Our Approach to Energy Attachment and Paranormal Experiences
Energy attachment and entity release are taught in Module 6 – Past Life Regression, after practitioners have trained in Hypnotherapy, Inner Child work and current-life regression.
The reason for this sequence is simple: most therapeutic work begins with current-life experiences, childhood patterns and unresolved emotions. Past Life Regression is explored when the root of an issue does not appear to lie in the current life, while energy attachment work is rarer still.
We teach it because such experiences can arise in therapy, and practitioners need to know how to approach them rather than dismiss or improvise.
What Does Research Say About These Experiences?
Paranormal and possession-like experiences are often dismissed as superstition. Research takes a more nuanced position: these experiences occur in the general population and have been associated with trauma and dissociation. This does not establish what an “entity” is, but suggests these experiences deserve careful investigation.
A general-population study of 502 adults found that paranormal and extrasensory experiences were widespread and associated with childhood trauma and dissociative symptoms (Ross & Joshi, 1992).
Two later meta-analyses provide particularly relevant findings:
- Childhood abuse and dissociation: People with a history of childhood abuse scored around 70% higher on dissociation than those without such histories. Neglect showed a similar association, with stronger effects when abuse began earlier, lasted longer or involved a parent (Vonderlin et al., 2018).
- Dissociation and possession experiences: A 2025 meta-analysis found that women were roughly 2.5 times more likely to show pathological dissociation and around 4 times more likely to report possession experiences than men (Carraturo et al., 2025).
Other researchers have explored anomalous experiences as possible ways of symbolising traumatic material that has not been integrated (Rabeyron & Loose, 2015), while also arguing that such experiences warrant serious methodological investigation rather than automatic dismissal (Moreira-Almeida & Lotufo-Neto, 2017).
These studies do not tell us what an entity is. They do, however, highlight trauma and dissociation as important areas to consider when understanding these experiences.
Whether an entity is understood as a literal energy or as a highly externalised structural dissociation of an internal part (van der Hart et al., 2006), the clinical implication is the same: resolve the underlying developmental trauma first. That is precisely why this work is taught last. A practitioner grounded in inner child and trauma work is far less likely to mistake structural dissociation for an external force.
So, what are my views on this?
I had always been a skeptic and a non-believer when it came to rituals or any such “hokey pokey” and “voodoo” stuff like black magic or foreign entity attachments. I used to believe it was all a figment of a few people’s active imagination and creativity, coupled with a slight imbalance in the brain.
Brought up by parents who didn’t even go to temples, I believed ghosts, entities and black magic were all paranoia and hallucinations of the weak-minded.
However, over the years I have been forced to rethink this, especially after my various therapy experiences with clients.
But before I get into that, let me share another experience of Past Life Regression that shows a very different side of the work.
Building Focus and Confidence: A Young Woman’s Perspective
In her own words:
Every one of us comes across certain problems in life, be it in school, college or elsewhere. Friends and peers might come our way, which ultimately leads to distractions.
I encountered a similar problem. Due to certain glitches with my friends, my entire focus shifted away from my studies, and a lot of mental energy went into these small issues.
Eventually, this line of thinking took the form of anger and frustration. I felt like running away from some friends only because I was not able to deal with them.
At this juncture, Past Life Regression came to my rescue.
It helped me reduce all the anger I had towards my friends. Holding on to past problems and snags was creating a concern for me. Past Life Regression really worked in loosening these small issues and forgetting them.
The result was a significant change in my attitude towards my friends.
Apart from this, it also led to a significant boost in my confidence, which I was lacking before.
Overall, I began to spend my energy on more useful things rather than thinking over and over again about the events of the day and other past issues.
This is one of the experiences that reminds me that Past Life Regression is not always about dramatic or unusual experiences. Sometimes the most important change is simply being able to let go of something that has been taking up too much space in our minds.
We All Know That We Are Not Just Our Physical Bodies
We all know that we are not just our physical bodies. We do have an energetic body as well (Pancha Kosha).
We get sick when viruses and bacteria enter our physical body. These are like foreign bodies and do not belong to us. We go to the doctor, who says “you have a viral infection” and asks about the symptoms, which may be a running nose, fever, inflammation, vomiting, loose motions and so on.
We then either wait for our bodies to fight these germs and throw them out, or take antibiotics to help us do that.
Normally there are millions of viruses and bacteria all around us, but they don’t infect us all the time. Only when our immune system weakens do we get infected by these germs, which then stay in our bodies, feed off us, and make us feel weak.
Similarly, in our energy bodies we can also have energetic invasions.
When a person gets a head injury, or is drunk, an alcoholic or a drug abuser, or is suffering from depression, prolonged low emotions and negativity. or during intercourse or menstruation, this energy body gets weak and vulnerable.
Typically, these are the times when the aura opens up, and if there are external energies floating around, they can attach to our energy body.
These bring about changes in our emotions, feelings, likes and dislikes, habits and quirks. At times, changes in our physical body can also happen because of them.
These are basically energies that do not have a physical body and are quite lost, neither here (earth) nor there (the higher planes of light). They are quite harmless most of the time, and are looking for warmth, love or physical experiences, which they get from the host body.
Remember the times when you think of a close friend all day, and she just happens to call you?
Your thoughts travelled across time and space and managed to nudge her to call you, by planting an intention or thought of you.
Just as we do distant healing, using our intentions and good wishes as energies that travel across time and space, our negativity and harmful intentions, which are equally powerful energetic forces, can also travel across time and space and affect those with a weak aura or energetic field.
Black magic pretty much works on similar logic. Just as some people are good healers, others are good “harmers” (pardon my English!) and do that for a living.
Jealousy is usually the main reason for such practices, and in some parts of the world it is very common.
These dark-force entities, placed by tantriks or similar experts, are usually harder to work with and require serious effort.
But again, it is not difficult if the host really wishes to get over it.
How I Came to Work With This
I had been shying away from this topic and this work for far too long.
In my Past Life Regression training in Singapore, we had a module on dark force entities, foreign energies, black magic and so on, and I remember feeling totally disconnected from it.
I didn’t want to have anything to do with it.
I had resolved never to work with such modalities either. I found it amusing to be taught to “talk” to these entities and convince them to leave. I mean, what on earth?
However, after a few years of practice, just before my final module in hypnotherapy, I decided to let go of my fears and skepticism (whatever it was) and deal with it head-on.
And the universe must have listened, because in that training itself I managed to attract practice partners with strong energetic attachments and victims of black magic.
I had to be grounded and do my work, and I did.
Since then I have taken this work like any other therapy work, with no special feelings for or against it.
My trainer fondly named me “Dhoby Ghat” (after Mumbai’s open-air laundry) because of the number of such entities I had cleaned up and got rid of during the training.
Recently, I had two clients with whom I had to work on this, and I find it worth sharing here.
A Young Boy’s Experience
One was a young boy whose life was pretty much a mess, smoking, alcohol, changing partners, confusion about his career and work, and a total breakdown in his relationship with his parents.
Though he was an only child, he moved out of his parents’ home very early in life.
As we were working with the therapy, we realised he had been a victim of black magic, basically nothing very grand or elaborate, just some negative energy placed by a jealous aunt, for almost nineteen years of his life.
On speaking to this energy, we realised it was a lost soul whose last life had been in Greece.
While I was talking to this energy, the body gestures of the boy changed, and so did his voice, since it was a feminine energy.
We helped release it with the help of the one loving soulmate she had, her horse.
Using the energy of her favourite animal, we managed to get rid of that energy from his body, and during the process he actually felt a huge chunk of energy being completely sucked out of him.
It was totally unbelievable for him.
Coming out of the session, he realised he was seeing things with new eyes. He felt new and different.
He felt he was seeing his parents with totally new eyes and energies.
He said he felt he was three years old again and starting from there, the energy had been in his body since he was three.
Reclaiming his body and his energies was a totally new feeling for him. He hadn’t expected anything like this, and neither had I.
His feelings, in his own words, are in the attached image below:
[Image: client’s written feedback]
Client feedback after energy attachment release session at Wellness Space
Many clients feel that everything they experienced was their imagination, which is also fine to believe, as long as the healing has worked and the client feels better.
Labelling such experiences never helps.
He wanted to wait for a few weeks before sharing his feedback, to make sure the experience was not short lived. It wasn’t.
Another Client’s Experience
Another case also happened recently. During a regular age regression session, in a state of trance, the client intuitively and on her own happened to see her reflection in a mirror, and said she saw an old lady rather than herself.
We worked on removing that energy, which had been with her for many years, again, a lost soul of a lady from Europe.
The client’s voice also changed while I was talking to the energy, which was ready to leave but had been planted by the client’s ex-partner during intercourse.
This energy, being that of a middle-aged housewife from Europe, would make this client, a very educated and qualified woman working at a management level in an MNC, do the washing, cleaning and dusting every day, and also follow the instructions of her controlling partner all the time, almost as though she were being controlled by him.
Again, we worked on it and helped it release to the light.
This client too was quite surprised at what she experienced.
She said she actually felt an energy tearing out of her body and leaving it, and after the session she was very emotional and felt very light and “clean”.
She got answers about why she did a few things that were totally unlike her, and she felt positive about making fresh changes in her life and habits.
I Know What Some of You May Be Thinking
I know some of you reading this would think I am going nuts working with clients this way, and I used to think the same a few months ago.
But not any more.
There are many things on earth and in the universe that we simply don’t understand, or don’t have the capability to understand fully, and this is just one of those million things.
Until we understood gravity it didn’t exist for us, and the same was true of magnetic force.
This seems to be yet another aspect that our science will sooner or later prove. Until then, it remains “nonsense” for most.
Keeping Such Energies at Bay
Doing regular yoga, especially Surya Namaskar, since it balances and strengthens all the chakras, along with keeping our mind and emotions positive and having a healthy, fit body, can ensure you don’t pick up these negative energies.
Staying away from psychedelic drugs, and not getting into Kundalini rising experiments without the guidance of an expert, can also help keep such energies at bay.
Imagining or visualising a protective violet bubble of positive energy around your body can help too.
What This Work Is Not
This work is not a substitute for medical or psychiatric care, and nothing described here should be read as a diagnosis or an alternative to one.
Where a person is under treatment for addiction, depression or any condition being medically managed, that treatment continues, and no one is ever advised to stop prescribed medication. Where symptoms have a medical explanation, they are treated medically. Where a person’s history accounts for their difficulties, and most of the time it does, we work with that history through inner child therapy, hypnotherapy and current-life regression.
Energy attachment work is the last thing we reach for, not the first.
Learning This Work
Practitioners training with us encounter this material in Module 6 – Past Life Regression, after building a foundation in hypnotherapy, inner child integration and trauma-informed practice across the earlier modules of the one-year certification.
If you are looking for a session rather than training, start with an enquiry — the first conversation establishes which approach fits what you are dealing with.
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References
Moreira-Almeida, A., & Lotufo-Neto, F. (2017). Methodological guidelines to investigate altered states of consciousness and anomalous experiences. International Review of Psychiatry, 29(3), 283–292. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540261.2017.1285555
Rabeyron, T., & Loose, T. (2015). Anomalous experiences, trauma, and symbolization processes at the frontiers between psychoanalysis and cognitive neurosciences. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 1926. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01926
Ross, C. A., & Joshi, S. (1992). Paranormal experiences in the general population. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 180(6), 357–361. https://doi.org/10.1097/00005053-199206000-00004
van der Hart, O., Nijenhuis, E. R. S., & Steele, K. (2006). The Haunted Self: Structural Dissociation and the Treatment of Chronic Traumatization. W. W. Norton.
