This question and answer series will help to clear your inner-soul confusion on all matters that are demanding your spiritual attention. Spiritual teacher and Healer Ms Veena Minocha will endeavour to clear the 'fog within' by answering all questions sent to her atveenaminocha@hotmail.com

I am a strong believer in spiritual presence; rather, I feel it. I love people and try my best to help them in their times of need but I prefer more to stay alone. I am most comfortable when on my own. If I go to market or any crowded place, I feel depleted of energy after coming back. Hence I cannot socialise much and stay alone as much as possible. Why is it so?
Minati from the USA
Veena Minocha answers: Dear Minati, it is so wonderful to feel the Spiritual Energies all around you, loving you, protecting you, and keeping you happy! No wonder you enjoy being on your own, for you are never really 'alone' in these circumstances.
You seem to be a very sensitive person, with a very high level of energy, yet you probably do not keep yourself protected from the negative energies prevalent in the rest of the world. All around you, there are human beings whose worlds are filled with fear, doubt, anger, negative thoughts, and cruel minds.
{{/usCountry}}You seem to be a very sensitive person, with a very high level of energy, yet you probably do not keep yourself protected from the negative energies prevalent in the rest of the world. All around you, there are human beings whose worlds are filled with fear, doubt, anger, negative thoughts, and cruel minds.
{{/usCountry}}When you go to a public place like the marketplace, you feel these negativities very strongly, and you allow them to make 'holes' in your aura of light. These energies then attach themselves as dense particles into your energetic field. These people are also like sponges, feeding off your positive energy, by pushing their emotional hooks into your electromagnetic field. The result is that you feel drained of all energy, whilst these people feel uplifted and lighter by pushing against your auric field.
Do not feel that you have to remain isolated from the world because of this problem. Whilst it is a wonderful thing to feel complete and fulfilled in your own inner silence, please remember that we are human beings with an interconnectedness to the rest of the world, at the soul level. As we have decided to have this human experience for this lifetime, it is not right for us to remain away from the world.
The process of keeping yourself in psychic protection has been explained in my columns earlier, but I will briefly repeat it for you.
Every morning, before you leave the home, call down the Violet Flame to clear your four lower bodies of all negativity. Then fill your auric egg, which is about three feet in radius around you with a brilliant white, or golden light. Finish the process with surrounding yourself with a six-inch thick bright blue and gold wall of light, so that no negative energy can attack your aura.
In case you find your energy depleted anytime, please repeat the process described above, and you will feel perfectly balanced once again.