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Episode 141: Energy Manipulation
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Welcome back, Witches! In this episode, we’re diving into the art of energy manipulation—exploring what it is, how it works, and practical tips for channeling, grounding, and protecting your energy in everyday life. So get in, loser, let’s raise our vibrations and work some magic!
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References:
- Monique Miller (2023). Manipulating Energy- The Beginning. Amarabee. https://amarabee.com/blogs/tips-tricks-and-information-from-one-witchs-home/manipulating-energy-the-beginning?srsltid=AfmBOoqbGrq8ldsnX3hUwTlGknmDfP-GkQ5kYI8hN76pjFbirygRIpdu
- Tau Magnus (2024). Chakras and Magic: An introduction to Energy Manipulation. Medium. https://medium.com/@taumagnus/chakras-and-magic-an-introduction-to-energy-manipulation-8d080f5cea19
- B M Manasa, Srikanth N Jois, K. Nagendra Prasad (2020). Prana- The Vital Energy in Different Cultures: Review on Knowledge and Practice. Journal of Natural Remedies 20(3):128. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346001467_Prana_-_The_Vital_Energy_in_Different_Cultures_Review_on_Knowledge_and_Practice
- OZZcln. An Intrinsic Witch’s Guide to Energy Manipulation. (2019). https://www.deviantart.com/ozzcln/art/An-Intrinsic-Witch-s-Guide-to-Energy-Manipulation-817004379
- Youtube:
- Ivy Corvus- Energy Manipulation 101: Quick Guide to Centering, Grounding, & Directing Your Energy. https://youtu.be/i6s1s6a6seI?si=-84JYJp8NL5KmYza
- HearthWitch- Guide to Energy Manipulation- Witchcraft 101. https://youtu.be/iQv4YuYL-Rc?si=lfnwY-Z4o5Xafb-8
- Aaron McKinney-
- Guided Meditation: Drawing Energy from the Universe. https://youtu.be/xTXivsmbhsc?si=0juKrBOOFo81Tt-1
- Energy Manipulation Exercise 1- Sensing your own energy. https://youtu.be/LcFbYeVfXDE?si=0CdTCW811UlWQJcR
- Energy Manipulation Exercise 2- Sensing different types of energy. https://youtu.be/IK3GX8V1fCI?si=ASl1pNzYMJnRPVru
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Introduction to Witchcraft and the Occult
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Do you feel drawn to learn more about witchcraft in the occult but feel lost on where to start? Then welcome to Get In Loser We're Doing Witchcraft, a podcast all about what it means to be a witch and where to get started on your journey. Join us as we navigate through various witchy topics and share what we've learned about
Movie Experiences and Personal Anecdotes
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the craft. So get in witches as we discuss the importance of energy manipulation.
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Did you go say Nosferatu? No, it's not fucking playing. What? I thought you said I was here the 6th. That's what the internet said and I keep checking. Actually, I haven't checked in a couple days. Let me look at this Broadway Kino schedule because I really want to fucking see it.
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Hopefully it goes on Prime soon, I guess? I don't know. But I heard if you see it in theaters, you could just see a giant penis. I mean, it wasn't like for that long on the screen though, so. I don't know. It wasn't as memorable as people say it was. The fucking memes are really funny about that. What do they say? It's like a six foot giant dick. Yeah, like uncut.
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Oh, man. Let's see. is ah Is this in English? It is. I want to make Anthony take me on Monday. Yay. Okay. fuck It's playing tomorrow, but he's working and Wednesday and he's working. Oh no. Well, it looks like maybe solo date and he can just catch it later. and I'm just kidding. Honestly, I might. yeah I've never gone to the movies by myself. I'm trying to think if I have.
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I don't think I have either, but, you know, I went to the first time. It was fine. Yeah. Just get my little popcorn, get my little beer because you can have beer at the every theater in Germany, not just the special ones. Oh, nice. Yeah. Yeah. and I'll get a little bit lower, a little popcorn and watch my little vampire movie by myself.
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Yes. They have alcohol at, um, the theater on base
Life and Culture in Oklahoma
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here, but it's like truly. And I'm like, Oh, I want that. Like I'm going to be so bloated and burping the entire time. No, thank you. I might just go see it by myself. You should. You should. And then because I mean, Anthony's going to be at work. And if you, even if he was off, he's sick right now. Because of course.
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Yeah. I know. And he's like working 12 hour shifts and he feels like shit. And I'm like, I made him chicken soup tonight with a bunch of like onions and garlic. We had chicken soup too. Did you? Yeah. I love chicken soup. Mike made it. And it's been so cold. So it was perfect timing. Yeah. It's been cold here too. A brisk 73 degrees. Yeah. It was like, I know yesterday I was thinking to myself,
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Is it cold or is it, I'm getting used to Okinawa weather. Yeah. Because it was 57 degrees. Oh, that's, I mean, that's kind of chilly. It was chilly. Our high today was 36. So, and I don't think we reached it. I think the highest we got was 34.
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in So it's frigid. Yeah. i am I was talking with Mike about it the other day. He was like, see, it says the girl who wants to be stationed near Salem, Massachusetts. You can't even handle this. And I'm like, yes, I can. Because I adapt very well. I adapt better in winter than summer. He's talking about going back to Oklahoma. Ew. Why? For a job.
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I mean, there are worse places, I will say, there are worse places. He was like, cause he had to go back, you know, in December for his pilot's license. And they had gotten to talking cause he went to Oklahoma versus St. Louis because his favorite instructor moved out to OU to do their program out there. And they were basically just like, you know, maybe when you get out. And so he was like, well, if I take that job, but like you get paid a shit ton of money to do that.
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and he was like, you know, we can spend a couple years in Oklahoma. Your grandparents are getting old. And I'm like, yeah, oh my you know, but I mean, I will say so. Yeah, Julie is there. And she can attest to this, I'm sure. But I follow this girl on tik tok. And she lives in Edmond. And she I just follow her. She's like a mommy or whatever. And yeah, she's hilarious. And it I like it because she's she post her out and abouts and I'm like, damn, they got that in Oklahoma. They got that in Oklahoma. They got that in Oklahoma. So I'm just like, okay, I don't want to be stationed there again, but at least I know if we had to go back for whatever reason.
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Yeah, I feel like there's such variety out there too, like where in Illinois, every shopping center was like the same seven stores just copy pasted. And in Oklahoma, you have so much variety and stores and restaurants and And like little small owned businesses. Yeah.
Energy Manipulation in Witchcraft
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That are only in Oklahoma. And I love that. Yeah. And one thing I love about Oklahoma, I will say, as much as we talk shit on Oklahoma all the time. In Oklahoma, if you are anywhere around the O.K.C. Metro area, you travel 20 minutes, you're in another and area where there's other things to do. In Illinois, you could be driving for like 45 minutes and you still
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No, it's all the same shit. Yeah. No, in Oklahoma, everything is like a 20-minute drive, but then it's like it's almost like a whole different city. But we're not talking about Edmund, Oklahoma. No, we're not. We're not. What are we talking about? um We are talking about energy manipulation. Yes. Yay. This was kind of a fun topic to research.
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Yeah, I enjoyed it. There's not a bunch of variations of information, like every like every resource that I like watched or read or whatever. It was all basically the same thing, but everyone would have like a tiny little difference I found. Yeah, I liked it. I agree. It was really interesting.
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I thought there would be more because yeah energy manipulation, as we'll get into, is so vital in natural workings. And so like whenever I got down to talking about techniques and stuff, I just leaned more into the things that I do.
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Because there's not a lot I feel like of information. I mean maybe there isn't like tiktok I didn't really go down tiktok to or like I just did YouTube Yeah, you do guys a ton. Yeah. Okay. Well, that's good. So yeah I mean if you are new to the craft and you're wanting to learn more about like maybe different techniques of energy manipulation because there isn't a ton documented online and like actual like articles and whatnot. Definitely obviously check out the techniques that we talk about but look on YouTube as well for like different ways that you can incorporate it into your workings. Yeah and in our show notes I made sure to link specific videos as resources for you guys because I watched a bunch of videos and while I said like they're all very similar each one does have slight variations in how they do things. So you know watch a few of them
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Find what kind of resonates with you and then use those. But hopefully like the ones in the show notes can at least get you started. So just to kick it off, energy manipulation is the ability to manipulate, move around, gather, and contain energy. This is both our own energy as well as the energy of items like say crystals or the earth or you know really just anything.
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Yeah, and in short, if you want to think about it this way as well, magic in itself is a manipulation of energy. So learning how to manipulate energy is an important practice to understand in any magical working. Energy manipulation is considered to be one of the most useful and vital practices to learn for beginners because it sets you up for more advanced practices and it's used in ah almost every form of magical working.
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When working spells, we charge ourselves or we charge items with energy, and then we release that energy out to imbue our spells or those specific items. So you need an energetic release to gain a response from your practice.
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Yeah, and something I think that we all need to understand and be reminded of even ourselves when it comes to magic is that there's nothing out there that we can't see that is not of the natural world. So things like heat, light, magnetism, electricity, vibration, gravity, momentum.
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etc. There are many more examples and magic at its core is understanding the control or manipulation of the forces of nature. So all of those forces I listed just now and using energy manipulation is the most efficient way to do so. So when it comes to energy, every creature has energy, every natural element that we use in magic has energy, even our own life force has energy. And when we think about energy and you know naturally we'll think about like energy fields and something like auras so everyone has an energy field or an aura that surrounds them and our auras are the energy that we exude outward and it reflects our physical emotional and spiritual states so whether that is positive or negative calm or loving etc and tuning into our auras
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and energy fields and magical workings can help us to sense blockages and balances or areas needing additional energy work. And something that I feel like we need to also kind of discuss is the importance of intuition. So intuition helps you to understand and discern the energy around you and it can help distinguish your own energy. So aligning with your own personal energy helps you to remain grounded and balanced before engaging in magical workings. And developing your intuition as it involves energy manipulation also allows you to perceive and interpret external energies, so those that are outside of ourselves within the natural world. And it can also help by providing real-time feedback on whether the energy we are manipulating is flowing as intended or if we need to make adjustments. When we talk about energy, there are also forms of healing that use energy manipulation.
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And part of it is correcting energy flow to enhance healing. And this can include using our own personal energy to relieve pain and aid in healing. And there are many techniques and exercises that involve moving energy from your toes to your head to cleanse, energize and or relax yourself. And it's this is tied with working with your chakras. And we talked a lot about chakras in episode 67 specifically, but it's an ancient Indian spiritual tradition and chakras can be seen as different energy centers or energy wheels located
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along your body. And there are seven main chakras located within the body that are aligned with specific energy vibrations. So this would be a really good example of how you can incorporate energy into healing. And throughout the world energy has been called many things, whether that be vital energy, chi, ki, sai, or prana, depending where in the world you are and what culture
Techniques for Energy Manipulation
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you belong to. And so the concept of energy and subtle energy, as it's often been referred to, has been around for thousands of years and has roots in medicine, health, and in even self-defense.
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ah so I've also linked an article in our show notes that delves deeper into energy and energy manipulation throughout history within many different cultures but to kind of sum it up cultures worldwide have engaged in energy work throughout time through things like rituals ceremonies shamanic healing.
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And I mean, there are many other examples, but all of this was done by connecting with the Earth's energies. And these practices, while varied in their approaches, share a common understanding of channeling unseen forces, aka energy, to influence the physical and spiritual realms.
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So in terms of learning energy manipulation, this is something that takes a lot of time and practice, but it also goes well with centering and grounding because you should be centering and grounding yourself before you start manipulating energy. If you're like just getting started, research these three topics and learn how to put them into practice together. We've covered grounding on the podcast in depth, so make sure you go back and listen to episode 18 if you haven't already.
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and then take it a step further by adding energy manipulation. And I'm gonna share a couple of techniques that I came across in my research for you all, but just know that you can find a ton of resources that share different techniques to help with energy manipulation. And something that I found was a common theme in all of these was visualization. So you're gonna have to also be able to put yourself in like the right mind space to be able to sit in a nice quiet place and visualize what you're doing.
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So I found that there are tons of YouTube videos, like I said earlier, that will walk you through energy manipulation exercises that are basically just kind of step-by-step guides. For the most part, they're all very similar in practice in that they walk you through centering, grounding, and then how to visualize the energy that you're working with. My suggestion would just be to go check out a couple and go with the one that just really speaks to you.
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And like I said earlier, to get you guys started, I've linked a few of them in our show notes. So hopefully that's a good starting point for you guys. When starting to work with energy manipulation, it's best to start out in a quiet space where you're not going to be disturbed and in a space that you're comfortable in. Once you're more comfortable with this practice, you'll be able to do this naturally in just about any space. But to start out, like try to find a nice, quiet, comfortable space for you.
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As I stated, visualization is going to be a major component of energy manipulation techniques. So for those that find visualization to be difficult, you can work with feeling the energy when going through those techniques if you can't like visualize it yourself. like Work on like feeling where the energy is and like where you're pushing it.
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So I'm going to talk about a couple of techniques that I came across in a few different sources. One was an essay written on a blog called DeviantArt. And the user, I don't really know if this is like, I don't know if it's meant to be pronounced like Oz-sen or what, but it's like O-Z-Z-C-I-N. So however you say that name.
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And then the second major one that I'm going to talk about was an energy manipulation quick guide on YouTube by Ivy Corvus. Both of these rely on the use of visualization to see the energy that you're working with. And both of these are linked in our show notes, like I said earlier. So for anyone interested in the full technique, like you can go and just read the whole thing, but this is just going to be a very brief overview.
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And I will say the one that's the essay on the blog is a very like long one. So, but I'm just going to like kind of briefly go through it. So that one they say to start working, they called it intrinsic witchcraft. I'm not sure like.
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where the term came from, I didn't see it anywhere else. so But what they say is that you need to start by visualizing or seeing the energy within yourself. And the technique that they share to do this is to place your hands together with both pointer fingers straight out, holding a small gap between them. To help visualize this easier, they also suggest that you have like a light or a candle behind your hands.
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um Visualize the energy inside your arms, flowing through to your hands and watching it run into your pointer fingers and then passing between them like in the gap that you leave. They share that it can take some time to get to that point and that it requires a lot of focus. So like make sure you're giving it time. Don't get frustrated if it doesn't come like easily to you. Once this is something that does come easy to you though,
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You add to the exercise by visualizing the color of the energy changing. Once you're able to change the color easily, then you try to change the appearance of the energy. So maybe you originally saw your energy flowing out as water, but now you can change it to visualize it as like flames.
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Once you've mastered the last few practices, then you visualize the energy as a ball between your hands and you're going to want to start off small and then work your way up. So have your hands close together with a small gap that the energy ball is going to be in. And just like before, you're going to visualize um the energy flowing through your arms, into your hands, and then out into the gap as a ball. And they suggest also visualizing a container in that space that you can then see the energy filling up to help like with the visualization control. Once you can see the energy, work on moving the energy up and down between your hands and then swirling it around, just moving it in general. And once you've mastered moving it, then you start visualizing and manipulating it in different ways. So visualizing it being the energy of different elements,
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Visualize it being air that can be pushed out from you and then you can work through the different elements in that way. The video that I watched by Ivy Corvus on YouTube, she does like a little crash course on centering, grounding, and then directing your energy. With this technique, you start with centering your energy and then releasing your energy. And she breaks down how to center your energy to one point and then how to release it effectively because centering allows you to collect it all together.
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Then you move into grounding your energy to help keep you from draining yourself and learning to tap into other energy sources, like say the earth's energy. You would ground to the earth and then tap into the earth's energy rather than depleting your own energy source. And it's important to center your energy first. Grounding should definitely be done before you're working, but it's also beneficial to ground afterwards as well.
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And then last is where you direct your energy. So after centering and grounding, you're going to visualize directing your energy in between your hands by pushing it from your center down your arms and through your fingertips. Practice holding your energy like little energy orb until you feel like you can't anymore and then releasing it.
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In this step, she says that you can practice moving it and manipulating its form, as well as adding your intention into the energy orb. Ivy says she does this to put those intentions into her spellwork by forming the energy
Advanced Practices in Energy Work
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orb, adding her intentions, and then holding that above her spellwork while pushing that energy into her spell. um Also, her twitch, who we have talked about her on here,
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a lot I feel like. I know I use her YouTube videos quite a bit um but she has and a complete guide to energy manipulation video that's also linked in our show notes for you guys where she walks you through a very similar technique to these but she gives a lot more detail into why things are done and like how to know what you're looking for or how to like feel for your energy work and like your manipulation. So Yeah, and something another technique that you can do that's ah that's easy as well is just practicing like this will help with the visualization visualization aspect and that's just feeling your energy. So this involves just closing your eyes and practice visualizing your own energy.
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so visualize yourself full of a bright buzzing energy whatever color resonates with you or you know really based on your intuition whatever color just pops into your head to begin with and often you may feel the energy as well and this could manifest as tingly or like a sensation of warmth um and once you've started practicing visualizing your own energy you can practice from shifting the energy inside your body so moving around from limb to limb from you know your head to your toes etc etc and then similar to what you just talked about with absorbing energy from the earth to ground and center there are a lot of different techniques for absorbing energy from the earth to be able to use it in your own workings and this is something that i do often in my practice when i'm trying to connect with my spirit guides because again like you were saying like it doesn't it allows you to absorb energy from the earth so you're not depleting your own energy and it
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involves connecting to the earth's energy to stabilize yourself. So with this energy working what I do is I center my focus on my core or my heart center and I visualize energy collecting there. Oftentimes I'll envision energy flowing from the earth like from roots of a tree coming up through my body as well and then you can use that energy to project outward in your meditations but also in spell work that requires more balance and control.
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and then another really easy technique that you can do and it doesn't even have to involve any traditional spellwork or casting is breath work. I use this a lot during manifestations and when I've taught mindfulness meditations and you'll see this a lot in yoga practices as well and this involves just using your breath to guide energy flow so inhaling to draw energy into your body and then exhaling to send it towards your intention um and you can sync your breathing with affirmations or mantras to enhance your focus and it's very useful in relaxing meditations and we talked about this a bit more in our
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I don't even remember. I think we what episode it was, but we did a meditation episode like back in season one. I remember we discussed this. so This is definitely some like something super basic that you can practice and learn how to do because it is very helpful, say, if you're like struggling to sleep at night too. You can use energy manipulation to help you go to sleep. If it was our meditation episode, it's episode five.
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episode five, I believe it was because I remember i remember when we recorded it, I can see it in my mind. And then another thing that you can do is something called energy transmutation. And this is a powerful technique in energy manipulation and it involves transforming negative and harmful energy into neutral or positive energy to protect yourself. So a method you could use for this is something called visualization shielding, which is similar to the technique of feeling your energy. This essentially has you envision a protective barrier around you like a cloak or a shield, a light, etc. And you would be
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In this situation, you would imagine that when negative energy approaches you, it will be absorbed by the barrier and transformed into calming or positive energy. and so Really briefly, so I don't want to cover this again because, Stephanie, I know you already talked about grounding when it comes to energy manipulation, but something that you can also do with grounding is recycling the energy. so This can be done with um energy transmutation. so where you're connecting to the earth and you're grounding and you're gathering energy from the earth, you can also transmute any harmful or negative energy in your body to flow down to the earth, or it can then be neutralized and recycled and then transferred back to you. And so this is literally what it sounds like when you go outside and stand barefoot on the earth. And if you want more information about grounding specifically,
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We discussed this at length in episode 18. I know Tiffany discussed some really interesting studies that were conducted showing just how effective this method of energy transmutation is. um so Check that out if you haven't because it is backed by science and it is really interesting. We love a witchcraft backed by science. We absolutely do. yeah And then lastly, there's something called energy transmutation when it comes to crystals. And anyone who uses crystals, you do this. So you're already doing this already. So this requires using the methods we've already discussed to use your energy or the Earth's energy to charge objects. And you can charge crystals such as black tourmaline, amethyst, or smoky quartz, and either wear these crystals or place them in your home to protect your space. These crystals are known
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specifically the ones that I mentioned for their protective and transmuting properties. So you would just imagine these particular crystals absorbing any negative energy that threatens to disturb your space, transmuting the energy and radiating energy that is positive and protective.
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And just to kind of reiterate, energy manipulation is super important to learn. And while it's not something that comes super quick or really easy, it's something that takes a little bit of time to really get a feel for it. It's also something that is recommended to learn as a beginner. You can and should pair this practice with centering and grounding because centering and grounding are essential to being able to visualize the energy that you're harnessing and not draining yourself of your own energy. And there are tons of step by step guides out there for you to use. And all of them
Conclusion and Listener Engagement
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are extremely similar with just a few subtle differences. Just find what works for you and like one that you enjoy the most. Find a quiet spot where you won't be disturbed and then just do the work. Yeah, that's it.
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