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Those who wish to work with energy often ascribe to developing a technique for shielding themselves from harmful attacks or unwanted contacts.
Shields can be utilised in many ways. The most common is the aura, which is always present and serves mainly to hold your own form intact. There can also be shields for repelling spirits, other awakened minds attempting to make contact or even environmental influences, which can help preparation for meditation. It should be noted that although they will protect from unwanted energies, it usually also prevent any energy from being taken in, so it is advisable to regulate the amount expended in its construction.
The form which it takes is decided by the invdividual, but most commonly, the easiest to envisage is that of a sphere which encompasses the whole physical body as well as the aura.
The process is generally to first close the eyes, which although not absolutely neccessary, helps with concentration. Then, time allowing, centre your energy and envisage a ball within you expanding rapidly outwards, all the while holding the form of a perfect sphere centered within you. Continue to push it our beyond yourself until it is a few feet from the body and hold it there with your mind, ensuring that it passes below the feet and that you remain at the centre of it. It may help to begin by using the hands as if one were forming an energy ball.
The surface of the sphere should be something which the mind associates with strength, but is not so inflexible as to encumber. It should be capable of changing and evolving to suit the circumstance for which it is being used. Energy is fluid and the more it is held 'static', the more attention and energy is required to maintain it. Dependant on the level of energy invested in its construction, it will last a relative length of time.
Once you have a steady form, it can be shaped to suit whichever form you wish for it to take, for whichever purpose you want to use it. Perhaps to communicate a warning or even an emotive response. The image is limited only by the imagination of the creator. The primary focus is to maintain one which completly encompasses you at all times and blocks the 'attack'.
With practice, it is also possible to allow some forms of energy to pass through the shield or to block just one or more individual flows. To do this, an image must be formed in the mind to be a part of the shield targeted at the energy to be allowed or blocked. This image should represent something which is related to that type of energy and often requires intense concentration to maintain over any great period of time.
An example would be if you are drawing energy from another being and wish to take out some of the 'impurities' (negative emotions), then a filter mechanism could be applied over the place where you are drawing it into yourself, which is then invested with the idea of blocking that specific flow.
The unwanted energy will tend to build up upon this filter area and will need to be discarded through redirecting or by grounding it.
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