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Some background on my history with curses
I've been afflicted by a number of curses from a long time. The first curse that my family got was when I was a baby, my dad's ex-girlfriend (actually, her mom did) payed someone to throw us "evil" to the entire family. My grandfather had to contact an African guy that was known for his witchery powers, and he removed the curse, mostly from my grandma that was about to day, and is alive to this day.
I was an asshole in school, and most of Highschool too, so I got a lot of hate from certain groups. In that group there was a guy I've bullied when we were kids. Later on that guy would have also payed someone to curse me. The curse is dealt with, this one took time lots of effort and divination from many sources.
Another time, but it wasn't a "curse" most like and attack, I was in a LSD party and there was this guy that had a very nasty aura. Long story short I got a nervous breakdown and got terribly sick after that, and a friend told me that it was weird that every time that guy was present in lsd party or weed party someone will go nuts. There was even a guy from their town that went crazy -schizophrenic crazy- for years after taking LSD with that guy. Later on we discovered he practiced black magic and we called him "the black shaman".
There are more but this one was a particularly difficult one, it was an entity trying to devour me and it was before I started practicing ritual magic or even spiritual healing, it was awful, but it also became the door for something great, which brings me towards the first thing to consider:
Cursebreaker Mindset
When afflicted by a curse, or knowing someone that is afflicted by one the upmost important thing that you can do to help, yourself or others, is your Mind Set .
Why? Because is the difference between wanting to live or to die (or suffer in a considerable manner).
Often people see curses as either a) a joke, a lie, children tale, myths or b)a devastating form of destruction that will obliterate you and there's nothing or not much you can do.
Truth be told, most people throwing curses are not that strong, but there are people that actually know how to do it well and can cause a lot of damage, or people can just pay them to do it.
But, even the strongest curse is not much against a prepared mind, strong soul and a proactive magick practitioner.
Your mindset about curses (receiving, or the possibility of receiving) must be that of an Opportunity. You know, in the same manner that when you lost your job is an opportunity to do something else, and hopefully better, or when you break up with your girlfriend/boyfriend is a possibility to fuck a whole lot of new different people.
A curse is an opportunity to test yourself magickally, mentally and physically, even financially.
Knowing this, you must face the threat in all fronts, starting with:
Mind
Your new mantra is There's always a solution You repeat it like a crazy person. Another one is I have the power, because actually, you Do have it.
This mindset will allow you to take decisive action towards improving your life and destroying the influence of the curse.
You must know that as an universal rule, You and only You are the God of your Sphere of Influence. That is, the weird energetic field whose patterns are just you to configure, and which determines both the physical expression of thyself and the events and situations that occurs in your life.
Why is so important to know this? Because it means that the effort that someone needs to destroy you is a lot compared to the effort you need to be well.
We often think that is the opposite, that we as individuals are powerless in front of the environment or other people, that big powers can easily destroy us and shit. Well that's a well shared big fat lie.
A Buddha can erase hell with a simple breath. And everyone is a Hiding Buddha, so the potential power is there for you.
Improving your mindset with affirmations and such will also help you destroying negative thoughtforms you've created or taken from others along your life.
Many people think they're possessed, cursed or haunted when in fact they have just awful emotional configuration and horrible thoughtforms.
Meditate. Meditation will help you a lot, from simple zazen (very very good for restoring the original mind, and healing the sickness of human mind) to others more advance (I'll put a couple of examples in the "Magick" section of the tutorial.
Physical
Your body will maintain yourself if you have energy. Energize your body with an improvement of your diet and exercise.
Learn to relax your nerves and muscles with breathing.
Take full body sunbaths if possible, or take baths with salts, Himalayan salt or Atacama's desert salt have high concentrations of sun energy, very good at cleansing your body and aura.
Change your environment. If your house looks like one of those Diogenes syndrome people, then you need to make an effort and clean away.
Search for fresh air and contact with nature. Your body, your eyes need to see the forms of nature to keep yourself healthy.
Yoga. Is popular for a reason.
Magick
The first thing you need is discard false sense of threat, that is very common on some folks, paranoia. Search for help of not one, but a handful of divinators.
Then you must take magickal action. Here I'll write some methods I've used personally and my experience with it, and some that I have not but that I know they exist so they may worth trying.
a) Create a strong relationship with an entity
This will help you in all your magickal endeavors. This relationship may be looking for a demon or deity to be your Patron; or having a strong bond with a personal entity, such as a personal jinn, or a familiar spirit. This last one may not be all powerful, but it will help.
Setting up an altar in your place for this entity, is creating an important space in your sphere of influence from which that "Intelligence" or "Consciousness" or whatever they are can act in your life, advice you, protect you and heal you.
I've seen that many rituals and curses work on sending entities. Even if the magician does not order specific entities, and only send "bad energy", that will bring entities that feed on the afflicted, and depending on the areas of the energetic body they feed it will affect different aspects of your life.
So, having a Patron will help since they can establish some kind of cavalry around you.
b) Establish friendship with the spirits of the place
Similar to the first one, but not so intimate. There are various kinds of spirits all around, be them sithes, hidden folk, jinns, etc. Some places (like my hometown) are specially plagued with entities, not all of them friendly. But they need not to be your enemies.
Entities love attention, and offerings. They love sharing too, and different entities have different reaction to people, specially when invading the places they dwell. Here in the desert there are lots of "holes" and old abandoned mines where are jinn. Some others just rumble the streets, they're funny to look, they look like spirals lights going up and down, small astral light (or darkness) tornadoes.
If you can spot them, they can spot you. Find a place near your house or where you live, that is famous for having weird activity, or where you can see or feel presences. A good place to start is abandoned buildings or houses, solitary trees (there's actually a very specific entity living in those trees in the Mapuche tradition very powerful nasty one, but can be appeased to help).
Bring them incense, candles and food. Start with white candles, sweet food -natural if possible- and sandalwood incense. If your astral awareness is somehow developed you'll be able to perceive their preferences after a while. Start a relationship with them, ask them ask for help in specific simple purposes to test them. Be firm, entities recognize power as authority and some see softness as an invitation for causing trouble. This is a two edge sword if you don't have trust in yourself or are generally afraid of entities (which I advice "get over it").
Most entities respect magicians -those with knowledge of their own divinity-, and some serve with pleasure.
IF you have friendship or at least somehow good relationship with the spirits of the place, they'll protect you and your interest.
I suggest for you to look for the highest hill or mountain around your area. Specially those who were consider tutelary mountain gods of the natives, since they have authority above all entities in the surrounding area. They usually appear as a big animal that is locally found. Here they look like phantasmagoric mountain lions, giant guanacos (incredible to see), or big zoomorphic bugs (this one I'm most related to and at the beginning it was awful to see but now they're incredible loyal).
There's no need to bound this spirits to objects, actually I advice against it, unless you can invite one that accepts to dwell in specifically made objects in which they're not confined by bounding nor threatening spells. I think that's kind of advance but is not difficult.
This practice needs to be done periodically, and if you make promises best keep them or your ass will be on the line.
c) Search for Spiritual Healing
If you have the money, look for a serious reiki practitioner or a reconnective healing practitioner. Just search for one and go, all the sessions needed, you'll thank me later. I recommend these ones because they're the ones I have experience with. You don't even need to learn them, just go and enjoy a sesion that will help a lot.
d) Cleansing Magick
I Aural and Enviromental Cleansing
Some materials you will need:
-Silver or Iron, hopefully a knife, but if iron, it can be a hook or even one of those big nails used on train rails.
-Sage.
-Palo Santo (means Holy Woodstick) Is a special wood from a sacred tree from Perú, quite useful in cleansing places (and covering the smell of weed in your room and cloths
. Is also good against mosquitoes.
-Water (that you or your patron will bless).
-Salt, hopefully a powerful one such as sea, Himalayan or Atacama desert salt.
-If you're asking your patron's help, then the incense you usually offer. If not, not necessary, tho if you prefer it can be white incense to calm the mind.
-Lavender and/or Vanilla incense and/or essence.
-Ruda plant (I think is know as rue in English but I'm not sure if is the same variety). A male one, good against curses.
-Couple of candles, either white, black or your main patron's colors.
Procedure:
This is best made if you're alone in your place but is not necessary. At least you have to be alone in the room with the altar.
-Set up an altar and put the materials in this order:
The Candles at the sides, silver/iron stuff in the middle, the glass of water also in the middle but closer to you than the iron.
I know that traditionally people make this "long sage-tail-like" stuff to smudge. Well I don't, I burn some coals in a pottery bowl and put the sage or the mix of plants I need there, including the palo santo although I usually use that one alone after the ritual or periodically.
If you're using the help of your patron, you may well use its altar or use a consecrated seal or sigil of it on the altar you've made.
To consecrate the seal you can just simple focus, channel energy from your 7th chakra to your hands and into the white paper. In the paper you write the seal with ink of the color needed (can be black, or red, or use your blood or drake's blood, combining those is a good stuff). This can be better done previous the ritual and the sigil needs not to be used for other purposes.
So, you start. Light the candles, start your meditation the method you're used to. Consecrate the water with some salt on it, using a similar method than with the white paper of the sigil. Throw some drops of water in the four directions (beware of the candles). Consecrate the silver/iron weapon with energy, then water and then if you're using, some smoke from the incense. You can also pass the weapon in the flame of the right hand candle.
Make some small oration like "I consecrate this weapon so it will cut through physical and astral, through magick and devils, so it may cut and burn and keep me safe".
You now will start passing that weapon on your body, doing slashing movements as if you were cutting threads. Do it specially in top of your head, in the lower back, in your hands and arms. After you're don with your body, pass it again through the fire of the left candle saying somthing like "May this fire take and burn all the filth this weapon has cut and gathered".
Now you'll do a walk around your room or house, doing something similar in the corners of every room, on those places that look and feel bad and in the places the sun doesn't always shine.
You'll end up in the main door of the house. Come back to the altar and repeat the procedure with the left candle. Now is time to smudge. Do it following the same route that with the weapon.
You can recite something while you do it, if you want and feel its right.
You'll end up in the main door which you need to open and allow the smoke to go out, along with the bad stuff.
Place the remain smoking herbs there in the entrance and come back to the altar (Be careful not to cause a fire, same goes for the candles).
You'll take the glass of water and do the same route sparkling water in the corners and when you get to the entrance of the house with your index finger of your main hand draw a pentagram (or a protective symbol of your choosing, or sigil of your patron) in the door. I know some people use oil for this, but if you don't have so many materials, just use this.
Finally, comes a great part. You'll finish the ritual in the altar, giving thanks to whatever force that helped you. The candles, if they're big pilar candles I'll just blew them off, but if they're small you may let them burn entirely.
The last part is not a cleansing ritual, but a semi-formal invitation to good natured spirits.
Using the vanilla or lavender incense, you will light them just outside the house and declare something like "Oh, you powerful yet humble spirits that protect mankind (or me), come, loyal as you are, and dwell in this place, keeping it free of harm for its human dwellers, bringing only harmony and good fortune" (it can be different but you get the point).
Keep the door open, trace the same route from before but from the main entrance to the altar and place the incense in the altar along with some offering such as honey for the new guests.
You can, at that moment, agree a periodical offering of honey and incense if you want.
*My personal experience with this ritual: Is good. I did it in my grandmother's house the night before I moved out from there. Easy to make, I didn't have silver at that moment so I used iron and simple white candles. I did the invitation ritual just as I write it, it was very cool. The very next night my cousin dreamed with a "family" of "weird people" that entered the house and was introducing themselves to him (he's quite open with his astral senses but does not practice magick). They even caused small and harmless poltergeist activity, like throwing some towels to the floor and blew wind in people faces out of nowhere. After a week or so, when I returned to visit my grandma, the house was cool.
They had cleaned the backyard, threw away a lot of garbage and useless stuff, even an old painting that my cousin said it was haunted (funny side story, when they were about to throw the painting to the dumpster, it was big so they had to take it above the car's roof, but having nothing to tie it another far cousin was keeping it with his hand. The wind blew off the painting so they couldn't threw it away, and next day the guy that was handling the painting had a motorbike accident and broke his leg).
After this ritual, you better take a bath with those special salts. If you don't have a bathtub (as it was my case), just powder the salt and before you enter the shower cover and scrub the salt around your body thoroughly. Then take the shower.
II The Egg Cleansing
This ritual is pretty well known. Consist in using raw egg to cleans your aura, since it absorbs the bad stuff, then you break it and you'll see the awful bad stuff that was bothering you, is disgusting.
I've been cleansed with this stuff but I didn't performed, a friend of mine did it for me. Strong result, immediate relief.
Search Egg cleansing, is probably around this forum.
e) Thought forms Help
You can do whatever you want with thought forms. Whatever, from protection, to cleansing, to alchemy... etc.
You need some previous skills:
-Deep meditation.
It doesn't need to be long, since oyu can do it in instances using many days. Creating one can be a long mental process depending how detailed and how programed it is.
-Visualization.
Really necessary. If you have trouble creating something out of nowhere in your imagination I suggest you overload your mind with pictures, videos and movies of creatures of entities simillars to those you want to create (in both, skills and or looks). It would make everything easier.
-Programation.
This is a cool process, easy if you're a D&D guy (and I say guy since I know no women that respect herself will admit being a D&D girl). The only tricky part is that you need to have knowledge of certain stuff like symbols, sigils, etc.
It helps to write down the features, skills, modus operandi, rituals, and so on of your thoughtform so you can crystalize your thoughts in words.
The process may be long to explain, I recommend the book "Creating Your Reality The Easy Way: How to create a winning team of magickal entities" by Lee Cain. It's easy to read and overall explains the process and some good tips. It is not a step by step detailed guide but is good enough, and very cheap in kindle amazon.
After you're capable of clearly see the entity you want to create (I mean, in your mind's eye) and you're very sure of the features and skills, behavior you want to program it you need to make a simple ritual.
I've improvised a ritual after a meditation that left me with an overload of energy, I felt so powerful that if I clapped my hands I was sure I was gonna exorcise anything. Anyway, with a big sigil of the entity, I placed the object in which I wanted to house the entity (as Lee Cain says, entities don't "live" in objects", the thought forms at least dwell in our sphere of influence, but we use objects to better focus on them, so is for us more than them).
Dictate the features, skills, obligations and the commands you'll use to activate it. I used my blood to create a bond between the object and the thought form. And is feed of my fluids every time it completes a job.
I talk to it and visualize it every day, and even draw it in a sketch book.
I have another 2 not attached to any object... I think the object thing is useful when you have a good number of them active so you can focus better.
f) Direct Curse Breaking
This method is the shortest one but it can be difficult to accomplish. You need a developed sense of astral awareness, courage, have trespassed fear of death and energy manipulation skills.
When you have a high level of awareness you'll know when someone is thinking of you or feeling, and you'll sense if is something bad or good. You're gonna feel it in some specific parts of the body, those are the energy centers they affect.
Now, normal gossip, is like a tickle to energetic body, whilst curses are like knife stabbing, but this is a good thing, since you can feel it better.
Curses are energy and patterns of energy. Actually, all the energy is the same, the intent just transform the patterns that are sent from one sphere of influence to another. Personal spheres of influence have certain patterns to which external patterns stick. Curses do this, that's why you need a psychic link to curse (but the link works both ways).
If you have a high level of awareness it meas that you're constantly aware of your energy field, even as walking, standing, sitting or laying. Whenever something big comes your way you're gonna feel it right away.
As soon as you feel it don't fight it. This is the most difficult part, people tend to run from curses as they run from childish traumas. The key to outgrow a trauma (a energetic pattern that repeats itself as an emotion linked to a memory) is to fully feel it and integrate it inside you.
When you block yourself from the trauma, it gets outside and it haunts you. In the east that is called "demonic possession", you have energy points blocked and that energy can't flow, causing great turmoil to mind and body.
You need to accept the curse (energetically, not as an idea "oh my god, I'm cursed that is bad"... If you're not able to surpass thoughts about it and derrotism, then this method is not for you and I'll wont be responsible for your damage), or the energy of it.
The body works in a very miraculous way. The deeper you go into the layers of the energy body, the most powerful it becomes until you go to the two primal forces before dissolution... The Great Dark Mother Womb of the Existence... and The Great Manifested Existence... in between, there's non-existence.. the key of everything.
What you'll do is accept the energy from curse (which will be accompanied by visions of those who cast it) and let the energy flow... is important to let it flow without fear... fear will close your doors, whilst acceptance will open the divine doors.
The curse is nothing compared to the will of existence.. since its will is to keep existing.
Whilst your will to live (that comes from instinct) surpass the will of dead then you'll keep on living.
This process is as painful as to accept powerful traumas, since curses are just that... an energetic pattern attached to an emotion and an unfulfilled wish (paradoxically, a trauma is attached to a memory that is wished had never had happened). Traumas can damage or kill... or they can be overgrown.
Learning to do this will increase your inner power greatly, similar how your immune system becomes stronger after being sick or a bone consolidate stronger after being broken.
However, I advice against using this method alone. This is the last method you need to us and although I thinks the best. I think is silly to depend on this exclusively.
I advise against the attitude of "looking for curses" too, is like looking for bullets, even if you're wearing kevlar, it's just moronic.
An intelligent person creates safe measures before things happen. Magicians are supposed to be intelligent. So the best methods you can use is preventive methods.
g) Specific Mantra
Gate, Gate, Paragate, Parasamgate Boddhi Svaha! (Edit2: Corrected thanks to Fox_Spirit).
Incredible powerful mantra to use. It takes you to non-existence. The way to use better is not as mos people use mantra. They use the mantra to calm the mind and enter deeper meditation.
Instead, calm the mind by focusing in the body, then the breath, then the energy body... then go deeper into yourself and in that state you need to vibrate with the lowest point of your throat:
GAH-TEH, GAH-TEH, PAH-RAH (pronounced with soft "r")-GAH-TEH, PAH-RAH-SAM-GAH-TEH, BO-DY (as in Body)-SOH-HA (as in laughter "HAHAHA").
This mantra will destroy everything the self is identified with, and that means a trip to the self, a renovation of the sphere of influence.
Not only will it break curses, it will change your perception of existence and of yourself.
When this is done right, you'll feel a strong fear of stop existing, is cool, that's good you need to accept the reality of non existence, like if you had never ever existed in the first place. You won't die, the small self will, and is the most liberating of human experiences.
h) Prevention Magick
Creating protective thoughtforms, having alliances with entities, establishing a strong bond with a patron can be considered prevention magick. Also Ancestors cult is in this category, but I didn't cover it because I don't
Now I've encountered this incredible cool practice of witch bottles, that is new to me, but is simple and I think it works since nothing has happened from a while and I was under attack not so long ago.
It is covered in Jason Miller's book "Protection Magick" (or something like that).
It's a bottle in which you'll put
nine nails,
nine needles and
nine pins.
Inside you'll also put urine, or something like hair or fingernails to get the bottle to be with your energetic imprint.
You place the bottle somewhere safe. I advise consecrate the bottle. The bottle act as a magnet for things that are sent at you, and the pointy items inside break those energetic patterns leaving nothing but dispersed energy into the etheric.
Another thing you can do to prevent bad stuff is to place consecrated Irons and Silver everywhere, specially the room you sleep.
There must be many more methods of both breaking and preventing curses that I don't know of, this ones are the one I've practiced (unless I've stated the contrary, obviously) and I know they can help.
A word of advise, be wise with whom you chose to relate to. In the past I related to a guy that wasn't all that bad, but wasn't good either... he got lots of enemies and some of those enemies where people I liked too... I runned away from that conflict and I lost possible friendhips with very cool people, and I think I gain a couple of curses too, probably from both sides. So, if I had trusted the right people, I may have avoid some troubles.
Anyway, be healthy in your endeavors and learn to protect yourself. Sometimes that is more difficult than attacking because we so naturally stop caring about ourselves sometimes. Never do that.
Hope this can help somebody.
EDIT:
I forgot a Method.
The use of Runes. I study runes and use it as talismans, and astral doorways. Don't use it as divination that much.
Anyway, Runes are extremely powerful, and more potent as your understanding grows deeper. There's a nice runic ritual you can perform.
Involves finding a nice strong tree, hopefully a tall one that you can climb. You need to cut a branch from the tree but you need to do it with is permission. To make the tree agree to that you can water the tree and talk to it and commune with it. Meditate near it, etc. Establish a bond with it. Now, I live in the desert and trees are grateful with anyone giving them water. Many trees die around here so they really love people who take care of them
After you have your branch, or stick, cut a nice section, enough co carve runes on it. You can either carve a protective rune or runic sigil, or a sigilized version of your name on runes (this is more for empowerment really).
After you've carved the runes, paint it with your flood and charge it with energy or meditating on it. You can sing it Galdr style.
After the rune amulet is ready, go back to the tree, this is the fun part. You need to climb the tree the highest part you can and tie the amulet there with some red rope.
If you are familiarized with energetic body of trees, you'll know that they rise energy towards the sky (not all tho). The amulet will get empowered by the tree, since it belonged ot it and now is has your blood.
Try this, you can use Tiwaz to grow in strength and leadership.
You can use Berkana in the roots of the tree too.
Forming a relationship with a tree is a powerful stuff, I haven't got to the point of worshiping, but I think that if you worship a tree it can easily become a minor deity of the place. That practice is common with the natives in the south of my country, but since I haven't done it I dunno what would happen.
I've been afflicted by a number of curses from a long time. The first curse that my family got was when I was a baby, my dad's ex-girlfriend (actually, her mom did) payed someone to throw us "evil" to the entire family. My grandfather had to contact an African guy that was known for his witchery powers, and he removed the curse, mostly from my grandma that was about to day, and is alive to this day.
I was an asshole in school, and most of Highschool too, so I got a lot of hate from certain groups. In that group there was a guy I've bullied when we were kids. Later on that guy would have also payed someone to curse me. The curse is dealt with, this one took time lots of effort and divination from many sources.
Another time, but it wasn't a "curse" most like and attack, I was in a LSD party and there was this guy that had a very nasty aura. Long story short I got a nervous breakdown and got terribly sick after that, and a friend told me that it was weird that every time that guy was present in lsd party or weed party someone will go nuts. There was even a guy from their town that went crazy -schizophrenic crazy- for years after taking LSD with that guy. Later on we discovered he practiced black magic and we called him "the black shaman".
There are more but this one was a particularly difficult one, it was an entity trying to devour me and it was before I started practicing ritual magic or even spiritual healing, it was awful, but it also became the door for something great, which brings me towards the first thing to consider:
Cursebreaker Mindset
When afflicted by a curse, or knowing someone that is afflicted by one the upmost important thing that you can do to help, yourself or others, is your Mind Set .
Why? Because is the difference between wanting to live or to die (or suffer in a considerable manner).
Often people see curses as either a) a joke, a lie, children tale, myths or b)a devastating form of destruction that will obliterate you and there's nothing or not much you can do.
Truth be told, most people throwing curses are not that strong, but there are people that actually know how to do it well and can cause a lot of damage, or people can just pay them to do it.
But, even the strongest curse is not much against a prepared mind, strong soul and a proactive magick practitioner.
Your mindset about curses (receiving, or the possibility of receiving) must be that of an Opportunity. You know, in the same manner that when you lost your job is an opportunity to do something else, and hopefully better, or when you break up with your girlfriend/boyfriend is a possibility to fuck a whole lot of new different people.
A curse is an opportunity to test yourself magickally, mentally and physically, even financially.
Knowing this, you must face the threat in all fronts, starting with:
Mind
Your new mantra is There's always a solution You repeat it like a crazy person. Another one is I have the power, because actually, you Do have it.
This mindset will allow you to take decisive action towards improving your life and destroying the influence of the curse.
You must know that as an universal rule, You and only You are the God of your Sphere of Influence. That is, the weird energetic field whose patterns are just you to configure, and which determines both the physical expression of thyself and the events and situations that occurs in your life.
Why is so important to know this? Because it means that the effort that someone needs to destroy you is a lot compared to the effort you need to be well.
We often think that is the opposite, that we as individuals are powerless in front of the environment or other people, that big powers can easily destroy us and shit. Well that's a well shared big fat lie.
A Buddha can erase hell with a simple breath. And everyone is a Hiding Buddha, so the potential power is there for you.
Improving your mindset with affirmations and such will also help you destroying negative thoughtforms you've created or taken from others along your life.
Many people think they're possessed, cursed or haunted when in fact they have just awful emotional configuration and horrible thoughtforms.
Meditate. Meditation will help you a lot, from simple zazen (very very good for restoring the original mind, and healing the sickness of human mind) to others more advance (I'll put a couple of examples in the "Magick" section of the tutorial.
Physical
Your body will maintain yourself if you have energy. Energize your body with an improvement of your diet and exercise.
Learn to relax your nerves and muscles with breathing.
Take full body sunbaths if possible, or take baths with salts, Himalayan salt or Atacama's desert salt have high concentrations of sun energy, very good at cleansing your body and aura.
Change your environment. If your house looks like one of those Diogenes syndrome people, then you need to make an effort and clean away.
Search for fresh air and contact with nature. Your body, your eyes need to see the forms of nature to keep yourself healthy.
Yoga. Is popular for a reason.
Magick
The first thing you need is discard false sense of threat, that is very common on some folks, paranoia. Search for help of not one, but a handful of divinators.
Then you must take magickal action. Here I'll write some methods I've used personally and my experience with it, and some that I have not but that I know they exist so they may worth trying.
a) Create a strong relationship with an entity
This will help you in all your magickal endeavors. This relationship may be looking for a demon or deity to be your Patron; or having a strong bond with a personal entity, such as a personal jinn, or a familiar spirit. This last one may not be all powerful, but it will help.
Setting up an altar in your place for this entity, is creating an important space in your sphere of influence from which that "Intelligence" or "Consciousness" or whatever they are can act in your life, advice you, protect you and heal you.
I've seen that many rituals and curses work on sending entities. Even if the magician does not order specific entities, and only send "bad energy", that will bring entities that feed on the afflicted, and depending on the areas of the energetic body they feed it will affect different aspects of your life.
So, having a Patron will help since they can establish some kind of cavalry around you.
b) Establish friendship with the spirits of the place
Similar to the first one, but not so intimate. There are various kinds of spirits all around, be them sithes, hidden folk, jinns, etc. Some places (like my hometown) are specially plagued with entities, not all of them friendly. But they need not to be your enemies.
Entities love attention, and offerings. They love sharing too, and different entities have different reaction to people, specially when invading the places they dwell. Here in the desert there are lots of "holes" and old abandoned mines where are jinn. Some others just rumble the streets, they're funny to look, they look like spirals lights going up and down, small astral light (or darkness) tornadoes.
If you can spot them, they can spot you. Find a place near your house or where you live, that is famous for having weird activity, or where you can see or feel presences. A good place to start is abandoned buildings or houses, solitary trees (there's actually a very specific entity living in those trees in the Mapuche tradition very powerful nasty one, but can be appeased to help).
Bring them incense, candles and food. Start with white candles, sweet food -natural if possible- and sandalwood incense. If your astral awareness is somehow developed you'll be able to perceive their preferences after a while. Start a relationship with them, ask them ask for help in specific simple purposes to test them. Be firm, entities recognize power as authority and some see softness as an invitation for causing trouble. This is a two edge sword if you don't have trust in yourself or are generally afraid of entities (which I advice "get over it").
Most entities respect magicians -those with knowledge of their own divinity-, and some serve with pleasure.
IF you have friendship or at least somehow good relationship with the spirits of the place, they'll protect you and your interest.
I suggest for you to look for the highest hill or mountain around your area. Specially those who were consider tutelary mountain gods of the natives, since they have authority above all entities in the surrounding area. They usually appear as a big animal that is locally found. Here they look like phantasmagoric mountain lions, giant guanacos (incredible to see), or big zoomorphic bugs (this one I'm most related to and at the beginning it was awful to see but now they're incredible loyal).
There's no need to bound this spirits to objects, actually I advice against it, unless you can invite one that accepts to dwell in specifically made objects in which they're not confined by bounding nor threatening spells. I think that's kind of advance but is not difficult.
This practice needs to be done periodically, and if you make promises best keep them or your ass will be on the line.
c) Search for Spiritual Healing
If you have the money, look for a serious reiki practitioner or a reconnective healing practitioner. Just search for one and go, all the sessions needed, you'll thank me later. I recommend these ones because they're the ones I have experience with. You don't even need to learn them, just go and enjoy a sesion that will help a lot.
d) Cleansing Magick
I Aural and Enviromental Cleansing
Some materials you will need:
-Silver or Iron, hopefully a knife, but if iron, it can be a hook or even one of those big nails used on train rails.
-Sage.
-Palo Santo (means Holy Woodstick) Is a special wood from a sacred tree from Perú, quite useful in cleansing places (and covering the smell of weed in your room and cloths
. Is also good against mosquitoes.-Water (that you or your patron will bless).
-Salt, hopefully a powerful one such as sea, Himalayan or Atacama desert salt.
-If you're asking your patron's help, then the incense you usually offer. If not, not necessary, tho if you prefer it can be white incense to calm the mind.
-Lavender and/or Vanilla incense and/or essence.
-Ruda plant (I think is know as rue in English but I'm not sure if is the same variety). A male one, good against curses.
-Couple of candles, either white, black or your main patron's colors.
Procedure:
This is best made if you're alone in your place but is not necessary. At least you have to be alone in the room with the altar.
-Set up an altar and put the materials in this order:
The Candles at the sides, silver/iron stuff in the middle, the glass of water also in the middle but closer to you than the iron.
I know that traditionally people make this "long sage-tail-like" stuff to smudge. Well I don't, I burn some coals in a pottery bowl and put the sage or the mix of plants I need there, including the palo santo although I usually use that one alone after the ritual or periodically.
If you're using the help of your patron, you may well use its altar or use a consecrated seal or sigil of it on the altar you've made.
To consecrate the seal you can just simple focus, channel energy from your 7th chakra to your hands and into the white paper. In the paper you write the seal with ink of the color needed (can be black, or red, or use your blood or drake's blood, combining those is a good stuff). This can be better done previous the ritual and the sigil needs not to be used for other purposes.
So, you start. Light the candles, start your meditation the method you're used to. Consecrate the water with some salt on it, using a similar method than with the white paper of the sigil. Throw some drops of water in the four directions (beware of the candles). Consecrate the silver/iron weapon with energy, then water and then if you're using, some smoke from the incense. You can also pass the weapon in the flame of the right hand candle.
Make some small oration like "I consecrate this weapon so it will cut through physical and astral, through magick and devils, so it may cut and burn and keep me safe".
You now will start passing that weapon on your body, doing slashing movements as if you were cutting threads. Do it specially in top of your head, in the lower back, in your hands and arms. After you're don with your body, pass it again through the fire of the left candle saying somthing like "May this fire take and burn all the filth this weapon has cut and gathered".
Now you'll do a walk around your room or house, doing something similar in the corners of every room, on those places that look and feel bad and in the places the sun doesn't always shine.
You'll end up in the main door of the house. Come back to the altar and repeat the procedure with the left candle. Now is time to smudge. Do it following the same route that with the weapon.
You can recite something while you do it, if you want and feel its right.
You'll end up in the main door which you need to open and allow the smoke to go out, along with the bad stuff.
Place the remain smoking herbs there in the entrance and come back to the altar (Be careful not to cause a fire, same goes for the candles).
You'll take the glass of water and do the same route sparkling water in the corners and when you get to the entrance of the house with your index finger of your main hand draw a pentagram (or a protective symbol of your choosing, or sigil of your patron) in the door. I know some people use oil for this, but if you don't have so many materials, just use this.
Finally, comes a great part. You'll finish the ritual in the altar, giving thanks to whatever force that helped you. The candles, if they're big pilar candles I'll just blew them off, but if they're small you may let them burn entirely.
The last part is not a cleansing ritual, but a semi-formal invitation to good natured spirits.
Using the vanilla or lavender incense, you will light them just outside the house and declare something like "Oh, you powerful yet humble spirits that protect mankind (or me), come, loyal as you are, and dwell in this place, keeping it free of harm for its human dwellers, bringing only harmony and good fortune" (it can be different but you get the point).
Keep the door open, trace the same route from before but from the main entrance to the altar and place the incense in the altar along with some offering such as honey for the new guests.
You can, at that moment, agree a periodical offering of honey and incense if you want.
*My personal experience with this ritual: Is good. I did it in my grandmother's house the night before I moved out from there. Easy to make, I didn't have silver at that moment so I used iron and simple white candles. I did the invitation ritual just as I write it, it was very cool. The very next night my cousin dreamed with a "family" of "weird people" that entered the house and was introducing themselves to him (he's quite open with his astral senses but does not practice magick). They even caused small and harmless poltergeist activity, like throwing some towels to the floor and blew wind in people faces out of nowhere. After a week or so, when I returned to visit my grandma, the house was cool.
They had cleaned the backyard, threw away a lot of garbage and useless stuff, even an old painting that my cousin said it was haunted (funny side story, when they were about to throw the painting to the dumpster, it was big so they had to take it above the car's roof, but having nothing to tie it another far cousin was keeping it with his hand. The wind blew off the painting so they couldn't threw it away, and next day the guy that was handling the painting had a motorbike accident and broke his leg).
After this ritual, you better take a bath with those special salts. If you don't have a bathtub (as it was my case), just powder the salt and before you enter the shower cover and scrub the salt around your body thoroughly. Then take the shower.
II The Egg Cleansing
This ritual is pretty well known. Consist in using raw egg to cleans your aura, since it absorbs the bad stuff, then you break it and you'll see the awful bad stuff that was bothering you, is disgusting.
I've been cleansed with this stuff but I didn't performed, a friend of mine did it for me. Strong result, immediate relief.
Search Egg cleansing, is probably around this forum.
e) Thought forms Help
You can do whatever you want with thought forms. Whatever, from protection, to cleansing, to alchemy... etc.
You need some previous skills:
-Deep meditation.
It doesn't need to be long, since oyu can do it in instances using many days. Creating one can be a long mental process depending how detailed and how programed it is.
-Visualization.
Really necessary. If you have trouble creating something out of nowhere in your imagination I suggest you overload your mind with pictures, videos and movies of creatures of entities simillars to those you want to create (in both, skills and or looks). It would make everything easier.
-Programation.
This is a cool process, easy if you're a D&D guy (and I say guy since I know no women that respect herself will admit being a D&D girl). The only tricky part is that you need to have knowledge of certain stuff like symbols, sigils, etc.
It helps to write down the features, skills, modus operandi, rituals, and so on of your thoughtform so you can crystalize your thoughts in words.
The process may be long to explain, I recommend the book "Creating Your Reality The Easy Way: How to create a winning team of magickal entities" by Lee Cain. It's easy to read and overall explains the process and some good tips. It is not a step by step detailed guide but is good enough, and very cheap in kindle amazon.
After you're capable of clearly see the entity you want to create (I mean, in your mind's eye) and you're very sure of the features and skills, behavior you want to program it you need to make a simple ritual.
I've improvised a ritual after a meditation that left me with an overload of energy, I felt so powerful that if I clapped my hands I was sure I was gonna exorcise anything. Anyway, with a big sigil of the entity, I placed the object in which I wanted to house the entity (as Lee Cain says, entities don't "live" in objects", the thought forms at least dwell in our sphere of influence, but we use objects to better focus on them, so is for us more than them).
Dictate the features, skills, obligations and the commands you'll use to activate it. I used my blood to create a bond between the object and the thought form. And is feed of my fluids every time it completes a job.
I talk to it and visualize it every day, and even draw it in a sketch book.
I have another 2 not attached to any object... I think the object thing is useful when you have a good number of them active so you can focus better.
f) Direct Curse Breaking
This method is the shortest one but it can be difficult to accomplish. You need a developed sense of astral awareness, courage, have trespassed fear of death and energy manipulation skills.
When you have a high level of awareness you'll know when someone is thinking of you or feeling, and you'll sense if is something bad or good. You're gonna feel it in some specific parts of the body, those are the energy centers they affect.
Now, normal gossip, is like a tickle to energetic body, whilst curses are like knife stabbing, but this is a good thing, since you can feel it better.
Curses are energy and patterns of energy. Actually, all the energy is the same, the intent just transform the patterns that are sent from one sphere of influence to another. Personal spheres of influence have certain patterns to which external patterns stick. Curses do this, that's why you need a psychic link to curse (but the link works both ways).
If you have a high level of awareness it meas that you're constantly aware of your energy field, even as walking, standing, sitting or laying. Whenever something big comes your way you're gonna feel it right away.
As soon as you feel it don't fight it. This is the most difficult part, people tend to run from curses as they run from childish traumas. The key to outgrow a trauma (a energetic pattern that repeats itself as an emotion linked to a memory) is to fully feel it and integrate it inside you.
When you block yourself from the trauma, it gets outside and it haunts you. In the east that is called "demonic possession", you have energy points blocked and that energy can't flow, causing great turmoil to mind and body.
You need to accept the curse (energetically, not as an idea "oh my god, I'm cursed that is bad"... If you're not able to surpass thoughts about it and derrotism, then this method is not for you and I'll wont be responsible for your damage), or the energy of it.
The body works in a very miraculous way. The deeper you go into the layers of the energy body, the most powerful it becomes until you go to the two primal forces before dissolution... The Great Dark Mother Womb of the Existence... and The Great Manifested Existence... in between, there's non-existence.. the key of everything.
What you'll do is accept the energy from curse (which will be accompanied by visions of those who cast it) and let the energy flow... is important to let it flow without fear... fear will close your doors, whilst acceptance will open the divine doors.
The curse is nothing compared to the will of existence.. since its will is to keep existing.
Whilst your will to live (that comes from instinct) surpass the will of dead then you'll keep on living.
This process is as painful as to accept powerful traumas, since curses are just that... an energetic pattern attached to an emotion and an unfulfilled wish (paradoxically, a trauma is attached to a memory that is wished had never had happened). Traumas can damage or kill... or they can be overgrown.
Learning to do this will increase your inner power greatly, similar how your immune system becomes stronger after being sick or a bone consolidate stronger after being broken.
However, I advice against using this method alone. This is the last method you need to us and although I thinks the best. I think is silly to depend on this exclusively.
I advise against the attitude of "looking for curses" too, is like looking for bullets, even if you're wearing kevlar, it's just moronic.
An intelligent person creates safe measures before things happen. Magicians are supposed to be intelligent. So the best methods you can use is preventive methods.
g) Specific Mantra
Gate, Gate, Paragate, Parasamgate Boddhi Svaha! (Edit2: Corrected thanks to Fox_Spirit).
Incredible powerful mantra to use. It takes you to non-existence. The way to use better is not as mos people use mantra. They use the mantra to calm the mind and enter deeper meditation.
Instead, calm the mind by focusing in the body, then the breath, then the energy body... then go deeper into yourself and in that state you need to vibrate with the lowest point of your throat:
GAH-TEH, GAH-TEH, PAH-RAH (pronounced with soft "r")-GAH-TEH, PAH-RAH-SAM-GAH-TEH, BO-DY (as in Body)-SOH-HA (as in laughter "HAHAHA").
This mantra will destroy everything the self is identified with, and that means a trip to the self, a renovation of the sphere of influence.
Not only will it break curses, it will change your perception of existence and of yourself.
When this is done right, you'll feel a strong fear of stop existing, is cool, that's good you need to accept the reality of non existence, like if you had never ever existed in the first place. You won't die, the small self will, and is the most liberating of human experiences.
h) Prevention Magick
Creating protective thoughtforms, having alliances with entities, establishing a strong bond with a patron can be considered prevention magick. Also Ancestors cult is in this category, but I didn't cover it because I don't
Now I've encountered this incredible cool practice of witch bottles, that is new to me, but is simple and I think it works since nothing has happened from a while and I was under attack not so long ago.
It is covered in Jason Miller's book "Protection Magick" (or something like that).
It's a bottle in which you'll put
nine nails,
nine needles and
nine pins.
Inside you'll also put urine, or something like hair or fingernails to get the bottle to be with your energetic imprint.
You place the bottle somewhere safe. I advise consecrate the bottle. The bottle act as a magnet for things that are sent at you, and the pointy items inside break those energetic patterns leaving nothing but dispersed energy into the etheric.
Another thing you can do to prevent bad stuff is to place consecrated Irons and Silver everywhere, specially the room you sleep.
There must be many more methods of both breaking and preventing curses that I don't know of, this ones are the one I've practiced (unless I've stated the contrary, obviously) and I know they can help.
A word of advise, be wise with whom you chose to relate to. In the past I related to a guy that wasn't all that bad, but wasn't good either... he got lots of enemies and some of those enemies where people I liked too... I runned away from that conflict and I lost possible friendhips with very cool people, and I think I gain a couple of curses too, probably from both sides. So, if I had trusted the right people, I may have avoid some troubles.
Anyway, be healthy in your endeavors and learn to protect yourself. Sometimes that is more difficult than attacking because we so naturally stop caring about ourselves sometimes. Never do that.
Hope this can help somebody.
EDIT:
I forgot a Method.
The use of Runes. I study runes and use it as talismans, and astral doorways. Don't use it as divination that much.
Anyway, Runes are extremely powerful, and more potent as your understanding grows deeper. There's a nice runic ritual you can perform.
Involves finding a nice strong tree, hopefully a tall one that you can climb. You need to cut a branch from the tree but you need to do it with is permission. To make the tree agree to that you can water the tree and talk to it and commune with it. Meditate near it, etc. Establish a bond with it. Now, I live in the desert and trees are grateful with anyone giving them water. Many trees die around here so they really love people who take care of them
After you have your branch, or stick, cut a nice section, enough co carve runes on it. You can either carve a protective rune or runic sigil, or a sigilized version of your name on runes (this is more for empowerment really).
After you've carved the runes, paint it with your flood and charge it with energy or meditating on it. You can sing it Galdr style.
After the rune amulet is ready, go back to the tree, this is the fun part. You need to climb the tree the highest part you can and tie the amulet there with some red rope.
If you are familiarized with energetic body of trees, you'll know that they rise energy towards the sky (not all tho). The amulet will get empowered by the tree, since it belonged ot it and now is has your blood.
Try this, you can use Tiwaz to grow in strength and leadership.
You can use Berkana in the roots of the tree too.
Forming a relationship with a tree is a powerful stuff, I haven't got to the point of worshiping, but I think that if you worship a tree it can easily become a minor deity of the place. That practice is common with the natives in the south of my country, but since I haven't done it I dunno what would happen.