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This is one section of Giltwist's Energetic Almanac. You can reach the other
parts of the Alamanac by clicking the following links or you can just continue
reading for the rest of this section.
Part I: Grounding
Part II: Channeling & The Psi-Ball
Part III: Basic Energy Techniques
Part IV: Shielding
Part V: Cleansing & Attunement
Part VI: Constructs
Part VII: Overload
Part VIII: Etiquette
Part IX: Troubleshooting
Part X: Resources & References
Part XI: Notes
PART II - CHANNELING & THE PSI-BALL
Without realizing it, in learning to Ground you have learned a skill that,
with some developement, will blossom into energy channeling. The process of
Grounding redistributes the energy in your subtle body. In some cases, Grounding
even changes the shape of your energy body, extending it or extruding it.
This is a very simple and mostly passive form of energy channeling, and it
is from this starting point that you will soon be able to actively channel
not only your energy, but the energy around you.
To begin this next phase of your training, remember how you feel when you
Ground. In particular, remember how you shifted your consciousness. Now, pick
a part of your body, for the sake of argument, let's say your stomach. Shift
your consciousness to your stomache. Hold it there for a few moments to make
sure you've really anchored yourself. In Grounding, you let the element of
your choice do all the work of moving energy for you. Now, you are going to
have to do it yourself.
Visualize your center of consciousness as a big magnet for your energy. Wherever
you move it, your energy will slowly start moving toward it. So keep visualizing
the energy being pulled from every corner of your body as if it were by a
magnet. Soon, you will begin to feel sensations in your stomach. In general,
this is experienced as a tingling, a growing heat, or a pressure. I, in this
particular case, find that I experience a sensation much like "butterflies."
If successful, you will have actually used your willpower to concentrate the
energy of your body.
Once you have successfully performed the above technique several times, the
next step is to channel energy from inside your body to outside your body
and back. What you are about to do can be compared to the arcing of electricity
through the air. However, this process should be both more prolonged and less
intense. Begin by moving all the energy to your dominant hand. Once you have
a good amount of energy in your dominant hand, hold it out in front of your
body palm flat. Put your non-dominant hand parallel to it about an inch or
two away. As quickly as you can, shift your consciousness from the dominant
hand to the non-dominant hand. With luck, you will find that the energy will
take the shortest path it can, namely across that inch between your hands.
You will know an unsuccessful attempt if you sense if your energy flowed
up your arm, across your shoulders, and down the other arm. With practice,
you will be able to extend this arcing process to considerable distances.
Having successfully bridged the gap between your hands, you will likely now
want to try again. So, move the energy up your non-dominant arm, across your
shoulders, and back to your dominant hand. Repeat this process as many times
as you will, but don't overtax yourself. After a few successful attempts,
try making the arc go slower. Don't just move instantly from one hand to the
other; shift your consciousness through the separating space. With practice,
you will be able to create and sustain a constant loop from hand to hand then
back again.
Now that you can move your own energy around, it is time for you to start
working one moving about the ambient energy in the air around you. I know
two easy ways to do this. One is a breathing technique and one relies on what
you already know about energy channeling.
For the first, you can visualize the ambient energy around you as a colored
fog. Get into a comfortable position, and you can spend a few moments meditating
or grounding if it helps. Begin to take slow, deep breaths. Focus on the flow
of air in and out of your lungs until you develop a natural rhythm. Now, just
like fog, visualize the ambient energy flowing in and out of you with each
breath. Once you have a good grasp on the energy, take in a big breath, sucking
in as much energy as you can. Hold your breath for a few moments and let the
energy in your lungs soak into you. Release your breath and visualize that
no energy flows out this time. You should be infused with a little extra energy.
Try channeling this extra as if it were your own.
The second technique can be related to fishing. In this scenario, you will
visualize the energy around you as fog as before. Then, begin to channel an
arc of energy between your hands using whatever technique you wish. Now, begin
to stretch the arc outward from you, letting it expand as it goes. In a few
moments, you should have something akin to a large net cast outward from your
hands. Begin to reel this net, along with all the energy it can hold, back
towards you. When it gets close, bring you hands together, closing the net
into a bag of sorts. Retract this whole bag into the hand of your choice.
With any luck, you will have also absorbed the energy you just netted.
Energy gathering accomplished, you are finally ready to make a psi-ball.
Gather yourself some energy. Now, instead of just channeling this energy between
your hands, what you will want to do is let it pool in the palm of your hand.
Visualize this energy flowing together into a little marble of energy in your
palm. Gather some more energy, and you can add another layer to your growing
psi-ball. Repeat this process until the psi-ball is as big as you would like.
However, if you just try throwing this psi-ball right away, you will find
that it won't get more than a little bit away from you before it just simply
dissolves. There are two things that you can do to improve the lifespan of
your psiballs. The first is to simply condense your psi-ball. Visualize the
psi-ball shrinking but not losing any energy. Some do this as visualizing
the psi-ball as getting smaller and brighter. I suggest alternating between
growing your psi-ball and condensing your psi-ball several times before you
try throwing it, which is, sometimes, referred to as pinging. The second method
is Binding, which I will cover in the section on constructs.
PART III - BASIC ENERGY TECHNIQUES
The ubiquitous psi-ball is pretty much a standard for newcomers as their
first construct. Alas, for a lot of people, this is all they ever learn to
do. So, I thought I would share some of the other little tricks I have developed
or encountered over the years.
Reiki:
By and large, Reiki is the number one most popular form of energy channeling.
However, it has been my experience that Reiki is a far more passive form
than what I am trying to teach. In performing Reiki, the practitioner is
acting as a focusing lens for energy rather than as a sculptor. Reiki, though,
is still definitely worth a look. If you are interested in learning how
energy work can be used to heal, Reiki is a good place to start. A Reiki
session or class is a great way for a novice energy channeler to experience
energy work performed by someone else. Closely related to Reiki, you might
also choose to investigate crystal healing. To the best of my knowledge,
crystal healing involves the practitioner pumping energy into assorted stones
and letting the stones' inherent properties alter the energy into forms
that are useful for specific kinds of healing.
Psi-smoke:
You begin this practice, like most, by grounding and/or centering if you
feel the need. Take a deep breath then release as much of it as you can
without straining yourself. Focus on the ambient energy around you. Some
people "reach out" with their feelings in the Star Wars-esque
manner, others "open their third eye." Whatever method you choose,
visualize the energy all about you, perhaps as colored mists. Begin to suck
in air and the ambient energy with it. However, instead of taking the energy
into you, let it collect in your mouth, filling it as if with smoke being
drawn from a cigarette. When you have drawn in as much as you can, hold
it there for a moment to sort of solidify a bit. Then, just like blowing
smoke, blow the energy back out. It will stay together a bit, then diffuse
in a smoky way, unless you otherwise decide to control it.
Glowing Eyes:
This one is just pure fun when done in front of your Sensitive friends.
In fact, I've noticed that a lot of Sensitives do this naturally during
periods of heightened emotions, primarily anger. The premise is virtually
identical to the glowing fingers/hands techniques you find out on the internet,
just focused in a more expressive place. I have fairly limited visual impressions
from energy, compared to the average Sensitive, but I can actually see this
one sometimes.
Step one is to ground and center as needed. After that, make sure you have
a full tank of energy, because, where the psi-smoke doesn't expend extra
energy, this does. Next, focus on your personal energies. If you are shielded,
it should feel fairly well defined and closer to you depending on how tight
your hold is on your energy. If you are unshielded, it will probably feel
like you are in the middle of a wispy cloud that extends anywhere from a
couple inches to a couple feet away from you. Either way, visualize all
that energy moving into your physical body. Once it is into you, send it
all to the place you want to glow, in this case your eyes. You may begin
to feel a little pressure behind your eyes - this is normal. Now, once you
have it where you want it, you need to push it back out of you, either like
your eyes are headlights with big beams of light coming out of them, or
just as if they are like eye-shaped glow sticks with a gentle light coming
out. Either way, you want to push it out of your body, or the most the average
person will sense is a buildup of energy. Be gentle though. If you have
ever heard the phrase "staring daggers into my back" people are
talking about the natural occurrence of this phenomena. It can be very displeasing
to have people using their Superman-like heat vision to stare at you, if
you get my drift.
Energy Drink (no not Gatorade):
This is, perhaps, the coolest introductory level trick I have ever had
the pleasure to try out. First, you are going to need a good number of people
who are, at the very least, sensitive to subtle energy.
I worked with five, though it could easily be expanded to more. You are
going to want at least three of these people to be able to energy channel.
That's the bulk of the work here. The others are going to be taste testers.
You heard me right. This little experiment is going to show you that subtle
energy can be experienced via more than just sight or touch.
First, you are going to need a glass of water. Glass is preferable. Please,
no plastic or metal, but wood, porcelain, and such should be okay too. So,
pick who is going to be the first taster. To establish a control, fill the
glass with clean drinking water and have the taster have a sip. Then, have
the first of the energy channelers fill the water as much as they easily
can with their energy. An easy method to do this is to just make a psi-ball
that engulfs the glass and hold it there for a minute or two. The taster
should then take another sip. If all goes according to plan there should
be a distinct, though sometimes hard to define, change in the flavor of
the water.
The next channeler should then use whatever means they know to dissipate
the previous channeler's energy from the water. When in doubt, dump out
the water and start fresh. This process should repeat until one taster after
the other has tasted the energy of all the channelers.
In my experiments, most times, each of the channelers tasted different
from the last, and there was some consistency between tasters as to who
tasted like what. Consistently, people have described my personal energy
as metallic and bitter.
PART XI - NOTES
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