Witch School First
Degree Exercises
These exercises
are taken from the CorrellianNatavist Tradition’s First Degree course from
Witch School. These exercises
are designed to build up your psychic energies and help you learn to control
them. Many of these exercises use Chakra points. Chakras are the
energy centers of the body, and there are quite a few of them. The first three
lessons however you will just be using two chakras; these are located in the
palms of the hands and soles of the feet. You can visualize these chakras as
balls of white light directly in the center of your palm or sole of your foot.
These two chakras are basic chakras that are used for bringing energy into the
body and for sending it out of the body. Other chakras are more specialized. I have chosen these exercises to be a part of
the Lion Heart Coursework (L.H.C) to train myself in my First Degree priesthood
and to show how one must practice to become proficient in psychic and magickal
workings. These are excellent exercises to train your inherent magickal
abilities, the more you work out your psychic muscles the stronger they get. These exercises are meant to be done daily until
you have got them down and can do them easily. There are different sets of
daily exercises; as we go along through the coursework I will add the sets I am
doing daily and also leave the proper instructions for when to switch to the
next set of exercises. Remember to record every exercise and your experience in
each. You can record this in your Book
of Shadows, or a journal dedicated only to the practice of these exercises.
EX.1: Put
yourself into a comfortable position. Begin by releasing; close your eyes and
imagine all worries and anxieties of your day just pouring out of you like
water, down and out through the palms of your hands and the soles of your feet.
Now place the palms of your hands together. Imagine a ball of white light
between your two palms, radiating out from where they touch. Imagine it very
strongly, seeing it clearly.
Now
pull your hands slowly apart. Imagine the ball of light stretching out between
your hands as you separate them, becoming a beam of light between your palms.
Hold this for a few seconds, longer if you can. Then, slowly, bring your hands
together, shrinking the beam of light between them until they close together
and it is gone. Clear and release all excess energy as outlined in the page
entitled “Psychic Hygiene”. Imagine a stream of white light or water flowing
through you from the top of your head and carrying all excess energy away through
the soles of your feet.
Practice
this until you get good at it. Then you are ready for exercise 2.
EX.2: This
exercise begins just like EX.1. Mimic it just the same until you get to the point
where you have created the beam of energy between your hands. Then, instead of stopping, visualize that beam
growing and expanding to form a ball of white light between your hands. Hold
that image as long as you can. Then, slowly, bring your hands back together,
seeing the ball shrink between them, growing smaller and smaller until by the
time your hands close, the ball is gone.
Clear
and release when you’re done. When you get good at this, you’re ready to try
exercise 3.
EX.3: This
exercise is just like EX.1, except when you open your hands, instead of a beam
of white light, visualize a rainbow between your hands. Every color has an
effect on energy, so this will work to strengthen you on a number of levels at
once.
These three exercises are not meant to replace each other,
but done together. As you master one, you will add the next one to your daily
regimen. Always release before and after, but not between, the exercises. When
you have mastered all three, this is will be your regimen: Release, EX.1, EX.2,
EX.3, and release again.
