Hoodoo Cleansing and Protection Magic: Banish Negative Energy and Ward Off Unpleasant People

By Miss Aida and Judika Illes

Magical tips and techniques for keeping negative people and harmful forces at bay so you can take control of your destiny and live your best life.

Does your house feel a little wonky? Is someone giving you the evil eye? Are you just having a run of bad luck or have you been cursed? Miss Aida answers all these questions and more.

In Hoodoo Cleansing and Protection Magic, Miss Aida offers sound, practical advice for all sorts of dicey situations, large and small. The book is filled with rituals, spells, and Miss Aida’s own personal magical formulas for removing negative energies, breaking malevolent spells, and banishing harmful people so that you can take control and live your best life.

A seasoned magical practitioner from an eclectic background, Miss Aida shares her own psychic and spiritual experiences in order to help you cleanse and protect your space, aura, and loved ones. Within these pages, you will learn how to:

• Avoid and protect yourself from negative entities
• Understand unpleasant, negative, and predatory people and take action against them
• Break a cycle of bad luck
• Distinguish reputable ghost hunters from frauds and amateurs
• Recognize bewitched or possessed objects and remove their effects

• Language: English
• Publisher: Red Wheel Weiser
• Release date: Aug 1, 2020
• ISBN: 9781633411715

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INTRODUCTION

Everything in this world has a balance of both positive and negative influences. But often when we encounter negative energies, negative behaviors in others, or negative forces, it leads to a downward spiral of one negative event following another.

Take, for example, the proverbial run of bad luck that most of us have encountered. It begins with something not going the way we expected. Following the initial unpleasant results, a trickle-down effect has everything else going wrong as well. Unless we have a normally happy life to return to with people or events that bring pleasure to break out of all the negativity hanging around, we will continue on a downward slope in which absolutely nothing goes as planned. We can get immersed in negativity, which, in turn, attracts more of the same.

What about arguments? Often when we argue with one person, it will then seem as if everybody wants to take a jab at us too. We may find ourselves thinking, What is wrong with everybody? The reality is that there's something wrong with us because we are the ones who have gotten immersed in an invisible flood of aggressive negativity. With all these unfavorable vibrations collecting around us, others will see us as the source of the threat and their instinctive response may be to fight as a form of protection. The end result is that even more aggressive negativity soon surrounds us.

Negative forces can affect us in many ways ranging from mild potencies, such as feeling drained or having a run of bad luck, to severe spiritual attacks. Throughout my life, friends, clients, and even strangers have approached me to ask for help when something just didn't feel right or normal. Sometimes they had general concerns regarding feeling run-down or spiritual discomfort. At other times they were concerned with sensations of a strangeness in their self-perception or spiritual well-being. There may have been an unexplainable spate of back luck or endless obstacles were cropping up in their paths causing nothing to work out for them.

Unfortunately, in the severer cases many relayed that their friends or associates suddenly treated them poorly, leaving them to suffer the stigma of an outcast. There might be inexplicable feelings of impending doom. In some instances, many suspected that they had been cursed by somebody. In the worst-case scenarios, they have had unwanted visits by unseen negative forces.

Illness, whether physical or emotional, is a noteworthy example of how negativity can and will draw in more of the same unfavorable energies and worsen an initial condition. More often than not, not understanding an existing disease and how to alleviate some of the uncomfortable symptoms produces feelings of helplessness, hopelessness, and fears of the unknown. These dynamics, in turn, produce isolation, bitterness, and/or anger.

What happens next? The consequences produce a vicious cycle of emotional distress, thus generating further physiological injuries. When the body and mind veer away from normalcy, it damages spiritual well-being. These victims are now attracting and being surrounded by more negative forces, while their significant others and/or caregivers become vulnerable and susceptible to the same because they are in the line of fire.

Negative and positive forces are equally balanced in our world. Sadly, this concept also applies to people. Good people assume that everyone possesses good qualities, and despite exhibited inappropriate behaviors, many of us desperately struggle to see the good in everybody. Conversely, the bad ones see good people as pawns or patsies and interpret their values and demeanors as a sign of weakness. These bad people are often predators, such as narcissists, sociopaths, thieves, liars, con artists, scammers, abusers, etc., who are looking for prey in hopes of stealing something of value:

The narcissists and sociopaths may wish to steal social or work status, a significant other, or family.

The abusers wish to take away the freedom, self-worth, and/or self-esteem of others.

Con artists, scammers, and thieves will strive to obtain material possessions and/or sexual gratification. These people are usually thrill seekers who lack a conscience and use people to achieve their self-serving goals.

Once such predators target their victims, they immediately, and masterfully, begin to manipulate and minimize their victims' sense of control. Little by little, they empower themselves by robbing their targets of their self-esteem, leaving the victims doubting themselves and fearful and thus forcing them to rely on the predator for a never-to-be-realized redemption or recovery. Instead, during the entire process, the victims' sense of well-being is compromised both emotionally and spiritually, making them vulnerable to further harm wherever negative forces are present.

Unwanted spiritual visitations are one of the most terrifying experiences you may have. They also produce the worst of the physiological-emotional-spiritual imbalances due to the instinctive fight-or-flight mechanism that kicks in when we are threatened. While this response tells the adrenal glands to produce extra adrenaline in order to act quickly, most people will not know how to fight off an entity and many others are unable to run away. As a result of this inability to react effectively, the adrenal glands continue to pump out adrenaline, which is a severe physiological stressor, and this negatively affects a person's interrelated health, emotional, and spiritual balance.

These are just a few examples of the most common types of negative situations that we may encounter. However, other scenarios will be discussed as they come up later in this book. Just remember that no matter what the situation might be—whether there is opposition toward our well-being delivered by people or their energies all the way to emotionally harmful spiritual encounters—it can happen to the best of us!

Without an idea of why these events are occurring and how to combat them, we lose control. If we don't move past this vulnerability, we will invite, support, and nurture subsequent occurrences. When we are continuously and helplessly stricken with undesirable stimuli, it is debilitating and thus promotes weakness and susceptibility to further harm.

However, there are always means to counterattack! Everyone and everything has their own vulnerabilities, and we will explore those weaknesses and learn to prevail over negative influences with spellwork, prayer, and adjusting our own behaviors. Additionally, we will explore ways to deter or prevent future occurrences. By examining the causes that brought forth the negative people, events, or forces, we find enough knowledge to avoid future encounters.

We will explore not only my personal experiences in conquering negative forces, but also those of my many beloved clients who have graciously consented to share their stories. I would like to begin with one of my own short stories now.

In my younger days, I thought that God must have made me a human magnet for strangers with problems. They would stop me in parking lots, in stores, at the beauty shop—you name it—to tell me all about their difficulties. These events were not only unwelcome, but also emotionally taxing. And yet, something prompted me to listen to them and offer sound spiritual and psychological advice.

One day when I returned home from an exhausting encounter with a stranger, I asked my mother, a witch: Why do people always come to me, out of the clear blue sky, and pour out their problems in search of answers? She explained to me first in Spanish that God had gifted us all with a brilliant light that surrounds each and every one of us. We can subconsciously—and sometimes consciously—see that light around others. When people are in a bad way, that light becomes dim because it's weighed down or even damaged with bad energies. When they see that others have brilliant ones, they are subconsciously attracted to them in hopes of replenishing their own.

Then, in her broken English she concluded by saying: But, you be careful because the bad ones who know about the light will try to throw their garbage on yours. Now, you go spray you-self with Agua Florida (Florida Water) before all these problems that this stranger have stick to you.

What was this sweet little ole Cuban witch talking about? She was talking about the aura and insuring that it is cared for. . . .

Have you ever seen paintings of God or saints or revered deities with a glow surrounding their heads? These depictions of light are energy fields called auras , something all matter and living beings possess. The radiance of the aura can emit different degrees of brightness or dim luminosity, as well as emanating different colors.

Auras act as shields, protecting us from outside negative influences that might affect our psychological and spiritual well-being. In many cultures and traditions, it is also believed that the aura protects our physiological status. There are thousands of depictions, especially in Eastern cultures, of radiance emitting from the chakras.

In the book How to See and Read the Aura, author Ted Andrews explains that the healthier we are, both emotionally and physically, the more vitalized our auras become, and, therefore, they will emit a stronger radiance. In other words, a healthy and happy lifestyle nourishes our auras. Unfortunately, when we are in a state of emotional or physiological dis-ease, our auras do not receive needed sustenance and become weakened and subdued.

Sometimes we can consciously see auras. This is especially true for children and those of us who are empaths or have been trained to do so. However, all of us unconsciously sense them. Numerous psychologists have told me that an abusive man can walk into a room with more than one hundred women and choose his next victim without any conversation. Although scientists call this an unexplained phenomenon, those of us in spiritual practices know that such an abuser can simply sense a suppressed or darkened aura. This explains why domestic violence victims will usually enter one abusive relationship after another if they lack the resources for professional help. It's usually because they were chosen time and again by savvy victimizers.

We have a symbiotic relationship with our auras. If we take care of our aura, our aura will take care of us! A healthy and radiant aura will easily ward off minute undesirable forces and sustain our existing conditions, but we must, in turn, keep our auras healthy to maintain the protection that they provide. Therefore, it is imperative to be familiar with stimuli that may attack or even injure our precious shield.

Everyday Nuisances that Affect Your Shield

Simple attacks on the aura consist of any stimuli that disrupt our feelings of security, comfort, well-being, and normalcy. Such events leave us feeling invaded but not harmed. Think of it in terms of just having washed and waxed your car. Feeling proud of its clean and shiny appearance, you take it out for a drive but run it through mud. Your level of comfort has been upset because the car is dirty again—what a nuisance!—but it's unharmed. Common events or everyday negativity that upset us along these lines may include, but are not limited to:

Arguments and insults: There are so many types of insults possible in our societies and they vary from verbal cues to nonverbal gestures. Everyday arguments at home, on the road, at work, etc., are attacks on the aura.

Envy: Envy is a negative emotion experienced by people who believe that they deserve what someone else has. Unfortunately, people who give in to this emotion might treat their targets with rudeness, arrogance, cruelty, and intrigue. They may even gossip about and slander those they envy. Yes, we know who they are because we can always sense their negativity—and that very negativity is also an attack on our aura.

Jealousy: This emotion must involve more than one person because it's a threat, either real or perceived, to another person's relationship. In other words, a person will view you as the threat to their existing or desired relationship. Jealousy will also trigger similar behaviors as that of envy and cause the same results to our shields.

Entitlement: Unfortunately, we can encounter people who are just plain mean, rude, and nasty; they have superiority complexes. They also lack respect and consideration for others, their boundaries, their hardships, and their need for self-preservation. Their presence causes extreme discomfort because they disrupt our sense of well-being.

Prejudice and scapegoating: Ignorance obviously causes prejudice, and this will lead to blaming the victim for the wrongdoing of others. Blame comes in many forms, from secretive or clandestine expressions in which the target becomes an outcast to open verbal or physical attacks. Even when nothing is said, the aura can sense the blame being casted. The evil eye, a gaze or stare accompanied by malicious thoughts, is one form of transmitting nonverbal spiritual attacks.

Mercury in Retrograde: Mercury is the planet that fosters communication. Three or four times a year, for a three-week period, it will appear to be moving in the opposite direction viewed from Earth. During retrograde, there is interference with direct or technological channels of communication. We will find that people either don't understand the verbal messages that we are conveying or we misunderstand them. Often, computers break down or there is trouble with telephone transmissions. Whatever the interruptions are, we are left in a state of frustration and irritability.

Psychic vampires: These are the people who will pour out their problems into any compassionate soul lending them an ear. Whether intentionally or unintentionally, by the time that they have completely purged, they will walk away feeling refreshed and renewed, because they have stolen our vitalities, while leaving us feeling completely drained. It is as though they have sucked the life force right out of us. They have consumed the energy from our auras, thus, the term psychic vampires.

Haven't we all fallen victim to at least a few of these incidents? The episodes usually leave us surprised, taken aback, angered, fearful, or in other states veering from normalcy. Our auras are slightly injured, and this will show up in our behaviors, our body language, and both the aura's color and degree of radiance.

When our auras are attacked, we are subconsciously aware of the fact that something is wrong. However, if we are not consciously focusing on the fact that it is indeed our shield that has been affected, the injury instead manifests as a questioning of our own feelings of security, self-esteem, and self-worth. These doubts, in turn, will make us vulnerable to further attacks from those who may intend us harm.

Additionally, we can also hurt ourselves by inviting further injuries. The adage Anything that could possibly go wrong will go wrong, called Murphy's Law, kicks in for spiritual injuries. What is happening is that we ourselves are inviting that bad luck. If we have had two or more consecutive attacks, we may believe that we are having a run of bad luck. If we truly believe it, then it is an inappropriate affirmation and it becomes an invitation for additional unfortunate incidents to occur.

Immediate cleansing of the aura after disruptive stimuli is imperative. Subsequent protection of the aura is of equal importance. It is as easy as taking a bath. What happens when we are dirty and in desperate need of a bath? Our motivation and self-esteem are slightly diminished. Our behaviors are sluggish, and our body language expresses our discomfort with poor posture. This, in turn, makes us vulnerable to the belief that our existing condition is offensive to others, and because that is our affirmation, others will treat us accordingly. After bathing, we feel refreshed, rejuvenated, and our self-esteem improves. Our body language changes to express the self-confidence we feel. Bathing eradicates the damage imposed from being dirty and prevents further harm.

Cleansing and protecting the aura will repair the injury brought on by minor attacks. A refreshed and protected aura, in turn, will provide us with the optimal spiritual immunity possible. It is our spiritual bath!

Cleaning the Aura of Minor Attacks

With so many diverse spiritual and religious practices from around the world, it would be virtually impossible to list every imaginable technique of aura cleansing in this chapter. Therefore, with the utmost respect to all the practitioners of every faith, the listed techniques are those that I have personally found to be successful for minor attacks.

Please keep in mind that whether your intention is called an affirmation, petition, command, or something else, it is important to state it aloud with both conviction and confidence. Doing so not only tells your own brain, body, Spirit Guides, and Guardian Angels what must be done, but it also aids in surrounding yourself with helpful vibrations and energies.

Florida Water

Considered a cologne by the manufacturers, Florida Water was originally introduced in the United States in the 1800s. It was named after the Fountain of Youth allegedly located in the state of Florida. This amazing cologne is also available in other continents including South America, Central America, and Asia. It has an appealing fragrance that can be worn by both men and women.

Practitioners of Hoodoo, Wicca, Santería, Voodoo, and other faiths often utilize Florida Water in ritual offerings, purification ceremonies, and

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