Yesterday was about making quiet connections: Connections without energy flowing through them, so you can see* what you’re connected to more clearly. Today is part 2 of the workshop I taught in Chicago, including the exercise that let all the beginners see they were doing direct magick right.
*Not literally see. But there’s no word for “magickally getting information into your thoughts.”
You’ll need a partner for this exercise. It will help if your partner is also practicing magick, or at least does energy meditations. If they don’t do magick, just say you want to feel the energy signature of various emotions. It’s more approachable that way.
Step 1: Connect
Connect to your partner’s head. If you know them well, placing your palm on their temple is ideal. In the Chicago class, we made contact where the shoulder meets the neck. Maintain contact through the whole exercise, at least the first time.
Make a quiet connection, and relax. Have your partner do an energy meditation, move the energy to their head. Let their energy enter your hand, then move it up your arm into your head. Use the visualizations you normally use to move energy. Do this until it becomes comfortable. We practiced for about 5 minutes with several partners in the workshop.
Step 2: Sense Emotions
This is the exercise that made everyone in my workshop sure they were doing it right.
Have your partner recall a memory that triggers an emotion. A specific time they were cheated, or something recent that made them happy. The goal is to enter that emotional state. A specific memory works better than thinking “I’m happy.”
While they focus on that memory, have them build energy in their head. Bring it up your arm and into your head. Notice how the energy feels in your body, and how you feel absorbing it. Have them tell you the emotion, so you can learn the name for that feeling.
Have them pick a very different emotion, and a memory to go with it. Make the new emotion very different. Go from angry to happy. Don’t go from angry to frustrated, or happy to excited, since those are too similar. Repeat the exercise with this new emotion.
The difference between emotions was so obvious in the workshop that novices who had only done energy meditations became sure they were using connections right. It took about 10 minutes of practice for everyone to become comfortable with this.
Step 3: Test It
Close your eyes (so you don’t just see their facial expression as they remember the event). Have them pick either emotion and build the energy. Tell them what emotion they picked.
Intermediate Magick: Setting Your Emotions
You can set your emotional state by building energy with that emotion’s signature. You can also learn more about close friends by using their emotional signature, rather than yours. I’ll cover that in the next part of the series.
Other posts in this series:
- Connections: The Basis of Magick (April 22, 2010)
- Making a Magickal Connection (April 25, 2010)
- Sensing Emotional Energy Signatures (This post) (April 27, 2010)
- Influencing Emotions with Magick (May 4, 2010)
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Mike, do you have any suggestions for how to modify this exercise if you’re practicing with someone who doesn’t feel comfortable with physical contact? I’ve been in a couple of classes where some of the participants didn’t want anyone else touching them, even when it only involved resting a hand or a finger lightly on their arm.
Hi Kristen, tough question. Once you have the skill down, you can do it at distance, but it’s hard to start that way.
First, to keep the workshop running, I’d have people who would allow touching partner with each other, so the non-touchers don’t slow everyone else down. I’d target the workshop to the touchers, and tell the non-touchers to try it at distance but explain that it’s harder and might not work for them in the time we have for the workshop.
Ideally, the non-touchers would allow almost touching. If you’re within 2 inches, you can usually make a physical connection. If they are OK with that, I’d have them practice making a physical connection at 2 inches on themselves (hold your hand 2 inches away from your leg and send energy through the connection), then try it on their partner, and continue with the exercise as normal.
If almost touching is also a problem, I’d have the non-touchers practice making a longer-distance connection on themselves. The connection would transition from a physical connection to a magickal connection and back to a physical connection. At this point, it’s really intermediate magick, and I wouldn’t expect beginners to get it during the workshop. My goal would be to get them the principles and exercises to try it at home, while keeping the workshop running for the majority that’s OK with touching.