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Energy Work - Continued Discussion

9/21/2015

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Continuing the topic at hand over the past several days, herein we'll delve deeper into the actual uses of energy work. There are many, and the methods for getting these sorts of thing done will more or less depend on you.

As so many folks are fond of saying, there's no one true way.  Instead, this is an area of magical experimentation wherein you'll need to find your own way & your own personal flair. Don't try to simply copy others, as you won't get where you want to go that way.

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One of the most common & well-known uses of energy work is Reiki. In effect, reiki is energy work used to heal or modify the body in an auspicious way.  One can use it to speed healing on muscles, ligaments, or bone, reinforce tissue to minimize damage, to fix damage to one's spirit or emotional selves, and other such things.

I've successfully used reiki to hamper the spread of tumors, keep folks from needing surgery, to speed up recovery from surgery, to bring illness to a quicker end, to help people lose weight or gain muscle, and to calm down antsy animals.

The same can be accomplished in the reverse, provided you know which areas of the body to affect and what sort of intentions to use.

This segues us into another use: glamours and protections, which are really the same kind of magic used in different ways. Both create a bubble of a kind that change the way others interact with you.  Where a shield often changes the appearance of weakness one has, a glamour changes the way one is perceived.  Essentially, its the same thing, though you don't use a shield to make someone believe you're a good deal more attractive or compatible than you are.

Shielding magic can be used defensively or aggressively. I grew up in a rough town, so I learned to use such tactics to change the way my shape and mindset were perceived by others.  Sometimes, simply the outward suggestion that a person is considerably more aggressive and dangerous than they actually are can be enough to keep them from being attacked.  I've used similar workings to cause criminals to more easily comply with police officers - in one such case, a man drew a gun, pointed it at an officer who was a client, and promptly dropped the weapon because "[he] realized that he'd get shot if he didn't surrender immediately." According to the officer in question, this was the first time the suspect hadn't shot at officers in his criminal career.

Likewise, glamour magics can be used to create a sphere of influence to make one seem more charismatic, easier to trust, better looking, more influential, more powerful, or otherwise more appealing. When used in tandem, a glamorized bit of shielding could be used to sway your superiors at work towards your cause all the while putting pressure on those who would otherwise compete with you.

The above mention brings us to an important point: energy work is a form of magical practice.  One uses it to cause change in the environment, only instead of calling on a deity or spirit, one is using their own spiritual juices to make it happen...

As you can see, at that, work like this can be something of a gray area. It can be used to help or harm, just as a knife can be used to open a package or a person.  How you choose to use your newfound skills is up to you, but be aware that it will shape the way others perceive you. If you're particulary predatory about it, it can lead to you developing some right nasty emotional, physical, or spiritual issues.

Regards,
SE
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Mossel
9/22/2015 10:29:49 am

Wha the conquences of using your own enegry over using a spirit? Positive and negative? You re own energy would be life force? Or something else?

I also read the previous post. How can you not end up using magic as a crutch? Ive seen people use magic in place of insight and skills with other people.

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SorcerousEndeavors
9/22/2015 11:39:50 am

Depends on the situation, really. Sometimes you'll need to use your own energy to accomplish a goal that no one else agrees with. Other times, one might wish to accomplish a goal without owing a spirit a debt of any kind. On occassion, one might wish to use both personal energy and the assistance of a spirit to get something done.

As for what personal energy is, that's basically what you wake up with in the morning and expend throughout the day. Its not life force in the sense that you're necessarily taking away from your own ability to survive, so much as you're using the calories you've consumed to generate energy to do work other than physical exercise, etc.

One can use life force, specifically, to power a working. That's along the lines of blood magic, however, and it can and does frequently leave a path leading right to you should someone with the right skillset choose to follow it.

Doing any sort of energy work, be it borrowed or from your own stores, changes the way you work on a spiritual, emotional, intellectual, chemical, and sometimes genetic level. That can be good or bad depending on what you're doing and how you're doing it.

As for not using magic as a crutch, that's relatively simple to put into words: use it to augment your abities, don't use it as a replacement for knowing how to do things.

For example, I can utilize my spiritual abilities to help my muscles heal more quickly after exercise. I could, conceivably, channel that energy such that I could lift more weight more easily, but that's something to be done sparingly as there's more damage done to your body without much benefit. The former is used for day to dray training, whereas the latter is more beneficial when used in a life or death situation.

Put another way, I can either learn to fix a computer or ask a spirit to do it for me. The former is more work for me, but I also learn something along the way. The latter is less work for me in the short term, but doesn't allow me to get any better at troubleshooting.

Regards,
SE

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Mossel
9/22/2015 02:47:05 pm

Is there more physical magic used to gain more control over one self and what for? I've heard of being able going without sleep, being able to control body heat (to the point of making water steam off one's skin) go without eating for a long time, fake "death" and other sorts of interesting feats.

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Mossel
9/23/2015 05:11:20 am

Sorry if more then one post. Reason why I ask if it was life energy when personal energy is expended, is because that would shorten one's life. Wouldn't it?

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SorcerousEndeavors
9/23/2015 11:37:44 am

Yep, it would, if only temporarily. If you're legitmately dealing with life force, most folks only have [x] amount of it. It can be used, traded, modified, etc., but its not really an amount that grows for most folks.

Those with the appropriate recipes, skills, and so forth can increase the amount of life force they have, but that's always a matter of taking it from something else.

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SorcerousEndeavors
9/23/2015 11:26:36 am

Yep, there is. The heat control bit is called Tummo, if memory serves, and its a fascinating practice. I've done some work with it in conjunction with my reiki work - its provided some very interesting, albeit personal, insights that I can and do apply.

I don't see the going-without-sleep thing as being particularly useful or worthwhile, though. In my experience, those who do generally go a bit nuts for a time. Back when I was in High School, I experimented with it...went without sleep for a week during Spring Break. By the end of the week, I was trancing out at the drop of a hat, which lead to some very strong changes in my energy and certainly assisted me in achieving a sort of perma-gnosis state for the time. Useful, but it wasn't without drawbacks.

By the time I returned to school, I was fatigued for a good few months. My grades dropped in classes later in the day because I simply couldn't function. The process both opened me up and led to my being infected by spiritual parasites. When I figured out that was what the problem was and dealt with the issue, classes had ended and I'd sufficiently screwed up a few grades by that point.

I don't really have any regrets about it aside from the fact that I screwed my grades for a semester, however.

Regards,
SE

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