Beyond the Mystery
Would you like to react to this message? Create an account in a few clicks or log in to continue.

Beyond the Mystery

Exploring the religions of the old and rediscovering our anncestors.
 
HomeSearchLatest imagesRegisterLog in

 

 Working with the Elements

Go down 
AuthorMessage
Silver Wind
Aud Mon Ra
Silver Wind


Posts : 1525
Join date : 2007-07-18
Age : 42
Location : The Mists of Avalon

Working with the Elements Empty
PostSubject: Working with the Elements   Working with the Elements Icon_minitimeFri Jul 20, 2007 6:30 pm

Of course I am sure we all know the importance of the elements and working with the elements, and I am sure that many of us have an element or perhaps elements which we are feel strongest and most adapt at, as well as element or elements which we feel weakest with, the exercises below are intended both to stregenthen are ablity and bond with are strong elements and build a greater connection to our weaker elements.

Fire

Find a place you can go where you will be left alone and not disturbed, this should be done somewhere dark and you might wish to wait untill night, though this one is best done inside, becasue the wind, and open air can affect and further distub the flame of the candle used in this meditation.

With that being said, you should light a single candle and find a place to set it where it will obviously be safe, but close, then take a comftrable posistion either sitting or laying beside or just in front of where the candle is. Clear your mind of all thoughts and just gaze into the candle flame, though you do not want to be looking specialy in/at the candle flame, but almost as if you were gazing just beyound the flame of the candle, for it is the energy of the element you are trying to reach, not the physcial flame itself.

You will have to be patient and keep your mind as clear as possible, just loosing yourself into the fire and the dance of the flame, untill you will start to see the auroa of the flame, clolors, or red, blue green, purple, will radiate out from the candle flame, at this point you have found the center of the element of fire, and have connected with it, once you have achicived this you can work at trying to control the flame, for instance trying to get it to burn higher, or go down lower, or get the flame to flicker toward the right or the left.

Water

For this one, I think it is best to sit within the bathtub while running the water, so you might wish to do this one at the time you are getting ready to take your bath anyway, but I would not recomend trying to do this in the shower, a bath would work far better. While the water is filling into the tub sit so you are facing the water faucet, clear out your mind of all thoughts, and move to rest your hands so they are just under the faucet resting in the water of the tub. Focus upon the falling water and just listen to the sound of it as it pours down out of the faucet, try to remain as still as possible.

Remain like this untill you reach the point where you loose complete track of time, and feel a sense of almost serenity and you are completely at one with the water and have reacher the center of the element of water, from here you can try to work with the water, for example see if you can make the water fall harder and faster, or if you can cause it to ease up and fall slower, or try changing the tempature, to make it warmer, or cooler.

Air

Well this one is a bit more difficult then the others, simply because it is the one element you cannot control or make come upon will and cue, your only option is to wait untill the wind comes, and preferebly when there is a strong and steady wind, for one thing you do not want the wind to just stop when you are in the middle of this meditation and for another the stronger the wind the stronger its energy is.

You should find a good place where you are not likely to have a lot of intruptions and if possible somewhere up high, to be closer to the wind would be good, upon a hill, or a bluff, and so forth, despite the cold you are going to have to tough it out and go with as miminal clothes as possible, that does not mean you have to be naked just that lots of jackets and sweaters and such will weaken your connection to the wind, it is better to have the wind touching your skin where possible, a pair of jenes and a t-shirt for instance would work just fine.

You should open yourself up completely to the wind and let yourself be completely releaxed, resist the urge to tense up and pull yourself in close as we tend to do when cold, but you should stand with your arms streached out at your sides, and your head tilted up into the wind and just feel it as it blows around you. Focus on the feeling of the wind and try and invision yourself as if you were in the very center of the wind, like being in the eye of a storm, visulize yourself and feel yourself standing in the eye of the wind.

Remain like this untill you acutally achive this goal when you are standing in the center of the wind so you are aware of it blowing around you, but are no longer affected by the feel of it, the cold of it, and then you can try and comand it, you can try to acutally cause it to blow in a small cyclone circling around you, or you can and call it to blow stronger or, try and call it off to calm down and slaken.

Earth

Now this is one of the hardest simply becasue the earth is stationary, there is no way you can really direct it, or change it, it will remain, it does not move, it is not flexable as the other elements are. But that does not mean you cannot try and become closer and streagthen your connection to it.

The best way to do this is to find a place outside, as much in nature as possible, a park will due if you have one near you, and sit in a comftrable posistion upon the ground, place your hands on either side of you with your plams down pressed against the grass and the earth under you, and clear your mind of thought and just feel the energy flowing between your hands and finger tips and into the earth, and then flowing back into you. Be aware of the solidness of the earth under you, feel its weight pulling you down, as if you were growing roots like a tree and diving down into the earth.
Back to top Go down
http://www.journalhome.com/silverwynd2/
 
Working with the Elements
Back to top 
Page 1 of 1
 Similar topics
-
» Druids and the Elements
» Working With Bear
» Power of Elements
» Working with Weather
» The processes of Nature - four elements

Permissions in this forum:You cannot reply to topics in this forum
Beyond the Mystery :: Pagan Life :: Elemental Magick-
Jump to: