How To See Energy (Part 16) - Candle Gazing Exercise

To download step by step instructions for this exercise please see our public google drive folder: https://drive.google.com/file/d/121KlXiZZSIwNry-M9cgemlTboBOIZ12q/view?usp=sharing Overview The candle gazing exercise helps to enhance our ability to see energy and gives us the experience of seeing how our words shape our perception. The candle gazing exercise is also an excellent diagnostic tool. We can see our own energy field reflected in the aura of the candle and may eventually use it to see the energy field of others at a distance. Free Online Courses Our online courses are now free! See our full catalog of published and upcoming episodes: https://www.2bsilent.com/catalog If you enjoy these videos and want the opportunity to ask more detailed questions and be part of a community of people studying this material in-depth, we offer The 2BSilent Membership with bi-weekly live Q&A calls, guided meditation library, and our online community platform. Learn more: ⁠https://www.2bsilent.com/join Timestamped Notes 0:00 - How to perform the candle gazing exercise. 1:30 - You can do this with any flame, a campfire works well. 3:00 - You want to be in a completely dark room, the candle being the only source of illumination. 3:30 - The proper posture for meditation. 5:30 - Gaze at the candle and spread the focus of your attention softly into your peripheral vision. Gazing entails that nothing is more important than anything else in your vision. 8:30 - The importance of being relaxed: no force, no trying, no effort in focusing even in the periphery of your vision. 9:30 - State what you are there to do: "I am here now, to use the aura of the candle flame (which reflects my own aura) to see my own energy field." Say to yourself: "as I do this exercise and perform this gazing it is going to put me into a deeper state of relaxation. The more I relax, the more focus I have." 11:45 - You will begin to see that the candle has an aura. Ultimately you will be able to see a sphere 6 inches in diameter with the colors of the rainbow in order from inside to out. 12:30 - When this happens confirm the experience and state out loud: "what I am seeing now is a reflection of my own aura". 13:00 - When you begin to see the aura you'll notice peculiarities that are unique to you. The color arrangement is a reflection of the dominance or weakness of different frequencies in your field that correspond to those colors. 13:45 - Speak aloud the name of one of the colors. When you do that band of color will grow and get larger or brighter. 14:45 - This is an experience of seeing how the words you speak affect your environment. 16:30 - You are what you think about most of the time. 18:30 - Reciprocity and the power of anonymity: "you get the way you give." 22:00 - Like only speaks to like. How to ‘prime the pump’ by giving the way you want to receive. This helps us to entrain to the spiritual entities that we want help from. We emulate what we are trying to attract. 24:00 - What to do when when we speak a color name and nothing happens 26:00 - How this technique is used as a diagnostic tool. 27:00 - As you get more proficient with seeing you will be able to see your own energy field diagnostically reflected in the candle in more detail. 37:45 - The difference between intention and grasping. 41:00 - What to do if you are having a hard time seeing the aura around the candle at all? How to deal with feelings of frustration. 41:45 - Let the results go as much as the phenomena. You want to be as neutral as you can. We're all anticipating some kind of wiz-bang phenomena and when it doesn't happen you can feel kind of flat. Just close your eyes, let it go, and start over again. Always come back to relaxation. 42:30 - Always associate success with relaxation, just like we associate focus with relaxation. 43:00 - How to feel the light with your eyes instead of trying to see it more sharply. 46:00 - Thoughts on making spiritual practices personal.