I just made the mistake of trying to channel alone.

[sjel]

Does any of this make sense?

yes, thank you blatzadict.

Sjel, I attracted the attentions of a negative entity for awhile, early after I had some fairly major energetic awakenings.  There were a couple times he interrupted\interfered with energetic work I was doing, but in both cases, I "spotted" him fairly easily because I could feel the atonalities in the harmonies (so to speak) and recognized that something was off.  And all it took was a firm shooing away to shut down the contact and break it off.

I'm pretty sure he's still keeping an eye on me, but that's probably in part because I haven't gone to any significant effort to drive him off further.  It's not worth it, plus such efforts would quickly become paradoxically self-defeating.  And I don't mind having additional perspectives\resources at my disposal, even if he occasionally gets a little pushy.  If he wants to hang around and occasionally offer his perspective\service, whatev.  I'm not particularly concerned by it.  

The trick is mostly just not being afraid.  Honestly (and this may be a topic I bang on a lot, but...) fear really is self-reinforcing.  If one accepts the negative entities are out there, and they're sometimes going to meddle, they become less scary.  It's just what they do.  Especially since -as you saw- just telling them to go away and beaming some Love at them pretty much always does the trick.  Being afraid of them automatically gives them extra power, whereas calmness denies them that extra foothold from the start.

Basically, it sounds like you dealt with the problem quite well and I'd encourage you to not let it weigh too heavily on your mind or discourage you from further exploration for too long.

The fear of the interaction is quickly waning, I realize that he was only as powerful as I was uncertain/fearful - so he wasn't very powerful. He seemed like a newbie negative entity, haha! I do think I will stick with channeling my inner higher self for a little while before I attempt channeling a positive entity.

Have you ever, conversely, attracted positive beings? As in, positive entities that are not necessarily "assigned" to you in this life, like your guides or angels. Are they as attracted to the light as negatives? It seems that when there is a light shining during personal energy work there is more risk for negative attention than positive. Also, what was the nature of your energy work? Forgive me for my questions, I am extremely new at this