The Tan Tien

The tan tien is the center from which all martial artists nove when they perform. It is from this center that martial artists draws power to break concrete. It appears to be a ball of power or center of beingness, about two and one-half inches in diameter. It is located about two and one half inches below the navel. it has a strong membrane around it so it looks a bit like a rubber ball. It can be gold in colour. This is a will center. it is your will to live in the physical body. It contains the one note that holds the physical body in physical manifestation. it is with your will and this one note you have drawn up a physical body of the body of your mother the earth it is from this center that healers can also connect to a great deal of power to regenerate the body, provided that the healer grounds the haric line deep into the molten core of meridian earth. When their haric line extends down into the earth, healers can gather great power. When used in healing, the tan tien can turn very bright red and become very hot. This is what is meant by being grounded on the haric level. When this happens and the tan tien turns red, healers feel intense heat all over their body.

When you have set a clear intention on the haric level, your axtions on the auric and physical levels bring about pleasure. We will discuss dysfunction in the haric level

(that is, your intention and your life task) and we can also use the tan tien for drawing energy into the body for charging and protection.

Hara Alignment

Bring your awareness to the tan tien, an inch and a half below your belly button on the midline of your body. feel the power there. feel the heat there. feel how it is the same as the heat in the molten core of meridian earth. It is a harmonic of the sound the core of the earth makes. Stay focused there until it is very hot.

Now bring your awareness to an area in the upper chest, about two and one-half inches below the hollow in your throat. this is the middle dan tien or soul seat. here on the haric level, the middle dan tien or soul seat in the chest is like a diffused light around a candle. The soul's longing, the song of the soul, resides here. It is not the heart chakra. when you connect with it, sometimes feels like a ball being blown up inside your chest. It has a very clear, spherical appearance. It carries the soul's longing.

Feel the laser line now that goes from the soul seat in your chest down through the tan tien in your pelvis, and into the center of the earth. when you can feel this very strongly, then move on to the next step

Then bring your awareness to the point above head. Straighten your spine. and don't let your head hang down. Imagine a fine thread through the very top of your head. If you don't feel it' pick up a hair right at the very top of your head' pull up as if there were a string on which your head is hanging. With your minds's eye reach up to that very tiny opening, about a quarter of an inch i diameter, two and a half to three feet above your head. You will hear a very high-pitched sound if your auditory perception is open. when you are able to place that laser line through that hole, you will actually hear it as a pop. It kind of pops through. It's not easy to find that high point. It's like a little vortex. When you find it, it's like going through into a totally different reality, way above you.

If you pop through you will find yourself in the godhead or undifferentiated "is"-ness. In order to get that line through, you have to compleatly align your physical body

Feel that very tiny laser beam half the size of your little finger, going all the way through you from the godhead to the molten core of the earth. Feel the soul's song in your chest and the creative force in your tan tien. Feel that at the same time you feel the line all the way down to the molten core of the earth. Feel that power. That's the alignment for your task. This is the bridge. This is you and the bridge between heaven and earth.

Feel the synchronicity of the purpose now in the room. That same line going down right through the middle of the room is the hara line of the group. Feel the connection from your tan tien to the tan tien of the group - That's in the centre of the room.

It is upon this level that your task and the task of the greater groupof which you are a member synchronize. It is on this level that the task of this group will synchronize with the greater community around. That will then synchronize with that of the state, the country, the continent, and the earth. This is the way to connect to the power and truth of a system within a system within a greater system. It is the key to holographic universal alignment. There is no need to struggle or to worry that your task is difficult . It need not be.

For when you align yourselves on these levels - the core star, the aura, the hara, and the physical body - then you are in synchronicity with the world around.

Three Dan Tien Balancing

Check the upper, middle and lower tan tiens.

Balance each tan tien. Use clockwise circles and pushing/pulling motions directly over the dan tians.

1.Tonify, disperse or harmonize the channel.

tonification - lift and pull the energy from the lower dan tian to the upper dan tian.

2. dispersion - pull the energy down from the upper dan tian to the lower dan tian.

3. harmonization - lift and pull the energy up and down the channel from the lower dan tian to the upper dan tian and back down to the lower dan tien.

4. Check all three dan tiens.

Shields

Everyone must be able to use attacks, as well as be able to counter and block them. This page is devoted to sheilds. I've gathered all of the different shield techniques onto this one page.

-Hii Tate- Fire Shield" This is a technique I devised myself, which is similar to the technique in the Cyrokinesis section...Of course, with fire instead of ice. Before doing this techinque, you will need to perform the Fire Fuse technique. Get into a wide stance to start. Now picture your Dan Tien, fused with that Fire energy, swirling red, or whatever color you wish to use. Now, command that fire energy to flow throughout all your chakras and your whole body. Picture it flowing through you, starting to radiate out of you. Now, explode the fire energy out of you, similar to a ki flame, only this time, instead of turning it into a flame around your body, picture it forming a huge ball of fire around you, forming into a shield. Keep adding energy to it until you think it is strong enough. This technique works best if you are facing off against an opponent who uses Cyrokinesis.(This would suck for me if you were fighting me, I'm a cryo)

-Tsurara Tate- "Icicle Shield". To start out, stand in a wide stance, and be in concentration on the elemental energy of water, and draw it into your body. Keep picturing it filling up your body, mixing with your ki in your Dan Tien. When you think you have enough, then tense up your muscles. Become completely focussed, and picture the water element exploding out of you, and freezing mid-way through the air, forming a dome of ice around your body. Picture more water energy being added to it, the dome becoming larger and more powerful, and freezing more. Keep picturing this happening, and also picture the water energy inside you, powering you up internally, like an internal ki flame. Practice this, and remember not to over do it.

-Tochi Tate- "Earth Shield." This is a lot like the other elemental shield techniques. Get into a ready stance, and summon ki around your body in a power up. Now start gathering earth energy, make it swirl around inside your ki flame. Keep loading up your ki flame with earth energy until you feel it is fairly strong. Now, send all that energy that is swirling around you to the front of you, and use your mind to make it form something such as a brick wall-type shield. Keep adding earth energy to it, and program it to whatever you want...Just remember that you CANNOT shield from phsyical objects.

Psionic Shielding- The simplest form of shielding is a simple boundary shield. To make one, imagine your skin becoming full of energy, and imagine energy coming out of the top of your head and pouring down your body. Wherever this energy touches your energized skin, it solidifies. It turns into a solid shield of energy that can protect you. There. You have now made your first shield (albeit a weak one ).

What other types of shields are there? Lots. The most interesting in my opinion are the combat shields. These shields are defensive/offensive shields that are used in a psychic combat situation. There are also camouflage shields, which although very hard to master, render the user invisible or at least hard to find to other psychics. Shields can be used for many different things; I store my constructs in my shields. But you have to know what type of shields to use when. A boundary shield (like the one above) would be useful if all you wanted to do was prevent yourself from being empathetically overloaded. To do this, as you make your shield just "program" your shield/imagine it filtering out all empathic signals as you make. For a mirror shield that would block out all energy signals and send them away, imagine this as you create it. I tend to almost mentally "talk" to my shield when I program it. Intent is almost everything. Almost. For more advanced shields, however, there is a factor of the structure of the shield as you create it. Cool. But can you have more than one layer?

Of course. If you make yourself a combat shield, it would actually be far wiser to have several shields on top of each other, each to do a different job. This will constitute a shield system.

What are the main factors affecting shields?

Concentration and energy. Amount of energy, that is. Some shields require less concentration and more energy, some more concentration and less energy, etc. An absorption shield would require a lot of concentration but not so much energy; you'd have to program it to 1. Detect incoming signals 2. Perceive whether they are hostile or friendly 3. If hostile, the signals must be caught and depatternized 4. And must finally be absorbed into the shield All this would take quite a bit of concentration and programming skill. Also, there is the skill factor. The more experienced you become with working with a particular shield type, the less concentration is required for it. Kind of like the computer game Diablo - the more experienced you get with a spell, the less it takes to do that spell. Any last tips? Once you've made your first shield, keep it up 24/7. Regenerate it several times a day. Once you can actually feel your shield on you, this means you've put enough energy into it. Now try something slightly more complicated, or try upgrading your shield, but using the skin-charging method I described above.

An Introduction To Psionic Shielding

Once again, it is useful to define one's terms. In a field where very little has been openly discussed until recently, it is natural that there should be some variety in the words used to express the concepts, varying according to tradition and physical location. In this context, "Shielding" refers to the construction and maintenance of psychic, psionic, and/or magical defenses around one's person, most often within or along the 'edges' of the aura. Much as felis concolor is known in various regions as 'cougar', 'puma', 'mountain lion', 'panther', 'mountain varmint', 'gentleman longtail' and so on; so too are Shields also known as 'personal wards', 'bubbles', 'force-bubbles', 'force-fields', 'barrier-shields', 'psychic defenses', 'shells', 'cocoons', et cetera. Many of these terms may also refer of other kinds of defenses depending upon the usage at the time.

How important Shielding is depends upon one's situation. Obviously, anyone unfortunate enough to be embroiled in psionic combat needs thorough knowledge and a high level of skill in several kinds of Shields. People with a natural tendency toward telepathy or empathy, but otherwise secure, can probably get away with learning two or three. Because many telepaths and empaths need to Shield almost continuously, they get lots of practice, but are likely to favor the less fancy forms that maintain themselves. Those who find themselves the victim of a psychic vampire generally tend to something in between these two groups. Everyone else involved in psychic or magical activities probably ought to learn at least one Shield, but is most likely to use it only on an as-needed basis. The mind has rudimentary Shields that occur naturally, and these seem to be sufficient for the average person in a normal situation.

Shielding is sufficiently standard a skill that practically any book on how to do magic or psionics, and most on psychic development, includes instruction on at least one method. There is little agreement on exactly when to start learning it. (Personally, I figure it ought to be taught in kindergarten, but I must admit to being seriously biased in this matter.) This little article is about psionic Shielding, simply because that is what I know, being neither mage nor witch. If you can produce a psi ball, you can make at least a simple psionic Shield. Once you can do a basic one, the rest is just practice, study, and playing.

Start with choosing your favorite method of making a psi ball. Next, consider exactly what you want your Shield to do. An example of a nice, basic, Shield intention is to "keep unwanted thoughts and energies from passing through from the outside, and keeping all but deliberate Sendings within". Now, form a psi ball while concentrating on our 'intention'. Put lots of energy into it. Allow the psi ball to grow, first enveloping your hands, then gradually your whole body, and a goodly amount of your aura as well. Add more energy until it feels nice and strong. At this stage, visualize a shell forming around the edge of the ball, which is probably no longer round, but might be. Visualize the shell as being made of something strong that makes you feel safe inside it: it could be bullet-proof glass, bright light, titanium steel, diamond, thick bark,...whatever feels right to you. Make sure your shell is big enough not to make you feel claustrophobic. When its shape, size, and material all feel right to you, will it to stay put without further attention until you choose to dispel it. If you want to, you can state these intentions aloud, or even make it into a little rhyming ditty; or it can be entirely mental.

Dispelling the Shield is a simple matter. The method I use most often is to visualize the shell dissolving into what look like 'pixels' which gently collapse to the ground and are absorbed back into the Earth, while intending to release the Shield. This is often called 'dropping' one's Shields. Don't take the 'drop' part too literally, however. Letting a Shield collapse too quickly or too violently can result in a truly monstrous headache, and occasionally knock you senseless. Visualize it rolling up like an automatic garage door, or rising open, or dissolving into nothing, or fading out...whatever you like. Just be sure the process is nice and gentle. As in the casting of the shell, a spoken component is optional. Likewise, you can incorporate physical gestures, if you want to.

Another common form of basic Shield is cast by, after going through the preliminary preparations, visualizing the protective energy forming a bell-shape or dome of thick glass or light around oneself. The dome may be called into existence whole, or gradually 'grown' around oneself.

If you favor more solid-seeming construction, picture building the barrier, bit by bit, of bricks or stones, or sheets of metal being welded together.

As you can see, the construction of a Shield can have many variations. So can the Shield's programmed intentions. Rather than simply blocking negative energies, you can tell your Shield to absorb them to fuel itself. Or, you can make the outside mirrored, to send the negative energies back where they came from. For combat, it can even 'fight back', but that is a specialized application outside the scope of this article. Combat Shield configurations are certainly not for everyday use.

There are other specialized applications. For example, there are times when avoiding notice is desirable. Concentrating on diverting unwanted attention, on being totally uninteresting, while casting the Shield is often very effective. In fact, go ahead and concentrate on not being seen at all. I am not the only one who has used this to avoid physical attack.

On the other hand, sometimes giving the impression of being more capable than you are is the way to go, the way some animals puff themselves up to scare away an enemy. "Tell" your Shields to give off an 'aura' of strong, graceful self-assurance. There is no need to be cocky or obnoxious about it. the idea is to avoid a fight, not provoke one. No matter how good you are, there's always someone better.

If you happen to be 'into' visible psi balls, you may find it amusing to make your Shields visible, too, sometimes. They can glow, or take on any color or appearance you happen to feel like. Use your imagination. Most of these nifty special effects take a lot of effort and energy, so you probably will not want to use this variation often, nor for very long periods of time.

Among friends, extending a bit of a tendril from your Shield to brush gently against your buddy's Shield is a friendly hello. It is a little like a cat rubbing his cheek against his person, in effect if not in exact meaning. Just how friendly a greeting this is probably varies from place to place, and it is far from universal, so check local customs first, if there are any. Snuggling your mind, and therefore your Shields, up against someone else's is a greeting that goes rather beyond a friendly 'hello'.

In an emergency, it is quite possible to Shield another person's mind, in much the same way that you can Shield your own. This is a relatively advanced variation, and outside of combat itself very rare this is an unusual sort of situation: and exhausted and overloaded empath in the city, for example; or a telepath in poltergeist difficulties in the midst of his or her own personal tornado. Shielding someone else is a possibility of which you should be aware. However, it is unlikely that you would ever be in a position to require its use.

Common and Not-So-Common Shields

The best offence is a good defense. We've all heard this cliché associated with things like sports or martial arts, but it applies to the world of psionics as well. The most fundamental way of protecting oneself against the outside world is a shield. Just like psi balls, they can be programmed to do an unlimited number of tasks, ranging from simply stopping negative energy from entering your body, to interpreting different types energy and responding to each on an individual basis. The average psion doesn't have a dictionary of hundreds of shields in their head for different situations - we each have a small database of regularly practiced shields that can be "tweaked" slightly to fit a given scenario. I, myself, use roughly three different types of shields on a given day, but also have a few advanced shields in mind "just in case".

The most common shield I use is referred to as the Bubble Shield.

Bubble Shield Bubble Shields are easy to make and can hold up against everyday annoyances. I primarily use them for blocking "normal" humans' empathetic projections. Regulating how solid the shield is dictates how much empathetic information I receive from my environment. I've personally had trouble using them for blocking telepathic information, but keep in mind, my telepathic experiences are very limited. Bubble Shields are also useful against humans who subconsciously leach energy from others. Basically, in those situations, your shield has to only be more powerful than the person's next to you. The "leach" will generally go for the easy target and not even bother with you. I use two techniques to create Bubble Shields (though sometimes I do outlandish things just to spice it up little ). The first is a simple visualization of a shell building from the ground to up, around your body, and finally meeting up over your head. Eggshells and plastic bubbles are typical visualizations. The second generates the shield from inside the abs, and expands it until it's around the entire body. This is useful for pushing energy off of you, while the first might trap it inside the shield.Unfortunately, you can't just learn the Bubble Shield and be set for life. If you engage in any psychic combat, you'll find that your Bubble Shield doesn't amount to crap. A focused attack can go right through or shatter it, depending on the attackers skill and objective. Reconstructing and maintaining it during a fight isn't worth the effort. As mentioned above, the Bubble Shield is very basic. It's great for everyday problems, but for more serious events, it's wiser to make a better type of shield, than trying to hold together a small Bubble Shield. One shield I'd like to discuss has a specific purpose. I invented it a year or so ago when I nearly got hit by lightning a couple times in a row, and still use it every time there's a storm outside. It has no formal name as far as I know, but I call it the Diffuse Shield.

Diffuse Shield

As implied above, I use this shield for fending off lightning. It started when I was first dabbling in energy manipulation. The first time, I was home alone at night, and it was storming pretty heavy out. I was playing around with psi balls and throwing them around, when I bolt of lighting hit within 30 yards of my house. I didn't see it directly, but everything lit up (and I mean EVERYTHING - I was blinded for about twenty seconds), and my entire house rattled and vibrated. I was scared shitless, of course, so I stopped practicing psi balls until the storm was over. Thinking it could have been a fluke, I didn't worry about it after that.

After a couple of similar experiences, I didn't take any action until the last time (I think almost a year ago exactly). I was outside, and it wasn't storming at all. There were clouds above, but no rain and no lightning. I suddenly heard a "click click click" sound and looked up. For some reason I dove into the garage (I don't remember seeing anything), and the lightning nearly hit me again. As before, everything shook and our house was rattling like crazy. Being nearly hit while it wasn't even raining made me think it wasn't just a "coincidence". I didn't know exactly how the lightning was targeting me, but I figured that I must be giving off a different charge (of some sort) than my surrounding environment. To solve this, I kept my internal charge the same (whatever it was), but made a shield to "diffuse" my charge into my environments charge. Any energy I emitted would be the same as my environment, but my energy would still be the same. I assume it's worked because I've yet to have another experience like that, but I do have to create the shield every time it starts to look like it's going to rain. Of course, I'd rather do that than get struck by lightning, so I don't complain. The technique is simple and the shield can be created in about the same amount of time as a Bubble Shield. First I create a thick Bubble Shield (not necessarily strong, just thick). Then I push some parts out to form a spike, and some parts in to form a spike. When I'm finished, it's similar to a furry ball - the spikes becoming so thin they're like fibers. It's made very "loose" and the fibers flow around freely. (I apologize for the cheesy animation , it's much easier to visualize than it is to draw).I've yet to find another use for this shield other than the one stated. It'll fall apart in an hour or so (depending how you program it), and I can't think of any way it would be useful in a combat situation. Nonetheless, it's served it's purpose: I've yet to be struck.

If you find yourself in a situation similar to mine, give this shield a try.

While the Diffuse Shield is made for a very specific purpose, the next shield I'm going to discuss can be used for a variety of applications. It's commonly referred to as the Mirror Shield because of its ability to bounce incoming energy in the opposite direction.

Mirror Shield

To be completely honest, I have little experience with this type of shield. I've used it on occasion while "sparring" with people, but I usually like creating something more complex (mainly because the Mirror Shield is kinda boring, in my opinion). Despite my lack of interest, it is a popular and useful shield. The technique is predictable given the name of the shield, but I'll go over it to be complete. Create it as you would any other shield, but program it to reflect incoming attacks. This can be accomplished by a nice "mirror" visualization or a slick silver color. There are some pitfalls to this shield that can trick-up a newbie. The first is to make sure you create it so you can send energy out through the shield. It's no good if you go to attack and your attack bounces off the inside and nails yourself. Another is to make sure you make it's on the outside of all your other shields. The reason for this is that if you create it inside a Bubble Shield, for example, and the attacker breaks through part of the Bubble Shield, the energy will bounce off, and hit the Bubble Shield again on the way out. Two hits with one stone.

Though I personally don't find this shield "fun", it is very useful. A skilled psion can easily fend off a series of attacks with this one shield. The next shield is another simple concept, but a little harder to construct, in my opinion. I call it the Marshmallow Shield, though I'm not sure if that's the formal name.

Marshmallow Shield

The Marshmallow Shield is a thick, gooey, and sticky type of shield. Its primary purpose is to absorb attacks and hold them there for later. It can be programmed to de-patternize the simple attack or just spit it back out. It's hard to break because of its nature, but at best it can slow down a skilled attack. One downfall (for me) is that it takes some time to construct properly. The visualization is simple, but it just requires a lot of energy. Basically, you want to picture a thick (probably at least one foot) wall of goo. Use semi-melted marshmallows for visualization. If you construct it in layers (which I do sometimes, to make it easier), you'll want to make sure the layers melt into each other completely - they can be a pain and separate on their own sometimes. You might want to put some Bubble Shields on the outside and inside of it if you're making it really gooey. It should hold it's own shape for some time, but it might require some maintenance depending on how you make it.

As I stated above - it can take a while to make, even if you are somewhat skilled. It's not particularly good at handling sharp objects, but it's not meant to be used as the only line of defense. Combine it with other defensive shields to provide better protection. After it's made it can be repaired somewhat easily, so you can keep it up for long periods of time.

One shield that can be combined well with the Marshmallow Shield is the Force-Bubble Shield. It takes longer to construct, but provides some of the best protection.

Force-Bubble Shield

In my opinion, the Force-Bubble Shield is one of the coolest out there. Just recently I've been experimenting with Force-Bubble Constructs, and the shield version is very useful and holds up against a lot of force. I can be used in combat or in any situation where you need to physically put force on an object. The downside is that it is pretty advanced and takes a lot of time to make (in most cases). Skill in telekinesis is useful. The visualization is fairly simple but tedious. The one I use is to visualize a bunch of "psi-bricks" stacking up and forming a brick wall around myself. You'll also need some "psi-mortar" as well to stick it all together . Also, to incorporate the idea of force, I visualize a bunch of arrows pointing outwards on the bricks. In physics, force is usually shown by an arrow, so it works well for me (having a somewhat scientific mind). Think of something that means "force" to you and use it. The key isn't necessarily the visualization, but the practice. This shield takes a lot of skill to construct properly.

The Force-Bubble Shield is extremely useful and powerful. While the previous combat shields address the issue of dealing with an attack, the last shield's purpose is to help you not get in situations where you'll get attacked. It's known as the Cloaking Shield, or in some cases, the "Hedge" Shield.

Cloaking Shield

I find this shield the most fun to play with. With it, you can walk up to someone while their looking right at you and scare the crap out of them (yes, that is fun!). Previous experience with telepathic suggestion will help you with this shield's properties.

To create it, you'll want to form a mental image of what you want to project onto others. You can project yourself as "invisible" or something static (for example, a hedge, box, etc...). Whatever you choose, you should have a clear understanding of what the objects energy is like. You'll want to create a shield that emits this same type of energy. The goal isn't to physically make yourself look like a hedge, but rather to get the attacker to glance over you. Broadcast something like "Nothing to see here, just a hedge".

Another form of this shield would be to emit a "normal" human's energy field. When the attacker sees you, they'll either underestimate your ability, or ignore you completely. Obviously, visualizations of whatever you want to become work well for forming this shield. Remember though, you're not just creating a shield, your clouding the mind of your opponent. This is where telepathy is useful. Incorporate telepathic suggestion and broadcasting into the shield. Visualize your opponent becoming confused.

This isn't an easy shield to make, but it is useful. It doesn't take that long to make, just skill. With anything, practice makes perfect, and this shield is fun to practice.

Conclusion

Shields are essential to psions - from newbie to advanced. One last note: keep in mind that the two shields are better than one. Combine shields and layer them wisely to significantly increase your protection. Any shield can be cracked, but having backups for the backups ensures you'll have time to

react to an attack.

Meditation Third Eye Tech:

This is a recommended technique to use for opening the third eye chakra. Start by doing the Deep Relaxation Meditation here on the Meditation page, and after the 10-12 minutes of that, when you are completely relaxed, (eyes closed) visualize your astral arms detaching from your physical arms. Make them massage your third eye, and add energy to it at the same time. Invision the eye VERY SLOWLY opening, blinking away the crust that sealed it there. Do this for about 5 minutes, and then slowly open your eyes. Picture the third eye opening in time with them, and then slowly blink a few times, and again, invision the third eye doing the same. After this, create a ki ball and concentrate on seeing through your third eye chakra and see if you get results. You might not get it on your first try; keep practicing, and don't get frustrated.

Third eye tech 1: This is the most common technique that you will see on most sites. To start, get in a comforable position. First, you should meditate for a minute or two and clear your mind. Next, close your eyes, and place your index and middle fingers in the middle of your forehead where your third eye is. Now, visualize a closed eye there. Now push your ki into your hand, and then push it through your fingers and into your third eye, and also through your palm(s) into the eye. Keep meditating, and visualizing the eye opening very slowly, like it's trying to wake up, but is very tired. When you've added enough energy and in your mind it appears to be fully open, open your eyes and blink a few times. If you opened it, the energy colors, etc. should fade into view in a minute or so. Now in most cases, you will not be able to keep the eye open for long the first few times. You should perform this technique for a few minutes at a time, and about 4 or 5 times each day. Each time, the eye may open a little more, or it may stay open for a longer time. Do this technique everyday until you can just keep it open all the time. Don't get discouraged, this takes time to do.

Third eye tech 2: This technique is from Martial Arts. This was originally a yogic breathing technique. I changed it, and revised it a little into this exercise. This is still experimental right now, and some people benefit from it, some don't. Now, to start. Using the right hand, place the tips of your index and middle finger on your third eye. This should postion your ring finger by your left nostril and your thumb your right nostril.

Close your right nostril with your thumb and breath in through your left nostril. Now, close your left nostril with your ring finger and breath out with your right nostril. Then breath in with the right, close it up with your thumb, and breath out with the left nostril. Repeat this process for about five minutes. After you are done, then make a ki ball and spend about 15 minutes looking at it. Try to see it not with your eyes, but with your third eye and peripheral vision.

Third Eye tech 3: This is another tech, which is sort of like a combination of the two above. To start out, just place your index and middle fingers in the center of your forehead, where your third eye is. Now close your eyes, and just take deep breaths and visualize the third eye open like any normal eye would after waking up from a nap. Keep doing this for a few minutes, and you can also add energy to it if you feel it is necessary. After you think it is open, open your eyes, and blink multiple times. If you feel your third eye wink, look around and try to see auras, make a ki ball and try to see it, etc.

Third Eye tech 4: This tech was discovered by my friend, Hien. Well, basically, while you are taking a shower, close your eyes. Let the water hit your forehead and face, and visualize the water droplets and droplets of ki, and visualize them opening your third eye.

Meditation

Meditation Before you attempt to do anything with ki, you should learn to meditate first. It would also be helpful if you master this technique. Ok, first I would like to say you should meditate everyday for a full effect. It is also helpful to set a certain time of day everyday to meditate. If you can, try to set it as the same time each day. Ok, now on to how to meditate. To meditate, sit on a chair or on the floor. If you sit in a chair, put your feet flat on the floor. If you sit on the floor, cross your legs so your right calf is above you left calf. In other words, sit down and cross your legs. Most people call this "Indian Style." Now put your right foot above your let knee. This is how you should sit. Now, make sure you back is straight, do not be hunched over. It helps now if you are listening to calm music, but it must be quiet. Burning some incense helps me a lot, so try that. You can close your eyes if you want, it makes it easier. Next, try to clear your mind and relax every muscle in your body, starting with your feet. Work your way up to your head and then just relax for a few seconds. Inhale long breaths through your nose and exhale long breaths out your mouth. Count from 10 to 0 in your mind, then 9 to 0, then 8 to 0, and so on until your at just 0. Every time you get to 0, say "calm and relaxed" in your mind. Now, you should be fully relaxed and thinking of nothing. Congratulations! You are now meditating. To awake from this meditation, simply count from 0 to 1, 0 to 2, 0 to 3, and so on until 10. Each time you get to the highest number, such as counting 0 to 5, when you get to 5, say "awaking more and more" in your mind. You will end up fully awake and you should feel great. Now open your eyes if you had closed them.

Ki Please do these techniques in order I have put them here. Once you have completed these techniques, go onto the beginner.

Note: All of the techniquues with a star (*) in brackets next to the name are neccesary to proceed to the next stage of Ki training.

Ki ball (*) (any method)

Step 1 Put your hands into a cupped shape. Do this by putting both wrists together, both index fingers together and opposite fingers together.

The other cupped shape is this: put your hands over each other like a letter r. Put your most dominant hand on the top and put your fingers together. Put your fingers on the back of the opposite hand.

Step 2 Visualize a blue ball of pure Ki in your tan-tien. You can either do this by looking down or picture it in your mind.

Step 3 Now visualize it turning to a soft, flowing mass of Ki. It no longer takes the ball shape. Visualize it flowing around your tan-tien.

Step 4 Now visualize the river flowing up your chest, and splitting into two rivers below your neck, and each river going down each arm and being stored in your palm/hand.

Step 5 Now visualize it flowing out of your palms and forming a pure blue ball in the centre of your cupped hands. At this point you may feel tingling, pressure, heat or any other sensation. If you feel a continuous sensation, you have made a Ki ball. If you just feel a short sensation, keep training and practicing.

Ki ball (Method 2)

Concentrate on your Tan Tien/Hara(This is a chakra, located about 2 1/2 inches below you navel and 3 inches in). Feel the ki in it. Send this ki to your hands. The easiest way is to think about the ki moving and concentrate on your hands. This should send the ki to your hands. You must move the ki slowly. Now continue to think about moving the ki, but now put your hands to your side, left hand 4 inches above your right hand or vise versa. Concentrate on the spot 2 inches between each hand. Close your eyes and visualize the ki flowing from your hands and into the space between your hands. Your hands should feel warm and tingly. They should also be pulling and pushing together as if they were magnets. You just made a ki ball.

Ki flame (*)

Step 1 Visualize a ball of blue Ki in your tan-tien. The more you want to power up, the bigger the ball should be. The average is about 10cm X 10cm. Step 2 Put your arms up in the air with clenched fists. Step 3 Now you have to thrust your elbows downwards so it is you are elbowing domeone, but vertically. While doing this, visualize the Ki ball exploding all over your body. So thrusting your elbows down is like a trigger or a detonator. Dont worry, it wont hurt you. It is your Ki so it does not harm you.

If your sight goes a bit fuzzy, the Ki flame has worked.

Spirit up (*)

Step 1 Visualize your body filling up with pure, blue Ki. A bit like a bottle gets filled up with drink, if you like. Continue this until your whole body is 'full'. This will improve the energy flow in your body making it easier to move energy around.

Grounding (*)

Step 1 Stand with your feet shoulder width apart.

Step 2 Imagine you have roots coming out of your feet and going down into the earth.

Step 3 Visualize energy flowing up the roots and forming a ball in your tan tien.

You can make the roots whatever size you like. If you want more energy, but less density, you could have the roots wide. If you want less energy, but more density, you could have the roots narrow.

Gathering energy (*) (any method)

Step 1 Put your palms out in front of you. Step 2 Totally relax. Step 3 Visualize Ki flowing through the air, into your palms, going down to your tan tien and finally getting stored in there.

Gathering energy (Method 2)

Step 1 Close your eyes. Step 2 Visualize a gigantic ball of pure white Ki in front of you. Breathe it in, visualize it flowing through your body. On the 'out' breath, visualize black smoke being breathed out. On the 'in' breath, visualize the Ki flowing from the ball and getting breathed in by yourself. After opening your eyes, you will feel refreshed.

Converting bad energy into good

Step 1 Visualize a gigantic ball of black Ki that turns anti-clockwise in front of you. Step 2 Visualize it slowing down. As it slows down, visualualize the ball of black Ki turning to white. As it turns to white, visualize it spinning clockwise. Step 3 Visualize the ball of white Ki exploding and all of the bits of white Ki falling down slowly and covering the entire room.

Ki ball #2

Step 1 Put your hands in front of your tan tien so they are facing each other. Do not cup your hands. There should be a hand either side of your tan tien. Step 2 Visualize a blue Ki ball with a white core inbetween your palms. This technique is probably the easiest to do, and you get results straight from a few tries.

Ki ball #3

Step 1 Put your hands in a cupped shape. Step 2 Visualize a ball of Ki in your tan tien. Step 3 Visualize this ball splitting into two balls. Step 4 Visualize these balls rolling up your chest and stopping at the top of each shoulder. Like you get stuck on the apocalypse ride at Alton Towers in the UK. Step 5 Visualize another two balls in your tan tien. Step 6 Do the same as step 4, but the two new balls knock the other balls down your arms, out of your palms to form one ball in your cupped hands. Do this about 10 times. This techniqe works good, but it may take too long to make if you are in a difficult situation.

Gathering Ki from the wind

Step 1 Put your arms either side of you like a 'T' shape. Step 2 Feel the wind clashing against your arms. Visualize Ki flowing from the wind into your palms and down to your tan tien.

Gathering Ki (method 3)

Step 1 Sit in a comfortable position with your palms facing away from you. Step 2 Visualize Ki flowing like a river from all of the objects in front of you. Visualize it going into your palms, don your chest and into your tan tien. Once you have mastered these techniques, move on to beginner tech

What is a Psi Signature and How Do I Scan for One?

This is a very popular question. One I have been asked several times a day over the past two or so months. So I?ve decided to do an article on the topic.

What is a psi signature? A psi signature, or energy signature, or psi sig as it will be referred to from here on, is simple. It is your energy or psi 'fingerprint.' Yours is unique to you and you alone. It contains different information for different people, but some of the fundamentals are the same. When I scan someone, I pick up the feeling of their person. What does that mean? That's where it gets somewhat complicated to explain. Think about the people in your life. Think about how you feel when you're around them individually. Being around a close friend is very different from being around, say, a teacher or parent. Or if you're in my age range, being around a close friend feels very different from being around a group of teenagers. Does just being around someone change your mood? Make you happy? Sad? Frustrated? Angry? So much so that it's noticeable when they leave? This is exactly what I'm describing here, but on a larger scale.

So, as I was saying. When I scan someone I pick up that feeling of who they are. Sometimes I see colors, which mean different things to me. Sometimes I will get a cramp on my anatomy where they may have a chronic problem. Occasionally I see "freeze frames" of some kind of a significant turning point in their life. Once in a while, I will even pick up on what they've eaten that day. What you see or feel depends not only on you but the person you're scanning. By now you should have a somewhat clear idea of what a psi signature is.

Now, what exactly is scanning? An excellent question, my friend. Scanning, as I use the term here, is ?connecting? to someone to find out either specific or general information about that person. There is actually more to it, but it's not necessary to go into for this particular article. With me so far? Scanning is connecting to another person to find either specific or general information about that person.

Ok, you say. I jive with what you're saying. But how do I "connect" to someone else? To which I say, you obviously have not read the other articles on this site, have you? But I will give you an abbreviated version of how I accomplish this.

O.K. So, you know how superheroes always have a utility belt? Superman, Spiderman, Batman, Inspector Gadget -- all have superhero utility belts. And on that utility belt there is always a gizmo of some sort to use when they get stuck in the unfortunate situation of having to climb walls. You know the one I'm talking about, it looks like a little anchor with a rope that connects to the belt?

Anyway, when you're stuck having to climb a wall, or in this case make a connection to someone, you aim. Pick your target. A friend, a coworker, or if you're a superhero the horizontal top of the building. Fire away. Feel that rope extending out from your utility belt (I tend to connect through my sternum, so maybe that's a utility bra?) and the aftershock of when it hits its target. The idea is not 100% visualization, but if you don't get the hang of it right away practice with the visualization. Now, this is where the superhero analogy ends. When you're a superhero you pull yourself up and onto horizontal walking ground. When you're scanning, you want to pull the information you seek down the rope to you. Are you still with me? Aim at your target. Fire your connection "rope". Pull the information you seek back to you and receive it. What do you see? What do you feel? What do you hear? How does this feeling differ from how you feel when you're alone? Make note of colors, shapes, emotions that aren't your own, all of your senses. Write this down. No, really. Write it down. As you practice this skill more, these things start taking on different meanings to you.

Let me give you some examples of people you don't know. I have a friend we'll call Chris. He is not naturally psychic nor does he practice anything in the field of psionics. I've known him since I was 11 years old and we don't have many secrets. When I scan him I see the color yellow. Yellow happens to be my favorite color and it signifies happiness/brightness/openness to me. Chris has horrible vision, and when I scan him I start seeing things in more of a blur. I see that he has no shields up and is only vaguely aware that I'm going into his mind right now. If I stay too long he'll figure it out and get hostile. I pick up that he has a cramp in his wrist, which leads me to believe he's spent his whole day at work in front of his computer. Feels like a carpal tunnel kind of deal. Ok I just got a nasty phone call from Chris, so moving on to the next subject.

I have an acquaintance we'll call Angie. I know her through my work, though we've never been especially close. I see the color green when I scan Angie. To me in this case, means she is somewhat self-absorbed and manipulative. She has no shields up either, which tells me she has no psionic experience. I feel a grief when I scan her, though I can't tell if it's because someone died or something/someone that was in her life is no longer there for whatever reason. I pick up no physical pain and I suspect she is sleeping right now because she has no reaction whatsoever to my intrusion into her mind.

One last example would have to be someone I don't particularly care for. For this article, we'll call him Dave. I also know Dave through work and we've butted heads on several occasions. I don't see any color when I'm scanning Dave right now. I feel an intense frustration. Like a testosterone rage fit. I feel a sharp pain in my right eye and into my nose, though I can't explain what that is at this particular moment. He is obviously very angry with someone, and has what seems to be an unconscious shield of anger around him. He has no reaction to my scanning him. [Author?s note: The next day I found out he had been in a bar fight right around the time I scanned him.]

Scanning accurately, whether it be for empathy or general information, takes practice. And even so, you still need to be open to the fact that your own mind can cause distortions. Speaking only for myself, my brain tries to relay the information to me in a way I can understand. Relating it to one of my own life experiences. And still, to this day, that causes distortions and inaccuracies for me. But either way, get your pen and paper and start practicing. On willing participants, of course.

My final note would be to point out that I did not scan any known psychics in my examples. A word to the wise: you shouldn't either. This is usually perceived as an attack of some sort and will most likely be returned in kind. My momma didn't raise no fool, and I suspect yours' didn't either. So get permission before you practice this skill on someone. Especially if that someone is more skilled than you.

If you have any further questions that were not answered in this article please feel free talk to me in the PsiPog chat.

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