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Magickal Basics
Magical Basics
Grounding and Centering
written by: Sidhedanz (Deb)
There are certain things that are pretty nearly essential to do in one form or another (and everyone has their own 'best' way) before doing anything magical (I leave out the 'k' deliberately, it annoys me rather like spelling old 'olde') in order to prevent injury to yourself. Some form of grounding, centering, and circling is how you keep energy controlled, localized, in a manageable form, and prevent wild or unfocused energies (possibly even stray entities) from becoming a problem. There are a zillion Books of Shadow (magical how-tos) online and in book stores, so don't take this article as a be-all and end-all in the subject, all I'm jotting down is the basics here.Further, this is how I do things, you may well find a method elsewhere that is better suited to you personally.
Please note that the order of operations is my own, and my 'usual' format, it varies with the task at hand.
A good bath, clean clothes, and a neat, clean area to work in really help, too. However, sometimes you can skip those steps, when you are ill or it's an emergency, or whatever. Just don't make it a habit. Lazy habits are not conducive to effective or safe magical practice.
Grounding and Centering is the process of not only cleansing your own energy and making sure you have a 'full tank' so to speak before you start, but of connecting your own energy with that of the earth and drawing energy up from the earth itself while focusing and stilling your mind.
The favored position is seated on the floor or ground, legs folded comfortably in a half-lotus, but if this is not good for you (like you're riding in a bus) then simply sitting up rather straight, feet on the floor, legs and ankles uncrossed works.(If you're sick in bed, stay lying down, it's OK!) Relax. Envision a trail of energy leading down from the top of your head into the earth. Let it go right down into the core of the planet, into the heart of the earth. Let all your sorrow, your pain, your weakness, illness, everything sad, verything bad flow down through that energy trail into the earth's beating, molten heart.Feel it draining out, being taken down into the core of the earth and transformed by the earth's core into helpful, useful energy. Now, take that clean, fresh, happy, new, remade energy and pull it back up into your body. Keep pulling up energy, feeling it rising through your body, feel it charging it and revivifying it. Feel your body, your self relaxed and at ease. Sit like this for a bit and just feel who you are, where you are. Come into your self,
as it were...this is called 'centering. Pull the energy up to your head and on out through the top, letting it shower around you back into the earth, making a circuit. Let it cycle for a while, cleaning you out and filling you up. When you feel pretty darn good, slowly pull in those tendrils from the top of your head, then slowly pull up the one from the earth itself, and back into your body leaving you full and charged up. (This is a pretty good self healing technique in itself, by the way.) Thank the earth for this. Putting your hands flat on the ground and saying "Thank you" is sufficient.
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