Set 1 - exercise 4

In this exercise you will need your partner’s permission to gently touch, in a sensing way, parts of their body. Please take care to avoid sexual areas, or any parts of the body that your partner does not wish you to touch. Are you ready?

While your partner sits still and silent with closed eyes, rub your hands together as before to stimulate etheric sensing. Very slowly, and without getting any closer to your partner’s skin than a handspan, move your hands around the contours of your partner’s body. What do you sense? Is your partner’s energy different at various parts of the body? Are there hot or cold spots? Do some parts draw your hand towards them or do some repel the hand? As a healer, I often find my hand is instinctively drawn to the location on the physical body of a client’s samskaric* wounds.

Place your hand gently now on your partner’s back, shoulder or arm, to feel any differences when you actually touch with this highly attuned sensitivity. Is your perception helped when you close your eyes? Give feedback to your partner, exchange your impressions, but know that what we feel and what they are aware of can be two different things: it doesn’t mean one of you is right and the other wrong.

You can also try this exercise on a pet. Using etheric sensing on an animal is frequently illuminating, and can let you know if your uncomplaining moggy or pooch is suffering from pain or ailment.

END OF EXERCISE FOUR

* a samskaric wound is the energetic imprint of a painful emotional, mental or physical trauma. Samskaras may lie buried beneath our consciousness for many years until we are ready, or strong enough, to face them and heal them.

The word samskara comes from Sanskrit and means scar on the astral (or emotional) body.