Psychic Vampires?

Being a big fan of the paranormal field I recently got into iTunes just to listen to weekly podcasts of various paranormal groups out there. Of course, my favorite is "Beyond Reality Radio" with Jason and Grant from TAPS. Last night before going to bed I listened to the first hour and 20 mins of the 2 hour program and although I have heard of this phenomenon I just had a hard time understanding it fully.

I don't know about this one hundred percent but I have experienced this in stores and felt it more profoundly in public places with a great number of people. And at home with my spouse I get this. A psychic vampire is not as horrific as it sounds, and it is even seems very similar to the phenomenon known as being empathic, and on the same lines as what a reiki healer has to deal with when taking on other's energy (negative, pain, ect...).

Perhaps a great deal of what we manage in our daily life can be sucking the life right out of us...making us sicker and sicker because we are not grounding the negative energies and instead keeping them bottled up inside! People in this world may be psychic vampires and not even know it. They are the people that you are around and feel incredibly uneasy around, or you will feel drained, and even end up ill (physically and/or mentally).

Whenever, I go to a store I have to be sure to eat afterwards because it just tends to zap me of so much energy that I have to refuel with food or I am like a cranky, over tired, hungry child. I've always felt like something was preying on me in the stores..not all the time but a great number of times. After listening to Michelle Belanger speak about psychic vampires it just helped me to understand some of the energies that suck the life out of me.

I now believe that my husband is a psychic vampire and I am almost 100% positive about it after listening to the show. I can be feeling fine all day but when he comes home I start to feel tension and sickness as if he brought a demon home with him. He doesn't do this to me every single day, but it is 4 out of 5 work days that he comes home and I feel like total crap when he gets through the door. Also he is a sexual vacuum cleaner. He craves it more than the average male, and gets highly irritable when he doesn't get that kind of energy and closeness from me. After sex I am fully drained and fall right to sleep (even if I play opossum). Not him, he is wired and has a hard time sleeping. So the program kind of steers me to this ideal.

What can I do about the way he sucks the life out of me? I have to ground my energy and as soon as he gets home I need to be blocking his talons. I am not sure how to do this without making my husband's attitude worse when he gets home. He never comes home in a good mood he comes home irritable and just overwhelmed. If he calls home I feel as though he has taken some of me down a notch. When I have to call him for something it seems that he also takes me down. It almost feels like codependency in nature. When he has other projects to take care of he obsesses over them and it pulls more of my energy out to compensate for his lack of sleep. It is really annoying. The ways that I have dealt with it has been through the use of meditation and self hypnosis to reground my attitude and energy. It is like I get it back. However, I have also had the experience where I give out my energy to the universe and am so relaxed and drained that sleep is what helps to reground that life loss. When I am in deep prayer it is as if I am willing my health or complete sympathy/empathy to another person and taking theirs on. I need to learn how to ground their illness and problem I take on so that it doesn't make me sick too.

The other side to the coin is that with my illness I can affect other people around me as well. So I am also a psychic vampire when I am in depression or in severe mania. I am sure I rob the energy out of everyone around me when I get into those severe highs and lows.

If you want to hear a good program about psychic vampires go to the MySpace site for "Beyond Reality Radio" Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson just interviewed a woman Michelle Belanger. It is in the archive but it is the last radio broadcast from 5-24-08 labeled Robb Demerest and Michelle Belanger.

It is about 40 minutes into the radio show when Michelle speaks.

http://www.myspace.com/beyondrealityradio

If you have iTunes account you can get a free subscription to Beyond Reality Radio and it is a weekly podcast. Then you can go to the 40 minute mark to start listening to her segment instead of listening to the first 40 minutes with Robb Demerest who heads up the Ghost Hunters International program. On iTtunes it is dated 5-25 program. It should download as soon as you subscribe.

Also Michelle has a website and has written many books on vampires. I assume they are all on psychic vampires, but not sure if she has some other vampire stories since she mentioned blood drinkers (Ewwww...):

http://www.michellebelanger.com/