It’s very simple: energy in the world belongs to no one. It flows through everyone equally. Yet sometimes we like to claim energies as our own.
And that’s the root of the problem. That’s what the enthusiasts of so-called “energy theft” count on.
Once someone persuades you that your energy has been stolen, you really do start experiencing neurotic reactions!
How about doing without energy thieves and neuroses? Someone wants to steal your happiness, health or luck? Take it, by all means!
What does that look like in practice? Don’t hesitate to share your energy with the world and those around you! The more energy you give away, the more you will ultimately receive! Think of a water pipe: the wider its diameter, the more water passes through it. But does the pipe own the water?
Neurosis, on the other hand, means fixing your attention on what has been taken from you. Give it away. Give even what belongs to the past to everyone who has hurt you. Let them have it.
Yet it won’t bring them happiness. They’ll drown in the neurosis of possession.
I once did a great deal of work with demons before I realised that you don’t need to hold them back; you need to channel these energies skilfully. Hoarding energy may work over a short distance, but in the long run it brings problems.
The Buddhist approach to energy is the most sensible one. Even Jesus speaks of this kind of non-accumulation.
Of course, there is no need to go to extremes. You don’t have to give away your possessions and so on. Psychic laws are not the same as physical laws. The greatest mistake is to assume they are equivalent.
So share your psychic energies, your happiness, the riches of your soul.
Another approach is gratitude. Gratitude is a way of acknowledging that the energy does not belong to you; you have merely made use of it. That is why this method, too, is equivalent to sharing with everyone.
The story of feeding the hungry with fish has precisely this metaphorical meaning. Fish and bread are symbols of Christ, symbols of the spiritual. And the story shows that you cannot run out of energy: it will continue to flow for as long as there are people in need.