hi,
This aspect of feeling energy is not critical in being successful. One can simply go through the motions with focused intention, and the work gets done, regardless of how much or how little energy you experience or feel in a healing session. This is a very good aspect to the system. Perhaps related to the compassionate nature of the process, in allowing for one to be successful, right from the get go, regardless of energy sensitivity. If you are willing, and someone asks for help, everything can proceed successfully.
There is an aspect of the cloud hands exercise that you might focus on, as you do this exercise. When you reach out to grab the clouds, off in the distance. Be sure to keep the interior, of your grabbing hand, open and receptive to the energy you reach out to grab and bring back. You are holding a handful of clouds. Something very soft and subtle to hold in your hand. There is, a great sensitivity within the palm. If you close your hand, physically, too tight in any way, you loose that sensitivity. It is holding something, in a very open, feeling way. That interior space you create within the palm has a delicacy to it. By doing the movement nice and relaxed, slowing it down with your breathing, and envisioning yourself covering a great distance as you reach out, you set the stage for an expanded state of awareness, experience. A more energy sensitive state , that translates to increased sensitivity, as you bring that to your work as a healer, in a healing session.
As you grab out the blockage, you can,keep this open, delicate, receptive feel in the interior of this grab.
There are many more experienced healers than me, in terms of an ongoing practice, but I find that when I do this movement, my fingers, as I draw away from pulling out a blockage, don't close, right away. There is this opening left as I pull away within the area defined by the finger tips, grabbing, very slowly, allowing the blockage to enter that inner holding area. Many times, I see the blockage energy, almost as elastic, coming into my grab that way, in a delayed fashion, or a continual taking away of more and more of the blockage as I withdraw my hand, grabbing. Almost like a conduit is formed from the area of the blockage, into my palm, with the blockage flowing out to my grab, as it retreats and closes. This is not a necessary way to grab out a blockage, or the only way to see or experience it. It is a way though, that is slower, and allows you the time to sense the energy you take out. If you just do a quicker grabbing motion to a more closed grab, it can be, in the beginning, more of a physically felt expression, not energetically felt. This is also okay, but if you want to develop sensitivity to what you are doing, and 'feel' the energy, going a bit slower and allowing that feeling part , helps. I see a more advanced level of just doing whatever, at whatever speed and expression, and retaining a sensitivity to feeling the energy, all the time. I work more visually, and tend to see it, and then try different things with the feeling part. I find slowing down and being more in a feeling focus, regarding this hand, helps. Keeping it very open as you pull out the blockage, and closing it, only when the movement is at its end, taking the grabbed out energy and throwing it into the ground.
So , in summary, try developing your sensitivity, within cloud hands exercise. Then, in the healing session, maybe, try keeping that interior space open, and a slower grab, allowing you time to develop a feeling within the palm, of what you hold, as you pull away, allowing the energy sensation to materialize for you. I focus just as much on feeling energy, as I do on the action, of grabbing, which can be physical to the point of losing sensitivity to feeling the energy.
This feeling of the energy can be quite sophisticated, and be one way of proceeding in a healing session. The feeling of the energy, continually telling you, what to do.
Sometimes too, the energy in a serious , or big blockage, or the state or qualitiy of energy within and surrounding a person, can be so pervasive, that it surrounds you hand as you grab. Like reaching into a cloud of blockage that one has to keep clearing, to get past that initial fog of goo. I would say, something like chemotherapy can produce a big field of goo, that you have to sort of wade through like a flooded basement, and have it up to your elbows, until you get it cleared away, generally, from the friend you help, and shaken off your hands, or whatever it sticks to, as you engage with it. There can be this quality to an energy field around a person too. You may be up to your elbows, before you realize it. In general, as you work from top to bottom, you sort of smooth the field of energy out, as you work down, in a global way too. This is perhaps, a good way to see it too, as opposed to specific points relative to a blockage, you go in and out of. Sort of like herding sheep! Bringing everything together in a downward working direction, clearing and smoothing it out as you go, reconnecting pathways, energizing, etc..
love,
gallen
