Mantra to Protect Your Energy

Christian Stone | Standing Stones Healing

As a Reiki practitioner I have my own way of asking for protection before starting a session. The need for energetic protection came up during a session with a client. Do you have a short invocation or prayer I can share with my client? She's looking for something concrete that she can read and use for protection in her daily life. Thank you so much.

Thanks for this great question. The best forms of energetic protection are personal and individual. This is because our need or desire for protection is personal. Some feel a need for protection and others don't, whether we're Reiki practitioners or clients.  So when I have clients or students looking for a tool to use, I encourage them to find what aligns with and feels right to them. 

When it comes to a prayer or mantra, I encourage the client to create their own prayer based on what resonates with them. For instance, anytime I feel the need for protection, I call on Archangel Michael. He is always available to all of us, but depending on an individual's belief system, they may prefer something or someone else...like Durga, the Hindu goddess of protection, for instance. 

Sure, I can give you a protection mantra, like "Michael, please be with me and protect me." or "I shield myself in blue protective light" or "Om Dum Durgayei Namaha," but these might not have any personal meaning to you.

When I've had clients bring this up to me, I've walked them through determining what protection feels like to them, how they feel protected, and what helps them to feel protected. I have done this through a series of questions to help them reflect on their own answers to these kinds of questions to create their own protection ritual or mantra.

You can ask questions like...
1. What does protection feel like to you?
2. How do you feel protected?
3. When do you feel protected?
4. What does feeling protected look or feel like to you?
5. What helps you feel protected?

One client recalled a time when she felt protected as a child when she would put a protective "wall" between her and her teasing sibling with the the phrase "The wall is up." It was an invisible wall, of course, but she felt empowered and protected by it. So that client would use the phrase "The wall is up." anytime she felt the need for protection. I should note that this was outside of our sessions because the client wasn't feeling unprotected during sessions, but rather just being out and about in the world.

As far as protection during a session, it isn't something I personally worry about or ever discuss with my clients. Check out this video for why I feel this way and more on protection. It deals with card reading, but it applies to Reiki sessions and is really all about protecting ourselves from negative energy in any sense. Here's a video about dealing with negative energy in a Reiki session. Let me know if you have questions, but the most empowering devices are the ones we create personally for ourselves. Sending blessings to the protection!