Brigid Amor
Energy is the basic matrix for the whole universe. It flows through our bodies and throughout the earth as an unending well of magickal power. It supports our cells, our plants and our souls. It is the creative force behind everything and the integral magick of life. Energy is easily accessed and easily used with practice and good visualization skills. It is to be treated with respect and used with caution in mind. When you access energy in any form, be it in the simple act of conversation or in an all out energy based battle, you immediately invoke the law of three and will pay the consequences or reap the benefit of your actions. However, learning to use energy is one of the most useful things in the world and something I hope you’ll never regret.
Accessing Your Chakras
Begin by getting comfortable, preferably in a sitting position with your back straight (so your chakras are in alignment) and your feet flat on the floor. You may choose to augment your experience by incense, crystals or music (chanting is often useful.) You may choose to start with some deep breathing, filling your lungs to the maximum and emptying them totally, allowing you to center yourself into your body and focus. Close your eyes and picture each of your chakras lighting up from sacral to crown in succession, each alight with it’s respective color. Once you reach the crown chakra, take a minute to check out the state of each chakra. Observe the size, color and shape of each and gently adjust each chakra to the size, color and shape you’re comfortable with. Usually a healthy set of chakras are of uniform size, about the size of an egg, circular and a clear, bright color. Differences in your chakras are not uncommon but also represent an imbalance of some sort that is affecting your life.
Grounding
Once you’ve observed and assisted your chakras, imagine and feel your chakras connecting to each other with a vibrating energy. Those who use this method often feel as if their spinal column, throat and face are vibrating with a cool energy in a line right down the central meridian of the body. Watch each chakra connect to the next, starting at the crown and traveling downwards. Once you’ve established a connection, picture a column of light descending toward the ground from your sacral chakra and into the floor, pooling on the floor and dissipating into the ground. When your column has been established, picture your chakras pouring out all their negative (mostly people picture it as black or murky gray) energy into the column you’ve created through your body, letting the energy flow through the stream and into the ground and letting bright, clear, cool white energy from the earth back up into your body to replenish each of your chakras. Watch the dark energy flow out of your chakras until there is no more to leave and let your chakras fill with the new energy until you feel they have reached their maximum capacity. When your chakras are full, do not break the connection to the ground, simply instruct your energy column to keep functioning and filtering out negative energy as you go about your daily work. Remember, you control the column (grounding cord) you have created and you are able to choose what comes in and out of it and at what rate. It moves when you move and always stays straight, taking the fastest, strongest path into the ground. When you become more proficient at grounding, you may even choose to send specific thoughts through your grounding cord in order to wash them away into the earth. Please also remember that the earth has an endless supply of energy for you to receive, so you should never have to take energy from anything else if you are keeping care of your chakras and grounding cord.
Creating an Energy Ball Begin again by settling into a chair with your back straight, feet flat on the floor and relaxing yourself to the point where you can focus and be completely aware of your body. Once you’re settled, come in touch with your chakras and ground out your negative energy as described above. Instead of simply stopping with grounding this time, imagine the light (energy) of each of your chakras pooling into the center of your body, creating a glowing ball of light approximately over the center of your rib cage. Feel it glowing with its cool energy inside your body, bright and clean. Picture the ball slowly sending out two vibrant tendrils of energy towards your shoulders, into your arms, down your biceps, down your forearms and into your hands, accessing the chakras in your hands and filling them with energy. Slowly bring your hands together (palms facing) and feel the attraction and pull between them build, focusing on the space between them and the attraction, rather than specifically on your hands. Bring your hands together until they meet and feel your palms glowing with energy (your energy may be cool or warm, it depends on the person.) Slowly part your hands, little by little, but this time picture a ball of energy forming between your hands. Picture your ball as circular in shape and in any color of light you feel comfortable with. Usually the color you’re most comfortable with is your standard energy color and should be used by you in most workings. Observe your energy ball floating between your hands and growing slowly as the distance between your hands grows. Once your hands are about six inches apart, push your hands back together and absorb the energy back inside your body.
When you’ve mastered the above technique, you may wish to vary your exercises a bit. First begin by varying the color of energy ball you create, picturing your energy as a different color flowing from your body. You may even choose to direct the energy from one chakra into your energy ball and observe how the energy is different from a pooling of energy or from another chakra. Next you may wish to visualize your energy ball spinning and twisting between your hands with you control which direction it goes. When you’ve learned how locomotion works with your energy, try detaching your energy ball from one hand and letting it float on the other- you can simply let it float, you can throw it back and forth and you can bounce it. You may want to try making bigger and smaller energy balls- some as small as a robin’s egg and some as big as a room. Next, vary your shape. Create oblong balls of energy, rectangular ones, flat ones and beams. One of the most important things to learn in the process is to create weaker and stronger balls of energy which can be created by varying the intensity of your color. Your energy balls are part of you and completely under your power. You control them and you control what they can do and not do. Your imagination is the only limit.
As soon as you become particularly proficient at generating energy, you may wish to stop using your hands and instead visualize the energy flowing directly out of your body. It is very possible to have a fully formed ball of energy float out of your body (or even your aura.) This method is more complicated to picture but it is simply more efficient in terms of time.
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