Learn to spot them before it’s too late.
They could be your mother or your partner. They could be a childhood friend or your boss. They could be your neighbor across the street.
They could be anyone.
Spiritual vampires, unlike Dracula, walk among us in broad daylight.
How do you recognize them?
Here are three signs
1. They love to stir up a hornet’s nest.
Spiritual vampires smell your peace of mind, and they want to bite (metaphorically) your neck and suck you dry.
That’s why they become obsessed with making your day miserable whenever they see you happier than usual.
They can do it subtly by bringing up a topic that they know bothers you.
- “What do you hear from your ex? I saw him a few days ago with his new partner.”
- “How about your brother? Is he still not helping you with your parents?”
- “Your face looks bad. Should you get some tests done?”
Or they can do it by rarifying the atmosphere.
- Throwing you cold looks of contempt and disapproval.
- Snorting, as if to imply that you don’t know anything.
- Or patronizing you, making you feel like you were eight years old again.
The fact is that they are only trying to stir up the hornet’s nest in your head so that the feeling of well-being you have disappears.
2. They try to seduce you
When you finally start to see the light at the end of the tunnel, the spiritual vampires come out of their crypts and go looking for you, attracted by your new life (to ruin it for you).
They approach you to suck all the positive energy that you have worked so hard to achieve through renunciations and sacrifices and return you to the underworld.
And for this, they will use their most powerful resource: seduction.
They will try to tempt you by saying things like,
- “You haven’t smoked for a few months. Smoking a cigarette won’t hurt you.”
- “We are celebrating. You can’t toast with water; it brings bad luck. Have a Wiski.”
- “Faithfulness is a thing of the past. Today, no one is faithful. Why don’t you forget your principles just for tonight? Carpe Diem.”
The spiritual vampires know your kryptonite, my little Superman (Or Supergirl).
And they will not hesitate to use your weaknesses against you.
Their goal is to make you relapse and drag you with them into the darkness.
3. They try to extinguish your light by controlling your time.
The soul needs solitude to drink from the creative source.
In other words, if you do not have quality time for yourself, your spiritual flame will be extinguished because time in solitude is the oxygen of the flame of your soul.
That’s why spiritual vampires try to complicate your life so that you don’t have time for yourself and weaken you.
How do they do it?
- They call you when they know you are working to take your mind off your work.
- They show up at your house unannounced to keep you from resting.
- They try to get into your head constantly so that whatever you do, you think compulsively about them. They do this through emails and text messages.
- They ask you for favors or invite you to events so that you feel committed to attending.
The thing is, by the time you realize it, all your peace evaporates like a cologne you leave uncovered.
So beware of spiritual vampires who want to drink your peace and goodness by abusing your trust.
But above all, don’t become one of them.
A virtual hug
AG