I have moderate to severe anxiety and moderate depression. Be YOUR best. Don’t compare yourself to others. As for the partner part, do your best to not worry about it too much. You’ll find someone in due time I bet.

Spiritual Energy Scanning

This technique will be incredibly useful on the rest of your magickal path, because of the various situations you can use it in. This technique will allow you to feel the energy of any person, place, or thing, and will allow you to gain information based upon the sensations that you are feeling, and how the energy interacts with your own allowing you to truly interact with the spiritual world on a level that you might not have done up until this point. This energy is going to feel very similar to the energy that you felt when you make a ki ball, but every energy is going to have its own subtle differences that you will be able to feel and get information from. Depending upon how well versed you are in this practice, and how sensitive you are to feeling energy will determine what type of information you get, and how much of it you will receive. This energy message can be translated by you into usable information that we can understand on this plane of existence. this information can be given to you in many different ways from you simply just knowing what the construct is about, seeing things in your mind’s eye that have to do with the construct, receiving feelings from your emotions that will portray information from the construct, or just how the subtle energy feels particularly, along with many others that may be very personal to the practitioner who practices the act of spiritual energy scanning.

How To Spiritual Energy Scan:

1) The first thing you are going to need to do in order to scan the energy of something, is to find a construct in which you would like to feel the energy of. this can be anything that exists physically, spiritually, or even mentally. The only requirement is it has to be able to interact with your energy. I recommend that you start with something in your physical vicinity that has a high energy vibrational frequency such as crystals, magickal tools, or anything else that is connected to spirituality, or religion.

2) Next you’re going to need to get into a semi meditative state, and center, and ground, so that you are ready to start working with the energies of the spiritual world.

3)  Now that you have what you are going to be feeling the energy of you need to take your hand, or hands, and  touch, or point your palms towards the construct or entity that you are going to feel into.

4) Now you want to push your energy out towards the construct, so that it can interact with it and bring you information. To do this push up energy from your solar plexus up to your shoulder and down your arm, and into your hands, so that you can then push that energy into, or at the construct, or entity. You can do this simply by visualizing the energy traveling through that path. This will act just like making the ki ball but inside of another object, or towards the presence of another object. By pushing your energy, and  allowing it to mix, and interact with other energies you will be able to feel information from the other energy allowing you to read into it.

5) Now that your energy and the constructs energy is mix, and interacting with each other you can focus your mind, and try to feel into what the energies are trying to tell you. Pay attention to every sensation in your body, and look for any signs of change, as you feel the energy. This information can show itself in many different ways, so be ready to receive any type of sign that may be explaining some type of information to you.

6) Once you are done feeling into the construct all you have to do in order to stop is to cut off the flow of energy that you are pushing at it, then center, and ground. Then you will be able to go along with your day.

Feeling External, And Internal Energies

Introduction:

Learning to feel energy inside, and outside your body is a very important skill that will allow you to do many things in your practice. This is a very fundamental skill everyone can learn, and gain something from. This will help you better work with energy, so that you can use it more effectively in your practice, and craft. In order to feel energy one must only focus, and look for it. This is an ability everyone can do, even if you have never done it, or even considered it before.

How to internally feel energy:

In order to feel energy inside your body you should probably do some steps like:

1) First you’re going to need to focus on your body, and enter a meditative state while focusing on it. You might want to do this with your eyes closed, but you can do this with your eyes open, if you would like. The objective here is to just become aware of your body.

2)  Next with your newfound awareness of your body you need to see, if you can’t feel, and identify any sensations that you usually do not feel, when you’re not focused on your body’s internal workings. This sensation may come in the form of tingles, heat, cold, magnetic pushing, or many others depending on the entity. Once you feel it you will know it, because It will feel very distinct to you. This will be your ki. If you’re having trouble doing this you can always focus on one area of your body that you would want your ki to be in, and you could try to tell it to go there, so you can feel it. Once you are able to feel energy within your body it is so much easier to work with. this may take different amounts of time for certain people to get a hang of it, but it is okay if you cannot at this moment.  As long as you keep with it you will eventually receive results.

3) Once you are able to feel the energy, you need to better yourself at feeling it, and moving it around. You can do this by telling the energy in your mind to go to certain places in your body so that you can feel it there. Energy manipulation is like a muscle, and it must be trained in order for it to get stronger. So this will help you build up strength, and to be able to move it throughout your body. This will help you in many different other techniques that you might run into, if you continue to do energy manipulation, or energy work.

4) When you are done simply stop focusing on your body, and return to the world with your new understanding of the energy that is flowing throughout your body.

How to externally feel energy:

In order to feel energy outside your body you should probably do some steps like:

1) First you are going to want to enter a meditative state where you are completely calm, and relaxed. You might want to shut your eyes, or keep them open depending on where you are in correlation to the place where you will be feeling external energy.

2) Next you’re going to want to stick your hand out, or some other receiver, so you have a place that you can feel into the energy with. This is not necessary, but it does help for people doing it for the first couple times. This helps you out because there are receiving charkras inside the palms of your hands that are very sensitive, and can allow you to feel all types of energies. This can come quite in handy when trying to do exercises like this.

3) Now you want to focus on the energy surrounding your hand, or body by simply focusing on all the surroundings. You are looking to see if you can’t feel any sensation coming from the world around you. This can be pretty much anything depending on the person. You are looking for such things as tingles, heat, cold, magnetic pushing, etc. These will usually feel very different from your everyday environment not, because there are new but, because you have not focused on them. Once you find one of these energies, if you focus on them for a extended period of time you will feel in to them, and be able to tell more about their energy by getting thoughts, feelings, and sensations.

4) Once you are done exploring the energies around you, you can simply leave the meditative state, and return to your daily lives.

Here are some other exercises that may help you in feeling and working with energy in your body:

Ki Ball

Psi Wheel

Spiritual Energy Scanning

Compressing Psi Energy

Pushing, And Pulling Energy

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The difference between Dominican, Franciscan and Carmelite Spirituality

Dominicans have a much more bookish spirituality. They were a preaching reform movement that was focused on academic and intellectual renewal. They were formidable debaters and made their mark in making the gospel accessible to the common man in forms and words they could understand.

Franciscans came from St. Francis who was more pastoral. He wanted reform, but wanted more peace and harmony with nature, solidarity with the poor, being contrary to clerical privilege, etc. It was certainly more evangelical in flavor. They were more about preaching the truth through works and example and not so much in preachy words and erudite theologizing.

Carmelites are much more contemplative, interior prayer, contemplation of holy mysteries, interior life, etc. It is more focused on the inward spiritual journey. It is rooted in the life of Elijah the prophet (on the original Mount Carmel in Israel, which is a beautiful place to visit), when he went to the mountain and finally found God not in the fire or storm or rushing wind, but in a tiny quiet whisper.

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