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02-08-2016, 02:28 AM
Nanny, you asked about mirror shields for psychic self defense/protection.
The idea behind a mirror shield is fairly basic: Mirrors reflect so a mirror shield will reflect back a psychic attack or excessive emotional energy, leaving the shielded person protected. These shields are passive, in they don't do anything except reflect outwards. They are not defensive weapons. You are not attacking anyone. You are merely preventing someone/something from attacking YOU.
Mirror shields are, in my opinion, the first line of defense, and they can range from a fairly simplistic construct to something quite complex. The shields are limited only by your imagination and your intention.
The basic process: First, you set your intention so you can focus that intent into action. Then pull energy into a ball around you, imagining the exterior to be an intact mirrored surface. You can pull energy from outside yourself-think of it like vacuuming up the energy that's all around us-to form the shield but it won't be as strong as if you run the energy through yourself, making the shield part of you. I run energy from Mother Earth, thanking her for her generosity, up through my feet and through the energy channels in my body. I gather up a portion of the energy, mix it with my energy, and then push it outwards until I'm encased in a mirrored bubble of energy. You can also run energy down from Source/Creation. Either or both works well, depending on the situation(Always remember to thank whichever source you use. It's good manners and a sign of respect).
Why a mirrored ball? Because you want to be completely protected and a ball provides complete coverage, including beneath your feet for those really determined attacks, and you don't want any seams or cracks that might provide an opening for questing little fingers of energy.
Once you have the shell of the shield constructed, you can fill the interior of the shield with white healing energy, pink love energy, or any color of energy you desire. Or nothing, if that's what floats your boat. You can also create symbols to cover the exterior of the shield, symbols that have meaning to you. A cross, a sword, a pentacle, a flower, a white knight, runes, really, anything as long as it has meaning to you. You can even use multiple symbols.
Crafting a mirror shield, if you've never done one before, takes a bit of practice until you can slap one up without thinking about it, sort of a reflex action that occurs the instant you register an attack or a surge of energy that threatens to overwhelm you. They're not difficult to create but it does take practice. My early shields functioned for low level problems but, as time went by, I learned how to craft shields that handled everything except the most dedicated attacks. Like I said, you're only limited by your imagination. However, you don't want to get so complex and complicated that it takes time to craft your shield. You want to be able to pull it up in about the time it takes to blink and you want it to be a reflexive instinct where you really don't even think about what you're doing.
The idea behind a mirror shield is fairly basic: Mirrors reflect so a mirror shield will reflect back a psychic attack or excessive emotional energy, leaving the shielded person protected. These shields are passive, in they don't do anything except reflect outwards. They are not defensive weapons. You are not attacking anyone. You are merely preventing someone/something from attacking YOU.
Mirror shields are, in my opinion, the first line of defense, and they can range from a fairly simplistic construct to something quite complex. The shields are limited only by your imagination and your intention.
The basic process: First, you set your intention so you can focus that intent into action. Then pull energy into a ball around you, imagining the exterior to be an intact mirrored surface. You can pull energy from outside yourself-think of it like vacuuming up the energy that's all around us-to form the shield but it won't be as strong as if you run the energy through yourself, making the shield part of you. I run energy from Mother Earth, thanking her for her generosity, up through my feet and through the energy channels in my body. I gather up a portion of the energy, mix it with my energy, and then push it outwards until I'm encased in a mirrored bubble of energy. You can also run energy down from Source/Creation. Either or both works well, depending on the situation(Always remember to thank whichever source you use. It's good manners and a sign of respect).
Why a mirrored ball? Because you want to be completely protected and a ball provides complete coverage, including beneath your feet for those really determined attacks, and you don't want any seams or cracks that might provide an opening for questing little fingers of energy.
Once you have the shell of the shield constructed, you can fill the interior of the shield with white healing energy, pink love energy, or any color of energy you desire. Or nothing, if that's what floats your boat. You can also create symbols to cover the exterior of the shield, symbols that have meaning to you. A cross, a sword, a pentacle, a flower, a white knight, runes, really, anything as long as it has meaning to you. You can even use multiple symbols.
Crafting a mirror shield, if you've never done one before, takes a bit of practice until you can slap one up without thinking about it, sort of a reflex action that occurs the instant you register an attack or a surge of energy that threatens to overwhelm you. They're not difficult to create but it does take practice. My early shields functioned for low level problems but, as time went by, I learned how to craft shields that handled everything except the most dedicated attacks. Like I said, you're only limited by your imagination. However, you don't want to get so complex and complicated that it takes time to craft your shield. You want to be able to pull it up in about the time it takes to blink and you want it to be a reflexive instinct where you really don't even think about what you're doing.
