Brigid Amor
Personal Shielding
A shield stops anyone from interacting with your energy field, adding to it or taking from it and are very simple to create. They are very useful if you’re being attacked intentionally with energy by anyone but can even be used if you’re in contact with a particularly draining person or someone who makes you feel overpowered. To create your shield generate your ball of energy, making it strong and solid, making it big enough for you to stand inside. When your ball is created, lift it into the air above your head and simply drop it over you, then imagine the wall of energy forming around you, smooth and strong, without any weak points or holes.
Once you feel confident in your shielding abilities, you can create multiple shields and make them of any kind of energy you want. One of the more popular kinds of shielding is elemental shielding. Elemental shielding simply works on the basis of tapping into an elemental energy through your natural elemental inclination or from the resources around you. Remember, these shields are usually used in hostile situations. Unless the situation is risky, do not use one of these shields as they can be rather draining, hard to hold up and in some cases can even hurt anyone that gets too close. Here are a few examples of elemental or natural shields and how they might appear:
Water: A water shield is a strong, cool blue. It appears as an impenetrable wall of water surrounding the person, continually flowing and moving.
Earth: An earth shield can come in several forms but there are 3 main types, rock, plant and general earth. A rock shield shows up as a plain thick wall of rock and can be made of any kind you can think of, from the clear cold image of quartz to the glistening gold of iron pyrite. These shield can be manipulated to specifically reflect certain energies depending on the properties of the stone. Plant shields can be as simple as picturing yourself being surrounded by a cyclamen bud (cyclamen is a protective plant) or as elaborate as a weave of rowan leaves, berries and branches. A general earth shield would simply appear as an earthen wall around the person, very solid, very dry and very sound proof.
Lightening: Though not elemental, lightening can be a very useful type of shield. It usually appears as a glowing ball of highly electric and highly erratic energy that will attack anything that approaches.
These are just a few examples of what can and has been used for a shield. It’s really up to you to use what you feel comfortable with and what you feel will stand up. You may choose to use something as basic as a water shield or something as creative as golden dragon scales. One of the other popular choices you may choose to take advantage of is the layering of shields. Instead of generating one shield, generate several and layer them one on top of another in a pattern you think will be useful. This is often incredibly useful in battle if you hope to psych out your opponent or feel that using only one shield may not work. Always remember to ground out your energy after use if it is meant to be temporary. If you mean your shield to be permanent, make sure it’s sustainable first of all and remember to check and repair it often, just in case it sustains any damage.
Non-Personal Shielding
There may come a point in time when you need to shield someone else, a group of people or even a whole building. For a short period of time (depending on your usual energy level) this is completely do-able. Instead of generating your shield and dropping it around you, picture the person (or persons) and drop it around them instead. If you are shielding a piece of property, drop the shield around the property. Make sure if you’re shielding a house or a building that you make your shield 3d, covering both above and below the house for good measure. To drop the shield, simply absorb it back into your body and ground it out as before.
Attacking With Energy
As much as it should be avoided, sometimes one must defend oneself from attack by attacking back with energy. Attacks can come in many forms from something as simple and clear as a sudden widening of your shielding in order to assert territory or an all out assault in the form of an energy blast. Attack is never to be taken lightly and is never to be used unless you are completely and utterly aware that you will most likely be retaliated against and you are utterly prepared for it. That said, we will move on to some of the more common battle techniques.
Shield Thrust: Shield thrusts are usually clear, relatively non-violent signals . They are simply meant to convey that the other person should back off or suffer the consequences. A shield thrust is simply a sudden widening of your shield, forcing the other person’s energy back as one would shove an opponent physically.
Energy Ball: Energy balls can be used for a great many things but in my opinion, one of the best is offense. They can be used to take control of another’s blast of energy by blocking and redirecting it and can also be thrown at opponents. They are basically created on the same basis as an elemental shield but usually have some sort of purpose attached to them. Simply assign your purpose by envisioning the words flowing into it and strengthening it.
Energy Blast: Energy blasts work as a moving wall of energy that basically disables everything in it’s path. They can be created simply making a wall of energy and sending it toward your opponent or even by picturing one of your energy balls exploding and throwing pieces into the environment like a grenade.
Energy Beam: An energy beam is the most destructive kind of attack. It basically annihilates everything in it’s path. Energy beams are usually electric, fire or pure energy and are aimed directly at the solar plexus of the opponent. They function as glowing beams emanating from one’s palm (or palms) and are usually a last resort in combat.
Healing with Energy
Sometimes healing with energy can be an extremely useful thing, whether you have a headache, cold, or a tear in your aura. To heal with energy, you simply need to learn how to first clear your energy, turn it to a healing purpose and transfer it. Healing energy is always a clear color, never opaque and is always tailored to its purpose. Generally, to heal a headache or soothe a sore back, a cool blue energy would be generated. Conversely, to heal a wound one would use a warm red or pink energy. However, please feel free to use the color and temperature you feel would be appropriate. To heal, simply generate a small stream of energy and pass it over the injured area, watching the energy flow into the injury and imagining the cells reforming, healthy and strong. If the problem is a headache you may wish to simply pour cool energy into the area, feeling it spread outwards and carrying the pain away. Generalized body ailments such as a cold can be treated with an overall flow of energy, covering the body. As useful as energy healing is, DO NOT replace it with the treatment of a licensed medical practitioner. If you are dealing with something as simple (or sometimes as dire) as a tear or hole in your aura, generate your energy in the same color as the portion of the aura and simply picture the hole being filled in with energy and being smoothed out as one would grout a tile countertop. Please note that this is just a basic description of energy healing and does not make you any kind of healer or anyone who should heal anyone else. If you are really interested in healing, please contact an experienced teacher.
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