Shielding Instructions.

This lesson is designed to get you set on creating your own shield with your own method. Here I will explain the basics; energy types, manipulating that energy(visualization and direction), and how to make it work.

Elemental Energies
Most people know about the four basic elements, so we'll cover that first. These are just basic summaries to help people out with understanding and working with them.

Earth: Well known for being the most enduring and sturdy of the elements, earth energy should exist within any shield. You can use it for a foundation to make your shield impenetrable. Earth energy is often represented by browns, greens, and other natural earthly colors. You can connect with earth energy same way as the last two mentioned, surround yourself with it as often as possible; keep a zen garden(one of those rock and sand ones), have potted plants throughout your house, etc.

Subtypes of the Earth element include sand, stone, plant, metal and mountain.

Air: Perhaps best used in this case for personal strength, you can use air energy to strengthen and shield your mind. Air energy is often represented by the color yellow, light blue, or clear as air is. Surrounding yourself with air energy is easy; don't go into space and remember to take steady deep breaths. Setting up fans throughout your home and opening up some windows to allow fresh(thus not dead/stagnant) air in may also be helpful.

Element subtypes for air include wind, gust, breeze, tornadoes, hurricanes, gas, and sky.

Water: A good supportive energy, water is great for change/adaption. You can use water energy to form an adaptive shield which would change as required according to the situation. Water energy is often represented by dark blues, specifically ocean blue. You can connect with water energy same way as fire energy- surround yourself with it; go for a swim, keep a fish tank(even if there's no fish), etc.

Subtypes of the water element include mist, rain, vapor, river, stream, fog, and steam.

Fire: Perhaps the best element for attacks, fire is great for any shield designed with a backlash. The fire energy is represented by orange, yellow, red, and other fiery colors. You can connect with the fire energy by surrounding yourself with it; candles, fireplace, etc.

Subtypes of the fire element include flame, lava, magma, heat, and arguable lightning.

Now, there are also two other "elements" although arguably so. Chaos can be seen as an element, a source, an energy, or simply as a descriptive word. Spirit is often seen as a body part or layer, however it is manipulatable and is a form of energy.

Chaos: Most definitely the hardest to explain, an experienced chaot may do better here then I, but here's what I know.

Chaos in a shield is helpful for throwing off your opponent, however chaos energy is chaos because it is unpredictable. Nobody can be sure what a shield of chaos will do. You may be able to attach a general direction, such as how it is meant to protect you, but how exactly it will protect you will remain a mystery and may change every time it must protect you.

Chaos is represented by many colors and none, however each of the subtypes/results of chaos may be represented by certain colors. Light being white, gold, silver, or otherwise brightly colored. Darkness being very dark red, dark navy blue, black, or some other very dark color. Energy, which is often relatively compared to light, may be various shades of yellow, red, blue, green, orange, or purple(rainbow colors, in other words). Void, which is the most comparable to the main element of chaos, is prone to be black.

The subtypes of Chaos are much easier to control, each of which existing out of chaos rather then being chaos itself. Each subtype is a result of it's existence and thus the chaos effect has already taken place with them.

Spirit: This type of energy can be used to boost your own power, energy, and ability. As a shield it is better to contact the spirits themselves and request them to form the shield for you, more often then not they will happily oblige. Spirit energy is often represented by silver, white, or transparency. Unlike any other element, and this may be due to the lack of spirit being it's own element, spirit energy does not have subtypes.

Other types of energy include Psi and Chi . Psi is energy from your mind, it is not it's own element. Psi is any type of psychic energy and is the most common type for beginners to use since we all use it naturally throughout our lives, even if only subconsciously. Chi is one step above Psi for the ascending practitioner, it is the energy from the rest of your body. Your muscles, your organs, your bones, everything. Chi is our life energy. Most commonly these energies are given a color by the practitioner, I have yet to see a single color set for either, however in reference to chakras Psi would most likely be purple and Chi would most likely be orange or red.

How to Build a Shield

When manipulating energy the key skill is visualization. In the last post you see that every energy has it's own color. When directing that energy, visualize it moving as desired in the form of light which would be colored according to the energy type. For example, if I were visualizing earth energy solidifying my position in a career, I might use the contract to represent my position and visualize brown/green light flowing into the contract and giving it the strength of the earth.

In shielding, you don't need a piece of paper to get that energy. You need yourself to get that energy. For my example we will use white light.

Step One: Clear your mind. Meditate if need be. You don't need to stop all thought process, you just need to be clear headed. If something is annoying or distracting you, take a moment to meditate and forget about it. This isn't required, but it's much much easier to visualize when you're not bothered by work or other stressful events.

Step Two: Begin visualizing. See a white light emanating from your body. Now visualize another white light starting at the top of your head and flowing down you like water to cover the white light that came from you. See and feel that energy hardening into a shell, protecting you from energy, mental, and emotional attacks.

Step Three: Accept it. Know that your shield was a success and that you are safe.

See? That simple. Easy as 1, 2, 3.

Now, the reason I covered so many energies is because you can make a shield out of more then one. That will be explained in the next post, this one was just to make sure you know how to make the shield and this method works with any energy type. Also keep in mind, there are other methods out there and some people find the longer and more complex method to either work faster(rarely) or more efficiently. The efficiency of your shield is based upon your own belief in it. Some people have actually reached the point where they don't need visualization at all, they are already shielding by believing they can't be harmed.

Shielding With Elements

Each type of energy has it's benefits in a shield. The most commonly and recommended shield is one from earth energy, when referring to elements, but that does not mean we are limited to earth energy.

In my last post I explained in step two what to visualize. Now I'll walk you through creating a shield with all four basic elements.

1) First you want Chi. That comes from you and yourself should be the center of this art. You can mix Chi energy with Psi and that is often recommended. Visualize purple and orange energy emanating from your flesh to form that glow coming from your body. Feel your Chi and Psi flowing through you.

2) Now we start with the elements. First element, second energy, is earth. Earth is your elemental foundation. Visualize brown/green energy flowing down over you to cover you in Earth's warm embrace. Feel the safety and security of Earth's infinite strength protecting you.

3) Next is air. Visualize light blue or yellow energy flowing down from the top of you, forming windy cocoon all around you. Feel the fresh breeze from it and know that it will blow any negative energies away.

4) Third element, fourth energy, is water. Visualize a deep blue flowing down from you, washing away any attempts to harm you. Know that this energy will adapt to fit your needs and protect you from attacks.

5) The fourth element, final energy, is fire. Visualize red, yellow, or orange energy flowing down to surround all the others. This energy is the most aggressive, it won't just protect you, it will lash back at your attacker to let them know they need to back off.

Again, you are not limited. You can add any or all of the Chaos energies as well, and spirit energy is always helpful. Spirit energy may do better under the energies, closer to your own spirit, as the two would then strengthen each other.

Why is it important to shield?

Recently there have been a number of attacks. Those who were unable to defend themselves often report physical pain, problems within their thought patterns, emotional wreckage, or more. Although not all is so serious and random attacks in this fashion may be rare, they do happen and if you don't know how to shield you are at risk.

It is possible to die from energy based attacks.

I am not trying to scare you or cause alarm by saying this, I just want to make sure everyone knows how important it is to know how to defend yourself. Since science can not track such attacks, your murderer should you fall victim to such a conflict can and will get away without legal retribution. Chances are your death will look like an accident or natural cause including falling off something, having a heart attack, rupturing something, or worse. All this can be easily blocked by a proper shield, which had you read the posts in this thread you would know how to create.

So build a shield and strengthen it often. Later, if another member doesn't jump on it first, I will post a lesson on how to make servitors specifically for your shield.

Thank you for reading. Stay safe.

I may have to try out this next time I refresh my shield. Thanks for the info.

Thank you for the shielding lesson

I don't like making shields unless I feel threatened, but then again even then I don't make a shield. Well... It's because I try to contact what ever is buging me at the moment. I remember 2 days ago something was pulling on my energy,like it was literaly moving it around or just playing with it or maybe even draining me. I was horrified. no joke.I was scared, but even so I didn't shield or attack. I first try to contact what ever it is that I am feeling lingering around. If I get no possitive responce I then ask it to rest if it is night time or to leave in peace if it is day time. Later I shield. Things calm down after that because what ever it is can't mess around with my energy. They usualy leave since I can't feel their presense anymore but when they dont, Thant's when I go into attack mode.

Most of what I do is visual. because talking and having my eyes open is too much of a distraction for me to focus and sensing and stuff, but wow, sometimes I actualy think something is realy bad is going to happen like I am going to die or get thrown across the room, fighting with those unseen forces is realy scary even for me especialy when things start moving and making noises hahah.

so much for having a guardian angel..... I want to learn how to summon an angel realy realy bad! but, the 'Angelic Touch' coven only allows adults to join =/

I bought a book called 'Ask Your Angels' which tells me how to summon them, but according to the book I am unable to summon the angels because unlike the angels I "don't travel lightly" because I carry with me things like; fear of disapointment, shame, blame, abandonment, fear of intimacy, etc.

I personaly think of certain 'negative' emotions as powerful and they sometimes propel us to move forward. I believe it depends on the person weather they serve as good or bad.


ALSO one last thing: If anyone can tell me how to better control my emotions and impulses to do certain things like beating the crud out of the person beating up your friend or something without thinking, and would like to teach me I'd be very thankful because I need it.

Your welcome everyone.

Al, I have a few things to say about what you've said.

First, it's good to shield immediately, even if only lightly, because a lot of damage can be done in a short amount of time.

Second, angels from what I have seen tend to focus more on those with a lot of emotional baggage, they are more helpful to such people. Especially the young.

Third, I don't think I could help you control your emotions from here. I can tell you that it does take a bit of practice and is entirely possible, you just have to be aware of yourself and practice a bit of discipline.

hah, now you made me feel so independet hahaha! ah,but still, everyone needs an angel. Also, It is very dificult for a healer to heal another if he himself is ill. I want to request from you Ragnorok to post some lessons on self healing and maintaining a healthy energy body.