Psychic attachments, entities, and auras are terms you may hear in spiritual healing circles. But what do they mean, and how do they relate to your spiritual practice?
I used to question whether psychic attachments were real. Through my experiences as a psychic healer, I came to understand them as part of my spiritual work. During sessions, I sometimes perceive what I interpret as unwanted entities in the auric field.
In this article, I share my understanding of psychic attachments and negative entities, how I approach entity removal and psychic protection, and why sovereignty and shadow work matter. I also offer practical guidance for lightworkers and healers who work with these concepts.
These teachings reflect my spiritual perspective on unwanted thoughts, difficult emotions, and psychic attachments. This article offers spiritual guidance, not a medical diagnosis or a replacement for professional medical or mental-health care.
What Is a Psychic Attachment?
In the spiritual framework I work with, a psychic attachment describes an unwanted energetic connection or presence in someone’s aura. The aura is understood in many spiritual traditions as the energy field surrounding a person.
Some practitioners use the term spiritual attachment for the same idea.
During sessions, I sometimes perceive images, shapes, or shadows that I interpret through this framework. These are my intuitive impressions, rather than something a reader can identify through a symptom checklist.
What Is an Entity?
The word entity simply means a separate being. In spiritual discussions, people may use it for many different kinds of beings.
In this article, I’m discussing what I interpret in my practice as unwanted spiritual presences. The words “entity” and “attachment” do not automatically mean demonic possession.
My focus is on helping people feel grounded, supported, and able to make their own choices.
Is This Demonic Possession?
In my experience, yes and no. It depends on the level of the entity.
Some entities are very low- to mid-level. Many of these can be dissolved and transmuted by a shamanic or psychic healer or Reiki Master. Some appear to me like an octopus or beings with suckers. Others seem to leave a gooey, tar-like substance around the auric field. These can involve a lot of energetic cleanup after they are transformed.
However, some entities are what I would call higher-level entities or demons. In my experience, these are more difficult to remove. In these sessions, I look for a specific purpose or underlying issue that needs to be acknowledged. Sometimes the themes involve a craving for importance or power—more about that later.
I’ve worked remotely and in person with experiences I interpreted as full-on possession. Some resembled something between The Exorcist and Ghostbusters.
How Do Psychic Attachments or Entities Get Into Your Aura?
In my teaching, sovereignty, preparation, and psychic protection are central to this question.
Within my spiritual understanding, energetic boundaries play an important role in protection. I emphasize staying aware of your choices and being able to give clear consent throughout spiritual work. If you feel impaired or unable to make clear decisions, pause the practice.
Before doing energy work, take time to understand what you are participating in. Have you prepared? Have you set boundaries? Do you know how to stop if you feel uncomfortable?
This is why I teach protection and shielding and recommend Psychic Reiki Healing certification as a foundation for learning energy work.
I also encourage you to choose practitioners thoughtfully. Ask how they prepare, how they explain their work, and how they respect your consent.
Spiritual development does not need to be rushed. My approach is to build skills through practice, meditation, and patience rather than using psychedelics to pursue spiritual experiences.
Learning to stand in your personal sovereignty, make your own choices, and support your energy through shadow work is an important part of that process.
What Can You Do If You Feel Spiritually Unsettled?
Begin with something simple that helps you feel present.
Pause the practice. If a meditation, reading, or spiritual discussion leaves you frightened or overwhelmed, you can step away.
Reconnect with your surroundings. Feel your feet on the floor, look around the room, or take a gentle walk.
Care for your everyday needs. Make space for food, water, rest, and contact with people you trust.
Choose familiar spiritual practices. If prayer, gentle meditation, or visualizing protective light feels comforting, you can include it. In my own practice, I work with Archangels and my highest-light helpers.
Seek support when you need it. You don’t need to decide on a spiritual explanation before asking for help. Spiritual support can sit alongside care from a qualified healthcare professional.
This article discusses my spiritual approach to entity clearing. Energy work does not replace medical or mental-health care. If you’re experiencing distressing thoughts, sensations, or experiences you interpret as entities, seek professional support as well.
Repeated self-criticism and harsh self-talk can become patterns that deserve attention, too. Whatever spiritual meaning you give an experience, look at the thoughts and habits that may be contributing to spiritual problems. Consistent spiritual support and consistent therapy can help you work through these patterns. You deserve support with what’s underneath the struggle, not just temporary relief.
How To Get Rid of Entities in Your Auric Field
The first step is to understand what you’re experiencing. It's important to know the signs so that you know when it's time to get help.
Here are 7 possible symptoms of having a psychic attachment in your aura:
- Feeling very low emotionally: unloved, worthless, or that life has no meaning.
- Hearing dark thoughts in your mind that don't feel like something you would normally say. Or being surprised by thoughts in your mind that don't seem right.
- Being unable to get out of depression, unable to raise your vibration.
- Hearing yourself speak low-vibration words as if they are coming from another part of your brain. Being the noticer of those thoughts and wondering in a separate part of your brain… why am I acting this way? Why am I saying this?
- Hearing a voice in your head when you are in rage, anger, deep victim mentality as if you are not the one thinking but the one observing it happening.
- Headaches or the feeling of something wriggling around in your head.
- Extreme mood swings—rage, anger, shame, cruelty… that never swing up to happiness, light, and joyful feelings.
You may feel all these or one of these symptoms happening, depending on how well you are protecting yourself from it, unconsciously.
You Must Seek Help If This Is Happening.
Yes. Get help. A healing session. Self-care. You will likely need another lightworker to remove attachments from your auric field. Trying to remove it yourself will be difficult — when an entity is in your field, it will prevent you from coming up to a vibration that is needed to remove entities, even if you are a highly skilled Reiki Master Teacher, or Psychic or Shamanic Healer.
Some healers with Shamanic Psychic Healing training are sometimes able to release the entity for themselves, or at least keep the entity at bay, as long as they continue to vibrate higher. This can buy some time for a while.
You can try:
- Beaming pure love to the entity and to all surroundings and to the self for as long— and as often—as you can.
- Asking Archangels & highest light helpers you work with closely to remove it.
If you do these things, will you know if you are totally clear? Because that is the real question. And, if something happens—for the 3D world is full of ups and downs—will the attachment reattach itself? Sometimes you can keep these entities at bay for a little while—but you will likely need a full clearing eventually. Most likely the clearing will come with information on keeping clear — changes in your lifestyle.
I know people who can clear themselves of attachments, and I can do it sometimes, as well. I also know MANY people who think they have cleared themselves and have not actually done so.
Why Do Entities Attach to Us?
Shouldn't our Spirit Guides protect us?
We get these entities in our field for a reason. There's a lesson there, your Spirit Guides are guiding you to find out! What's the lesson? Why do you have this interference?
Sometimes I see they are guiding you to get a session because you need to clear something out of your field for an upleveling — a completion of soul contracts and work, and more that needs to be dealt with.
Sometimes it's to truly understand a piece of your shadow work, or something you need to change in your lifestyle.
Your healer should be able to tell you WHY you have this attachment, this is important — you need to know, or your Spirit Guides will repeat the allowing. This is why I teach these techniques in my courses. This is what is needed at this time.
And yes, an entity can pretend to be a Spirit Guide. These are called false Spirit Guides. However, they are easy to spot. A real Spirit Guide isn't obsessed with anything. They will always be gently guiding you. Spirit Guides encourage you to be kind and to trust yourself. They aren't talking down to you, stressing you out, telling you to find your twin flame, or anything sketchy like that. So if your Spirit Guide isn't 1000% kind, gentle, and full of love, then that is another sign you may have an entity.
Having an attachment is not a reflection of you, so don't beat yourself up.
Remember that you shouldn't feel ashamed or look for someone to blame. It happens to everyone. You are a bright light, and low-vibration entities are trying to keep you from your light work. Take this as a sign that you are on the right path.
It would be impossible to only experience higher emotions and vibrations. We are humans and we struggle to work through our problems on this Earth, so of course we can get triggered.
Why Do Some People Seem to Get New Entities Right After Clearing?
This is a common question other practitioners ask me as a mentor. When an experience returns after a clearing, I look at what may still need attention: self-talk, habits, boundaries, shadow work, or the person’s spiritual practice. A recurring experience does not, by itself, establish that another entity is present.
The need to feel important or powerful. Sometimes spiritual work becomes tied to a person’s sense of worth. This can be difficult to recognize because it sounds like dedication to helping others.
Watch for “only me” thinking: believing you are the only lightworker who can use a technique, access certain knowledge, or connect with a particular being.
In my teaching, healing comes through a higher source. It is not proof that one person is more important than another. Many people can develop these skills—anyone can learn and receive attunements.
If a client feels unimportant or unacknowledged, approach that feeling with compassion. Explore what support they need rather than treating it as a character flaw.
Returning to the same habits. A session does not automatically change someone’s everyday patterns. Harsh self-talk, neglected boundaries, or spiritual practices that leave you overwhelmed may still need attention. If there are any addictions, they also need healing and resolving.
Feeling powerless. What some spiritual teachings call “victim consciousness” can involve feeling that you have no choices. Recognizing where you can act may help, without blaming yourself for harm you experienced. Ask: “What is one choice or boundary available to me now?”
Avoiding shadow work. Uncomfortable feelings and triggers deserve care. Begin by accepting how you feel, then explore what needs to change, heal, or be accepted. A therapist can help with persistent distress and self-talk patterns; a trusted mentor can support spiritual development.
Not understanding the session or the next steps. As a lightworker, explain what you healed and experienced, share the guidance you received as your spiritual interpretation, and discuss practices the client can use afterward. Give them space to ask questions. The goal is to help them feel informed and empowered.
Reviewing spiritual preparation and protection. As practitioners develop their work, I encourage them to review their grounding, shielding, boundaries, and preparation. Consider rest, workload, and support as well as spiritual practices.
Working with the auric field. In my spiritual practice, I sometimes perceive what I describe as an auric void or entry point. I teach my approach to this energy work through Psychic Reiki Healing.
Considering the home environment. Is the home clear? Are there portals or is there something important to clear that's coming from outside the body?
How Are Psychic Implants Different from Psychic Attachments?
In my spiritual practice, I distinguish psychic implants from attachments. An attachment refers to an unwanted conscious presence, while an implant describes something I perceive as a psychic object-like form or pattern in the auric field.
You can read more in my Full Guide to Understanding Psychic Implants.
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