is very damaging. Never mind where it comes from - it can come from outer space for all I care! It's when it reaches us that it does the damage.

You see what negativity does is to damage our auric field. What’s an auric field? Ask ten people, you’ll get 12 different explanations. Here’s mine…. The auric field is the physical and etheric body combined. Still no wiser? Don't worry... think of it as an outer glow around us –a protective shell. And when we or other people are constantly negative, we damage it.

The damage starts off as the odd pinhole, - over the years these multiply and join up and suddenly you’ve got a hole the size of a rugby ball. Then the fun starts.

This is because any similar negative influences anywhere nearby - and there are always a couple of them floating around – get attracted to this damaged area and latch onto it. You’ve invited them in. And then you’ve got problems.

So next time you're tempted to say things like 'That's just my luck...' or 'that sort of thing always happens to me...' stop. Take a deep breath.

Stop it from becoming a self fulfilling prophecy.