Exercises to improve control

[KaidaPyralis]

Does anyone know of any exercises to do to improve control of energy, besides making psi balls or shields?

Kaida

[jcrowfoot]

Controlling pendulums, try to make a candle flicker... (make sure you aren't breathing on it!) Also, if you expand your shields out as far as you can...
Um, build a shield around a particular area, such as your bedroom, house, or your apartment building... Try tracing where a friend's energy is by following your sense of that person through the floor and so on... um... create a servitor... "feed" your houseplant with energy... change the energies of a particular place, such as your bedroom.

[[Obsidian]]

When you say "controlling pendulums," do you mean make it move from standstill?

Harry

[jcrowfoot]

Either works. Most people try to make a still pendulum move. There's a tool that some people use that is a suspended a pendulum on a table-top rack.
Sometimes it's even pyramid shaped. It is used to try to test your limits with energy work. However, I am somewhat skeptical about moving physical objects by the power of one's mind.

Personally, I prefer creating astral objects, or astral places. Like your own private energy waterfall in front of your front door that rinses everyone who wanders through it off. Or maybe creating your own astral temple that you can got to when you meditate. There are all kinds of possibilities.

[MVTirado]

It's really strange the way things happen. I've actually made psi balls before (though I didn't try to do anything with them) not knowing that there was a term or use for such a thing. Really weird, like I just naturally thought to do this... I just learned what they were after reading this and googling.

This was really informative. Thanks guys!

[[Obsidian]]

somehow energy balls and such just don't seem to work for me. I simply don't feel squat. I wonder whether there is such a thing as energy incompetence.

Harry

[MVTirado]

somehow energy balls and such just don't seem to work for me. I simply don't feel squat. I wonder whether there is such a thing as energy incompetence.

Harry

You may just need to get a feel for your own energy as well as the energy of things around you. The first time I had an experiences where I was actually able to feel energy instead merely *sensing* it, I was working with stones. Although, I wasn't really doing any sort of work I was holding a bag of stones, and I started to get an electric feeling in my hand and arm. I was told that this was because I was pulling too much energy, even though I wasn't aware that I was really doing much of anything at all.

Now, someone else here might be able to give you instruction on feeling, but I think once you know what it feels like, you can make your balls of energy. Like, after my experience I was able to tell that my left hand is dominant when it comes to energy flow and sensitivity, although I've read that the right hand is usually it when the person is right handed.

The only thing that I can think to suggest is to try dowsing with your hand, paying more attention to the *sense* or feelings you get from other objects and people (basically acknowledging the energy that is flowing), and releasing energy into and retrieving it from stones. I probably haven't done as much work with stones as others around here, but my suggestions would be crystal quartz especially, and an amethyst geode. Visualization might help as well.

[jcrowfoot]

Have you tried doing energy work with another human being? That's what helped be be able to feel it. If you get your hands really close to someone, and their energy is activated, you can feel it. It's hard to explain, but you can almost feel what they are feeling as well... but maybe that's just the way my empathy works. The trick is, that you are trying to feel the things you have been editing out of your life experience for as long as you've been alive. It can take a while.