[insert eye roll]
Apparently, most newbies to shielding need hand motions and...well, really dorky-looking stuff to actually concentrate on the imagery needed to actually get their shields up and strong.
Uhm..I've just been doing it in my head.
[confuzzled look]
Seriously--my idea of shielding is:
Mental-Me basically calls up a sandstorm (only made up of fire rather than sand) and just lets it swirl around her. I like to play with it. Ever see a fire-eater? How they play with the flames and stuff? I do that in my head. =D It's fun!
I avoided this other friend--let's call him.....uhm....shit...uhm...BLUE! We'll call him Blue. *grins proudly*
Ok, so, like I was saying.
I avoided "Blue" for the majority of the day. I spent my day talking with Sid on IM, swapping music and pretty pictures....
---Okay yes, dirty jokes and drooling did ensue! Shut up! =P ----
She helped me figure out how to keep my shields up and strong so that when I did finally give in and log into the other IM program to talk to Blue, he wouldn't be eating at my energy. I realized during our pow-wow that part of why I've been feeling so depressed and tired and just BLAH after talking with him is that he's feeding off of my energy, but he's not taking what's offered, he's just taking and actually having a negative impact on how I feel.
Which is totally not cool.
So, I've been building up my shields all day, had two pow-wows with Ceri--which ALWAYS has me bouncy and happy and all, which Sid says has my shields strong. Then I went into WDC chat for like...gods, barely even 10 minutes!
Blue came in after me, and I got knocked out after like...2-3 minutes in his company on there, and I was feeling sick again. But I had him on MSN as well, and he didn't do anything as far as that goes. =\
Sid helped me find fire-feely songs. Not just like, Fire Chant, but songs that felt fiery. For example...Riot by Three Days Grace--that feels earthquakey and lava-ish. =D
And it made me feel a bit better.
And for the past hour or so, I've been listening to Pixie Lott--she's got talent oozing out of her ears, I swear to god. She's got a voice that is just...
I listened to a few of her songs--the slower, liquid ones--and I could totally see her as a lounge singer in the 40's, in a dark blue dress with a slit up to her hip, and a ciggarette in one hand...she's got one of those liquid voices...like smooth whiskey....
*dreamy sigh*
I'm in love...
But I also don't feel completely drained.
Thank the gods and the people who've taught me how to shield my ass from energy-stealing morons.
Glad I could help...it's what I do...and Pixie Lott.......*drool*
ReplyDeleteI have someone very similar in my life...I kind of write about this person, so, Mires, you probably know who I'm talking about...and I use fire and ice to sheild. It was just very interesting that you brought this up because, honestly? I've never really thought about it. LOL!!
ReplyDeleteThe only downfall that I've seen with using ice to sheild emotion *biting lip* (which is probably not the best thing to do, but I have a normally fiery personality and my emotions stoke the fire and when I allow it, bad things happen, wrong things are said and...well, generally...I get my butt whooped! By the person who shall remain nameless...) is that the shields leave me feeling slightly numb.
*deep shrug* Different sheilds for different needs. I kinda need to be a little emotionally numb to deal with this person the right way, you know. With the mind instead of the heart. *cringe* Easier said than done.
Well, I kept making Sid check my shields, cuz I kept playing with them. I tried fire--which, as I said, I'm pretty good at--water, which accidentally turned to ice, I didn't actually meant to do, wind--which I'm not at all good at--but I haven't tried earth just yet. I also experimented a bit, as well.
ReplyDeleteMy first big experiment with it was using moonlight. Pretty, but flimsy too. It's more a channeling of goddess energy--more for when you're in a circle behind strong shields than as shields themselves. But I tried moonlight, and rain, wind, and lightning all threw themselves into the mix. Then I tried hematite.
I'm really good at hematite. It's a smooth, cold surface, hard and reflective. You've got a solid shield but you're also reflecting back what is being thrown at you. And since I've got a hematite stone that I keep close at hand, I've got a physical aid for it as well.
And I'm not even gonna get started on what happened when I tried to use Sunlight...that was...uhm...well...yeah.
Weird. Big. Annoying. A little scary too.
*sigh* Stupid...sight.....grrr....