Prayers and Grounding Yourself
Prayers
I recommend finding a metaphysical store, and purchasing some white sage. You can also use sea salt in all door thresholds and window sills. When you need to cleanse the home, burn this as you go into each room, saying whatever prayer you wish to use. I've left the front or back door open so when I drive the annoying energy out of the other rooms it can leave through the door. I would also bless the doors and everyone in the house by swirling the sage around the person's body. Don't forget to have someone do this for you as well so the spirit doesn't go home with you, if you're not at home. Many believe that wearing or carrying amethyst also aides in protection. Burning sandalwood incense is also protective and helps ward off lower-level entities.
Another way to protect yourself, whether you're religious or not, is to imagine the Creator's pure white light coming from above. Imagine this light empowering you, covering you, protecting you. Now imagine this white light has turned into a bubble around you - feel its warmth, its protection, feel its love. Nothing negative will penetrate this bubble.
Grounding Yourself
Grounding yourself is also recommended if you're dabbling into anything spiritual, especially when you're going to use divinity tools such as the pendulum, Ouija Boards, and Tarot cards.
Some simple ways to ground yourself are:
Sitting quietly, you will imagine a white extension cord coming from the base of your spine. Imagine this cord slowly reaching towards Mother Earth. Take a deep breath. The cord goes into Mother Earth and starts to expand roots. Take a deep breath. As the cord spreads, you're beginning to feel connected to the earth. The cord runs deep within the earth, spreading roots throughout the earth within. Deep Breath. Your roots run far and deep, you are now grounded with Mother Earth. You'll sit this way, feeling connected, for about five minutes.
Other ways to ground are:
Eating meat or chocolate, or holding a piece of hematite or black obsidian for a few minutes prior to using the tools, as they are from Mother Earth and hold protective grounding properties.
I also feel grounding ourselves after using these divinity tools helps us regain our momentum and clarity. Also, burning sage and running the smoke around the room, as well as around your body, will help ward off any negative energies that you may have acquired during the use of the tools.
A Simple Prayer I Created for Cleansing and Smudging Self and Home:
Smudging is a way to cleanse yourself, home, your areas. Most entities don't like the smell and it sends them away. Depending on your intent, (intent is the strongest power within ourselves) whether you wish to cleanse your self, home, or draw in your spirit guardians for meditation, spiritual work, or what have you, sage is a universal herb that works on many levels.
Say the prayer in every room as you burn your sage from room to room. Before you leave each room you can sprinkle some sea salt in window sills, closet doorways, and the doorway to each room to add power to your intention. You may also write your own prayers to give it your own personal intent. If saying "Amen" doesn't suit you, a "Thank You" at the end of each prayer and room is acceptable.
This is a non secular Prayer:
I burn this sage in honor of the Creator, MY spirit guides and Teachers, the Great Warriors and Chiefs who protect this land, and my Ancestors before me. I burn this sage and ask for divine intervention and protection of the Creator's White Light and
Love. I ask to be covered in the White Light to give me the strength to do my will and send all energies to the Creator's Light from this space. By MY power of light and goodness, BE GONE!
Some Christian Prayers:
The religion that these prayers are apart of is the Catholic Religion.
These are some simple Christian Protection Prayers we've collected:
Prayer to my Guardian Angel
Angel of God
My Guardian dear,
To whom His love
Commits me here,
Ever this night
be at my side,
To light and guard
to rule and guide.
Amen
The Lord's Prayer
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name,
Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
Lead us not into temptation and deliver us from evil,
for Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever.
Amen
Prayer to St. Michael
St. Michael the Archangel is the Angel that defeated Lucifer and cast him from heaven. Prayers to invoke the protection of St. Michael the Archangel are thought to be particularly protective.
Glorious St. Michael, Prince of the heavenly hosts, who standest always ready to give assistance to the people of God; who didst fight with the dragon, the old serpent, and didst cast him out of heaven, and now valiantly defendest the Church of God that the gates of hell may never prevail against her, I earnestly entreat thee to assist me also, in the painful and dangerous conflict which I have to sustain against the same formidable foe. Be with me, O mighty Prince! that I may courageously fight and wholly vanquish that proud spirit, whom thou hast by the Divine Power, so gloriously overthrown, and whom our powerful King, Jesus Christ, has, in our nature, so completely overcome; to the end that having triumphed over the enemy of my salvation, I may with thee and the holy angels, praise the clemency of God who, having refused mercy to the rebellious angels after their fall, has granted repentance and forgiveness to fallen man.
Amen
The Great Surround
I surround myself with the Holy, Divine White Christ-Light
of the Great Light Brotherhood
and ask that none shall manifest unto me
except that of the Highest,
the Truest,
and the Best.
In the Name of Our Creator.
Amen
Unnamed
Beloved I AM Presence,
intensify your protective Pillar of pure substance of light in, through, and around me;
charged with Your invincible protection,
all powerful and impenetrable,
which keeps me absolutely insulated to everything not of the light,
and keep it sustained.
Make me ever sensitive to You and Your direction,
and immune to all imperfect vibratory rates.
Another Unnamed Protection Prayer
Light of Creation
Light that I Am
I give thanks for all that I have and all that I Am
We invoke the Power of the Violet Flame, burning through
up, and around our bodies, transmuting any energies out
of alignment with our "I Am" presence.
Here are a few Wiccan Prayers:
The Lady's Prayer
Our Mother,
Who art amongst us,
Hallowed is Thy presence.
Our realm is here,
We sense Thee near,
On Earth,
which is our living Heaven.
Teach us this day to bake our bread,
And accept us in our human-ness
As we accept each other,
in spite of our limitations.
Lead us not into domination,
But empower us to freedom.
For ours is this Air,
This Fire,
This Water,
This Earth,
Forever and Ever.
Blessed Be.
-- Variation on the Lord's Prayer by Mark Christian and Janie Young
I call upon thee
Goddess of the Moon
For your protection and help
Today, tonight and forever more.
I place myself in your protection
And hope for all to be right
To forever follow the white way
The one you hold with all your might
Guide me now to protect myself
And help all those in need
Keep me safe and warm
Until in death I sleep.