Many higher dimensional beings are able to feed on human suffering. Those dragons not sworn to the Buddha often organize human trafficking, child sex rings, our modern immigration detention and prison systems these are all examples of some of these creatures making suffering into a ready food source. Probably one of the reasons someone like Steven Seagal is on the run in Russia over his own sexual assault issues, he's of the Gong style lineage but really fucked up. He'll say it's a deep state conspiracy but I doubt it. It's really easy to build too much jing and have a lot of nasty qi leaking out, it attracts them like flies to shit.
Some people get greedy and consciously ally with these beings. Many people who practice NLP for seduction techniques have a "dark rider" or two. One of the purposes of daoyin or guiding and leading practices is purging the patterns of our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual selves of our memories of suffering. The elemental practices, then the invocation of the bagua along the specific patterns calls for these dragons associated to one's various lineages to eat suffering, usually there are weather phenomena associated as well. I can do seated practices and strong winds will come. Tom Morrissey if going to be releasing a video course on 9 Palaces Walking for veterans with PTSD.
While not everyone feels called to it, one of the easiest methods of gaining access to higher vibration is reiki. I have done these courses and while they're less practical than the Hirai family material I've also learned it is effective. I have only done Love Inspiration's Usui courses up to 3a, Kundalini Reiki up to 3, and I'm almost done with their Celestine volume. It's interesting working with various "spirit guides" that each tradition has. Usui Reiki is mainly Japanese but if you're familiar with the Chinese side then one should call for Guanyin, Li Jing, Amituofo/Wuliangshou.
https://www.loveinspiration.org.nz/usui-reiki.htmlXingyi spirit guide - Yue Fei/Garuda
Bagua spirit guides - I need to work on this more, so far I've encountered blue/white water dragon that was Kundalini arising and overturning in a double helix spiral and spun up my 3 dantians, violet dragon then repatterned my chakras, rainbow dragon squeezed me like I was choking to death and then flew away like it just ate the fattest meal of its life. A title was communicated to me later - Dusk Guardian of the Purple Cloud Temple. The only being that has named itself so far was Astraeus.