Preparing for energy work: energy healing clinics, chakra clearings & mentoring sessions
If you're an empath or an energy healer, you've probably been told at some point to "protect your energy" — usually by someone who means well but doesn't quite understand what that actually feels like from the inside. Because for a lot of us, the fear isn't being unprotected. It's protecting ourselves so thoroughly that we lose the very sensitivity that makes us good at this work in the first place.
That tension is real, and it's one I've sat with for over two and a half decades of doing energy work. The good news: protection and sensitivity aren't actually opposites. You can build a field around yourself that filters out what isn't yours, while still staying wide open to what is. It just takes the right ritual, done in the right order.
Why empaths and energy healers need a different kind of protection
Most protection advice is built for people who want to feel less. Empaths and energy healers usually want the opposite — to keep feeling deeply, just without absorbing everything that isn't theirs to carry. That's a different goal, and it needs a different approach.
A layered oil ritual works well here because it isn't a single "wall" going up. Each oil does one specific job, in sequence, so your field ends up filtered and supported rather than sealed shut. You stay open. You just stop leaking.
The exact order I never skip before energy work
I've been doing this for over two and a half decades, and I've learned the order matters just as much as the oils themselves. I don't skip steps. I don't reorder them. Here's exactly how it goes, every single time, before an energy healing clinic, a chakra clearing, or a private mentoring session.
First: Archangel Michael. This goes on before anything else — protection goes into place before I do anything.
Second: Aura Cleanse. Once protection is set, this clears out whatever's already sitting in my field before I walk into that room.
Third: Rainbow Spirit. This balances, clears, and aligns all seven chakras once the clearing is done.
Fourth: Archangel Raphael, last, every time. Raphael is the healing archangel, and this is what seals the whole ritual before I start.
Here's how I actually apply it, since a few of you have asked: my oils come in a 10ml roll-on, so I roll it directly onto my forearms, rub my forearms together, then apply to my neck, and sometimes just above my heart center. Same steps, all four oils, every time.
That's the entire ritual — four oils, four steps, that exact order, every time I'm about to hold space for someone else's energy.
This same layering principle works beyond protection
Once you understand why the order matters — each oil setting up the next — you can apply the same principle to other intentions, not just protection.
When a client wants help with prosperity or clearing obstacles, I layer Ganesh first, then Lakshmi. When I need to remember who I actually am underneath whatever I'm carrying that day, I layer Rainbow Spirit, then Archangel Michael, then Stardust — Stardust is the one that brings me back to myself.
The oils do the work. The order is what makes sure they can actually do it.
Preparing for energy healing clinics, chakra clearings & mentoring sessions
This exact four-step ritual is what I use before every single energy healing clinic and chakra clearing I hold. It's also what I reach for before my private 1:1 sessions and mentoring calls — anytime I'm about to hold space for someone else's energy, I want my own field clear, protected and fully present first. If you've ever wondered what happens on my end before we sit down together in a mentoring session or an Angelic Crystal Reiki appointment, this is it.
I share this not because you need to book a session to use this ritual (you absolutely don't — it works just as well solo, before any energy work of your own), but because so many of you have asked what actually happens behind the scenes. Now you know.
Bringing this practice into your own work
If you do any kind of energy work — professionally or simply for the people in your life who come to you when they're struggling — this ritual travels well:
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Before holding space for a friend or family member going through something heavy.
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Before your own meditation, reiki self-practice, or chakra work.
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Before any setting where you know you'll be absorbing a lot of emotion that isn't yours (waiting rooms, family gatherings, group settings).
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As a reset afterward, to make sure you're not still carrying what you helped someone else move through.
Start with the order above, and give yourself permission to adjust the "why" behind each step over time as you learn what your own field actually needs.
An invitation to explore your own practice
If you've been protecting yourself so hard that you've started to feel less like you, this is your invitation to try it differently. Protection first, clearing second, alignment third, healing sealed in last. You get to stay open. You just stop carrying what was never yours.
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