Thread:Xeraxir/@comment-12865704-20140128001612/@comment-24373092-20140129062023

I admittedly only have a limited amount of knowledge but will see what I can do to help.

If you are feeling the pressure when making a psi ball then you are already feeling energy. There are those who do not have success with visualization but that is ok, one can learn to work without it and visualization mostly is used as a tool to help beginners until they learn to work without visualizing. Energy feels like different things to different people, pressure is one of several feelings that one can feel. To improve your ability to feel energy here are a few ideas:

Meditation

- Try entering a meditative state and looking at your own energy body. Allow yourself to receive impressions of your energy body and the longer you meditate the more detailed the more you will sense.

- Here is a series of guided energy meditations I just found, they could be helpful. http://mp3.subliminalselfhypnosis.com/free-guided-meditation-lessons/

Scanning

- Here is something that works for me:  Focus on the person or area, just have the intent of being in the area and scanning the person. Do not try to figure out what you should sense or think about what is sensed because doing that will cause the mind to fill in the blanks which will lead to ineffective results. What works for me is blanking the mind and typing all impressions of the person you get. Just type every detail that comes to mind without examining it. Then mention the impressions and what you believe they can mean after you stop getting details. Of course, what works for some does not always work for all so experiment. If you can sense details of your own energetic aspects then you can sense details in others.

- Do not limit yourself to practicing on people you talk to, scan everything. For now plants, animals and people may be a good starting point. Do not worry if you do not get much detail at first, that will improve with practice. Even if you do not get confirmation you are still exercising the ability to scan.

Things To Try With Others (if applicable)

- Scan a person and ask for feedback. Your ability to scan can be partially calibrated by finding out what is correct and incorrect. Do not worry if it does not work well at first, practice makes perfect.

- When working with another energy worker, one of you can create an energy ball and give it characteristics like element, colour, texture, weight, etc. and send it to the other person. The energy ball will normally stay intact and travel to the person quickly, distance is not a factor here so you can do it online. The person who receives the energy ball feels it and/or uses any other senses that work and states the characteristics he detects from it, then using his intent changes the characteristics and sends it back so the person who sent it can see what changes he senses. You can take turns creating and sending the energy ball, I recommend creating a new one for each round in this practice. If you have trouble sensing characteristics you and the other person can try programming the ball to have an effect or create a sensation instead.

As for scanners, i am working on my scanning and am not the best but can sense some details most of the time. SoundFX seems to be a decent scanner as is Cecil Amphora. I have not been in the wiki chat for long so i do not know who can do what yet.