The Energy Bubble
How to stop absorbing everyone around you and start protecting your own space.
Something came up in a recent episode of Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown that a lot of you commented on — the Energy Bubble.
We were talking about Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria — a diagnosis of a type of emotional sensitivity behind why some people feel rejection, criticism, or disappointment as something closer to physical pain than emotional discomfort. At some point in that conversation, I mentioned a practice taught in many energy and healing courses that can create powerful and practical change. I’m going to share that technique below.
If you recognize yourself in “you’re too sensitive,” or are simply looking for ways to feel less drained or overwhelmed by the people and environments around you, this practice might be a place to start.
First, a little context.
We are energetic beings with energetic boundaries. The limits of our physical skin are not the limits of our being. The body generates fields, responds to fields, and can be consciously oriented within them.
We have the right to our own space.
Our inner world has its own integrity, beyond what others need from us. When so much of life has been spent adapting to the emotional environment around us — absorbing it, managing it, trying not to be flattened by it — the idea that we are allowed to have a field of our own, one we get to consciously protect, can feel like a revelation. The Energy Bubble practice is a way to do exactly that. To be fully present with other people without dissolving into them.
The Practice
