Friday, April 20, 2018

What are Energy Channels?

             

Energy Channels are the paths that magical energy uses to travel throughout your body.. There are general energy channels that all of your energy runs along, but there are also channels specific for certain purposes.
 What are some purposes of energy channels?
  • Sending and directing energy
  • Receiving general and specific kinds of energy
  • Energy sensing
  • Spellwork-specific energy channels
  • “Clair” abilities (clairaudience, clairvoyance, etc)
  • etc.
Basically, if you can think of a magical ability, there is probably an energy channel for it. Note that individual energy channels can share multiple purposes too.
Channel Purposes Can Overlap
Channels may also interact/overlap with each other to certain ends, especially when there are multiple methods of doing the same thing. For example, tarot cards and scrying are both ways of conducting divination, and both use similar intuitive processes. So it makes sense that there would be some overlap between tarot and scrying energy channels, as both use intuition in a similar way.
How do energy channels develop?
Energy channels develop as you use certain abilities. For example, as you work on your clairaudient capabilities the energy channels used in those abilities will grow, strengthen, and develop. Development can include becoming larger and becoming more defined. Larger energy channels allow for better energy flow and more defined channels are generally able to process/direct energy better.
How long does it take for energy channels to grow?
New energy channels CANNOT be grown overnight, they take time to develop! Think of it like muscles; you can’t get super buff overnight after just one workout. Energy channel development requires rest. You must rest if you want your energy channels to grow. That’s actually why downtime in magic/spirit work isn’t a bad thing, you’re actually giving your channels a chance to grow without strain. Straining your energy channels by pushing yourself too hard can actually slow or stop development or make it so that the channels will develop inconsistently- which will just take more time to reset, defeating the purpose of rushing in the first place.
 However, the speed at which they develop can be increased greatly by an energetic attunement. Energetic attunements cause your channels to grow at a rapid pace, generally for a specific purpose, i.e. reiki attunements causing your energy sensing channels to develop and developing new channels for receiving and directing reiki.
 This time to develop is also why you wouldn’t have 248932977 years of experience of X magical ability because of past lives. While past lives with experience may make it easier to relearn certain skills, the energy channels used for those skills still have to re-develop in your current body, similar to how if you were a kung-fu master in a previous life you’d still have to rebuild your muscles and redo the training in this life.*
 How can I promote the growth of my energy channels?
  • Practice/actively work on the skill you want- that automatically promotes growth.
  • Rest- similar to muscles, channels grow when you are resting, especially with sleep.
  • Send energy to/through the channels to promote growth. This gives them the energy they need to grow.  
  • Get an attunement- An attunement is an energetic treatment that causes rapid growth/development in the recipient’s energy system.They can be used to let people access/direct certain energies or just to give the energy system a temporary “boost” in development.
What do energy channels look like? Where are they?
They can be anywhere in the body and can even extend off of the body. They generally look like tubes but can also look like rivers or small spiderwebs. They usually originate from a certain major point/chakra/center and extend outwards. Color can vary based on the being’s energy and can vary by the specific purpose of its channels as well.
 Channels based in the physical body may have specific functions based on where exactly they are located.  Therefore it’s best to be mindful of the channels already in place within that location; rather than try to add an entirely new function, it would be far easier to try and integrate complementing functions. For example, energy channels in the hands are generally much more adept at sending/receiving energy than, say, the channels in your large intestine. If you wanted to improve your skill at sending energy through growing your energetic channels, it would be better to focus on your hand channels than your large intestine channels.
 *Will likely be covered in more detail in a different post.
Energy channels are only one paradigm of using energy work to measure and affect other magical abilities. Obviously this isn’t the only way to develop one’s abilities, it’s just another tool that people can consider going forward.