YOU, UNLIMITED: Can You Hold an Open Heart While Protecting Your Energy?

What if staying spiritually open didn't mean leaving yourself vulnerable? In the latest episode of YOU, UNLIMITED, Adria Estribou tackles one of the most practical mystical questions facing conscious seekers: how to hold an open heart while maintaining energetic boundaries.

Broadcasting live from Mount Shasta—another sacred hotspot where she says she becomes "even more soft and mystical"—Adria channels Angel Raphael and Adama of Telos to explore the paradox of divine unity and individual protection.

How Do You Protect Your Energy Without Closing Your Heart?

"If everything is consciousness, everything is the divine, then there can't really be anything that could harm you," Adria begins. "It's all you. But at the same time, we're aware that there could be a person with a knife or a person whose energies you just don't want to interact with."

She describes walking down the street and sensing someone she doesn't want to encounter energetically. "I don't want to have this big judgment, closed-hearted perspective of 'Don't get near me, your energy is frightening.' At the same time, to recognize... I don't want to bring that into my field."

Angel Raphael offers a surprisingly practical solution: platinum light. "Start at about four feet around you," Raphael instructs through Adria. "Use your own light in a platinum format... and you give the platinum light instruction. What is allowed to come into my field?"

The key distinction? This isn't fear-based defense. "You don't have to take it as a five-alarm fire," Raphael explains. "It doesn't have to feel like defense or life or death threats. You approach this practically." Think of energetic protection like drinking water or eating food—simple maintenance, not warfare.

Watch the full episode to hear Raphael's complete guidance on the platinum light technique and when physical alert systems in your body signal boundary breaches.

Are You Living Out Someone Else's Energetic Pattern?

In a fascinating teaching on what she calls "patterns," Adria shares how she unconsciously acted out behaviors that weren't even hers. Arriving at a friend's home in Mount Shasta, she found herself hiding her belongings and feeling embarrassed about how much she'd packed.

"After she left, I realized there was this energy in the house of fear and hiding," Adria explains. Someone—possibly a previous guest—had left an energetic imprint of hiding behavior, perhaps related to alcoholism. "I walk into the space and I encounter the pattern, and like a good knitting machine, I start knitting that pattern."

But her mind created a whole story to justify it: "I've got too much stuff. I don't want to crowd my friend." The behavior came first; the rationalization followed.

She offers another example that many will recognize: anxiety before travel. "I recognized that because my mom had traveled just two or three days before I did, and I saw this similar pattern of anxiety in her, that I actually learned from her... that you get anxious before you travel."

The solution? "Meditation in nature," Adria shares. After days of feeling overwhelmed by patterns, she sat on a tree stump during a hike. "I came into so much energy and bliss and recognition that that's what I feel like when I'm in my I am... without all these influences of other people and patterns."

Can Two Different Truths Be Equally Valid?

In a teaching on "overlapping truths," Adria shares a beautiful example from a recent sound bath she led in Sedona. She called in galactic healing energies and experienced an Arcturian bringing a round spaceship—with all participants inside it.

When she asked her mother about the experience afterward, her mom described "this really strong purple light, like magenta purple" (confirming the violet flame Adria had extended) and said "we were all on this round lotus... moving through space."

"I loved this because these were not contradictory," Adria reflects. "We were seeing from a slightly different vantage point, but I believe we were seeing the same thing. It was a spaceship and a lotus round. To me, that's not a conflict."

Angel Raphael expands on this: "Be cautious of believing there's only one truth or only one way of understanding... When someone tells you there's only one aspect of this or there's only one truth, it may be the one aspect that's most important, most vital for them to know right now. It may be useful for you or not."

The teaching goes deeper with Adria's story of encountering scorpions in her Sedona home—a tale that takes unexpected mystical turns involving deadly energy, practical safety measures, and ultimately, recognizing herself as the "deadly one" who killed the scorpion. The paradox becomes the teaching.

Stream the complete episode to experience the full channeled transmission, including wisdom from Adama of Telos on multidimensional awareness and how understanding yourself as "multiple places at once" changes the boundary question entirely.

Adria closes with characteristic warmth: "Thank you for being alive here on Earth on this most amazing, uplifting time. And I look forward to being with you on the journey as it continues."

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