My little energy system.

[Shaman of Bliss]

OK so hello everyone, now business...

SO I see energy as acouple things. I ether physically see it as a white smoke or feel it coming from people. I personally have a small system to help me keep all my energiesw straight. There are two energies in my little system, one is like a pure white smoke, the other an infinatly dark black smoke. THe white (as you could guess) id the energy of love and excitement, joy, and the energy of clean fun. THe black, is more sinister, lust, greed, anger, violence, and pure unadulterated hatred. I love balance so when I get mad I breath in the positive energies (white) from around me. But on those angry days, I breathout all the pent up negative energies and let the black tedrils of smoke infect the ones I loath. Recently I have found that if when calming myself I put the negative in a sort of bottle the neext time I want to be very rebelious I can just pull out the stopper and away I go.

Tell me my fellow energy manipulaters what do you think of these statments?

[[DarkWoman]]

Hmmm... I'm not sure what I feel about that. I guess I'd be afraid of the bottle one... like if I opened it up, it'd touch me and affect me instead. (The black smoke I mean) I'm more of a "stay away from me" type of person, although if the situation ever came up, I'd have no problem blowing the black cloud of smoke at someone abusing me. I'm too nice to accept that kind of behavior, lol
DarkWoman

[jcrowfoot]

Cool system. Personally, I tend to think that everyone has their own way of "seeing" or perceiving energy, and they are all right. After all, everyone has their own symbol systems that resonate with their focused emotions.

This perception is very subjective and two different people may see different things when they are staring at the same thing. The pretty amazing thing about Reki is that so many people can resonate with the same system of energy perception.

If anyone cares about my system, I generally see active energies of a locale as something that looks like a cross between smoke and static.

Slower moving, more gentle energies are more like smoke or haze, and static is a more yang or active energy.

Brighter clearer energies are more positive energies. Muddy colors are generally discordant or hostile energies. Sparks are energy centers. Black is not necessarily bad in my system... it's more about yin. Energies I don't like are generally muddy or puce colored. White is not always good. A flat, cloudy white can be confusion or stasis, if that has lots of static, it can be extremely hostile. For example, a white, angular field of energy in a natural place could be artificially imposed order.

Clear static is often the energy of a place or neutral.
Red is generally anger or a very active center of breaking down. This is not always a negative process. The "feel" of the energy is very vital to figuring it all out. After all, it's the harmony of all energies in the vicinity to really get a good picture of the situation.

I'm really curious to hear how other people perceive these things.

[jcrowfoot]

Oops. I started posting just before DarkWoman did her post, so I didn't read hers until after I posed mine.

when I get mad I breath in the positive energies (white) from around me. But on those angry days, I breathout all the pent up negative energies and let the black tedrils of smoke infect the ones I loath.

Eh. I don't like making my enemies angry. Especially with my energy signature all over it. Besides, I find that the people I hate, for the most part, are pretty pathetic and the natural course of life will do onto them what I could not. (Or better yet, their choices will.) It's just not worth the effort. I'd rather recycle my energies so they actually go out and do some good. Like compost. Granted, I don't do the whole sweetness and light "send positive vibes to the people I hate" thing, but I try to transmute my anger so it works for me rather than just wasting my energy. Where there's fear, there's power. Where there's anger, there's motivation.

Your way works for you, and I don't dispute that. What works for me is different, and I don't judge you for that.

not sure what I feel about that. I guess I'd be afraid of the bottle one... like if I opened it up, it'd touch me and affect me instead. (The black smoke I mean)

If you will something to go after something else, in my experience it tends to do so. It's later, after the main event that you have to worry...
the "back splash." Say, when you forget what you did and suck it all up when you are walking by.

I'm more of a "stay away from me" type of person, although if the situation ever came up, I'd have no problem blowing the black cloud of smoke at someone abusing me.

I think I'd use confusion on an attacker. Fear wouldn't always work, because some people naturally lash out when they are afraid, or are immune due to training or sociopathy. A big bright burst of "WTF?!?" energy would give one time to get away. Also, confusion brings people out of anger (it doesn't take long and may not last, so use your window of opportunity!) and makes them stop and think. SO even confusion has some positive applications.

You can use calmness more effectively when a person isn't *just* about to rage. You have to get it early before it spirals.

For really dark moods, like say, how I feel about the guy who assaulted me, (and whom I know is a serial rapist) I tend to send really positive vibes to the SVU.

[[DarkWoman]]

jcrowfoot, I understand what you are saying about the direction of energy, like wherever you send it to, it will go. I was kinda thinking that if you just put anger in a bottle to open it up later, there really isn't any direction. Or maybe there is more to it than what I know lol.

About that @$$hole you mentioned, he will definately get caught up in his own web of b.s. as he creates it. But in any case, I'm glad that you yourself have chosen to not get caught up in him forever, and rather learned to transmute all that mucky energy into something good, or else something good for you.
DarkWoman

[Shaman of Bliss]

I see all your points as very valid. The bottle idea was a very new experiment. Normally I would vent my "darker" energy, or what ever. Having it bottled up actually didn't do any good. Like today for example. All today I was ready to scream at people, quick to cry over teh slightest of worries. and worst, I screamed at my parents. Through my rage my mind raced, and it came back to the bottle. I meditated and seeing the bottle in my heart, I broke it. Shattered the vessel and released the energy to the world. I felt so free afterward. Calmer, I went into my garage and gathered soem pottiing soil and began to plant radish seeds into my pot. My dad loves radishes so, I'm planning to grow them for him. There are only a few things that can calm me down, nature and growth, and love. I found my love for nature relives any negative energies I have. A much better system then bottling. So thank you all and in retro spec, your ideas were far more sound then you knew.

[Sercee]

Right on, Shaman. That makes more sense, and keeps the balance better! I'm glad you're feeling better now.

[Sobek]

i have my own system of emptying the bottle, the time isnt yet right.

as far as meditation goes, blank meditation does nothing much for me unless i am in need of it. i need to see, i need to feel...without those whats the point.