ENTER THE SACRED BACKYARD
SACRED SOUL FAMILY
Dodee Schmitt
Dodee is a Certified Holistic Health Practitioner, certified in Dr. Klinghardt's Autonomic Response Testing, and is an educator of the Living Biofield as an integral part of health, with nearly two decades of experience in detox strategies, holistic healing, and long-standing chronic illness. Dodhisattva.com, est. 2009
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Learning how to protect your energy becomes non-negotiable the moment you realize you are an energy being moving through a world full of competing frequencies, distractions, and people living out patterns that are not yours to carry.
There are days when you walk out into the world feeling clear, grounded, and genuinely yourself.
And there are days when you come home depleted, drained, or carrying a heaviness that does not quite belong to you.
If you have ever wondered why that happens, this article is for you.
We all dip in our vibration. We all have moments of being less than our highest selves, repeating old patterns, days when we are triggered, contracted, or taking on outside energy.
The difference is awareness. Some of us are waking up to the fact that we are energy beings first, and that our field requires the same kind of care and hygiene we give our physical body.
Others are still asleep in the matrix, running programs, creating more karma, throwing arrows they do not even know they are throwing.
Neither is wrong. It is just where people are.
But if you are reading this, you are probably awake enough to know that you need tools. Real ones. Ones that work.
You Are an Energy Being First & the Science Agrees
I want to say this clearly because it still gets dismissed as woo-woo: the human biofield is real, measurable, and scientifically documented.
This is not a fringe belief. It is physics.
The HeartMath Institute has published extensive research showing that the heart generates an electromagnetic field that extends several feet beyond the physical body and can be detected and measured.
The National Institutes of Health has funded biofield research through its National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health.
Researcher Beverly Rubik, whose work has been published in peer reviewed journals, has spent decades documenting the biofield as a complex, dynamic, self-organizing energy field that surrounds and interpenetrates the physical body.
I have been trained in two systems that work directly with this field.
The first is Quantum Reflex Analysis, which I studied with Dr. Bob Marshall in Santa Monica, California.
The second is Autonomic Response Testing, which I learned through Dr. Klinghardt’s training.
Both systems are based on the same foundational truth: the body does not lie, and neither does the energy field.
When you know how to read it, the field tells you everything.
This is not intuition as some vague feeling. It is a trainable, readable, measurable system of intelligence that most of us were never taught to work with.
The biofield is real — what the science shows
- The heart generates an electromagnetic field measurable several feet beyond the physical body (HeartMath Institute)
- The NIH has funded biofield research through its National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health
- Researcher Beverly Rubik has documented the biofield as a complex self-organizing energy system in peer reviewed publications
- Quantum Reflex Analysis and Autonomic Response Testing both work directly with this field as a readable, trainable intelligence
- The body does not lie and neither does the energy field
Why Protection Is Not Optional
Here is the reality of being an energy being living in a modern world.
We are constantly in proximity to other fields.
Other people’s stress, unresolved trauma, unconscious anger, and karmic patterns do not stay neatly contained inside their bodies.
They radiate outward. And if your field is open, unguarded, or already depleted, you absorb what is around you.
This is not the other person’s fault necessarily. Most people are not consciously throwing arrows. They are simply living out their karma, running old programs, processing unresolved pain.
But an open, sensitive field picks it up regardless of intent.
Those of us who are more awake to energy, more tuned in, more naturally empathic, often feel this most acutely.
A difficult conversation at work. A stranger in a grocery store line who is seething with suppressed rage. A family member stuck in a toxic loop that you become apart of.
A social media scroll through collective anxiety and outrage. All of it lands somewhere in your field if you are not protected.
And again, we are not always vibrating high. Some days our own field is depleted, our own frequency is lower, and on those days we are even more susceptible.
We must take full responsibility for own own psycho spiritula self development and our part in any situation.
The protection practice is not reserved for your best days. It is most needed on the hard ones.
Soul Contracts and Karmic Loops
 One piece that almost never gets discussed in conversations about energy protection is the role of soul contracts.
If you find yourself in a repeating dynamic with a specific person, the same argument, the same wound, the same pattern cycling again and again, it is worth asking whether you have a soul contract with that person.
In many spiritual traditions, souls agree before incarnation to play certain roles for each other, to trigger specific lessons, to mirror back what needs to be healed.
The difficult person in your life may be fulfilling a role you agreed to at a level beyond your conscious awareness.
This does not mean what they are doing is acceptable. It does not mean you have to stay in the dynamic. But it does mean that if you only focus on what they are doing wrong, you will miss your own part in the loop. And the loop will continue, with them or with someone else who shows up to play the same role, until you learn what it came to teach you.
The first step is to stop playing victim. Not because you were not hurt, you may have been genuinely hurt, but because the victim position keeps you powerless.
It makes the other person the author of your experience. And they are not. You are.
Own your part. See the contract. Then clear it.
You can honor your highest timeline instead of the current one you are on.Â
See my guided meditation on invoking your highest timeline here.
You might enjoy my article on cutting cords here.
Soul contracts and karmic loops: what to know
- A repeating dynamic with a specific person is often a soul contract, a pre-incarnation agreement to trigger specific lessons
- Playing victim keeps you powerless and the loop running
- Owning your part in the dynamic is not self-blame, it is sovereignty
- The contract will replay with someone else until the lesson is received
- You can clear the contract without resentment and without the other person's participation
How To Protect Your Energy: The Contract Clearing Ceremony
This is a practice you can do in nature, and I encourage you to do it there if at all possible. There is something about the earth, the trees, the open sky, that receives what you are releasing and helps to metabolize it.
Find a quiet place outside. You can sit or stand. Take a few slow breaths and feel your feet on the ground.
Step one: Name the contract. Call the person to mind. Say their name silently or aloud. Acknowledge that there has been a pattern between you, a loop that has been running. You do not need to understand all of its layers. Simply acknowledge that it exists.
Step two: Own your part. Without blaming yourself, simply acknowledge that you have been participating. That some part of you agreed to this dynamic, at whatever level that agreement was made. This is not self-punishment. It is sovereignty.
Step three: Declare the contract complete. You can say something like: This contract between us has served its purpose. I have received what I came to learn from this. I release this agreement now with love and without resentment. We are both free.
Step four: Invoke your highest timeline. After releasing, there is a vacuum. Fill it intentionally. Ask to be aligned with your highest timeline, your highest expression, the version of your life that reflects your true self. Feel that as a real possibility, not just a wish.
Step five: Return to your body. Take a breath. Feel your feet. Look around you. You are here, in this body, in this life, and you just changed something.
You may need to do this more than once for a significant contract. That is normal. Each time you do it, something shifts.
Contract clearing: the steps
- Name the contract and acknowledge the pattern between you
- Own your part without self-punishment
- Declare the contract complete with love and without resentment
- Invoke your highest timeline to fill the space left behind
- Return to your body, feel your feet, look around you
- Repeat as needed — each time something shifts
The Bubble of Protection: What My Shaman Elder Taught Me
In 2011, I spent time as an apprentice with Maggie Wahls, a Shaman Elder based in the Ozark Mountains.
I was on her land, learning, sleeping outdoors, open to whatever wanted to come through.
One night in my tent out on the land, I heard music. A band playing, clear and close. When I woke up the next morning, I mentioned it to the group, expecting someone to tell me about the neighbors.
Maggie said, “We have no neighbors.”
What I had heard was coming from another realm. The doorway was open, and I could perceive it.
That experience was the beginning of understanding, in a very real and visceral way, that we exist in a much larger field of energy and information than the five senses reveal.
And it was Maggie who first taught me the bubble of protection. Not as a mental concept but as a felt practice.
You actually feel the difference between being open and being enclosed in your field.
You can learn to sense when the bubble is intact and when it has been punctured.
This is a skill. It develops with practice. And it is one of the most practical things I know.
The Purple Cloak of Saint Germain and the Violet Flame
My current spiritual teacher has placed me within the Saint Germain family and my particular octave of expression.
Part of what that means in practice is working with the purple cloak of protection that Saint Germain is depicted wearing and with the Violet Flame that he is the keeper of.
The Violet Flame operates at the highest frequency of the visible light spectrum, right at the border of ultraviolet.
Sometimes you will be called to invoke a different color. Honor it, and this is why I chose a technicolor cloak as the featured image.
In the Ascended Master teachings it is understood as a transmuting fire, one that does not just cleanse but actually transforms the vibrational quality of what it touches, dense energy, karmic residue, emotional pattern, and cellular memory, into something lighter and more refined.
Carlos Castaneda described the same territory from a different tradition, calling it the glowing coat of awareness.
For the warrior in his teachings, the luminous energy body is not metaphor. It is the actual vehicle of perception. It can be cultivated, strengthened, and protected. A warrior tends their field the way a craftsman tends their tools.
My favorite quote of his that I refer to time and time again is: “Discipline Makes the Glowing Coat of Awareness Unpalatable to the Predator.”
When I put on the purple cloak, I feel a shift. That is the practice. It is not just an affirmation. It is a felt sense change in the quality of your field.
Learning to notice that shift, to recognize when the protection is active and when it has slipped, is the skill.
The Violet Flame Prayer
Say this any time you leave your house or feel your field needs protection
This prayer comes from the Ascended Master teachings of Saint Germain, keeper of the Violet Flame. The I AM declarations are not merely affirmations — they invoke the full presence of your higher self and anchor it into the body. Say each line slowly, feel it as real, and notice the shift in your field as you speak.
I am the Violet Flame, in action in me now.
This is an embodiment declaration. The flame is not outside you waiting to be called in — it is operating within the physical form right now. You are not asking for protection. You are claiming it as already present and active.
I am the Violet Flame, to light alone I bow.
A declaration of sovereignty. Nothing of lower frequency, no fear, no other person's chaos, no collective anxiety, has authority over this field. You bow only to the light of your own highest self.
I am the Violet Flame in mighty cosmic power.
This line connects the personal to the universal current. You are not drawing on a small personal reserve. You are aligning with a cosmic frequency that moves through you, not from you alone.
I am the Light of God shining every hour.
Continuity. This is not a protection that switches on in meditation and off in daily life. It is a constant state, available every hour, in every situation, not just the sacred or quiet ones.
I am the Violet Flame blazing like the sun.
Radiance outward. Not just a shield but an active transmission. The sun does not protect itself by contracting. It protects by shining so fully that nothing of lower frequency can dim it.
I am God's sacred power freeing everyone.
This last line may feel like a big claim and that is worth sitting with. The intention is not superiority. It is the understanding that when one person holds and radiates a high frequency field, it genuinely affects the space around them. You do not free others by fixing them. You free them by refusing to match their frequency and offering a higher one instead. Your presence, when your field is clear and protected, is itself a gift to everyone in your orbit.
How to use this prayer: Before you leave your home, say each line slowly and with intention. As you speak, visualize a violet or deep purple light surrounding your entire body and energy field. Feel for the moment the protection activates — there is a subtle but real shift in the quality of your field when it does. Learn to recognize that felt sense so you can call it forward silently in any moment, in any situation, without anyone around you knowing.
About Saint Germain and the purple cloak
Saint Germain is traditionally depicted wearing a deep violet or purple cloak, which represents the deliberately cultivated auric field of a master — a field that is coherent, intact, and sovereign in the presence of lower frequencies. His cloak is not passive protection. It is active sovereignty. When you invoke the Violet Flame and feel the shift, you are stepping into that same cultivated state for yourself.
Embodied Protection in the Moment
Not every protection practice happens in ceremony.
Sometimes you are standing next to someone who throws a verbal arrow at you because of their own karma.
Sometimes you are in a meeting with a person who consistently leaves you feeling drained.
You cannot always close your eyes and pray. You need in-the-moment tools.
Turn slightly sideways. This is subtle enough that no one notices but it works.
When your body faces someone directly, your chakras are in full frontal alignment with their field.
Turning your body at a slight angle changes that exposure significantly.
You are still present and engaged but your energy centers are no longer in direct open contact with theirs.
Raise your palm internally. If you can do it physically without it being obvious, a raised palm toward someone is a classic energetic boundary gesture.
But often you cannot, and that is fine. You can do this internally, visualizing your hand rising palm-out as an energetic boundary, and it works.
Use the cloak. In any moment, in any situation, you can silently invoke your protection. The purple cloak, the bubble, the violet flame, whichever practice resonates for you. You do not need to close your eyes or step away. You simply make the internal call and feel the shift.
Move your body. If you can physically put distance between yourself and someone whose energy is affecting you, do it. Change seats. Step outside for a moment.
Create a few extra feet of physical space. Energy dissipates with distance.
Speak from sovereignty not defense. When you do need to address a boundary verbally, keep it about you not them. Always ask permission to connect about something.
For example…Not “you always do this” but “I will not be treated this way.” Not anger at what they are doing but clarity about what you will allow.
There is a world of difference in the energy of those two positions, and the second one does not invite a fight.
You Are Always Working on Yourself
I want to come back to where we started because it matters.
We are all in this. There is no one who has perfectly protected their field at all times, who never dips in frequency, who never plays a role in a dynamic they would rather not be in.
Awakening is not a destination. It is a continuous practice of noticing, adjusting, clearing, and returning to yourself. This is the work of the masters.
The people who seem to be vibrating lower are not your enemies. Some are simply asleep. Some are working through things you cannot see. Some are carrying burdens they created for themselves.
Compassion for them does not mean keeping your field open to them. You can hold both: care for another being and a clear boundary around your own energy.
The protection practice is not about keeping the world out. It is about staying in your own field so you can actually show up as yourself in the world.
Put the coat on. Feel the shift. Go out protected.
This article is for educational and spiritual exploration purposes only.
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