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.