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 Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 9:35 am
Introduction Welcome and Merry Meet to all! The lessons in this class will be pulled from the guild Blessed Be. If you want the origional link, here it is: http://www.gaiaonline.com/guilds/viewtopic.php?t=11688291Energy has many uses. Physically, energy is spent breathing, eating, excercising--not even opening up the can of worms that deals with electricity and combustion energy! Magickally, it is used to play with, to heal, to spy on people, to shield. It is used to send prayers upward to Spirit, God, or the Lord and Lady. It can be used to shield yourself, your house, your mirror, your dog, your cat, your candy bar. Energy is so maniputable, you can use it for basically anything. All you need is the basics, and that's what this class will teach, and more. First I will cover basic energy manipulation by using energy balls or shapes as the object in question. Then we will advance through energy balls to shielding oneself, and then again shielding another object. The class structure will be like this: These introductary posts will be in Whisper, my lessons will be in Document, my posts (which should be scanned, if not fully read) will be in Think, and your posts should be in Say.Happy findings, and may you Blessed Be
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Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 9:40 am
Table of Contents Come here if you get lost! Page 1Post 1--Intro Post 2--ToC Post 3--Classroom Rules Post 4--Classmates! Post 5--Announcements and Notes Post 6--Grounding and Centering Post 7--How to Get the Energies of Colors* Post 8--Lesson 1
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Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 9:51 am
Classroom Rules 1.) Respect everyone and their beliefs and ideas. Pretty simple there. 2.) Please read the first few posts. 3.) Spell things to your best ability. Text talk will NOT be tolorated. 4.) Don't get down on yourself. Negitive thoughts will have the same effect on your work. 5.) Try to read, or at least scan, all of my posts. It will help you understand the concepts better, and it might just answer one of the questions you have. 6.) Don't forget to add me to your Friends List just in case! 7.) Please post your topics in Say so that your classmates don't get confused. 8.) If you have a large signature, please un-check the "Attach Signature" box. It makes for a lot of frustrated scrolling. I might add more rules as needed, so thanks for being understanding!
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Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 9:55 am
Meet Your Classmates! Classmates Zane Althena Vincent Honored Classmates
(Those who have given me donations.)
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Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 10:08 am
Announcements --Yay! First class! (Okay, that's a little unfair, but still--) heart --Lesson 1 will be up by the end of the day! Notes --Your findings and a brief outline of my lessons should go in your BoS (for magickal people) or a journal. Write your findings, your impressions, your feelings. Even if something goes wrong, write it. We can work through it together!
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Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 10:21 am
Grounding and Centering Grounding and centering gives you a way to get acclimated back into not having so much energy around you, or through your body. It reinforces your connection to Mother Earth. If you go ungrounded after a work (big or small), you may feel dizzy, faint, or not be able to walk straight. I'll give you several ways to ground yourself. Experiment with each, or make up one of your own. Just make sure you do what is best for you every time after a working. Sometimes I just crouch down with my hands between my knees, palms to the floor and imagine the extra energy going counter-clockwise into the earth. I'm able to "feel" when I'm done, but if you don't have the feel for it yet, you'll have to experiment. Other times I eat and drink a little something afterwards. Women, if you're on your period, I would do this and one other method. Another Gaia-user explains how she grounds herself: Quote: I sit comfortable with my feet flat on the floor. I breathe slow and deeply. I close my eyes and picture myself as a tree. My head and shoulders are the branches and my legs and body is the trunk. I let that image sink in. Every time I breathe out, my roots grow deeper into the ground. I watch them go deep into the earth. As I breathe in, they pull up nutrients into me. Now, when I breathe out, I pull down the sun's rays down the branches, through the trunk, and into the roots. I breathe in the nutrients. When I'm done, I picture my roots coming back to me, and once they are, I open my eyes... Our very own Althena tells us how she grounds herself: Quote: I ground myself by closing my eyes, sitting Indian style on my bed and imagine myself as one with the bed, then we are one with the floor, then finally one with the Earth. Another Gaia-user tells how he grounds himself: Quote: I took some calming breaths as you told us in lesson one. I thought of a water fall rushing over my body. The water pouring down me to the ground. As the water flowed over my body the energies that were left over from the energy ball were being washed away with it. I could literaly feel the wet water flow over me and my body becoming more and more calm. So i guess after reading hers (the above user's) and a few others on other forums i reealized how to do it i think. Zane tells us what works for him: Quote: For grounding, I sit with my feet flat on the floor (or if outside, my knees to my chest and my back to a tree), my hands folded in my lap. I see myself on a hill, with the wind blowing the excess energies away, dispersing them where ever they are needed. Each breath fills me with cold air, balancing me out and settling me down. On the exhale, I feel more and more connected to the ground, as still as stone and as calm. Once I feel that I am stone, a new part of the hill, I open my eyes. Basically, the point of grounding is to get you acclimated and back down to earth, so to speak. Grounding should take place after rituals, meditations, and any kind of magickal work (energy included). If the work was small, say a brief meditation, a small snack might suffice for some people. Others may need to imagine that spiral or corkscrew going back into Mother Earth. Experiment with these, or post your own and I'll add it here (unless you don't want me to, then I won't). Happy findings, and may you Blessed Be.
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Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 10:39 am
How to Get the Energies of Colors This class won't go into this, so this how-to is optional. One should be familiar with meditation before one starts this excercise. If one wanted to start color training he/she would get an array of colors in a certain medium. Let's just say colored paper. He/she would hold a *red* piece of paper in his/her hand, close the eyes and see what he/she felt about red. Same goes for all the other colors. Then, when he/she can be blindfolded and KNOW which color he/she was given in the colored paper, he/she would pick another medium--let's say yarn. He/she would do the same thing again. This would go on, progressing through mediums like paper, paint, leather, ink, plastic.... Eventually one could get good enough to identify colors in energy. But--it takes A LOT, and I mean A LOT of time and energy to get to that point. Happy findings!
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Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 10:42 am
Lesson 1
Like I said before, there is so much one can do with energy. But the best way to get to the top of energy efficiency is like how one climbs a ladder. One must start at the bottom to be able to get to the top.
This lesson will be short and sweet, and won't take you long to get.
First, I would like you to calm yourself with a few deep breaths, or a short meditation. Not only is this just good for you in general, but it will also help you ready yourself for a small magickal working. After you feel calm (or relatively calm), rub your hands together to create friction. Then suddenly stop and hold your hands a few inches apart from each other.
What do you feel? Why do you think you feel that way? What possibilities are there? What did you just do?
After you quickly jot down your findings, ground yourself. Tell us how you ground yourself.
Do this for a few days, post your findings (*hint*hint*--this is your first homework assignment), and discuss with your classmates and I.
What goes in your next post?
--What do you feel when you rub your hands together?
--Why does it feel that way?
--What did you just do?
--How do you ground yourself?
Happy findings, and may you Blessed Be.
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Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 11:42 am
So far, I have very warm hands and a low heart-rate. I feel the heat in my hands leaving, I feel the cold around me sucking the heat out.
Last attempt, it almost felt like a release, as if I let the energy go on purpose. I can almost see the energy leaving when I close my eyes (but I think that is more my imagination at this point).
For grounding, I sit with my feet flat on the floor (or if outside, my knees to my chest and my back to a tree), my hands folded in my lap. I see myself on a hill, with the wind blowing the excess energies away, dispersing them where ever they are needed. Each breath fills me with cold air, balancing me out and settling me down. On the exhale, I feel more and more connected to the ground, as still as stone and as calm. Once I feel that I am stone, a new part of the hill, I open my eyes.
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Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 7:49 pm
((Oh, I have to get in on this.))
--What do you feel when you rub your hands together?
A heavyness/thickness. The air may or may not have shimmered a bit.
--Why does it feel that way?
The kinetic energy generated by the rubbing was finding release. But, as is my natural reaction it seems, I was holding it in place.
--What did you just do?
I gathered energy then, instinctively, held it between my hands.
--How do you ground yourself?
Grounding is more or less easy for me, I simply felt the energy move through my body, and let it flow out of the bottom of my foot. (absentmindedly had only one foot flat on the ground)
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Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 8:43 pm
--What do you feel when you rub your hands together?
Warm energy, a tingling feeling as it bounces between my hands.
--Why does it feel that way?
Not sure, it feels like it's waiting for me to do something almost.
--What did you just do?
Not sure.
--How do you ground yourself?
I ground myself by closing my eyes, sitting Indian style on my bed and imagine myself as one with the bed, then we are one with the floor, then finally one with the Earth.
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Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 6:47 am
That's awesome, guys! Sometimes it takes people a few times to get to here. But that could be because you aren't beginners to the Occult etc. Althena and Zane: Do you mind if I add your grounding examples to the grounding post? I'm thinking about posting a sticky in the MM anyway, just so "students" can use it for general referance--I'll do that later. Vinny: "What did you just do?"=What happened? What's the whole process that went into (or brought) the heavy/thinckness feeling in between your hands? Keep working, you guys! Great work already! I'll add Lesson 2 sometime next week/weekend. It depends on the activity-- Happy findings, and may you Blessed Be
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Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 8:17 am
No I don't mind at all. Go right ahead.
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Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 5:58 pm
I wouldn't mind, either. I'm more than willing to let my experience help/inspire others.
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