MercyWild's Cottage: Lessons in Energy Work

[MercyWild]

Title:
Cunning Woman
Offering Knowledge In:
Energy Work
Herb Craft
Stone and Found Object work
Rules:
Act with Knowledge and Reverence.
Trust yourself and your instincts.
Be patient and keep a sense of humor.

 

[MercyWild]

Making an Energy Ball
Getting a Feel for Energy, How you personally sense it
Ratings:
Patience: 1.5 (may take a half hour)
Focus: 2 (normal white noise and household sounds shouldn't’t effect this too much)
Risk: 1
Difficulty: 1

Instructions
1. Rub your hands together like you would if you were trying to warm them in cold weather.
2. Then hold them palm to palm about an inch apart. Concentrate on the space between the hands.
3. After a second or so you can start feel the energy between the hands.
For me it feels like two magnets repelling and attracting one another, kind of pushing my hands apart. It also will often feel warm. It may not feel the same to you, but make a mental note of what you do sense during the exercise, even if it seems subtle.
4. You can now ground the energy by bring your hands together and reabsorbing it, then allowing it to drain out of you into the ground through your feet. Alternate grounding version is to visualize the energy burning, becoming ash and falling to the ground.
Best wishes. Got questions? Feel free to ask in my Q & A thread.
**Try many different locations, settings, and atmosphere to get a feel for how the energy around you effects and changes the outcome. Also for how a variety of different energies feel. **

 

[MercyWild]

Are you a lefty or a righty?
To help you figure out which hand is more receptive and which is more projective
Patience: 1.5
Focus: 2
Risk: 1
Difficulty: 1

Start like before by rubbing the hands together now place the tip of the middle finger of the hand you write with in the center of the palm of the other.
Slowly pull them apart. It may almost feels like a thread is still connecting the hands. Take note of where you are feeling the energy strongest, is it stronger coming from your fingertip or your palm.
Take a 10 minute break
Now do it again only reversing the roles of the hands. Again take note.
If the energy is strongest at the tip of the finger (to me it feels like a needle point is resting there) that is probably your projective hand. If it is in the center of the palm (again like a pin or needle point resting there) that is your receptive hand.
In my experience both hands are capable of both projecting and receiving, all this exercise does is tell you which one is more oriented for which task. It may take a few tries to discern which is which.
Best wishes.

 

[MercyWild]

Energy with a Beat
Using music to evoke specific emotional energies

Patience: 4 this is a process and should be spaced out by at least a couple of hours

Focus: 3 try to make sure you are alone and there isn’t anything else going on internally or externally that would put you in a highly emotional state.

Risk: 2 you shouldn’t be at any risk, but when it comes to emotions it is always possible to get hurt or accidently trigger things you have repressed or hidden

Level: 1 good beginner work

This assignment involves using music to trigger emotional energy to charge objects with. It is a pre requisite to another assignment I am cooking up and will post in a week or so.

Pick five songs that you like, but that put you in different moods or different frames of mind, you will need access to them all.

Now sit in a quiet space as alone as you can manage, if you can’t be alone in the house or apartment or dorm try to take a head set to the park, a cemetery or if available a car.

Take a few moments to clear your mind, take some deep breaths, just focus on the air going in and expanding the lungs then let it out and focuses on the movement of the air out of you. Now start the first song of your choice. Let your mind follow the beat, just go with the music. Notice the energy it raises, how it feels, the mood it puts you in.

Now concentrate that between your hands in an energy ball, and play with it a few minutes. You can listen to the song over and over if you need to. Were you right does this song make you feel what you thought? Why?

Write down the answers. Because later when you want to charge something for a spell or raise a certain energy you are going to want to know some quick ways to put yourself in that emotional energy state.
Now take some time to clear your thoughts, and emotions, and repeat with the other four songs you have chosen. Keep the list and your responses handy, you will want them for the next exercise.

 

[MercyWild]

Personalization of Grounding Technique

Level: This is an exercise for everyone
Patience: Minimal
Risk: None

Step 1: Ask yourself what element you identify most with.

Step 2: What about that element do you most identify with. For example I am drawn to a combination of earth and water. I tend to be most attracted to rivers and trees. My friend Kit identifies with fire, specifically the way that flames dance.

Step 3: Think of how you could use your previous answers to help you ground energy more effectively. Develop a style that suits you. If you wish to share your new found technique and experience please do so. It just may help someone else get an idea that will work for them.

Example: Kit and the flame. She has trouble visualizing trees and roots. Instead of that classic method she visualizes excess energy in a ball than sees it engulfed in flames and the ashes fall to the ground.

Another friend Sky is attracted to air, wind specifically. When she grounds she sees the energy swirling and being carried off by the wind that carries it into the clouds that send it back down to the ground with the moisture of rain/snow/hail, seeps into the ground. That is her way.