What is your method for sending energy?

[SphinYote]

I'm curious about people's particular methods, which may be different from person to person. I know some people have mentioned dressing candles, but that's the only thing I've seen mentioned other than the phrase "sending energy."

Do some of you use visualization? If so, what do you visualize?

Prayer?

Just a matter of sensing it leaving and going where it's supposed to go?

I've been trying to wok out my own method, but nothing seems quite right so far, it just doesn't feel right yet. So I was wondering what other people do partly just out of curiosity and partly to see if I can adapt something and feel more like I've contributed something.

SphinYote

[Nighthawk]

I go to my woods, if not real, in my mind. I call upon my elders. I ask them to assist me.

[Aleannah]

Do some of you use visualization? If so, what do you visualize?

Just a matter of sensing it leaving and going where it's supposed to go?


SphinYote
ummmm....yes

I usually have a picture come up in my head as I'm reading the request...therefore, the visualization....then, I just picture the energy going where it needs to go...if I have specifics of where these people are, or whatever, it helps, but is not necessary - the energy knows where to go.

[Rosana]

I concentrate on the person's name (nick) and need. I visualize one's avatar and I draw energy from Earth, Sky or both. Then I imagine the mana reaching its destination and surrounding the avatar. Sometimes I just pray and ask my Gods to help, or light a candle, stating particular intent.

[Teresa]

I use visualization and meditation and also candle magic for healing purposes.I visualize the person in my mind that I am sending the energy to in the first.For candle magic I dress a candle for that person and concentrate of them as it burns and I say some chants,then let it burn down on its own.I also use my ancestors in some cases as needed.I will call upon them and my spirit guides to aide me in the healing of someone.

[DracoJesi]

well it depends in person, I visualize it flowing towards the person, online I focus on either the text or somthing as way of trying to reach them, you know trying to get a feeling towards the situation and sending energy towards the problem, if that makes any sense, I dont know how much of it actualy ends up doing anything but I hope it does

it helps if I know what they look like , then I can visualize it, as well as if I where right next to them though, also i fI talk to them alot, it seems to be easier

[Lewen]

I do a combination of pretty much what everyone else has posted here, but do what feels right as I am led to do...in some cases visualize...some cases dress a candle...some cases I go to my quiet sacred place and draw up the energy there...mostly I visualize and send.

[bladeraven]

Grab two hot wires and touch the person with it....ooooooooo......sorry...........wrong post.....Visualization.......candles......and even just creating a rhyme to help me focus........then I grab two hot wires and go towards the person.........

[HorseCrow]

I do it during meditation. I light a candle, sit in front of it and then I focus, one by one, on the people I am sending energy.

[Maiden]

it sounds wierd but i imagine myself up in space, looking over the earth. Then i think about the person who's asking for energy and and i imagine my energy shooting off into space to that person

[SphinYote]

Thanks everyone who responded. I think it's very interesting to see how this works for different people.

My own attempts also involve visualization, of energy going to a person, sometimes I ask my cards for guidance on whether or not a person needs the energy or whether they are better off working through things on thier own--particularly in a couple of situations recently where I knew I was too emotionally involved in the situation to make an objective judgment on that.

In that particular set of circumstances I also prayed to theor guides to either filter out any emotional baggage that could potentially have an adverse effect, or block it all together if it was too emotion laden--Basically I had a crush on the person I was sending energy to, although given the circumstances it's much better that he didn't know about it or have reciprocal feelings. I was somewhat concerned that, although my primary intention was simply to send him healing energy because he was majorly depressed, that I might inadvertantly....draw his attention and feelings to me I guess is one way of putting it. Because a part of me wants that attention, but I know that in all likelihood that would only cause more harm than good. I probably should have stayed out of it all together, but there were a couple of times that he was so depressed and I had an honestly bad feeling about his own emotional state that it felt wrong to stand by and do nothing.

That said, this is the only time I ever noticed any obvious change in a person's demeanor from when I sent the energy to when I saw them the following day--he seemed almost cheerful the next day; and the only time that I really seemed to feel that I had made a difference at the time I sent the energy...all other times, nothing...

But anyway, thanks very much to those of you who shared. And I am also curious, have you also had situations where you felt your own emotional state might affect the type of energy you sent in an adverse way? What did you do as a result?

SphinYote

[melantha rose]

Thanks everyone who responded. I think it's very interesting to see how this works for different people.

My own attempts also involve visualization, of energy going to a person, sometimes I ask my cards for guidance on whether or not a person needs the energy or whether they are better off working through things on thier own--particularly in a couple of situations recently where I knew I was too emotionally involved in the situation to make an objective judgment on that.

In that particular set of circumstances I also prayed to theor guides to either filter out any emotional baggage that could potentially have an adverse effect, or block it all together if it was too emotion laden--Basically I had a crush on the person I was sending energy to, although given the circumstances it's much better that he didn't know about it or have reciprocal feelings. I was somewhat concerned that, although my primary intention was simply to send him healing energy because he was majorly depressed, that I might inadvertantly....draw his attention and feelings to me I guess is one way of putting it. Because a part of me wants that attention, but I know that in all likelihood that would only cause more harm than good. I probably should have stayed out of it all together, but there were a couple of times that he was so depressed and I had an honestly bad feeling about his own emotional state that it felt wrong to stand by and do nothing.

That said, this is the only time I ever noticed any obvious change in a person's demeanor from when I sent the energy to when I saw them the following day--he seemed almost cheerful the next day; and the only time that I really seemed to feel that I had made a difference at the time I sent the energy...all other times, nothing...

But anyway, thanks very much to those of you who shared. And I am also curious, have you also had situations where you felt your own emotional state might affect the type of energy you sent in an adverse way? What did you do as a result?

SphinYote
I will answer your first question with "yes". The second question, "I celebrated". Let me explain. We had a new resident, an honory middle-aged man (I work in a nursing home), who was a combination of ignorant, spoiled, and big-mouthed. This man was very nice the first day with us. The second day, he realized we have rules that must be followed. He was nasty ever since. If we told him "no" for anything, and I mean things like putting locks inside his room door (which is illegal, cause it's a fire hazard) and taking pictures of the employees without our knowledge(which is illegal without consent), then he would throw a fit, yell and scream, cuss us out, call the State Department and bad-mouth us all over town (he could come and go as he pleased during the day). I wish I was exaggerating, but I am not. I had been off for two days, and my first day back to work, I learned he had bad-mouthed me to everyone he could, incl. my boss's boss, saying hateful things about my nursing abilities (and I don't f*** around, when it comes to my license!!) So....I...uhhh....did some things....you know....to....uhhh.....help him on his way out of our/my life.....I mean, energy things, not physical things. Well, my emotions were flying so high one night, after spending 8 hours with this dispicable human, that when I was doing my thing, I....thought some.......pretty negative things........it made me a little....unnerved....ok, I'll spill it. My energy was directed for him to leave us, even if it was in a body bag, Ok? There. I said it. And, I didn't even feel that bad about it, actually. I was shocked, but not guilty, you know? I tried to make myself reverse this thing, to retract it, but I couldn't. Not that night. I was too angry to be doing what I was doing. The next night, however, I had a more level head about me, and I was able to direct my energy more appropriately, that he would leave to go live somewhere else. I was more serious this night, and much more focused. And, strangely enough, two nights later, this man told me he was moving to another nursing home, that he just could not live with our rules. The next night, he was gone. I will say one thing about the negative magic night: the next day at work, this man was so nice to me, nicer than he had ever been, even going so far as to apologize for his as he called it, "butthole" behavior toward me and he called me the "best damned nurse in the building". He was still an asshole to everybody else, so it's nothing he was told by the administrator, who he also hated. Go figure!! Maybe he dreamed something that told him he better be nicer to me, I don't know. (This was the night I went home and did the correct energy projection, cause the man had to go.) But, in the end, when he left so abruptly, I celebrated--not only because he left our facility in peace, but also that I did not have to feel responsible on some level for his death--or someone else's. Oh, he was only with us a month. Shortest stay in history that was not a result of natural death.

So, yes, emotion can get in the way and make you do things you would not otherwise do. I learned from this experience that the best course of action to take when you are highly emotional is NONE. I now wait until I am cooled down. I do not want to be responsible for something so irreversable as death, and I am just damned lucky nothing came of the first night's works--except that he was nicer to me. (In an extreme case, I might do it again, but it would have to be SOOOO extreme, you know, that consequences would matter little to me.) I hope this helped you in some way.

[DragonMom]

For the most part, I do my best energy workings when... believe it or not... I'm sitting at the 'puter. I find it easier than anything else for sending energy. Draw up the energy from the ground, form it into what I need, and send it to the needy person. Sometimes it goes in an email, but most times just into the net. I usually take my own energy signature off, just in case it gets intercepted. You can never be too sure.

As for the negative energy, I haven't been in that specific situation, but we've had our share of troubles. Just the other day, someone cut so close in front of me on the road, I had to swerve to avoid an accident. Jackoffs. So I did what any protector would do... I put a mirror egg on them. I tied the power source into the car's engine, and to both the driver & passenger. Any positive energy will still get out, but any negative they try will just bounce back at them. At first I was indeed pissed... but then I reminded myself that much like the Jedi, any magic I do needs to come from a positive place. And I realized I was *still* doing the right thing - I was protecting myself, and everybody around them. And I *know* for a fact it worked (the only proof of my magic I've EVER gotten) - a couple blocks later, their car stalled out. It took them a few tries to get it going again.

Melantha, I'm pagan, but I'm not Wiccan. I know the rede, it's a wonderful thing, but I don't live it. If you are exposed to someone who is purely negative, I see absolutely nothing wrong with doing something to remove him/her... for the good of all. In your situation, you did the best thing you could. You removed the source of negativity and did it in a way that not only was no one hurt, but he's probably in a better situation now (geez I almost said "better place"! lol). And you no longer have to deal with his hateful ass!

If anybody needs a helpful hand in here, let me know - I'm on usually every other night!
DM

[BlackMagicalCat]

I pray directly to the Lord,and even if I dont remember everything,he does.I also use karma as a point of contact,when you get my karma,its blessed by God,because it is his karma.When I pray I try to remember all those with needs,and I leave them at the alter(the one in heaven)and trust God to look into each reguest,dont know if he will answer them,but I know he hears me.

I have never prayed a prayer,that God hasnt heard,he hears all.