August 2025 - Deborah King

The 3 Most Dangerous Myths About Energy Healing

And what to do if your body knows it’s time for deeper work.

Energy healing has exploded in popularity in the last decade.

Which sounds like a good thing… until it isn’t.

Because with popularity comes distortion. Simplification. Shortcuts. And a long list of myths that get repeated more often than they get examined.

You can feel it when something’s off. The language might sound right. But the transmission isn’t there.

In the energetic space, false structure is worse than no structure at all. And it’s how people (even with the best of intentions) end up harming themselves, or others.

Let’s call it out.

Myth #1: “You need to protect yourself from other people’s energy”

This is one of the most common and most seductive beliefs in spiritual spaces.

You’ve heard it:

“Put a shield around yourself”
“Surround yourself in white light”
“Block out negative energy”

It’s widespread. And it’s built on an illusion: that energy is attacking you from the outside, and the only defense is withdrawal or resistance.

But that illusion dissolves the moment your field is structurally intact.

You don’t need protection. You need form.

A healthy energetic system is semi-permeable. It breathes. It filters. It transmits. It doesn’t flinch at every emotional gust in the room.

The reason people feel the need to protect themselves from energy isn’t because they’re sensitive. It’s because their system has no clear edge.

At the Santa Barbara Retreat this November, we don’t talk about energetic protection.
We build energetic spine.

You’ll spend four days expanding your structural capacity. Anchoring your central line, activating polarity through the breath, and experiencing what it feels like to transmit presence instead of reacting to the noise around you.

If you’ve ever walked away from a conversation or a client session feeling foggy, shaky, or “off”… you weren’t under attack.

Your field just didn’t hold.

And that can be fixed. Not through shielding, but through shape.

Myth #2: “Intuition is all you need”

This one is harder to untangle… because intuition is real.

But untrained intuition is often indistinguishable from projection. And projection dressed up in spiritual language still causes harm.

Your gut instinct might be right… or it might be your nervous system echoing an old trauma loop.

You might “know” something about someone… but if your own system is charged, the read is contaminated.

True perception doesn’t happen through guesswork. It happens through structure.

At the Santa Barbara Retreat, you’ll train in multi-layered field tracking. Learning to sense subtle data across your own system and others. Temperature shifts. Field tension. Pull. Spin. Dispersal. Recoil.

You’ll learn to read the body and the field before interpreting what it means. And you’ll receive real-time feedback from Deborah and her teaching team as you do it.

You’ll learn when to pause. When to go deeper. When to step back entirely.

This isn’t instinct.
It’s skill.

And skill is what makes energy healing safe, repeatable, and precise.

Myth #3: “You have to be peaceful to be a healer”

No. You have to be coherent.

Calm is a surface behavior. Coherence is an internal state.

Coherence means:

Your breath is in rhythm
Your spine is aligned
Your field is symmetrical
Your presence is integrated

You might be soft. You might be fierce. You might carry the frequency of stillness… or the frequency of fire.

The tone doesn’t matter.

What matters is your capacity to stay intact while holding signal.

In Santa Barbara, you’ll train in postural alignment not for looks…but for function. You’ll learn to track where your field compresses, where it leaks, where it distorts.

You’ll move through breath-based alignment exercises designed to engage the back-body. The area behind the heart, behind the diaphragm, behind the knees. Places most healers never track until it’s too late.

By day four, you’ll feel the difference between standing up… and standing in transmission.

And it won’t be conceptual. It will be cellular.

So what actually creates transformation in energy work?

Not knowing more. Not feeling more.

Transformation happens when your body becomes the site of coherence. And when that coherence becomes strong enough to affect the people around you.

You don’t do this through force. You do it through structure.

The breath becomes organized. The spine aligns. The field listens. The nervous system settles.

That’s when the intuitive signal clears up. That’s when the feedback loop stops distorting. That’s when people begin to heal just by sitting in your presence.

And yes…that’s teachable.

What Happens in Santa Barbara?

This November 18–21 2025, Deborah will lead a 4-day in-person retreat in Santa Barbara, California.

It’s the most energetically advanced way to train directly with her.

Here’s what happens inside:

Daily energetic transmission sessions with live group clearing
Training in polarity breath, posture, stillness, and field structure
Advanced perception work: reading movement, vibration, direction, and tone
Live partner exercises with in-the-moment coaching
Subtle energy labs where your blind spots get revealed gently, but clearly
Group coherence practices that allow the entire field to lift together
Optional 1-on-1 sessions and opportunities for practitioners and teachers

This is spiritual discipline held in a loving field. Where your nervous system, posture, and presence learn to organize around something higher than performance.

You don’t need prior certification. You don’t need to “feel ready.” You just need to be willing to show up and see what your system can hold.

If that excites you… or scares you in a way that feels honest… this is for you.

Reserve your spot now »

There are things you can learn online. And then there are things that can only be taught in presence… in posture… in person.

This is one of those things.

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The Spiritual Cost of Consuming Without Integrating

There’s a problem hiding behind most spiritual burnout.

It’s not a lack of devotion. It’s not poor technique. It’s not even distraction. It’s too much.

Too much insight, too much content, too many teachings with no place to land.

The most common reason your energy feels fragmented isn’t that you’re doing it wrong. It’s that you’re doing too much without anchoring any of it.

Information Obsession, Spiritual Disconnection

You wouldn’t think of spiritual students as over-consumers. But that’s exactly what’s happening.

What began as a sincere hunger for growth has turned into a constant search for new input. And in that search, something important has been lost: the time and space required to integrate.

Integration isn’t just a spiritual concept. It’s a biological one.

According to research from the University of California, San Diego, the average person now consumes 34 gigabytes of information per day. That’s the equivalent of reading over 100,000 words. That number has likely increased since the study was published.

When you apply that volume to spiritual learning, you’re left with a nervous system that’s overstimulated, under-integrated, and functionally confused.

The Effects on the Energy Field

In energy work, your field holds everything. Not just trauma or memory, but unprocessed input. Every lesson, every video, every workshop. If it wasn’t grounded through practice, it’s still hanging in the field, partially absorbed.

And that creates static.

It’s similar to what you’d experience in a body fed too often, too fast, without rest. Bloating. Congestion. Stagnation.

Energetically, the symptoms are:

Loss of clarity in intuition
Fragmented emotional response
Decreased sensitivity in healing work
Generalized fatigue or hypersensitivity
The inability to stay present during practice

You may start skipping your meditations. Or you do them, but feel nothing.

You open a new teaching, but your mind jumps halfway through.

You get the nudge to return to a past practice, but dismiss it. Because “you’ve already done that one.”

These are not failures. They’re feedback.

Why It Happens

The spiritual world has become content-heavy. Podcasts. Livestreams. Weekly transmissions.

And underneath that stream is a persistent belief:

“There must be something else I don’t yet know.”

The need for more isn’t random. It’s survival-based. The brain, when stressed, seeks novelty as a form of safety. You’ve been trained through devices, marketing, and algorithmic feedback to reach for what’s new.

But spiritual work wasn’t designed to be consumed this way.

It was built to be lived into slowly, practiced through repetition, embodied in quiet seasons over time.

Your field doesn’t evolve through content. It evolves through coherence..

The Lost Art of Repetition

Repetition in spiritual practice isn’t laziness. It’s transmission.

Ancient Vedic schools taught one verse at a time. No new content until the prior teaching was fully digested. Not just recited, but lived. A student could sit with the same mantra, the same movement, the same ritual for weeks… even years. Why? Because they knew the teaching wasn’t complete until it changed the person holding it.

Modern seekers often abandon a practice before it has time to rewire the system. They confuse recognition with transformation. But the moment you understand something isn’t the moment it integrates.

You don’t absorb a teaching when you first hear it.

You absorb it the tenth time. The hundredth. When your body knows it without your mind needing to explain it.

Without Integration, Energy Gets Stuck

Think of your energy field like an irrigation system. If you pour too much into it too quickly, without proper channels or rhythm, the soil floods and the roots rot.

The same happens in your system. New inputs become overload when not paired with silence, stillness, or repetition. The result? A saturated field that feels more “spiritual” but functions less powerfully.

This is why many advanced students plateau. Not because they’ve stopped growing. But because they’ve stopped digesting.

The spiritual path isn’t vertical. It spirals. And integration is what deepens the spiral…taking you from surface repetition into lived mastery.

The Integration Phase Is Where the Work Actually Lands

Most people chase the expansion phase. The early high of learning something new. But the most essential shifts happen after that. After the emotion fades. After the story stops repeating. After the external excitement wears off.

This is where true spiritual growth begins.

Integration means letting the nervous system catch up to what the soul has seen. It means using the same tool every day until it starts to change the way you speak. The way you breathe. The way you react under pressure.

And it means doing that without seeking novelty to distract you from discomfort.

Level IV Was Created to Restore That Structure

LifeForce Energy Healing^® Level IV was created for a reason.

It wasn’t just to give you more content (although, there’s plenty of that too).

But also to give you a place where everything you’ve already taken in could finally take root.

Inside Level IV, you return to:

Real-time support and energetic feedback
Practice-based transformation
Deep field stability
Consistent rhythm
A structure strong enough to keep you anchored while you rewire from the inside out

The field is live. It’s built around you, not above you.

You’re not a consumer in this space. You’re a participant.

You’re required to show up. To repeat. To embody. And in doing so, you integrate.

Learn more about LifeForce Energy Healing^® Level IV >>

What You Can Do Right Now

If you’re not ready to enter a container like Level IV yet, begin here:

Choose one practice you already know. One that once worked, but you abandoned. Return to it. Commit for 30 days.
Silence the noise. Mute spiritual content you’ve been saving “for later.” Trust that what you already have is enough.

Reorganize your field. Give your body what it needs: rhythm, stillness, simplicity.
Resist novelty. The next teacher, the next buzzword, the next “channel” is only helpful if your field is coherent enough to receive it.

Remember: this isn’t about restriction. It’s about coherence.

True transformation isn’t faster. It’s steadier. And structure is what allows it to land.

You Haven’t Stalled. You’ve Outgrown Overconsumption

Most people don’t feel stuck because they haven’t done enough. They feel stuck because they’ve done too much without space to absorb it.

You may be full. But fullness isn’t fulfillment.

Make space.

Re-center your field.

Commit to the practices that still hold power. Even if they feel old.

And let your growth continue the way it was always meant to… through rhythm, structure, and integration.

Why Advanced Spiritual Students Are Feeling the Pull to Lead

For years, you’ve been a committed student. You’ve done the practices. You’ve learned the techniques. You’ve integrated the teachings into your life so thoroughly that some of them are second nature now.

But lately, there’s something else moving in you. It isn’t the rush of a beginner’s breakthrough or the fire of a personal healing. It’s quieter and more persistent. A sense that your role is shifting.

You’re no longer here only to receive. You’re starting to feel what it’s like to hold.

From student to stabilizer

In every group, there comes a moment when some members begin to hold the space differently. Their presence doesn’t take away from the teaching… it supports it. They become the steady point others anchor to.

This isn’t something you force. It grows out of years of showing up, refining your own energy, and learning to stay centered no matter what is happening around you.

And one day, you realize: you’re part of the structure now.

How you know it’s happening

The signs aren’t dramatic, but they’re clear:

People seek you out before or after a session.
In a group, others instinctively sit near you or check in with your reaction.
You can feel when the field needs a slight adjustment, and you adjust yourself to help it happen.
Your own process no longer consumes all your attention — you have space for someone else’s.

You may not have called yourself a leader before, but this is leadership in its purest form. It’s not about directing. It’s about holding steady enough that others can find their own balance.

The weight of responsibility

When you begin to hold the field, the work changes. Your energy isn’t just your own anymore. You are part of something larger, and your steadiness matters in ways it didn’t before.

Ancient Vedic teachings refer to this as sthiti… stability. Not a frozen state, but the capacity to remain grounded and expansive at the same time. It’s the quality that allows a teacher to transmit beyond words.

Reaching this stage is a call to deepen, not drift. Without a structure that recognizes and supports it, the responsibility can feel unacknowledged… even heavy.

Why structure matters now

This is where many advanced students plateau — not because they’ve lost interest, but because they haven’t stepped into the container that matches their new role.

When you are ready to hold more, you need to be in a space that:

Recognizes the shift in your capacity
Gives you opportunities to work with that skill intentionally
Surrounds you with others who can meet you at this level

LifeForce Energy Healing^® Level IV is built for exactly this moment. It’s a container where your ability to stabilize the field is developed, refined, and witnessed. It’s where you move from internal transformation to shared transmission.

Answering the pull

If you’ve been feeling this shift, it’s not an accident. Your system is telling you it’s ready to expand its role.

The question is whether you will step into that next stage… or continue to sit where you’ve been, even though you’ve outgrown it.

Level IV offers the structure, the witnessing, and the direct work with Deborah to help you inhabit this new capacity fully.

Your readiness isn’t a question anymore. The only choice is what you’ll do with it.

Learn more about LifeForce Energy Healing^® Level IV >>

Your Spiritual Work Doesn’t Have to Look Like Anyone Else’s

There’s a pressure many people carry that never announces itself directly. It doesn’t show up as a crisis. It slips in through the edges. A subtle discontent, a quiet inner doubt that says, “If I were really doing the work, it would probably look different than this.”

The shape of that doubt is fed by exposure. Constant comparison. You see other people describing their spiritual paths, their breakthroughs, their mystical vocabulary. Their practices look defined. Their posture seems composed. Their clarity appears settled.

And without realizing it, you begin to wonder if your path is missing something.

This is one of the most common distortions in modern spiritual life. The idea that real transformation has a visible form. Or worse, that it can be measured against someone else’s timeline.

Spiritual work is personal. Not selectively so. Entirely.

The way you open is yours. The pace at which your field reorganizes is precise, even when it feels inconsistent. The experiences that crack you open may not resemble anyone else’s… and they’re not supposed to.

You might be walking through the most significant shift of your life — without a single external milestone to show for it.

That doesn’t make your work less real. It makes it accurate to your system.

The need for symmetry is a trap

It’s easy to assume that spiritual evolution should unfold cleanly. That there’s a linear sequence…awareness, awakening, alignment, then purpose. But human systems don’t operate in straight lines. They loop. They stall. They run forward before retreating. They create spirals, not ladders.

One person may experience a major opening through stillness. Another may unravel through loss. A third may spend years walking a slow arc through discipline before anything begins to integrate.

Each of those paths holds value. None indicate superiority.

What makes your path potent is not how closely it mirrors someone else’s. What matters is how honestly it reflects your own inner structure.

That means you may go through months of deep spiritual adjustment while your life looks exactly the same from the outside. That’s not a problem. That’s a recalibration that hasn’t yet found language.

Your nervous system always knows what it’s ready for, even when the mind demands progress.

Stillness can hold more than movement

There is a cultural bias (even inside spiritual spaces) toward momentum. We expect transformation to make itself obvious. We expect a clear pivot. A new mission. An identity that can be named and explained.

But some of the most powerful energetic shifts do not arrive with fireworks. They come quietly. Through sensation. Through sleep. Through sudden aversions and subtle reorganizations.

They come through silence that gets louder over time.

It’s easy to misinterpret this silence as stuckness. But often, it’s a field restructuring so slowly and thoroughly that it’s working below the level of cognition.

If your practice has gone quiet… if you feel less drawn to external teachings… if your inner work feels like compost instead of bloom… you are likely deep in the process. Not outside it.

Presence doesn’t always announce itself

In some lineages, it was said that a master could change a student’s field just by walking into the room. No lecture. No mantra. Just presence.

That level of influence didn’t come from charisma. It came from years of refinement. From the ability to hold stillness without fracturing under pressure. From the commitment to quiet that outlasted the need to be seen.

Today, there are still people like this. They’re rarely public. You won’t find them broadcasting their insights every week. But when they speak, something inside you settles. When they sit near you, your breath slows. When you leave, you remember nothing they said and everything you felt.

This is a kind of teaching the modern world tends to overlook. But it still exists. And for many people, it is the signal they’re beginning to carry themselves. Whether or not they’ve claimed it.

If this is you, your path is forming its shape. And your role in the field is growing. Even if you’re still learning how to name it.

A structure can help when the signal gets quiet

There comes a point when seeking no longer fits. You’ve gathered teachings. You’ve followed impulses. You’ve tried what resonated and walked away from what didn’t. Eventually, something steadier begins to call you in.

But that transition…from spiritual curiosity to spiritual holding…can feel disorienting.

That’s where structure matters.

Not to direct your path. But to give form to the energy already present in your system.

LifeForce Energy Healing^® Level IV is one of those structures.

It doesn’t ask you to look like anyone else. It doesn’t require you to lead, to explain, or to fit yourself into someone else’s story.

It holds a space for quiet teachers. For those whose depth comes not from volume, but from steadiness. For those who’ve done the work in silence and are now ready to let that work hold its shape in the presence of others.

Your spiritual work is already happening. It’s in the way you breathe. The way you listen. The way you return to center when no one is watching.

You don’t need to change it. But you may be ready to stabilize it.

Let it land. And let it take its own form in the sacred, protective container of LifeForce Energy Healing^® Level IV.

You can learn more here >>

An Energetic Turning Point: What This Week Means for Your Inner Work

Some weeks arrive carrying weight.

Not the kind that slows you down… the kind that signals movement.

This is one of those weeks.

Two distinct celestial events intersect: the Sturgeon Full Moon and the final days of Mercury Retrograde in Leo.

On their own, they carry energy worth paying attention to. Together, they create a passage. A subtle opening. A shift in the pressure system beneath your spiritual work.

You may feel it already.

Increased sensitivity. A desire to say what you’ve been holding in. Sudden clarity followed by equally sudden doubt. These aren’t distractions. They’re indicators. The inner system is recalibrating.

The Full Moon Calls for Release, But Not in the Old Way

The Sturgeon Full Moon arrives on August 9, illuminating the sky in Aquarius… a sign of vision, disruption, and truth-telling.

Traditionally, full moons ask us to let go. To empty out what no longer belongs. But this particular moon doesn’t invite release through effort. It invites it through recognition.

You don’t need to force anything. You need to notice what has already started leaving. Conversations that stalled. Habits that don’t hold your energy the way they used to. Beliefs that quietly unravel when you stop gripping them.

Aquarius does not soothe you into surrender. It sharpens your vision and asks whether you’re still aligned with what you say you want. It’s an energy that holds a mirror to your future self and waits for you to be honest about the gap.

If something feels uncomfortable this week, don’t rush to fix it. Sit with it. Ask what it’s trying to liberate you from.

Not everything that’s leaving is a loss. Some of it is clearing the way.

Mercury Is Preparing to Move Direct, And So Are You

Just two days after the full moon peaks, Mercury stations direct in Leo on August 11. This matters. Not because Mercury will suddenly “fix” communication, but because its retrograde through Leo has been pressing on one very specific question:

Are you ready to speak with authority?

Leo energy governs leadership, visibility, and expression from the heart. But during retrograde, that energy turns inward. It can expose where your voice feels unclear. Where your fire flickers. Where your message gets diluted before it ever leaves your throat.

For the past few weeks, you may have second-guessed yourself more than usual. You may have felt the tension between wanting to step forward and fearing it would come out wrong.

Now that energy begins to resolve. Slowly. Gradually. But with precision.

You may find that what felt complicated three weeks ago now feels simple. Not because the circumstances changed. But because you did.

There’s an internal order returning. A sense of timing. The words come through cleaner. And the voice you’ve been waiting to use may no longer ask for permission.

This Is an Opening (But Only If You Listen)

Together, these two events ask for more than passive awareness. They call for a level of presence that doesn’t drift. That doesn’t skim. That doesn’t scroll past the invitation.

Because it is an invitation. To step into deeper alignment with how you speak, how you serve, and how you hold the charge of your own field.

The week won’t come with flashing lights or external validation. It may come with stillness. A moment that doesn’t look like anything until you feel it land.

Honor that moment.

Even if you don’t act right away, something in you will know: the current shifted. And the way forward feels steadier than it did a week ago.

Structure Will Matter More After This

When energy builds, it needs form. If you’re noticing more clarity, more sensitivity, more desire to express your gifts in service. This is the time to support that with structure that won’t buckle under pressure.

LifeForce Energy Healing^® Level IV exists for this reason. It holds those who are no longer content with staying in motion. Those who are ready to root their practice in something live, witnessed, and energetically stable.

It’s not about adding more to your plate. It’s about aligning your system with what you’re already being asked to carry. And doing it in a way that protects the signal.

If this week brings a sense of readiness… even a quiet one… follow that. It’s real.

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Deborah King