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Around. Good question, I'll try to make that more clear...

Oh wow.. it's been a while. Alright, be ready for my update, though it won't be very long.

I got my energy balls to stop melting really quick, [thanks for that], and was able to put up some fairly sturdy shields. Mostly they're really weak, but these feel like the have some significant substance. However I found I've been really tired all week. Needing naps nearly twice a day, and suffering from some persistent headaches. Does this mean I'm trying too hard? randomly tired? or simply doing my practices wrong. So as a result, sometimes I miss a few days and fall asleep on the floor during meditation... v_v

I'll try the challenge though, it sounds like fun.

Just to clarify, you're passing it around your fingers like some people do with their pencils? like.. weaving them around? [if you saw pirates of the caribbean, what he did with the coin?]

Yes, I would love it if you two would join, FF and TSW. I'll add your names to the list!

And Torak--I wouldn't recommend doing energy work when you're tired or sick. It puts too much strain on the body's already weakened defense system. Also, the problem could be your grounding. Are you grounding after each meditation and energy excercise? Can you feel when you're grounded?

And you're supposed to create the energy ball around your finger(s), not going through. Like if you've seen a ball on a stick, make it look like that. 3nodding

So something really strange happened while I was trying to shield what's left of my herbs (some parsley and a tiny bit of cilantro, both of which seem to be doing well.) I used white, earth energy again like last time. But last time I created an orb inside the pot and made it expand similar to blowing a bubble. This time I made sure not to touch the pot or plants with the ball (I thought I would be overwhelming them with energy that way... I think that's what I did last time.) I created a half-circle with the energy and folded it over the plants like the hood on a baby stroller, but made it go all the way around and connect. Anyway, enough with my strange method of doing things...

Immediately after creating the bubble, my body felt really... odd. Like I was sitting in mush or jello or something. It's a really yucky feeling. XD
I thought grounding and centering would make it go away, so that's what I did (my usual way with roots typically works for me). But it didn't go away until I got up and started moving around/became physically active. I'm fine now, but it was a bit of a shocker when it happened.

On a completely unrelated note...
I have this tea rose candle that smells really nice... (Like I said, unrelated... XD)
Anyway, I was staring at the flame for a bit, and actually managed to get it to move. I had it point in different directions, or to different objects around it. It was kinda cool, until I looked up and couldn't see anything but a giant yellow blob... XP
I was also able to do the same thing with a cinnamon spice candle, but a weird lump formed on the end of the wick, so it wouldn't burn correctly after a while. I had to stop then because the flame leaned to one side...

And such is my life... I just ranted. XD

EDIT: So the cilantro died. Which was almost to be expected, but it's still sad. But the parsley is doing rather well!
Also, I stopped playing with fire after I learned it made me really, really, REALLY tired. -.-

Ok, I think I'm ready to move on to the next lesson.

I've found that for some reason trying to visualize the energy as different colors usually screws me up. Maybe I just haven't tried actually using enough of them and I should experiment with them further but as far as red, blue, green, brown, and yellow go I find a lot of difficulty. The only exception would be when I don't think about using a specific color it seems to come out gold. Not that I can actually see it manifesting yet but when I imagine what it would look like its almost always golden.

I've abandoned the basement because its just too difficult to ground and center down there for whatever reasons, and I find it much easier to do it in my room though Its still harder than when I'm doing it with another person or outside.

On Beltaine me and my friend went out to celebrate on a nearby mountain and we both put our hands over each other and the energy was stronger than it had ever been and occurred naturally without the friction. Just thought I would throw some of that stuff out there.

Ok, so for the question part.

I raised energy into a specific part of my body and was able to manifest it outside of it after focusing it in my palms. When I try to mess with specific elements its harder for me to maintain the energy or doesn't make any difference at all and I usually seem to natural lean towards gold colored energy perhaps because I'm more in tune with sun and God energy. Its extremely important that I'm in an area where I can properly ground and center myself and get a few minutes of meditation and where my energies flow more easily, and being outside or with someone I have a strong connection to helps this.

I'd imagine this would probably be best applied to healing specific places on the body, or perhaps infusing an object with your on energy.


On to the next lesson!

Alright, I appologize for being away all week, our computer went all crappy on us, so I'm sorry if I don't get all of your questions done in one sitting. sad

FinalFantasey--Don't worry about it, wait it out for a little bit (three days) and see what happens. If it still doesn't work, tell me again. It may just be that you won't be able to feel energy. In that case, we'll move on. You might also want to try rubbing them together for longer.

And Strawberry--Weird, about the jelly. Tell me if it happens again.

Torak--Just do it for a few minutes at first, and if you still feel weird when you try to do something, then you aren't grounded.

Kyou and Torak I'll get you later. Too tired sad