Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
Psychic work cannot be performed if there is food in the stomach; the best results are always obtained when fasting. The bowels should be kept freely open while facing a psychic attack, because there is nothing that puts one at so great a disadvantage as the accumulation of effete matter within the body.
One of the most effective, and also one of the most widely practised methods of occult defense is to refuse to react to an attack, neither accepting nor neutralising the forces projected against one, and thus turning them back on their sender.
When involved in an argument or defending against a slanderous attack, you can’t convince those who have chosen to ignore, and you have no need to fight for those who already see the situation for what it is. Thus, all your arguing, defending, etc… are only for the benefit of those who have yet to choose, who are open to the truth, and who may benefit from learning. If there are none of these (as time goes on, there will be less and less of them as the facts become more than obvious), then there is no point wasting your energy defending yourself. Therefore, know what you’re fighting for, and it’s nothing worth fighting for, then don’t fight.
With a mirror technique you just need to imagine a mirror between you and the person who is acting aggressive or sends negative energy your way. The mirror should be facing the aggressor. The attacker would have to deal with all the negative energy he or she is producing. In other words when you activate “a mirror” psychic self defense technique around a person who is very aggressive, you are showing this person how he or she looks when in an aggressive state, and that is often not a really pretty picture. Since people in general striving to be good (some just do it or show it in a very strange way) after they see the true self in the angry state they would want to calm down and change something about themselves, or they might just get really scared from what they see and would get a desire to run away. This technique just shows people the true face of the negative energy or aggression they produce. When you use this method of psychic defense on a person, you are just showing this person’s subconscious mind – you should treat others the way you want treated.
The cross is a very simple psychic defense technique to use; all you have to do is once again use your creative visualization skills and imagination. You can use this as a psychic shield when someone is acting really aggressive towards you or you feel that the safety of your energy is at risk. This method of psychic defense is more powerful then the "mirror" technique. The figure of a cross symbolizes the energy flow in human body – we all have a vertical and a horizontal energy streams. Thus, the visualization of a cross (or thoughtform of a cross) straitens those streams and if a person still wants to go against the stream by being aggressive and sending "negative energy" then he or she will get tired really fast, feel sleepy or even pass out (depending on how powerful his negative energy is). The main thing to realize is that you are not harming another person in any way when you are using this method of psychic self defense. All that you are doing is showing person’s subconscious mind how energy streams should be flowing and if the person still persists and fights the natural way of things, then he or she just gets the recoil from own incorrect actions.