An Introduction to Energy for Kin
What is Energy? It’s everywhere, and flows through everything. Nearly everything in the world either creates Energy, or is capable of storing or conducting it. It is called many things in many languages; chi, ki, prana, elan vital, the force, mana, etc and so on.
Every person, human or otherwise, has Energy that is created by their spirit and flows through their body and outwards. Likewise animals, plants, places, structures, objects, planets, stars, and more, all have their own Energy that people can affect and be affected by.
Your Energy, the Energy that your spirit creates is uniquely yours, subtly changed by your life, and your lifetimes, but enduringly, recognizably yours throughout (barring unusual circumstances). It is likely that your Energy here and now is almost just like your Energy in other lives and other worlds.
Once you are aware of the Energy within and around you, then you can begin sense it and affect it in various ways I’ll talk about later. But first, you have to actually be aware of it.
We’ll start with awareness of the energy within yourself.
First, get comfortable. Laying down is optimal, but you can do this sitting as well. If you sit, try putting your hands on your knees.Either way, close your eyes.
Concentrate your awareness at the center of yourself, somewhere between your chest/stomach. Feel the sensation of your awareness there. It might feel heavy, or light, or tingly, or warm, or pressured, or another strange sensation. Concentrate on the sensation for a moment and how it feels to you. Feel the sensation spread out through you in all directions.
Visualize your body in the position you’re sitting/laying. It’s okay if your visualization doesn’t have features/looks like the body in a tylenol commercial; if you have astral/phantom limbs, you should visualize those as a part of yourself too. Now, visualize the Energy at the center of yourself.It doesn’t matter what it looks like to you, just visualize it as whatever comes to mind.
As you visualize the Energy at your center, watch it as it spreads out through your body, flowing through your arms and legs, through your head, and through your other limbs. See it leaking out of your fingers and toes and the top of your head. Watch it move through you, unending, flowing from that center of yourself.
As you visualize the Energy flow through you, feel it carry that sensation from your chest, out through your body. You may feel a rush as you do this, as becoming aware of your Energy tends to temporarily increase it. Feel and watch it flow through you; does it pool anywhere? What does it look like to you? How does it feel?
If you have trouble with this exercise, just keep trying until you can feel/visualize something. Even if you get it the first time, you should practice visualizing and feeling your Energy within you, until you can turn that awareness off and on easily. When you’re truly, reliably aware of your own Energy, then you can move on to feel the Energy around you, and begin to sense and affect it. These things I’ll talk about in a later post.
If you did this exercise, feel free to reblog and talk about how it went. What did your Energy look like to you, and how did it feel? Did you have a hard time, or an easy time becoming aware of your Energy?
-Mod Felix of FromFiction
