Bargaining

I'm not really sure where this came from but I suspect the Judeo/Christian faith as most older faiths have better sense.

An accomplished spell worker came by and had a question about her work. It seems she does everything right but she gets "some" return on the spells for herself, whereas for others, they work completely. That's strange I thought as I let her continue to ramble sort of half listening when my ears pricked up.

"You what?"

She always offers a bargain when she is doing spell work for herself pretty much along the lines of giving something up, like a favorite food, if this will just happen.

"Ah, I do believe I see the problem. Stop bargaining."

What I did not explain was the why of it.

We share this dimension with any number of creatures of energy. Some are not so nice. You have all heard the horror stories attached to Ouija boards when not used with a proper circle or invocation of protection. Those spirits are always hanging about just waiting for someone to blunder into them.
Start volunteering to hurt yourself by giving up things or preforming some task and their little ears get really BIG. They can affect the physical and they are just plain ornery. So, they will give you a little of what you ask for and wait to see what else you will do to yourself for more. Soon, you attract an audience of these lower level entities for their entertainment only.

And then you attract something, bigger, meaner and more powerful and that is when your happy little bargaining turns really nasty.  They can majorly alter this universe. They can hurt people directly. Suddenly your little temper tantrums really have effect on others, to their detriment, and you start losing energy, become unable to get up in the day time (they work best at night) and finally are just plain sick.
Next thing you know some psychic says, "Did you know you have entities attached to your aura sucking you dry?"
No matter what the price tag, remember this: the old ways of baths for purification, fumigation, bell, book and candle work the best and if it just involves waving hands over you, you might want to get really professional help.