Need A Boost Options

So, I have another favor to ask of the occult community at large.

I have made leaps and bounds from where I was at years ago, but it just isn't quite where I expected to be. I was hoping that you all could throw in some ideas for maximizing my current potential, such as rituals, mantras, circles, incense, a time and place to maximize my spiritual power, etc.

If you're not getting what I'm getting at, I'm saying I need something, no matter the time consumption, to allow me to see FULLY where I'm at.

Also, I generally test my power by concentrating energy between my hands. So any rituals or circles or mantras which you feel do wonders for spiritual "conductivity" or however you would go about saying it.

Vagrant,

Thank you for posting this, it is most helpful. I keep coming back, however, to look over this, hoping to better judge my progress. On some of your criteria I know I need to work on but others seem adequate. I am only guessing though as I simply have no other point to compare to, save how often a working of some kind produces a result and the quality of that result. I am not sure what the metric is for development in your system, or how to go about aligning the different parts so would you mind commenting on my answers?

One thing to look at energetically is your health. What are your negative habits, what kind of positive changes have you made - have you had the instinct to make positive health changes, and have you followed them?

I am plagued with asthma and sicknesses that lay others up for a day or two but will keep me under for a week. That being said my asthma seldom interferes with my life, or even running, and I only get sick one or twice a year.

How long can you remain motionless? Internally more so than externally, but both.

Physically, I can remain motionless or nearly so for about an hour and if I allow for a change in posture another thirty minutes. Mentally, well that is harder both to do and to tabulate because the time varies with the object of contemplation. With a totally blank mind I can last only 10min. If I am letting my mind settle on a topic, such as a deity vitalization, then 15 min is about my max. Settling on my own body gains me about 45 min. and a energetic meditation might last about an hour if I am lucky.

How long can you maintain a single pointed attention without wandering?

My stranded test for this is a watch, but I can only maintain concentration for a few seconds, I think my record is 30. When doing meditation on a energy center or when doing spells, about 20 and somewhat less than 15 respectfully.

Do you have fluctuating moods? Are you at the behest of emotions, or are you able to engage the ones you choose to?

My moods are very steady, but I cannot conjure them up without the most drawn out effort.

How often does your faith waiver? I don't mean religion - I mean your connection to a spiritual world of some sort. This is a measure of the health of your spirit.

Rarely, a month or two during a very stressful point in the last three years.

To what degree are you able to receive inspiration at will? This is one way to estimate the alignment of the spirit and the mind.

Sometimes in a great fit I will hit on inspiration, and sometimes even find it when I seek it, but both are rare and hard.

How are your reflexes, your ability to copy physical movements that you observe? If you want your body to do something, can you do it? This is a good measure of the mind-body connection.

Quick and nimble, I learn fast as well.

Create a ritual fetische by hand, make it complicated, and require that you work very fine details. Give yourself a specific restricted time frame to finish it to perfection. Phylacterys can be made, there are a million ways to do them, as an energy worker you may like this approach. It must be an object of beauty representative of your spirit - as you see it, or as you discover it in the process - wherein some of your blood is kept.

This is something I have not heard of before, would you mind speaking about it a little more? How does it improve its maker and what is its particular function.

This post has been edited by fatherjhon: Dec 19 2011, 02:50 PM