So far I’ve heard about writing a lawyer’s number on your arm, the app in case you’re arrested, and what to do if they confiscate your cell phone. What hasn’t been mentioned is how to prepare yourself psychically before, during, and after attending an Occupy rally or demonstration. That is, especially if you are a Very Sensitive or Empathic person who hasn’t done much demonstrating since the 60s.

I recommend The Emerald Alignment. I have been using this meditation from Rainbow Light Foundation since the summer, but now I need to step up my practice so that it becomes automatic.

Here is a description from their website:

All healing is light transmission. The Emerald Alignment is a simple, safe and effective method of releasing anxiety and aligning the subtle energy of the body through the emerald ray. It is important to understand that the alignment exercise is not simply a visualization technique but rather a transformative process based on scientific principles. The visualization process is helpful in sustaining focus to enhance effect; however this also initiates an actual metaphysical process, which we may or may not be aware of. While many of us place great emphasis on maintaining physical fitness most remain unaware of the need to stabilize and maintain the subtle energy which is the source of life. The result is that we are running on empty drawing upon limited available resources which are not replenished.

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Until last Saturday at Occupy Brooklyn, I was quite excited about the thinning of the veil, the dimensional barrier separating us from the inner worlds. For a long time I have been hearing about lifting the veil, piercing the veil (of illusion), and lately we find we are living in a time when the veil is ‘thinning,’ as they say. I didn’t see how there could be anything negative about it. My personal experience with seeing beyond the illusion has only been positive, only shown me more ‘light.’

Yet now I am becoming aware how it is important to be ever more diligent in focusing on the light, because not only is more light coming through, but more darkness is free to come through as well. I did not think of this until I attended the large October 5^th Occupy Wall Demonstration. and while the police presence was huge, they were not intimidating as the crowd clearly outnumbered them and the mood was celebratory. (I left shortly after dark and before the violence happened later.)

Then, on a sunny, cloudless Saturday morning, I went to the first Occupy Brooklyn rally which was quite near my house­—how convenient I thought! Yet despite the small numbers, there was an enormous police presence—at least it seemed that way to me. And then they began penning us in, which was a weird experience—as if we were somehow contaminated, and had to be set apart from the general public. But of course I knew that it was really in order that it would be easier to round us all up once we were contained in a small space.

I kept to the fringes. I am an older woman with a slight build and perhaps overly cautious when surrounded by large beefy men in uniform whom I have seen on videos carting away or pepper-spraying innocent unarmed females. Now, I hate admitting this, but I was exhausted for the rest of the day. (I was also exhausted after the October 5^th day, but I had done a lot of walking after all.) It took me a few days to realize the difference between ‘psychic’ exhaustion and physical tiredness. They are not the same at all!

I think most of us know how the Law of Attraction works, in that we attract to ourselves

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whatever we’re focused on. So if I am in fear (doesn’t matter what of) then I will attract to myself the very thing I am fearful of. I know it’s not fair, but that’s how the Universe seems to operate. I do not want to be fearful. I do not want to feel intimidated. I want to feel safe and protected while I am in alignment with the highest good for all. So this will be my new practice. I will notice what is happening around me (that’s common sense), and while I am doing that, I will also be focusing with equal measure on what is going on within me, consciously letting go of fear as I visualize the Emerald Alignment.

My friends at Rainbow Light Foundation are familiar with methods for psychic protection, and will be updating us with more information soon. I look forward to sharing their links with you.

Meanwhile, let me leave you with the words of the founder, Carol Lamb:

Please know that for every individual who stands in Brooklyn, on Wall Street, or in any other city to raise their voice, there are hundreds, thousands worldwide, unseen, who are standing with them in their light bodies, including us! It is this physical and subtle energy which weaves together to create a force-field of light. No opposing energy can stand against a collective energy of peace.  This is how Martin Luther King achieved his objective of course—Heaven was on his side!