Arin Murphy-Hiscock - Protection Spells: Clear Negative Energy, Banish Unhealthy Influences, and Embrace Your Power

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This one is for the Liberal Stitches, who defend, protect, and fight for whats right. Thank you for being the excellent women you are and for being there to support and celebrate me when I need it. Although the Coven of Lets Hang Out Sometime is spread across several continents, you are always close to my heart.

Whether you are seeking to protect your emotional well-being, reinforce your confidence, or find some comfort in a stressful world, protection spells can help. Feeling unsafe puts a strain on your emotional state and robs you of energy, but the spells in this book can strengthen your comfort and security and heal your body and mind.

Spellcrafting can help you feel more secure, protect your positive energy, and bring the kind of comfort that allows you to relax and live your life to its full potential. It can also help you extend the same to your family, friends, and possessions.

If taking charge of defending yourself, both your energy and your physical body, interests you, then spellcrafting can help. If youve never done spellwork before, dont worry; Protection Spells is designed to introduce you to the concept and the practice. Many of these spells dont require anything other than you yourself and a bit of creative visualization. You dont need to be an established, experienced practitioner of spellcraft in order to use this book! The spells are simple, and the book is designed to give you the knowledge and tools you need to put together a simple spell of your own. For example:

Part 1 looks at spellcrafting in the modern world. It explores what a spell is, how spells work, and some of the basics surrounding spellcraft that are useful to know when starting out.

Part 2 is a collection of spells focusing on defense and protection divided into various categories. Theyre designed to be quick, relatively easy to perform, and accessible to as many people as possible.

Part 3 provides three full-length protection rituals for you to explore: one for protecting a home, one for protecting an object, and one for protecting a person. Youll also find sections for ingredients or components you might want to draw on in creating your own protection spells, such as crystals and stones, herbs, and symbology, as well as different ways in which these can be used.

Protection Spells is at its heart a quick reference guide to doing protection and defensive magic. There are a lot of ready-made spells available in its pages, but my true hope is that youll take these spells and use them as the basis for your own spells, created by you with your own goals, your own associations, and your own supplies and ingredients. With your own life and those of your loved ones well protected with your spells, you can live with more freedom, comfort, and joy. So lets get started!

What is spellcraft? Its the art of using energy to help regulate your world, to attune yourself to the energies around you, and to work with those energies for a beneficial outcome. Its important to note that a spell is not a religious act. Rather, spellcrafting is a method of using energy to power some sort of change. Using spells to protect and defend yourself, the people you care about, and various areas of your life can be part of supporting healthy living. Working protection magic can help reduce the amount of stress you have to deal with on a daily basis, and magical maintenance of your energy can help your emotional and physical well-being. Spellcraft can assist you with all this and more.

A spell is something you do with intent and awareness to create change on some level, and works on the principle that everything is connected by energy. Spells are done by performing a sequence of symbolic actions in the physical world to activate change on a different level. A spell looks to affect a situation by introducing a new kind of energy or by redistributing the energy that is already present.

When casting a spell, you function as an agent of change; you actively call upon resources to gather and direct energy. When you cast a spell, you acknowledge that your actions are the ones responsible for creating change. Initializing change is your intention, and whatever consequences follow are also your responsibility. (More on that in the sections on ethics.)