People you just don't like

[Kasha]

I've been meditating a month now, and learning about my energy centers. This has resulted in a lot of changes, some physical, some mental but lately I've been getting really strong vibes from people, and I've been concluding there's just some people I want to stay away from.

Is this fair? This is the absolute worst case of 'snap judgement' I can think of. It's one thing to judge people people based on race, class or creed, but just from bad vibes?

I'm starting to believe in good vs. evil, and the 'dark side'. Some people are just overwhelmed by dark forces it seems. I'd love some insight please.

[MyEyeIsOpen]

I don't think it's a matter of not liking them per se, it's just not energy you want to expose yourself to. As you develop, you'll become even more discerning. For example, you've begun to notice people who are actively negative. In time you'll see people who just ineffective or simpering, and you may gravitate away from them as well. I love these people, but unless I'm with them to help, then there's no reason to spend time around people who don't challenge me to be the best I can be.

[SimonaRich]

It is natural that when you start meditate you become more sensitive to the energies of other people. Yes, some people are disconnected and they may have bad intentions so you will pick up on such vibes.

But doesn't that make you appreciate this new ability that you have? Now you know which people would be those that you can trust and which ones are the ones that you should stay away from.

It does not mean that you have to be judgemental about the ones that you pick up bad vibes from, just be appreciative of the fact that you are aware of their intentions and you have the choice of not being around them.

[MiBeloved]

When one meditates, especially if one has recently started a practice, one will find that one develops a change in association, whereby some persons who were close seem far away, and some who were not even in the vicinity become close.
This is because intrinsic changes occur in the psyche through meditation. One might reach a deeper level of the self and then one’s surface or cultural personality changes. Others notice the change. Those who were close and who feel as if they are losing you, panic and do things to try to maintain your association in an effort to keep you on the near and dear side of their life.
In advanced stages of meditation this is handled by being kind to such persons even though one realizes that the relationship with them is superficial. One understands that if such persons are hurt, then the pain has to be absorbed by somebody and so one maintains an association even if it is no long of great value as it was before.
However in the beginning stages of meditation, one cannot do this proficiently and therefore one should try to gradually decrease the associations which seem to hamper spiritual advancement.
Meditation opens up the subconscious and brings out the other you(s), the you from this past life and from that past life, and when that surfaces in the conscious mind one seems to have changed even to relatives. They were used to just the surface self which was recently created in this life, and when meditation opens the psyche and the deeper self moves into the conscious mind, it can frighten people who knew you before and were only familiar with the recent cultural identity of you.
Eventually you will reach a stage in meditation where a compassion and caring interest develops, one which you can express without drawing yourself totally into the surface self which others are familiar with.
One way to conceive of this is to study how mothers do baby talk. The mother assumes a completely different mood but it is based on a need to nurture the child. So the mother assumes a sort of fairy tale character just to accommodate and relate to the infant. So in advanced meditation one does a sort of surface talk to relate to persons who have not ventured into their deeper self. And through that their anxiety over one’s development which to them means that you are leaving their company, goes away.

[Halffull]

Great Post.