Grounding(Shielding)

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What is Shielding?

Shielding, in psychic terms, is a form of protection from outside influences such as psychic attack and empathic overload. A shield is a layer of energy that you surround yourself with and that allows you to regulate what energy will affect you and how.

How do I make one?

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

Detect incoming signals
Perceive whether they are hostile or friendly
If hostile, the signals must be caught and depatternized
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.

This is very good, especially for the beginners who are not familiar with shields or shielding.

http://psipog.net/art-outline-to-shielding.html

Posted by Florrie (Dec 14, 2009) :

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There are several grounding techniques. I find this one very helpful, but if something else works better for you, just stick to it.

Find a relaxed posture; sitting right-up in lotus posture (meditation posture) is very suitable, but sitting right-up on a chair, or lying on your back on the ground can also work very good. Find out what suits you best. Close your eyes and release the tension in your muscles. Observe your breath for some moments; try to breathe deeply and calmly, but don't force anything. If you don't manage to bring your breath downwards, simply accept that and try it another time.

Then visualize, or imagine, a transparant white lightbeam coming from above, entering your head at the crown-chakra (the energy centre at the top of your head). The white light fills up the upper part of your head, goes down to the 6th chakra between your eyes, and fills up the rest of your head with sparkling white light. On its way down along the spine the energy fills your throatchakra and shoulders with white light, your arms, your heart region and chest, your belly and the intestines, the hips, your inward and outward sexual organs, and your legs down to the feet. You must now clearly feel your feet. While the white light fills up your body darkness and negativity (being negative emotions and beliefs about ourselves, and problems/emotions of others we have absorbed in our energy system) are driven out. It can be very helpful to let your breath follow the cleansing white light, supporting the removal of dark energies. You may feel a temporary discomfort, an emotion coming up, or feel pain somewhere. Simply notice it, let it be as it is, breathe towards it, and after a while it will usually disappear. It may be part of your cleansing process.

The 'psychic dirt' of the body parts that are surrounded by air will simply dissolve into the air; where your body connects with the ground the 'dirt' will disappear into the ground. This last psychic dirt will be the thickest, since it represents fears and feelings of unworthiness. Imagine it on its way down to the center of Mother Earth, where it will be transformed through fluid fire and returned to you as clean energy in any color your unconsciousness wishes to show you. This color represents an energy-form you need more of.

So now you are experiencing two streams of energy along your spine, one upward and one downward. This is what is symbolized by the wand of Mercury (the caduceus): the wand is a representation of the invisible tube along the inside of our spine through which life energy is transported, and the two winding snakes depict the downward and upward energy streams from heaven and earth. It is possible to physically experience the energy as warmth, tickling energy along your spine, or shivering. Grounding makes you mentally and emotionally peaceful and concentrated. You will feel present and ready for the things you choose to do.

Remember the color(s) of the earth energy and open your eyes. You can wear clothes in the color you saw, buy flowers in it, visualize it regularly through the day, whatever you choose.



Shielding

When you practice magick on your own you can visualize any form of energetic shield. Use your imagination to create yourself the best one, or use these examples:

visualize a circle of protection around you, or better said a three dimensional globe of protection, keeping all negative vibrations out
imagine a pyramid of gold; through the top it supplies you with pure, cosmic energy, and the golden sides reflect all negativity
use first the circle and then put the pyramid over it
create yourself an armour; it can be a reptile-looking Starwars armour, a medieval steel harnass, whatever you want and don't worry if it looks comical, you're the only one who sees it
put an energetic ring of fire around you, with flames too high to be crossed by any enemy, or with flames consuming all outward negativity
a veil or net that lets in positivity and keeps out all forms of negativity.
visualize the color cobalt blue around you; it can take the shape of a cobalt blue aura, globe, room or temple, whatever you want. Cobalt blue is famous for its protection against negativity (therefore it was already used in Egyptian and Mayan temples) because everything that does not come in Truth cannot pass it.
If you do magick with more than one person, make sure that your shield covers all magicians and the complete working space! This time suits of armour are not suitable, but a circle of protection or the color cobalt blue for instance are very good ones. Before you start the magick agree on the shielding form.

After working magick it is advisable to again visualize a shield to keep astral beings at a distance who might have been attracted by your rituals.


Posted by ginseng (Jun 07, 2010) :

http://www.realmagick.com/articles/65/1965.html

Posted by ShadowKilo on Dec 14, 2009

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.


Posted by ginseng on Jan 13, 2010

I do my sheilds regularly to keep them strengthened as this is very important on repelling others negativity and keeping yourself protected from malice actions from others

interesting info

i agree davorus, but i think people should put shielding into a "live" situation, practice is great but i feel there is a difference between people shielding when say mediatating and those who can shield live, the mind can be a great convincer :-)

I put it up because is shows another view on shielding, although I only followed it to a point.