New pagans, especially solitaries, may have some doubt if they are channeling energies properly, or even at all. It can help to learn how you sense energies. The following exercise can help you learn to feel the energies around you.
To sense energy for the first time:
Hold your hands several inches apart, palm facing palm. Slowly bring your hands together until you feel hot, cold, tingling, attracting, or repulsing sensations in your hands. This generally happens when your hands are two to four inched apart, depending on the strength of your aura.
To practice sensing the energy of objects:
- Choose the object you would like to practice on.
- Center and Ground.
- Visualize a tendril of energy extending from your center to your primary hand.
- Allow the energy to gather around your hand.
- Reach toward the object you have chosen, but don’t touch it.
- Notice what you feel. Your hand may feel warm, cold, tingly, attracted to or repelled by the object. Practice this with many different objects. I find crystals to be particularly energetic.
