Learn to Sense Energy

by Emer

We can all sense the energy around us quite well; but many of us are unaware that
we can. Have you ever walked into a room right after there was a heated argument
in it? You could feel it, couldn't you? It's all a matter of remembering how to do
what you've known all along.
Here are some things to try:
1. Visualize energy coming from your hands and forming into a ball. Hold this
ball, make it grow, shrink it, stretch it, twist it - play with it. It is there
and you will learn to sense it with practise.
2. Sense your own aura. Hold your hands far apart. Now slowly bring them together.
When they're about 1 or 2 inches apart, you may feel some resistance - this is
your aura.
3. Hold a crystal in your hand(s). What do you feel? Move it over your chakras, or
over the palm of your hand. Keep it close to you, but not touching.
4. Find a fist-sized stone and set it in front of you. Hold your hands over it,
close but not touching. Feel anything? Keep trying, you will. Now, send energy
through your hands and into the rock. Feel the rock again. What you sense now
should feel different. Try pulling energy out of the rock, then see how it feels.
5. Walk around your house or yard and try to feel the auras of animals and plants
with your hands. Try to sense a difference between them.
6. Walk close to a tree or human - don't touch. What do you feel? You are standing
in their aura and will feel something somewhere in your body.
7. Spread some crystals on a table. Close your eyes and run your hand over the
table. Keep your hand close, but not touching. Where do you feel the energy? Could
be in your fingertips or in the palm of your hand.
8. Sit in a straight chair or on the floor in a room, with your eyes closed. Try
to sense the overall feeling of the room. Now take your chair and sit in another
part of the room. Does it feel any different?
8a. Try sitting in a different room. How does it compare with the first room you
were in?
8b. Same room, but move things around. Over turn chairs and generally make a mess.
Now, how does it feel?
9. This one is best done after dark with the lights off AND your eyes closed.
Slowly walk through the room, house or yard. Don't open your eyes - rely on your
other senses. You will, in time, be able to sense the presence of obstacles.
Believe me - this really works and it's fun.

You may find that you don't always sense with your hands. I quite often feel the
energy fields through my heart chakra. Be open to all sensations.
At first, you may find that you don't feel anything. But, when you're done you may
remember sensing something. This happens often in the beginning - you're learning.
Go with it.
All things begin in the imagination. Go ahead and imagine a sensation. After
awhile, you won't need that extra *push* from your imagination to get things
started. And, so what if you're making it all up in the beginning? - it will all
come together with practise. You're sensing more with your mind than you are with
your physical body anyway. Don't worry about it. Just know that you can do it.
Now, some of you may be wondering what this energy is supposed to feel like. The
answer.......it depends on what's being sensed and by whom. It can be a tingling,
heat, cold, stinging, prickling; everyone's different.
Remember, don't try so hard; just do it. Practise and you'll learn. Have fun with
this. You'll surprise yourself.