Grounding is a crucial practice for witches to manage their energy effectively. It involves sending excess energy into the earth and connecting it to a single purpose or intention. Power raising is another technique that focuses intense, concentrated energy into a single purpose or intention. Each witch is different, and no technique applies to all forms.
Grounding involves turning palms to face upward, allowing the energy ball to hover in front of you just above your palms. After a ritual, grounding allows witches to release any residual energy that is no longer needed, restoring their connection with the physical world and promoting a sense of stability and well-being. Grounding is also a way of eliminating excess energy that may have stored up during a ritual or working.
Shielding is a way to protect yourself from psychic, mental, or magical attacks. Beginner witches should learn three techniques: grounding exercises, visualization techniques, channelling energies, understanding energy, channeling energy, sensing energies, healing practices, and protection methods.
Grounding and centering help witches manage their energy effectively, especially in spellcasting and ritual work. The purpose of grounding and centering is to stabilize your energy and draw it down. Trees with deep roots and wet bark are good spots for grounding without being on the ground.
In modern witchcraft, there are seven energy sources for spellwork and magick, including the cone of power, which is a method of raising energy in ritual magic. By focusing on the fire, breathing deeply, and drawing upon the energy of the moon and sun, witches can increase their energy for spell work.
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Also important to note that processing energy doesn’t just need to be a physical sensation. It can be colours, sounds, smells, visual patterns. Synethesia often pops up with energy sensing. The world will translate energy into a way that you are able to understand, that is why it differs from person to person.
I can feel the energy when I walk into a room, if people have been talking about me behind my back, or even thinking of me, I can tell that something not good is happening. And when people say things to me, what their real motives are. I can sense it that they are misleading me or don’t want me to get it right. That they prefer to slow me down. I’ve learned not to trust sweet words from someone when that person has already shown their true colors. Maybe they didn’t realize that I’ve already picked it up. And the less I react, the more words they throw. Words becoming more empty until they stumble over them, revealing a nervous lack of truth.
I feel these energies pretty strongly, it’s interpreting it that I find myself struggling with. I’m autistic and have always been very spiritual and highly sensitive, I just have a hard time translating the things I feel and sense into, “this means this,” or such, usually it’s just, “this is good/bad/strong/weak/etc.”
Can’t lie, when I first listened to this it sounded dangerous; moving your energy outside your body. I sense things, but it’s hard to describe. It’s like all my senses become active but guarded. I can usually tell if the person is not someone I want around me quickly and sometimes I know things are around me. Sometimes get a flash of someones face or just end up thinking about them if they are in the same vicinity. I always felt guarded so I was confused as to why the energy hung onto me sometimes, making me feel drained. Maybe I am putting mine out and not realizing it. Recently based on nothing but my own thoughts, I created this flower from my heart to my mind. I just.. decided to make it close when I feel drained and hold my energy in and practiced letting it open up (from stem which looks like tentacles @ bottom, & a line to the bud, blooming; closing from heart to mind- closing tentacles, then following stem to close the bud). I think it is quite similar to what you are saying here and it makes sense. I had no idea I intuitively (?) basically did what you said here. Quite interesting. Thanks for posting and helping me understand!
I just tried energy sensing with the guide of this article and it was pretty draining, i tried it about 3 times and i used a plant for one of them, never felt this before and it was a journey and i still feel a little light headed so im gonna go ahead and eat some chocolate and go to bed, thank you for this article!!❤❤
I used to do this without knowing what I was doing. Like when I was appartment hunting, it drove my bf mad that I wouldn’t want to apply to some places bc they felt weird to me. Or sometimes in markets I’m drawn to random objects and just holding them makes me feel good. I got into witchcraft cause I noticed sometimes I would get urges to walk in certain directions and go certain places, and it would lead to finding cool things or new shops or a nice tree. There’s been a few times where I got really bad energy, need to practice how to not let it attach itself cause sometimes it feels like you walk through something and some of it sticks to you.
I’m a natural empath so have had to really protect myself over the years. THe internet and getting accidentally involved in fights on the internet are mega energy drainers for me. When I was little I had a deep connection with nature, I distinctly remember touching cut trees at my primary school and feeling pain in my arm, I was 7 years old. I feel like I’ve lost a lot of that intuition as I’ve grown into an adult.
I remember when I was little we used to do something at Halloween parties in school where they would put various objects in bowls and cover them so you couldn’t see what they were. Noodles, jello, rocks, corn kernels etc. Then you would go through and feel each item and guess what they were, it was a basically a game where they would tell you something like “these are teeth” and have you feel the corn kernels and your mind would tell you it’s teeth so you’d be creeped out basically to teach us the power of the mind and how it can influence your senses. I think about energy sensing in the same way, I close my eyes and hold something and whatever my immediate gut feeling is I make note of. Then I analyze why it was my immediate instinct. Usually I find out that the magical correspondences match up with instinct one way or another. I don’t think it’s technically the right way to do it but it works for me lol
That bit about ‘if you are in a bit of a rut’ go back to the basics. That is totally why I am enjoying these ‘beginner’ techniques. I am looking to shake up and become more active in my practice again, and this is helping to review and examine my thoughts and practices. I find myself responding automatically to some of your descriptions. I enjoy your talks.
Omg I just learned that I’m a miraculous energy sensor. You’re exactly right, it’s SO draining. Sometimes I’ll lock eyes with a person and I can sense an extreme darkness. Almost like I can feel their trauma. Once it was so bad that I got nauseous and had to leave the dinner (before taking a bite- I was STARVING) just because of the “smell” of the food was so overwhelming after I met the person. Locking eyes literally made me nauseous enough to have to leave and go outside
@5:20 YES! That level of awareness and intuition is called upon in a lot of theater excercises, but of course, our teachers dont give us helpful advice on how to develop that sense. Just expect us to do it. For instance closing your eyes and trying to find your scene partner from across the room amoungst the other cast. Like I could go on and on with examples. For many its intuitive and easy (they could instantly pick out their scene partner 80% of the time) but for me it’s really hard, I would literally walk around with my eyes closed for minutes like an idiot 😭!
I’ve never thought of my sensing as miraculous, but it’s nice that you say so. To be honest, it has caused me to exercise more compassion for my fellow humans because so many of us are so very similar in ways we don’t even realize, energy signatures included. Your article has made me realize that my empathy is a gift to cherish. Thank you.
Omg! I needed this…my whole life I have sensed energy….there have been days where the feeling of trepidation was so overwhelming I almost had a mild breakdown at work… I figured out I was picking up the energies of all these really negative teachers at work. Somehow intuitively I learned to put up a barrier around me to keep their energy away. I smell things around people sometimes I sense things in rooms. I have dreams and premonitions, I can hover my hand over objects and around people shoulders and pick up what’s going on. I’ve seen double faces on people, so many things and all of this just happened naturally… Thank you for this. This article is so filled with so much… And I’ve been struggling to get into meditation because I felt directionless. Now I actually have so many things to work on in meditation and it feels so right and the timing feels so right!! From Louisiana USA I’m so thankful for you and this article. I will be perusal this article like 20 times.
also speaking of energy sensing the locations of other people; i’ve freaked my mom out sometimes i guess by just “hiding”. like i’ve made her jump and say things like “oh, i couldn’t feel you in the room” (and she’s not into this kind of spirituality, i think this is something that happens naturally for a lot of people but we don’t usually think about how we get a sense for the presence of other people)
Years ago, before I knew anything about energy sensing, I was at a seminar and one of the workshops was qigong. I thought it sounded interesting. It was very enjoyable, but it felt a little strange performing the exercises. I went back to my room, got ready for bed, laying several silver rings on the table next to me. After I was asleep for a while I woke up feeling really ill. Finally got back to sleep. When I woke up, I felt fine, but when I went to put my rings on, they were all collapsed on one side and they would no longer go on my fingers. Over the years, I have discussed this with others that didn’t know about energy work and was told it was the intense energy generated between the qigong and my own energy. I have that happen again in different situations, so I have to be careful or have to get my rings repaired. I don’t relate this experience often. As you can imagine most people just think it’s crazy or that I’m making it up. It’s absolutely true.
I love that you brought up this topic! So many people skip over energy work when it comes to their practice. I’m a reiki practitioner/witch going on 6 yrs now. And I use reiki in my daily practice for many things. Healing myself and others, reading crystals, creating barriers around myself and home, communicating with pets and plants. And so much more. When everything is made up of energy, I find energy work essential. You also brought up some very cool techniques I can’t wait to try out. Thank you!!
This was actually very useful. Iam an empath and have only recently tried to understand how it works. I’ve done tons of shadow work and finally feel balanced. I call this websiteing. It’s nice to hear about different techniques and how to exercise my energy. You’ve answered quite a few questions I’ve had for years. I feel like I can take a step forward with my new chosen lifestyle. Rather then just be a prisoner of other people’s low vibes
Loved this article! Looking back over my life I have always used magick, and so wish I’d had someone to mentor me as a child. My energy is strong, I didnt understand what I was feeling until I became a Reike practitioner. I can sense blockages in people and it’s always amusing to me when people wonder how I know things. Crystal’s actually move in my hands, I sense when certain people are near. My struggle comes from absorbing others energy and not being able to break free from it. If I walk past a home, a person, tree, plant, animal, a cemetery I feel as though I’m being tapped to read the energies, I sense a lot of sadness. Reiki is a wonderful outlet for my energy, and they wont call it sigils in most circles, but Reiki uses a lot of sigils. Now that I’m older I question the time I have, it’s not so much learning as it is using and directing what I have. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
This sounds like a nice way to focus energy when I get overwhelmed. I find it helps to keep my hands opened and not to clench my fists when I get upset, so that way I can imagine that intense, angry energy leaving my body and I can open myself up to better, healing energy. But certainly, as someone who senses really easily when other people are upset, it can get exhausting to feel it around dozens of people at work every day! I’ll look into trying this!
Came across this article “randomly” 😜 I apparently have been doing this all my life, I use my art to commune with the universal energy/force/creator. I find bits of things that speak to me: rocks, wood, rusted metal and etc then I piece them together until they fit. Never did learn or figure out how to block out others signals and am an extreme introvert as a result. Picturing a bubble around me doesn’t work 😕 actually took me 20 yrs to figure out I’m not crazy and those emotions I feel don’t belong to me 😑 I look forward to perusal more of your articles 😊
I’m so grateful that your content is so unique & genuine, rather than a repeat of the same information over & over again. I’ve been trying to understand my empathic “tendencies” (I guess I’ll call it, ha) for years & this article was exactly the article I needed to hear to help me try & work towards controlling it! Thank you!!! Much love
Adore the way you explain things, with detailed facts. Adding in mobility issues with your teachings is something I find amazing about the articles you create- as it can be rare. Personally, I’ve been working on turning off my energy sensing… instead of consistently having it going. Appreciate your knowledge and teachings greatly. The “sonar” reference was so accurate. Btw something about your eyeshadow is always otherworldly, and mesmerizing. Extremely beautiful.
WOW. I’m one of those naturally energy sensing people that you mention at the start; it can be very overwhelming, exhausting and chaotic. I know it’s a natural ability that I’d really benefit from harnessing and working with in a more intentional way, but I haven’t been able to find even a single resource on how exactly to do that! I have a feeling that this article will be incredibly helpful for me. (Funny side-comment: I have an otter tattooed on my right arm! And I intuitively started visualising moving the energy around in my body as moving flowing water.)
I’ve been really sensitive to energy my whole life, and there are some things that I just absolutely can’t think about, or my brain tunes into it. (I.e. the generator outside. And other electric things 😭) It’s overwhelming sometimes, but lately I’ve been having some success with projecting my own energy against it and trying to form it into sheers or a sword to sever the connection. Just some advice for anyone else who struggles with it too
Oh my god!!!! Thank you! This is exactly what I’ve been looking for. My journey started with accidentally absorbing energy and I haven’t been able to properly describe it or even know exactly what happened that night but you’ve shed a bright light on the subject. I’ve been very proficient with absorbing so hopefully now I will be able to direct it into people and things.
Just wanted to say, coming back into practice after a time away, this is by far the best explanation of how to sense energy that I’ve ever heard and it is similar to what I was doing before. Really loved how you broke it down and the exercise was brilliant. Definitely gonna keep perusal your website! Thank you and take care!
Very interesting. I’m noticing how my crystals are different. I have a cat on both sides of me and when I push my energy out, I get such strong positive vibes from them that everything else in the room feels flat compared to them. Looking forward to trying this outside! Thanks for the information, you always explain it very well and I am learning a lot and really enjoying your articles!
I love walking around and randomly explode my energy and manipulate it around me. Like ill imagine light and dimensionally shifting colours and shapes and feeling my mind expand into space and creating planetary shields around earth. I have felt the presence of other shield creators around the world. I dont rly know what im doing but ive been going off my intuition and going with the flow.
As an empath I have noticed that it can fluctuate between being a light brush like feeling of the energy to feeling like the energy is pulsing violently in the back of my head to feeling the energy wash over me like a wave. I use energy sensing when finding abd placing items on my altars, once I find an item that feels right I want until I feel a gentle brush of energy in my head telling me that I have found the right spot. Though if I’m placing an item on a deity altar sometimes it’s more of an excited pulse
Hi I’ve got a question about energy sensing. I’ve been focusing on meditation and energy work for a bit, I’ve always been taught to do protection coz that’s key. I’m wondering if the technique taught in the article would require protection beforehand? ie. if I’m sensing the energy of the room and somehow there’s negativity within the space, by bringing back my energy in would those negative energy somehow got attached to mine? love your articles btw xx
Oh my! I am new to this term but as long as I remember even as a child I wouldn’t allow others to shuffle the cards when we were playing cards, while shuffling I always have a feeling when to stop to have a winning hand. My friends wouldn’t let me shuffle the cards since when ever I shuffle I would end up winning. I said to my aunt once it’s not me touching the card but the cards tell me when to stop. This article is striked me in a very weird way.
More worried about attracting unwanted energy by the subconcious negativity and expectation, if tuning into it, as opposed to keeping it away by staying away from those thoughts and/or of unwanted nearby people, potentially, if you may have tended to attract these people, which is why we also ask our guides, family and angelics to help and repel and near our safe spaces?
Hearth I purchased a bunch of crystal jewelry and 3 crystal points on chains . Scrawling dowsing crystals . I had them just sitting in packages from China AllieExpress . I bought the crystal jewelry to wear and give away to family and friends. I had them in sun today but then this article came on . So I practice energy with you and felt it . So I put energy in two out of four crystal points scrawling I think . Wow . Unbelievable I asked a question and focused on the crystal and they were moving on their own . Pulled more energy and they were flying around and around fast . I swear I did not move my hand . Just my mind . I don’t know what it means or really anything about scrawling. Could you do a article on dousing . I trust your articles. I feel I am a Hearth or Eclectic witch . A little bit of everything interest me. I learned that from following you . I am so excited. Did I make them move or do they move on their own ?
Wow this was super helpful. Thanks for this. Today i did a lengthy interview with a tarot deck, and it was the first time i was able to really sense energy/ form a relationship with a deck. But i found it incredibly exhausting, and I think it’s because I was letting a lot of energy out and not sucking it all back in. Will continue to practice.
My hands are my center, mostly my right hand, so i will usually place an object in my left hand or just set it on my forehead cx i really sense things best with my head(air sign things i guess lol ♊) even when i read cards, if im having trouble understanding a particular card ill tap it on my forehead lol
I just watched your article on energy sensing…. I have recently began to re explore my interests into the craft, tons and tons of reading, notes etc. So I just did your exercise, I really didn’t have any expectations, however….. Tigers eye almost gives me the impression that it is vibrating in my hand, kind of like throwing a rock into a pond. It feels as if it is vibrating outwards, pulsing almost. I grabbed my red garnet, I felt static through my finger tips and came up past my wrist. Rose quartz I felt nothing, the stone itself was cold but no vibration like the other two. Should I have also felt a sensation with this stone? Are there some crystals that will not resonate as high as others? This article was well explained and definitely had me adding additional notes in my notebook. Well done…. and thank you 🙂
THIS. Omg thank you … I’m not one of those people born naturally being able to sense energy (or ghosts or fae or other ppl’s emotions etc.) and I have been struggling with this as a fundamental concept I “can’t do.” But really, exactly like you said, a lot of magical practitioners/mystical people take it for granted, bc obv they tend to be able to do it easily, and don’t often talk about the “how” of it. I feel better about it now, that if I practice your technique (and centering and grounding) I can at least figure out if I’m able to sense energy, and hopefully get better at it. My energy sensing story: I had an old bf who played this kinda game with 3 playing cards, 2 one color and 1 another, where we’d touch them facedown to find the one that was the distinct color. I remember being able to do it, idk if he was helping me energetically, and then he “wiped” the energy of the cards so I couldn’t sense it anymore. It was crazy! This gives me faith it’s a thing I can learn to do.
the only time i was consciouс аbout feeling energy was when i lost the feeling of my cat. My cat runaway from my home but i could sense him and i found him after one week, but the second time he run away i was sensing him for while and then one day i stopped. it was the saddest thing i felt. and i sit down and painted a picture of him sleeping, i just knew that he left this world 💔
Idk if it’s necessarily the best way to go about it, but if anyone has issues with spirits draining energy at night (or wrecking psychic havoc) you could extend your energy to an entire home and maintain it. It’s a little tiresome, but only if you don’t have much practice or if you’re not using something as a grounding object of sorts. I don’t recommend doing it until you’ve practiced extending your energy to multiple rooms and holding it, but I know some people attract spirits no matter how many times you bless a space and it’s a good way to keep a house clear for a longer period of time.
One technique I’ve started doing after really connecting with my guides is asking them to tell the energy for me. Especially with card reading, i tend to get a bit lost in the energy of all the cards at once. So I’ll look at a single card and tell my guide to connect to it and give me some key words/visuals/colors in order to determine how that card is interacting with other cards in the spread. This way im not having ti spend energy going back and forth between cards and i can read for longer or have more energy for my next reading.
This is me realizing I’ve been continuously energy sensing since I restarted my path and all of the energy all the time has given me serious headaches and fatigue in ways I haven’t felt before. School makes me tired yeah but this is a deeper exhaustion that I cannot shake, and I feel a sharp tingly pain right between my eyes on my forehead as a result of me essentially absorbing and accidentally storing all of the energy around me. I think this’ll help me manage that lol
ok but like the first time a literally understood how energy works was at a party of my friend.I mean the party was fun but i was so sooo confused with the energy of the building.Then i learned from her best friend that they mother have died 3 years ago.And i was the only one sensing how stresfull energy that place had.It was like i sensed everything and experienced theyre emotions without knowing any information.I was shocked
I just wanted to point out that there are times when you may have difficulty and just turning the energy of a thing. Do you know that feeling that one gets when you have a word at the tip of your tongue that until you have that word in your mind you can articulate what it is that you are trying to express? Sometimes you have to picture or decide what something will look or feel like as an energy before you can then feel it to the degree in which you can use it to discern.
This is a great article! I wanted to ask you something..whenever i center and ground my energy naturally collects in my 3rd eye or in the middle of my eyebrows, but when i am done with it and i disperse the energy back all over my body i regularly get a headache, its focal point being my 3rd eye. Any advice?
There is this elderly lady I know. She seems to sense people’s energy: for example if I’m in room at times, she’d be quiet but as soon as I step out of it, she starts talking commands. A time I stood in front of her and I felt my actions becoming influenced. She also has two rings: one fold and one silver. What is this?
did this on one of my amethysts and quickly realized it was not charged whatsoever bc i haven’t charged it in a while lol thanks Hearth edit: i just realized that while meditating, i subconsciously do room sensing to see if someone’s going to walk in, what entities might show up, etc etc. after trying to do it consciously (as an empath) i feel very emotional as if i might cry for some reason. can anyone explain why that is? edit 2: whenever i do energy sensing or just putting energy out or controlling it, i hear like a frequency that varies based on the energy. it sounds almost like singing bowls or frequencies that you may use to cleanse or charge things. i found that kinda cool to be honest
As an empath yes it’s very very draining. I find myself having a problem picking up on some objects energy because I’m picking up on everything around me. Thank you for your information I’m definitely going to work on controlling it. Having it come naturally is a gift I love but without the control I feel everywhere and second guess myself.
So happy as I have been wanting a article by you on this topic! I appreciate what you say for those of us who may be empathic and need to be extra careful about energy work. I am learning how to not get as drained but still need more practice and will be rewatching your other articles. Sending hugs your way! 💛 ✨
Is it possible for someone to just…not be able to do this? I’ve been practicing all the techniques from the series for a while now, trying both through visualization to the best of my ability (I have aphantasia), and through description. At no point was I ever able to feel even my own energy, let alone that of something outside of me. I’m dedicating myself to the process as much as I can, and in the end…nothing happens. I’m starting to lose hope that I’ll ever be able to do this.
Ok so this is the issue I have with meditation as well. I’ve gotten pretty good at clearing my mind and solely focusing on what I’m visualizing. I use crystals and do layouts on my body, my chakras, and visualize energy building up and spinning in each chakra. But I don’t feel anything. No tingle nothing. So am I really manifesting this energy or am I just forcing myself to imagine it?? I can’t feel my own energy or energy in any crystals. I’ve tried n tried. So I need to be able to feel my own energy in order to do this exercise, right? But how? And your right, no one does articles on this. They just say oh do this n that with your energy n take in this energy. But I can’t feel any energy. I know I’m capable, everyone is because we’re all made of energy. I really hope your getting what I’m trying to say and I hope you can help me.
I have an odd? Way of sensing. I Kinda have a third eye almost and can see the objects personality and feel it talking to me. But I’m not actually hearing words it’s more like I can feel what it’s saying. Its the same way with deities, I can see their form in my minds eye and feel what their saying to me. Is this a form of sensing? Or is it not? Edit: definitely something else I tried again and felt what she was talking about sooo I’ll have to look into what I was doing earlier lol
I’m not sure if this is something I’m actually natural at ( I’ve always been told I was an empath ) or if I’m not actually able to figure it out, because here’s what I’ve got so far. keep in mind, I have aphantasia so visualizing is… hard. pretty much impossible for me, if I try to center, even thinking about doing it, I feel a solid sensation in my chest. specifically in my solar plexus, right under my rib cage. it feels very much like a solid ball, even trying to go through the steps of gathering it from my limbs it’s just there. so maybe it’s just centering normally? I was always taught to gather energy you rub friction and then form a ball by rolling it with both hands. I used to make a game of “taffy pulling” where I get my ball, squish it so that the tension between both hands is as tight as it goes, then pull it out, then flatten again until the distance is wider, over ans over again. this energy always feels very hot and heavy ( the crooked path book describes magic as a cosmic flame and thwt sings to me because I swear magic feels hot and like flame to me ) but with the occasional tingling. even when I try to center again and make sure I’ve drawn it in, I feel q solid heat in my hand. I use my left hand even tho I’m right handed. not sure why. maybe because I was always taught to cut the tarot cards left handed? or because the left hand is the bottom hand when forming my ball. in terms of sensing energy of things, this is where I’m not sure if I’m actually picking up on it, but I felt as if the energy had wrapped around my hands ( like Katara healing with water bending ).
When I raise my energy it feels like I’m in dragon ball Z super saiyen mode. Sometimes i’ll create bubbles fill a space or create a pillar. I never knew that their was a name for it, because every time I explain it to somone spiritual or non alike they have never experienced it. Thank you for your article ❤🤌 now I have a basis of research.