Study some basic energy manipulation skills: ground, center, and shield. Grounding connects you to a stable outside energy source; it allows you to dump excess energy, draw energy if you're depleted, and help protect yourself from energy surges. Centering evens up your internal energy conduits and your awareness of what's "you" vs. what's the rest of the world. Shielding creates an adjustible barrier between you and the outside world, allowing you to ensure that other people's shit remains other people's shit. A very simple set of instructions is here: http://www.path-ways.com/articles.php?action=show&showarticle=547
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Re: Try this...starry_wingsJuly 21 2008, 16:37:23 UTC
I've been doing that sort of stuff most of my life. I'm wondering if all of my typical techniques are crap, or have been rendered crap due to recent spiritual changes.
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To test if your techniques are working, there are various things to try. Frex, for shielding, go to a place or person you typically find irritating. Raise and lower your shields and see if you feel any different with them up vs. down.
Sometimes things that used to work stop working, especially if you've grown a new talent or an old one has gotten stronger. Other times there will be particular types of energy that get through. And anything tuned to block natural energy generally won't block synthetic energy, and vice versa; if you've been running only one of those and the other suddenly becomes perceptible to you, previous techniques likely won't cover it until retuned.
That sounds like a shielding problem. Your shields can protect you from magical input that is too intense.
Another possibility is that your magical perceptives are getting more sensitive. Some people can control that sensitivity and "turn it down" at need. If you keep it set at a moderate level, you can also turn it up when you need more acuity.
http://www.path-ways.com/articles.php?action=show&showarticle=547
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Glad to have you on board! Thanks for adding me back. ^_^
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To test if your techniques are working, there are various things to try. Frex, for shielding, go to a place or person you typically find irritating. Raise and lower your shields and see if you feel any different with them up vs. down.
Sometimes things that used to work stop working, especially if you've grown a new talent or an old one has gotten stronger. Other times there will be particular types of energy that get through. And anything tuned to block natural energy generally won't block synthetic energy, and vice versa; if you've been running only one of those and the other suddenly becomes perceptible to you, previous techniques likely won't cover it until retuned.
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Yeah this is going to be a lot of trial and error. I'm getting HIGHLY sensitized.
Best description is this, I think: it's like entering a room where it's painfully, painfully bright. And having to adjust to that brightness.
Another good one: a really loud, painful sound that's so loud I can't hear it but it's affecting me.
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Another possibility is that your magical perceptives are getting more sensitive. Some people can control that sensitivity and "turn it down" at need. If you keep it set at a moderate level, you can also turn it up when you need more acuity.
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I need to work on this... just dunno how. O_O
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When you get overloaded, try visualizing a dial labeled "Magical Perception" and then imagine twisting it downwards a few notches.
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The universe is large, bright, and LOUD. GAH
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