How do I cope...

I get asked that all the time, How do I cope with all the shit a muck and negative.

I'll be honest. some days I don't I just ignore it and it piles up until I have to do a cleansing. 
I do try to not let negative things creep in and sometimes it's not possible, look at the world we live in.

Constantly getting assaulted by spirits is rough. You don't learn how to deal with them overnight.  It's a years long process.  I'm pretty sure there has never been a sensitive who at the age of three said, I can deal.

The darkness is a very dangerous place.  There are things that lurk there no child should ever be exposed to.  And I'm not talking about the hours between dusk and sunrise, although those can be pretty hairy.

Demons and the Dark forces that revolve in the spirit world go from plain weird to downright scary.  My first encounter with a demon was scary, I know now probably because I wasn't ready for it and never expected it, Now I hunt them.

I in no way think I'm a Demon Ninja or anything but I've learned how (I hope) to steel myself against them.

I like that, a Demon Ninja. 

I have my days where my attitude is one of, DO NOT touch me.  I might snap, be rude but in all fairness it's because I was inundated while I was sleeping.  Some nights I'm visited by hundreds of spirits, most of whom I never recall, some who try to stay.

I have taken to putting some of what I've learned into practice.  I sage my house monthly. I put a ring of Kosher salt around the outside and when I moved into the new house I'm pretty sure the neighbors thought, "Great some California weirdos" LOL  I also have crystals hanging throughout the house, in front of each doorway.  A mirror above the front door, and I've seen spirits walk up to the door and vanish.  I place my sage ash at the door.

Now, this is something everyone wonders.  I do place crushed brick at the doorway, it's a voodoo thing I was told to do by a VooDoo priestess in Haiti to keep my enemies away and out of my house but I also place the ash from the sage I use to clean the house.  You place the ash right on the door frame and it keeps those who seek to do harm out of the house, it works. There is one specific person I want to keep out of my house, that person has not come near since I've been doing it.

I've learned you chose to be dark or you chose to be light.  Those of us who are sensitive move between, I always joke, What is normal.  For sensitives it's no joke, sometimes we have to take a step way back and re-evaluate to be sure it's a normal day, because what's normal for you may not be for us and that's how I cope.

I'm over my days as a wannabe member of The Cure (yep, powdered face and all), I'm not going to allow the demon(s) to use me, touch me....I'm a Demon Ninja and my weapon of choice is light.
I may still have my days but I work through the dark as much as I can because like they say, that light at the end of the tunnel is just another train and I'm gonna use the light to chase away the demons.

It's not a safe place to be in darkness all the time, you have to balance the two and you have to learn to say NO!!  Saying no to a demon might piss it off and that's why you always have to be ready for a fight, ready to get into the muck.