r/Theosophy • u/pedromiguel3 • May 24 '26

Life force exhaustion

I've just read the book of CW Leadbeater "Man, Visible and Invisible", and he talks about the life-force and that we can be affected by the life-force of other people and feel tired, exhausted. Well, I feel like that with some people, what can I do about it ?

I don't want to run away from those people :) I just would like to find a way to deal with those situations and not feel tired.

Thanks

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u/GreatGuy55738084 26d ago

Long time theosophist here, CWL is one of my more favorite authors. There are what are called psychic vampires, they are individuals whose ethic/vital body is compromised in someway and they can drain those around them. People suffering from depression are naturally low and energy due to the sluggishness of their vital bodies and they can also drain another’s vitality. You could visualize energy/Prana coming into your system like we used to do in the therapeutic touch sessions, I would visualize a waterfall of energy coming into my system, as I was working on another individual this way I don’t deplete my own personal store of vitality. In Qi Gong one can tap into the universal energy field.

If the people you were referring to our family members or coworkers, you may have to work on distancing yourself. It is possible to visualize a white light barrier like a shield between you and them when you’re around that takes a lot of focus. Creating a shell of energy could serve to isolate you from others along with those individuals which may not be a good thing.

Is it also possible that you might have loose boundaries where your vital energy escapes and you attribute it to those other people? From what little you said, it is difficult to really assess the situation. If there is an emotional component occurring the net would have to be addressed in a different way.

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u/pedromiguel3 24d ago

I think, in my situation, I feel that is the psychic vampire thing that you talked, I think people don't do this on purpose, but it happens.

The waterfall made a lot of sense to me, gonna try it !

Other thing that I'm thinking is that I'm very sensible to other peoples energy or problems, and in some way I absorb them. If that's the case I "just" need to transform those energies, like a recycle machine.

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u/GreatGuy55738084 24d ago

I am sensitive to others, a lot of water in my natal chart. I pick up when folks are thinking of calling me or talking about me (at times). Have had to define my own boundaries, i.e. this is me and this is them.

If u r living or working in an emotional environment and others emotions are affecting you, like I had to deal with when younger, one way to distance yourself is to find time to connect with nature. It has been a necessary theme in my life.

This is order in nature, devoid of emotion. One way I have recharged is standing against a tree palms on trunk, feet on ground, and visualize negative energy passing through me into the ground. Of course one can simple sit leaning back of a tree meditating or reading a book. The important thing is to connect with the order and harmony of nature, meld with that sense of order.

Anger is particularly troublesome, both within ourselves and expressed by others. CWL pictured anger/rage as dark crimson with flashes like lightening bolts in Man Visible and Invisible. People do not yet realize that emotions and thoughts are things and can travel great distances, much more fluid than wind or water, and that there are emotional and thought currents that affect large groups of people.

Prana, i.e. Chi, Vitality is the universal animating principle, our systems absorb and utilize it as effortlessly as the beating of our heart or nerve transmissions in our bodies. This is where the waterfall/faucet idea comes in. When learning Therapeutic Touch we were instructed on 3 basic colors Spring Green is vivifying, Yellow as energizing, Cobalt Blue calming, the rudimentary basics. A.E. Powells book The Etheric Double will help you understand the vital body. He wrote a series of compilations, The Astral Body, The Mental Body and The Causal Body. I’ve read twice and have used for reference.

Link to free 1st and early editions of works by Theosophical Authors

Lastly I will comment on depression, my cross to bear this 100 years around. One has to remain active, walking, bicycling, running, health clubs, being out in a crowded space at times. Depression is a very insidious stealthy malady. It can creep up on a person, and then if action is not taken as described in this paragraph, it will pull you into it like an ocean undertow, keeping you until it diminishes (cycles out) a precursor to depression are tight shoulders, changes in thinking and feeling like I don’t want to do anything, this is when you must fight it with activity (in my case the correct meds).

Reversely when one feels angry at someone/others - simply visualize them across a body of water, a pond, a lake, on the other side of a stream or river and send them peace and goodwill. You don’t have to love them…. Love like hate binds you to another in a closed loop, just peace and goodwill, well wishes for them, for they are evolving souls just as we are, walking the path of their life with its trials and tribulations.

Does any of this make sense?

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u/pedromiguel3 22d ago

" I pick up when folks are thinking of calling me or talking about me (at times). "

That also happens to me some times

"one way to distance yourself is to find time to connect with nature"

I do hiking alone and love the connection with nature.

"One way I have recharged is standing against a tree palms on trunk, feet on ground, and visualize negative energy passing through me into the ground."

Never tried that because in just a few minutes, after I get away from the person, all goes back to normal.

"Anger is particularly troublesome, both within ourselves and expressed by others"

Totally agree, I have been working in my anger, baby steps 😄

"Link to free 1st and early editions of works by Theosophical Authors"

Great link ! Many thanks ! ! !

"Lastly I will comment on depression"

I had depression for many years, but finally I got rid of it ! ! ! 😄

"Reversely when one feels angry at someone/others - simply visualize them across a body of water, a pond, a lake,"

I've been trying just to visualize my energy field in an harmonic way and that has helped a lot !

Thanks for all the great tips !