Energy Work...

[Kaylara]

Does any one have any pointers for those who are new to the path and are struggling with energy sensing/working with energy?

Just thought that it might come in handy....

Kaylara

[Fawn]

Have you tried finding your own yet by rubbing your palms togehter then playing with one hand moving up and down on the other (without touching) then seeing how far apart you can get your palms and still feel your touch?

[Amora]

I was always told that whenever working with anyone elses energy field or chakras always wash your hands before and after so not to unload your energy good/bad on them and to wash theirs off of you.

[mythril]

Start Tai chi,
that is how i started feeling energy.

[Rick]

You can use a tuning fork to find the body's energy field. The tone will noticeably change when the fork enters the aura. You can also use a feather to detect the aura. Make a lifting motion with the feather, moving it closer to the subject. As the feather enters the body's energy field, it will feel "heavier" (a medium to large feather works best). I have also used a quartz point. The quartz will seem to feel slightly warmer or cooler, depending which way the energy is flowing.

[Silver Venus]

Ive always found Yoga to be wonderful to opening up your own and seeing others energies ~ Aura's..
I have been told and always have believed that if you take your left palm and draw a circle clockwise with your right index finger over the palm ~ you can do this a few times ~ this energises your energy!

Other than that I dont know that much.. so would love to learn more also!
Found this link for you.. :)

http://wiccan.virtualave.net/Main/energy.html

[mythril]

Hi

Try holding the palms of your hands up and concentrate on feeling the air touching them.
after a while u should feel tingeling, this is a sign of energy.
Practice this everyday and u will b able to feel energy very quckly in a few days.

Worked for me :).

[Kaylara]

Thanks for all of the info! I have actually been doing Energy Work for a long time now, but you've given me some techinques that I didn't know about now. I brought up the topic because I thought that it would be good to discuss the various techiniques, uses, etc. that are involved in energy work.
So, keep the good ideas coming!
Kaylara

[Kaylara]

Bump

[mythril]

I think the best place for practicing energy work is in the heart of nature.

We have a botanical garden close to where i live, there is a water fall, woods , and even two black eagles which are protected.
I feel the energies quickly there.

[Sighing_Softly]

Feeling the energy flowing between the hands is the most practical but took me alot of practice (im very earthy), and i find using a crystal is great hold it in one hand and rotate it and pass it through the aura of the other hand, itll vibrate and ull feel the aura thrugh it. Obviously, some crystals are better at this than others..

[MistOfTheSea86]

It was the first time I tried the Palm thing. I got tmy arms as far as they could go apart and a little bit further. Is that good?

[mythril]

sure, practicing that excercise is verry good for increasing sensitivity.
It is strange how you can bounce your palms together even though they are far apart. if u can do it, u have a good flow of energy in the chakras in the palms of your hands.

Have u found out which hand is your receptive hand yet?

[MistOfTheSea86]

Receptive what? I have not much studied CHakra

[mythril]

Each person has one hand or even one side of the body which is more sensitive than the other to energy.
my right hand is what i use to scan a persons aura.

[MistOfTheSea86]

I can just tell I guess. My left hand doesn't seem to be giving off any energy. BUt my right seems to be in abundance. Hey Mithril, you seem to know about Chakras. How would you clean your Brow Chakra?

[mythril]

well i do reiki so i would just place my hands over the chakra and let the energy flow and then brush the dirty energy that comes off into a candle or visualise the dirty energy as dark color and push it to a white light to change it to positive energy.

U can also emerse yourself in a salt bath and then place a cleansed crystal on your brow, it will absorbe the dirty energy , then when you feel different , take off the crystal carefully (slowly) and place it under running water or in the earth to get rid of the 'dirty' energy.

:)

[MistOfTheSea86]

one more question. Are you a Shaman? I was just wondering by your Avatar:D

[mythril]

pleasure.
:) nope , just thought it was a nice picture.

[Rick]

One hand (or side of the body, or probably more correctly, the brain) is stronger for drawing energy in, & the other for giving energy out. Your dominant hand (in the majority of people, the right) is often referred to as the "Giving" hand, & the other is the "Receiving" hand. With a little practice, you can be "ambidextrous" in pulling/pushing energy with either side (when I demonstrate this to people, it usually freaks them out).

[mythril]

Do u do any healing rick?

[Rick]

...but I have in the past. In Mist's '????' thread in the Magick forum, I describe a healing technique you might find useful.

[Sighing_Softly]

Amber citrine and smokey quartz are good cleansing crystals, while ones like sodalite, lapis lazuli, selenite and amythest are good for the third eye... if u get headaches often, maybe u should work on the cause rather than the symptoms?

[Sighing_Softly]

If you cn feel the energy, maybe u should try grounding, probably the most useful thing ull ever learn, along with protecting ureself... heres a simple grounding excersice, if ure intrested
http://communities.msn.com/TeenageHealers&naventryid=179

[Kaylara]

I find that my left side takes in energy and my right side sends it out... May be why you aren't feeling it building in your right hand...

Oops! Someone already wrote this...

D'oh!

Kaylara

[MistOfTheSea86]

bunches! You know in the subject thing! I don't even type a letter and I get a list of options of what to put! Truly, truly an addiction!8O

[Silver Venus]

Im the opposite to you guys ~ I recieve with my right and give with my left.. You just have to find your way of doing things dont you and tune into that.
Its really interesting about the sides of your body Kaylara because every time I do workings and feel energies now I get a faint pain down both sides of my back ~ Ive thought this may be my sprirt guide but maybe its to do with the flow of energy running through me?

[mythril]

Silver:

I understand, i sometimes to get a little pain in my feet when giving someone healing.

Why would such a gentle energy cause that discomfort?

[Rick]

Originally posted by Silver Venus
Im the opposite to you guys ~ I recieve with my right and give with my left.. You just have to find your way of doing things dont you and tune into that.
Its really interesting about the sides of your body Kaylara because every time I do workings and feel energies now I get a faint pain down both sides of my back ~ Ive thought this may be my sprirt guide but maybe its to do with the flow of energy running through me?




The energy flow is kinda like an electrical circuit. For a curcuit to work it has to be closed; that is, the energy has to come from somewhere, & it has to go somewhere.

[Silver Venus]

So why do you get this pain then? Sometimes it really hurts and others is just faint but its always there as soon as I start working with energies..
and I dont mind it either - so dont get me wrong I dont altogether want it to stop just want to know really why it happens ~ I see it as a scarifice ~ is that right maybe :)

[Rick]

Originally posted by Silver Venus
So why do you get this pain then? Sometimes it really hurts and others is just faint but its always there as soon as I start working with energies..
and I dont mind it either - so dont get me wrong I dont altogether want it to stop just want to know really why it happens ~ I see it as a scarifice ~ is that right maybe :)

Hmm... could be a sacrifice... perhaps it's kinda like straining a liquid through a sieve, probably a little residual energy remains as it passes through...

[Silver Venus]

Yeah true! :) Thanks Ill bear that it mind next time and concentrate more on my feelings, emotions and actions ~ than 'where this strange pain coming from?'
I realised recently that because i am very sensitive its probally my way with energies..

[Sapphrite]

I notice that I give and receive better with my right... but I tend to get a sort of "balancing" energy going through my left-- if I'm giving, the energy drains to my center; if I'm receiving, the left side draws from the center. Is that drawing on / returning to latent energy, or, in the case of receiving, is that actually the energy I'm accepting going through my left side? Or is it just a non-issue? I can't really feel the difference; most of what I don't keep centered as a reserve just feels transitory anyway.

[Rick]

Originally posted by Sapphrite
I notice that I give and receive better with my right... but I tend to get a sort of "balancing" energy going through my left-- if I'm giving, the energy drains to my center; if I'm receiving, the left side draws from the center. Is that drawing on / returning to latent energy, or, in the case of receiving, is that actually the energy I'm accepting going through my left side? Or is it just a non-issue? I can't really feel the difference; most of what I don't keep centered as a reserve just feels transitory anyway.

OK, please forgive me, I'm a little confused by what you said, but I believe the answer is "Yes, most of the energy is transitory". Probably 90% or more is generated outside ourselves. We are simply the circuit (or maybe the switch, or both). The energies are there, passing thru us all the time, anyway. Sometimes we just kinda do the process of being aware of them, & directing them where we wish them to go.

[mythril]

ive read that the pain sometimes come from the client, haven't got a clue why the healer would feel it though.

[Rick]

Originally posted by mythril
ive read that the pain sometimes come from the client, haven't got a clue why the healer would feel it though.


OK, you're either "pulling" or "pushing" energy to... "flush" the illness/injury etc. from the person you're working on, right? Sometimes this a concious decision on the healer's part, sometimes the energy goes where it needs to. If you're "pulling", then the energy is gonna backwash through you. You have to be aware which it's going, & if it's flowing back through you, you have to maximize the flow on out of you. It's probably impossible to stop some little residual bit from remaining in you (when you pour tea through a strainer, some of the liquid remains as well as tea grounds, no?). However, you should be able to minimize what little bit remains, & maximize what flows out.

I hope that made sense ('cuz reading back through it, I'm not sure if it did or not)...

[Silver Venus]

Originally posted by Rick
I hope that made sense ('cuz reading back through it, I'm not sure if it did or not)...

You always make perfect sense! :D

I use visualisation to imagine the energy flowing through, gaining power (getting better ~ healing) and stronger out.. either to the person or out into the world.

[mythril]

thanks, makes sense.

[Sapphrite]

Originally posted by Rick


OK, please forgive me, I'm a little confused by what you said, but I believe the answer is "Yes, most of the energy is transitory". Probably 90% or more is generated outside ourselves. We are simply the circuit (or maybe the switch, or both). The energies are there, passing thru us all the time, anyway. Sometimes we just kinda do the process of being aware of them, & directing them where we wish them to go.


Thanks, Rick... wasn't certain about whether it was me or my surrounding environment that was balancing all that energy out. ^_^

[Rick]

Originally posted by Sapphrite



Thanks, Rick... wasn't certain about whether it was me or my surrounding environment that was balancing all that energy out. ^_^

Well, both... I'd say that we kinda assist in unblocking blocked-up energy within ourselves (& others), thereby bringing more balance within ourselves. Outside of that, it takes a large, concentrated effort by many to effect much change, I think.

But enough of my musings...

[Sighing_Softly]

Someone said that he/she would experience pain in the toe when healing... it sounds like an energy blockage, easily released with acupuncture or u can try to dusperse it with your hand or a crystal.. about the healer feeling the clients pain, if ure clairsentient that happens all the time as the aura of the healer and healee merge, the healer may temporaryily take on the clients dis-ease, which is different to the healer taking on the clients bad energy. The 1st can be a usefull tool in diagnosis, but if the healer chooses to walk around with a limp for a week becuase the client does then this isnt really necisary; perhaps the healer feels burdneed by karma and service. Neway the 2nd is just the symptom of having bad protection, or or not being well (emotionly/spiritualy/physcily sometimes) when u heal, as if u have less energy than the person being healed, instead of the healer being the channel of cosmic energy, the healer drains the negative energy of the person being heald. Its called energy osmosis, and is another one of those physics in energy things. OR, of the protection is bad, instead of the bad energy being chaneled inot the earth or something it gets absorbed. I am a sucker for this type of punishment, as my solar plexus chakra is like a little vacum for psychic ick :-)... however good meditation/visulattion, crystals such as citrine amber smokey quartz clear this as do Australin bush flower esences Fringed Violet and Angel sword.
If neone cant work out what ure energy giver /receiver hand is, try this: sit with ure palms up, and put a quartz point in one facing your wrist and ont he other put the point facin away. See how that feels... then switch them around, so theyre facing the oposite direciton. If one feels more comfortable than the other, thats a clear sign that the comfortable way is the one- the direction the crystal points is the way energy naturally goes in.

having said that, we give/take energy with our chakras, and our hands are no exception- and wether the chakras give or receive is related to whcih direction theyre spinning in. YOu can find out using "Flemmings left hand rule" which is how u work out the relation between electricity and the magnetic field (another indication that the currency of "energy" isnt something mystical and removed, but rather something veyr real) to see how the chakra is spinning, or u can use a pendulumn.

Bout the left/right masculine/feminine giver/receiver thing.... be aware that there are 7 layers of the aura; the first etheric layer (the one that holds the body together) is structured very much like our physcial energy sytem is, with the acupuncture points and energy meridians in the same place (there is only a small overlap between the body and etheric body, why u really ought to have contact with the healee). The 2nd, and above (except for the third, the mental layer) are however not particularly structured, a mass of free floating energy with different colours relating to mood etc. If uve ever seen an aura photo (clouds of colours floating around) youll understand.

And yet, we know about yin/yang, the universal balance... still it boils down to personal preference- it can be much easier to do the 2 methoids of healing (taking, giving) with diferent halfs of ure body or u may like to do the diferent tasks on their own. And of course there are loads of other techniques, like "surgery" and methods that are more like directing energy than giving it, or being a tool through wich a higher being is working (healing gude, for example).
-just a thought- we can measure the magnetic fields around someone, and it equates that the right side is the North pole and the left side is the south pole (the magnetic flow is from north to south). this would explaint the different sides, and also show how magnetic healing (healing with magnets... duh lol) works. Although... magnetite (alos known as lode stone) the natural magnetic crystal is used to correct imbalances, and for relignment especialy of the spine and chakras. Neway! Just remember, that all is energy and u cant go far wrong :-). BTW, there are still some basic but major laws that apply to energy; the most importatn i spose is that like atrracts like, the same sort of idea as karma, that if u are constantly giving of bad energy because ure thinking nasty thoughts (thought makes energy) then ull attract negative energies to you, and negative ppl etc. If however ur fill ureself with loveing energies you can only bring more hapines into ur life (maybe i should be saying this on the karma/wiccan rede thread?lol)

Thats my 2 cents, I can blabber on sometimes lol... just hope that mass of words was understandable!

[mythril]

Thanks for the great amount of info:)

Does anyone know if the chakras spin anticlockwise in females and clockwise in males? or vice versa.

[Sighing_Softly]

According to Indian teachings, the crown chakra rotates clockwise for males, and anti clockwise for females. The 3rd eye rotates anti clockwise for males, clockwise for females.... etc. India was the only place that that was taught, to my knowledge

[Sighing_Softly]

Its just ocured to me, the toe pain may be sign of something deeper. Im not well versed in accupuincture points or reflexology, but if something in the foot is hurting it may be a kidney or liver or gall bladder etc problem that is clearing itself. I used to get a deep pain in the arch of my foot whenever id step on it the wrong way, i now know the acupuncture point is "kidney 2", obviously i had something slightly wrong with my kidney..

[Silver Venus]

Originally posted by Sighing_Softly
According to Indian teachings, the crown chakra rotates clockwise for males, and anti clockwise for females. The 3rd eye rotates anti clockwise for males, clockwise for females.... etc. India was the only place that that was taught, to my knowledge


Oh ~ Ive always assumed all mine rotate clockwise... Still Im sure they all work for me this way.

Thanks for the info too ~ that was great to read :D Ill print it our and have a go soon

[Rick]

Originally posted by Sighing_Softly
Its just ocured to me, the toe pain may be sign of something deeper. Im not well versed in accupuincture points or reflexology, but if something in the foot is hurting it may be a kidney or liver or gall bladder etc problem that is clearing itself. I used to get a deep pain in the arch of my foot whenever id step on it the wrong way, i now know the acupuncture point is "kidney 2", obviously i had something slightly wrong with my liver..

Hmm... it's been about a million years since I used to do refloxology, but doesn't the big toe correspond generally to the head (as does the thumb of the hand)?

[Sighing_Softly]

Ill take your word for it Rick! :-)

[Sunday's Child]

Originally posted by Rick


Hmm... it's been about a million years since I used to do refloxology, but doesn't the big toe correspond generally to the head (as does the thumb of the hand)?


Why so long?

Yes, generally the big toe corresponds to the head. The tip of each toe or thumb corresponds to the brain.

[Rick]

Originally posted by Sunday's Child


Why so long?



Umm... A.D.D.? :D

[Sunday's Child]

Oh, okay... ya know.. they have drugs for that.

[Rick]

Yeah, but I can't pay attention long enough to take them...

[Sunday's Child]

You're too funny, somehow I just knew you were going to say that. Rick, Rick.... hey Rick!

[Sighing_Softly]

OK Just rememberd that the taking/giving nergy thing that reiki is espceialy good for is called chelating, and works for the first three levels of the aura. And iv just found out that an open chakra is always spinning clockwise, this way it digests the incoming energy. If it spins the other way it is giving out energy (bad thing!) and is what psychologists call projeciton- we see in the world what we are in actuality giving out ourselves. There you go :-) the clockwise for males anticlowckwise for females was a mssage thing, btw