Energy
Okay, if you havn't been calling me a quack or looney yet, heres the part where you will. For all of you Star Wars fans out there, when you think of energy, think of it as the The Force. Star Wars is the best description of it as I can give. More specificly the part where Yoda is describing it to Luke. But for all of you who havn't seen the movie, here's my best shot at describing it.
Everything has a ...lifeforce surounding it. The trees, rivers, rocks, mamels, everything. Even us. This lifeforce is our energy. People can see energy as Auras around us in colors or shades. At least people who are trained to it. Our energy is vital to us. It's what keeps us wanting to get out of bed during the day, or get on with our life in other words. It feeds into us to keep us going. But just as energy manipulates us, we can manipulate it.
With practice, you can stretch your energy out, you can ball it up, you can manipulate it so that it feeds more into you than what you need, or slow the flow so you feel tired and drained. Energy is vital to everything. A crude way of explaining this, is take a nice size rock, about the size of your fist or slightly bigger. Feel it, and wiegh it in your hand. It will feel heavy and firm. Now take that rock and set it in the middle of a camp fire for a few hours. When the fires out and the rock is cooled down pick it up. The wieght has changed, it feels almost hollow and empty. You've just changed the rocks energy, "cooking" it out.
Energy is what makes us. It defines what we are, and what we look like. When a caterpiller enters crysallis and emerges as a moth or butterfly, it has changed it's energy. Our energy is constantly changing to. The person you are now, is probally not the same person you were five or ten years ago. The cycle of energy is constantly on the change. Fly's have a cycle of Egg, Larva, Pupa, and Adult. We have the cycle of Infant, child, adolescent, adult, and back to infancy when we've reached old age.
The reason why I've added this section to the website is because a part of Wicca is adjusting your energy and manipulating to harmony with yourself. It's a part of self healing. As we are all humans, we have normal human problems. Stress, chaos, disorder, and even fear in our everyday lives. All of this disorder tends to throw our energy out of wack, causing us to feel overly tired, fatigued, and drained to the point where all we want to do is sleep or cry. By manipulating our energy we can restore our life back into shape.
Now, here's some exercises to practice affecting your energy. Most energy work is through visualization. Here's the most common trick you can do to manipulate your energy. This trick has no other real purpose other than proving to yourself that I'm not a quack and that energy does exsist. This trick is commonly known as 'energy balls'. 1st: Rub the palms of your hands together quickly to cause friction. Don't rub to hard or to softly. Just enough so that you have skin to skin contact with the palms. 2nd: Picture your energy flowing through your arms to palms of your hands as you rub. The more focused your visualzation, the better you'll feel the end result. 3rd: After ten to fifteen seconds of this, cup your hands so that your finger tips are facing each other roughly an inch or so apart. Keep your visualzation in mind strongly the whole time. 4th: You'll soon feel a tingling on the palms of your hands. This is your energy. Very slowly try to bring your hands together and you'll feel resistence almost like pushing against warm jello. Now try visualizing more of your energy traveling through your arms to reinforce this ball of energy you created. The more focused you are on this you'll soon feel your hands begin to grow further apart without you willing them to as your energy ball grows.
That is just one of many ways to manipulate your energy. As I said all energy workings required focused visualization. There is no set way of doing things really, it's just everyone figuring things out for themselves. So experiment, and try not to wear yourself out in the process.