& Energy Handling
The most Basic Operation
in Wicca and Magick, is to still your Internal Thoughts,
then Ground and Center. The first step for that is to learn
Meditation.
You will need to start
with getting into a Meditative state and then proceed
on to some Visualization exercises.
Basics for Meditations
Close your eyes
and Breathe slowly. This is called Four-Count Breathing,
this is a yoga technique.
Breathe in to the count of six, or whatever number you
feel comfortable with, hold it to the
count of six, exhale to the count of six, hold it to the
count of six.
Concentrate on
Breathing. If your thoughts wander off, and they will,
just let any distractions slide
away and pick up with Counting the Breathing again. Keep
it up until it is smooth and easy.
You may not get
there the first time or two, but eventually you will
realize with a gentle start that
you're doing the Rhythmic Breathing but no longer
counting. You will find yourself
Peaceful and Centered without extraneous thoughts rushing
about in your brain.
Once you are
there, enjoy it for a couple of minutes, then you will
need to come back to the real
world. Tell yourself you will begin to Hear the things
around you (and you will) and feel the things
around you (and you will). When you are ready, tell
yourself that on the count of three you will return
to the present time, aware and refreshed and rested. Then
count to three.
Try to do this regularly
- daily or several times a week. It shhould take about 20-30
minutes, maybe a
little longer while you're learning.
Visualization
Some people who think
they cannot See Magical Energies are able to perceive
Energy in different ways.
There are three kinds of
Perception: Visual, Auditory and Kinesthetic (touching).
Learn to be Visual, see specific images in your mind.
Secondly, learn to Feel, a gentle breeze, a touch, the coolness
of water, etc.
Some people Visualize
with Sound. One may be able to Hear the Energy of a
Cast Circle, but have no Visual Image.
Still other people are
Kinesthetics, they Visualize through Touch. The prickly feel of a
warm Energy Ringl, for instance. That's why we use the word
"ken." It means to identify Energy
in whatever form it takes, not just Visually.
To see if you might fit
into one of these categories, close your eyes and describe
a trip to the forest. What is the first thing you notice? The
second thing? The third?
Whatever kind of Image
you found - Visual, Auditory, or Touch - will correspond to
the type of Visualizer you are. Once you have identified that you
can work on more specific
exercises to develop those Senses.
Here is an Exercise
To get
comfortable with Receiving Energy in a Cast Circle,
Visualise over your head an Energy
ball of pure Positive Energy. Most people Visualize this
as a brilliant white light, warm and glowing.
Let the Energy
flow into you through the Top of your Head. Feel it
spilling over from
one Chakra into the next, cleansing as it goes, and
filling you up with pure spirit. Let it flow
all the way down into your toes, then fill up your entire
body. Let it push outward through
your pores and fill your Aura.
Once you are completely full, let it overflow from the
top and
spill away from you, like water filling a bowl in the
sink, flowing all through you, cleansing and refreshing.
When you are
ready to quit, shut off the flow into yourself, and allow
the overflow to
flow outward. You can place your hands on the ground and
"send" the excess into the ground
if you like, but it shouldn't take much effort.
You should feel good and
energized when you are done with this exercise.
Try it a couple of times a week and see how it feels.
To connect into the universal Energy fields, you might try a Meditation tape or CD.
A Popular Visualiztion Image
Sitting on the
ground, feel your spine extend deep downward into the
Earth,
like a massive tree root, warming and glowing as it taps
into the Energy of the Mother.
Once that is
established, extend it upwards and feel yourself growing
branches
high into the sky. Feel and hear the wind rattling
through your leaves, feel the light of
the Moon and the Stars upon your leaves, and feel the
Energy that they shed onto your leaves.
Carry that energy
through your spine deep into the Earth, then make it a
complete circuit,
back up from your roots through the trunk into the leaves
and into the sky again. You can do
it as down on the right and up on the left (or vice
versa), or down through the middle
and up through the outer perimeter, whatever variation
feels right to you. Some people do this
outside themselves - the power goes in from the top down
into the Earth, then exits the
Earth outside the body and cycles back up to the Stars.
Let the cycling continue for a while.
When you're ready, pull
your leaves and branches back into yourself and into
your upper spine, then detach from the Mother Energy below and
pull your roots
back into yourself and come out of the meditation.
Energy Handling
When you first start
doing Energy handling, you may want to learned to use to
Visualiztion to
keep the Energy outside yourself, Visualize a thick rope. Start
with it on the order of about
two feet in diameter, but it can be any size you find
comfortable. You can, if it helps, image
it rooted into the earth, but then picture a thick coil of the
glowing Energy rope extending
from the Source below you and passing not through you, but into
your hands.
Guide the rope with your
hands, and with your Will - direct it to where it needs to go.
With your hands and your will, shape the Energy and
"Color" it as you desire it to be Colored, the
Energy itself comes from the deeper Earth source. Visualize it
beginning as a trickle and building
up to full flow, like water from a faucet. When you are done,
shut off the flow, once again,
like shutting the tap of a faucet. Be sure to detach your
"root" when you finish.
You will need to Ground
after this because you will probably have some loose
Energy remaining around you, especially your hands. Send the
Excess Energy
into the Earth as a Gift - for sending it to you to work with.
Work with the Earth
Energy. She has plenty to spare. For that matter, you can reach
up
and draw directly from the Moon, Sun and/or Stars, with a little
practice.
When some people first
begin doing this, they sometimes feel the Energy as sexual.
There is a tingle that sometimes is translated as arousal because
there is no other context
to put it in. Once you learn to identify that kind of tingle as a
Magickal Energy
that may or may not be a sexual feeling, depending on what you
choose for it to be,
it becomes much easier to work with. With practice you will be
able to separate
out the feelings a little better.
 |
Button by M. J. Vivigatz
Divider Bars by ShadowMoon
Background Graphic by Shamyn Whitehawk