Psychic development exercises, part 2  HEALING WORK
                                         and AURAS
by Matrika
copyright by PAN - the Psychic Awareness Network - 1-703-362-1139
please do not distribute without credit
THe material in this file is drawn from the book
Your Psychic Gifts
by Steve and Tasha Halpert
Healing Arts Press
13 Sartell Rd
Grafton MA
and from the book The COmplete Book of Witchcraft
by Raymond Buckland, published by Llewelyn Publications, box 64383 St. Paul MN
as well as the teachings of the Rosicrucian Order (AMORC) San Jose, CA.

1.  Go into meditation, by whatever technique you prefer.  Hold your receptive
hand (your dominant hand is the hand you use to write, draw, eat etc.  If you
are ambi-dextrous or right-handed, this is your right hand.  if you are
completely left-handed, this is your left-hand.  Your receptive hand is the
opposite one) at right-angles to your dominant hand and close your eyes.  Feel
where you feel the aura.  You may feel it as a tingle, a cold feeling, a warm
feeling, or some other way.  Play with it.  See where you start to feel it.
Now reverse hands and try it.

2.  So the above exercise, but then take both hands and play with the aura's
energy.  See if you can stretch the aura's energy out between your two hands.
(you can visualize this - or intensely imagine it from a meditative state, in
vivid detail - as looking like the aura being light energy that forms a
string, like Pizza cheese does when it is hot; stretch it out between your
hands.)  Play with it as you would play-dough, form it into a ball - then
think of someone you know who needs inner (mental/emotional/spiritual) or
physical healing, and visualize it going to them as you send it out in the
cosmos.

3.  For this you need a co-operative partner.  If it is a male, have him take
his shirt off.  IF it is a female, ask her to wear a bathing suit with a very
low back or a very thin material in her blouse or dress.  Have them sit with
their back to you.  Charge yourself with deep breathing.  Place your dominant
hand at right angles toward their back and, without touching them, try to feel
their aura.  See when they can feel your hand touching their aura.  As you
feel their aura, see where there are areas that feel "Different" in any way,
these may be hot or cold spots or you may feel them in some other way.  Ask
them if they've been having or have ever had a problem in these areas.

3.  In a semi-darkened room, place a dark sheet against the wall and ask your
partner to stand in a witch's robe or a caftan made of very thin material and
stand against it.  Turn the lights down to a minimum and go into a meditative
state as you stare at the person.  See if you don't soon see s faint glow
around them.  This is the aura.  See if it looks different in any places.
What color is it where?  How do the colors feel to you?  Where the colors look
different and don't feel right to you, again, inquire about the person's past
and present health conditions in those areas.  Do not be surprised if you can
see the aura, although you did not feel it OR feel it, but don't see it.  This
is common.  All of this will take practise, but remember to keep it simple -
like a game.

4.  Charge yourself by taking a deep breath and repeating it 3 times, if you
should get a headache.  (this should be held for at least 30 seconds each
time)  Be sure your hands are NOT touching anything as you charge up with the
Vital Force carried by the air - also known as Prana.  Close your eyes and
place the first fingers of each hand on your temples.  As you breathe, just
slightly deeper than usual now, feel the energy going into your head.  After a
few minutes, just lay your entire dominant hand across your forehead, with
your palm facing it.  If you also think the headache is related to eye -
strain, re-charge and put your first fingers on your closed eyelids too and
send energy there as well.  If the headache is in it's early stages, many
people report they are able to bring themselves relief this way.  Of course a
severe headache or one that goes on for a long time or frequent headaches
should be treated by a competent health care professional.  Healing treatments
such as this one should never be a substitute for proper care, but can be a
useful adjunct to it in many cases.

5.  The heart breath
If you are know someone who is going through a difficult time emotionally, you
can try to help them by this exercise.  Again, if a person has severe
problems or it is ongoing, they may need competent help by a counselor or
psychologist or even (ONLY in the most severe cases, of course) a
Psychiatrist.  In a severe crisis, contact your local chapter of the
Samaritans or other Crisis Center or Emergency Mental Health Unit.  These are
usually listed with other hot-line numbers in the beginning pages of your
phone book.  However, for the average, day to day upsets, this technique can
be useful.

As always start by going into a meditative state and helping the other person
to do so.  Breathe in deeply and charge yourselves.  Then have the other
person put their dominant hand over your heart and you put your receptive hand
over it.  Then you put your dominant hand over their heart, and have put their
receptive hand over it.  Breathe deeply (give instructions verbally, slowly
and in a calm, quiet voice, to the other person as you do this) and visualize
pink light coming in from above through the top of your head as you do this,
then as you breathe out, see it going through your dominant hand into your
partner's heart chakra (psychic center) and they visualize it going into you.
Breathe in again and draw in the light of unconditional love and peace.
Breathe it out into your partner.  Continue this for 5 - 10 minutes, as you
feel it intensify to the correct level.  Discontinue and ground the excess
energy by sending it into the earth.  (This can be visualized as going through
the floor down into the earth if necessary)  as you do this, place your hands
on the earth and let any excess energy go.  THIS IS IMPORTANT, so don't skip
it.
This can be done with your partner, just for practise.
