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My friend and web-master-coach, Kathy Wilson, recently wrote a wonderful article I want to share with you about Energy Vampires. We've all experienced them, these people we get around who exhaust us, give us headaches, drain our energy. Kathy has some wonderful insight and wisdom to share. "To protect yourself from yourself and from an Energy Vampire sucking all your energy, the first and most important step is awareness: you must first recognize them. Although they have no common, outwardly visible characteristics for you to easily identify them, like long fangs or being surrounded by a flock of bats, you can easily recognize them by their behaviors.

Chronic complainers: These Energy Vampires can drain your life force just by being near you. These people don't want to change a thing in their life. They just want you to listen to their sad stories... over and over and over. They leave you feeling depressed, dumped-on, and frustrated because no matter what you say or do, they continue in their self-defeating behaviors... and then return to you so you can listen again as they whine on about how life ain't fair and everyone's against them.

People-users and manipulators:These vampires are so adept at getting other people to take responsibility for them and their actions that their victims typically don't realize they're being sucked dry of energy until they've been dragged down to the ground, gasping for breath. If you find yourself repeatedly doing work that's the responsibility of someone else or constantly "loaning" someone money or your car, you're being sucked dry by an Energy Vampire.

Drama Kings and Queens, crazy-makers, and others of that ilk:These types of Energy Vampires enlarge the reality of each current event in their life until it becomes a major trauma of catastrophic proportion, thus creating small disturbances of energy. As they share with you their story, which is always accompanied by intense emotions grown into the size of a galaxy, you become drawn into the drama. As your emotional energy increases, it further fuels the vampire's energy disturbance, growing it larger and more intense. When these Energy Vampires have filled themselves up on the energy of your emotions, they happily go away, leaving you drained and exhausted.

It's important to note that most people aren't Energy Vampires all the time. Like the bloodsucking vampires of fiction, Energy Vampires typically only appear on occasion. Moreover, anyone - even you - can be an Energy Vampire if the circumstances are just right." Check out Kathy's website: www.aninnerjourney.com