Original post: nakibean
I think this goes here... I put this here because a friend called it "a form of divination" but I'm not sure if this is divination.
I'll tell you what is going on and would like to hear what you all have to say...
Lately I have drawn pictures for friends... the thing is when I start, I focus on the person and the picture comes to me. I have had an instance where the other person felt drained and had to lay down and I got a splitting headache (and still do when I look at the picture!). A poem came out of another person in reply and I got a slight headache. I know from the recipients that the drawings resonate with them.
I know I open a connection that I have with the person as all the people I draw for are friends so the connection is there, but its like I go into the other person and find something meaningful to them which comes to me in a picture form.
What are your thoughts and what do you think I can I do to protect myself from a headache, if possible, when drawing?
A form of divination?
-
Occult Forum Archive
- Magister
- Posts: 287885
- Joined: Tue Mar 17, 2009 1:32 am
-
Occult Forum Archive
- Magister
- Posts: 287885
- Joined: Tue Mar 17, 2009 1:32 am
A form of divination?
Original post: Jendayi
Wow what a beautiful gift! ... well except for the headaches
. Have you tried grounding yourself before and after...sounds like you are taking on too much energy or straining to get too much of it... this should help you balance yoursef.
Take care
Jendayi
Wow what a beautiful gift! ... well except for the headaches
. Have you tried grounding yourself before and after...sounds like you are taking on too much energy or straining to get too much of it... this should help you balance yoursef. Take care
Jendayi
-
Occult Forum Archive
- Magister
- Posts: 287885
- Joined: Tue Mar 17, 2009 1:32 am
A form of divination?
Original post: Akasha
I second that wow ~ what a fascinating ability!
I'm not sure if I would call it divination, as it sounds more like a form of empathy to me ... like you are able to merge with and pick up on the essence of the person.
The headaches don't sound good though. It sounds like you are straining too hard. Maybe try sitting with the person first and just doing some simple breathing and relaxing together before you start. Get the other person to relax and open his/herself to you. When you reach out in your mind, don't try too hard to connect or too fast ... maybe take a bit more time and let the connection come more slowly and naturally.
I definately agree you should ground yourself immediately afterward and get your friend to ground too. This is just my opinion, as I haven't come across this before. I hope it helps ~ please let us know how it goes!
I second that wow ~ what a fascinating ability!
I'm not sure if I would call it divination, as it sounds more like a form of empathy to me ... like you are able to merge with and pick up on the essence of the person.
The headaches don't sound good though. It sounds like you are straining too hard. Maybe try sitting with the person first and just doing some simple breathing and relaxing together before you start. Get the other person to relax and open his/herself to you. When you reach out in your mind, don't try too hard to connect or too fast ... maybe take a bit more time and let the connection come more slowly and naturally.
I definately agree you should ground yourself immediately afterward and get your friend to ground too. This is just my opinion, as I haven't come across this before. I hope it helps ~ please let us know how it goes!
-
Occult Forum Archive
- Magister
- Posts: 287885
- Joined: Tue Mar 17, 2009 1:32 am
A form of divination?
Original post: nakibean
The connection isn't forced in anyway. Basically I think of the person and I'm connected. With closer friends, the connection is already there and I just visualize opening the door between us and letting it come in. I will try grounding before and after the connection time as I didn't think about maybe it being an overloading. Like when I was learning to close myself to others feelings and emotions, I have to learn how to be aware of these connections also.
The other day something new happened... instead of me consciously thinking of the person to connect, I started receiving images from someone. A connection was open and when I started getting a dull headache, I found that I couldn't close the connection. I since learned whose connection was open and with him the connection is much stronger as I am very close to him. I have to say consciously because I don't know if I unconsciously went looking for him. In that connection I felt myself and him being drained, and the pictures I drew was of where he was. He thinks I was astrally with him which was causing the draining feeling on my side. I also figured out that it was my fault... as I hadn't fully closed myself from an exercise I had done earlier.
What are your thoughts on this?
The connection isn't forced in anyway. Basically I think of the person and I'm connected. With closer friends, the connection is already there and I just visualize opening the door between us and letting it come in. I will try grounding before and after the connection time as I didn't think about maybe it being an overloading. Like when I was learning to close myself to others feelings and emotions, I have to learn how to be aware of these connections also.
The other day something new happened... instead of me consciously thinking of the person to connect, I started receiving images from someone. A connection was open and when I started getting a dull headache, I found that I couldn't close the connection. I since learned whose connection was open and with him the connection is much stronger as I am very close to him. I have to say consciously because I don't know if I unconsciously went looking for him. In that connection I felt myself and him being drained, and the pictures I drew was of where he was. He thinks I was astrally with him which was causing the draining feeling on my side. I also figured out that it was my fault... as I hadn't fully closed myself from an exercise I had done earlier.
What are your thoughts on this?
-
Occult Forum Archive
- Magister
- Posts: 287885
- Joined: Tue Mar 17, 2009 1:32 am
A form of divination?
Original post: Jendayi
hmm... well if you feel yourself and them being drained visualise something to catch your energy from slipping away. Perhaps you should find out why the draining occurs. Perhaps you believe you two should feel drained somehow and it happens? Or the flow is hindered somehow, which causes the strain and energy to come so quickly out of you? I know the mind to be a powerful thing...perhaps if you alter your thinking to believing it will refresh you...visualise beautiful water springs constantly flowing from and to the ocean or sea and imagine the life within those springs happily growing and taking and giving energy back to the spring as the ocean does to it...that everything is a cycle and everything is balanced and therefore nothing is drained.
Also with the new part of your gift coming out ... perhaps you are getting stronger. If you 'close off' your gift and shut it down then when you open the doors it's like a flood gate opening... closing the dam isn't too easy on the body and over time all walls crumble. What I am saying is perhaps instead of closing your gift off fully find a way to have it at least partially free. Giving the freedom to it is scary but much can be learned from the experience.
So basically my theory is since you are working more with your gift now it is getting stronger and the dam is no longer either big enough to hold all that energy or the everything and then nothing flow of energy is causing heavy strain... and therefore headaches.
Does that make sense or match what you feel?
Jendayi
hmm... well if you feel yourself and them being drained visualise something to catch your energy from slipping away. Perhaps you should find out why the draining occurs. Perhaps you believe you two should feel drained somehow and it happens? Or the flow is hindered somehow, which causes the strain and energy to come so quickly out of you? I know the mind to be a powerful thing...perhaps if you alter your thinking to believing it will refresh you...visualise beautiful water springs constantly flowing from and to the ocean or sea and imagine the life within those springs happily growing and taking and giving energy back to the spring as the ocean does to it...that everything is a cycle and everything is balanced and therefore nothing is drained.
Also with the new part of your gift coming out ... perhaps you are getting stronger. If you 'close off' your gift and shut it down then when you open the doors it's like a flood gate opening... closing the dam isn't too easy on the body and over time all walls crumble. What I am saying is perhaps instead of closing your gift off fully find a way to have it at least partially free. Giving the freedom to it is scary but much can be learned from the experience.
So basically my theory is since you are working more with your gift now it is getting stronger and the dam is no longer either big enough to hold all that energy or the everything and then nothing flow of energy is causing heavy strain... and therefore headaches.
Does that make sense or match what you feel?
Jendayi