Post by Fallen on Aug 17, 2006 15:43:50 GMT -5
Hey everyone. So, I thought I would do a little thing about Tiling. For those of you who don't know what tiling is it is a basic form of protection, and it's real easy to do. In a way it's kind of like casting a circle, only it's much simpler and in Feri the more experienced will use it instead of casting a circle. But you in fact can use it in conjunction with a circle.
Okay, first I'll go through and explain how to Tile, and then I'll go through some of it's benefits.
Close your eyes and clear your mind thoroughly. Use whatever you find easiest to do this. Most people will use meditation, but if you are able to clear your mind by just relaxing for a little bit with your eyes closed that works too. When your mind is clear and you are ready you will picture yourself in your head sitting down. When that picture is nice and clear you can picture a protective barrier growing around you. Now, here is where you have to decide what it is you want to use as protection. Some people imagine rays of lights shooting around them in a circle, others use a wall of water, and I myself imagine rose bushes growing all around me. What I don't recommend is a brick wall, or anything too solid. You want positive energy to get in but a protective barrier around you to keep out the negative things. Hence why I chose rose bushes.....because you can in fact get through them, but they have thorns to ward away anything I don't want near me. When you are completely surrounded by your own barrier then you you can open your eyes again.
If you are working with a group of people this will work too, and only one person has to tile.....they just have to adjust a little and imagine everyone sitting there and not just themselves. It will also work if you want to protect your house from something. Once again just picture your house in the center of your barrier, and it will protect the house and everyone within it....it's just a little harder to do.
Okay, so that was simple enough right? So here are the benefits of Tiling. If you are like me and are sensitive to spirits and ghosts this offers a protection for you to keep them away so they don't bombard you.....it also protects you from the ones that have come to cause mischief. For those who are a little more empathic then the rest of the world, and are effected by other peoples emotions, this will help you block them out so you will only feel your own (this is especially good for empaths in highly emotional situations like funerals and such). For novices, this is a way to protect you from any unwanted energies when doing spellwork, or casting a circle. Think of it as extra protection. And for the experienced, this is a safe way of working with Magick without having to cast a full circle, like we do in Feri. It also helps with the everyday. Someone at work giving you a hard time??? Tile before you go in each day (and if you are a beginner you'll probably have to do it again about lunchtime to keep it strong) to help keep away that persons negative energy toward you. When I first started Tiling I would do so everyday no matter what, just to become good at it so I could then put up a strong barrier and keep it up later if I needed to.
Anyway there's my little lesson on Tiling. I hope you like it and find it useful (please let me know if you've tried it and how it worked for you). If you have any questions about this please ask me and I'll try to answer them for you. Thanks guys and Blessed Be.
~Fallen~
Okay, first I'll go through and explain how to Tile, and then I'll go through some of it's benefits.
Close your eyes and clear your mind thoroughly. Use whatever you find easiest to do this. Most people will use meditation, but if you are able to clear your mind by just relaxing for a little bit with your eyes closed that works too. When your mind is clear and you are ready you will picture yourself in your head sitting down. When that picture is nice and clear you can picture a protective barrier growing around you. Now, here is where you have to decide what it is you want to use as protection. Some people imagine rays of lights shooting around them in a circle, others use a wall of water, and I myself imagine rose bushes growing all around me. What I don't recommend is a brick wall, or anything too solid. You want positive energy to get in but a protective barrier around you to keep out the negative things. Hence why I chose rose bushes.....because you can in fact get through them, but they have thorns to ward away anything I don't want near me. When you are completely surrounded by your own barrier then you you can open your eyes again.
If you are working with a group of people this will work too, and only one person has to tile.....they just have to adjust a little and imagine everyone sitting there and not just themselves. It will also work if you want to protect your house from something. Once again just picture your house in the center of your barrier, and it will protect the house and everyone within it....it's just a little harder to do.
Okay, so that was simple enough right? So here are the benefits of Tiling. If you are like me and are sensitive to spirits and ghosts this offers a protection for you to keep them away so they don't bombard you.....it also protects you from the ones that have come to cause mischief. For those who are a little more empathic then the rest of the world, and are effected by other peoples emotions, this will help you block them out so you will only feel your own (this is especially good for empaths in highly emotional situations like funerals and such). For novices, this is a way to protect you from any unwanted energies when doing spellwork, or casting a circle. Think of it as extra protection. And for the experienced, this is a safe way of working with Magick without having to cast a full circle, like we do in Feri. It also helps with the everyday. Someone at work giving you a hard time??? Tile before you go in each day (and if you are a beginner you'll probably have to do it again about lunchtime to keep it strong) to help keep away that persons negative energy toward you. When I first started Tiling I would do so everyday no matter what, just to become good at it so I could then put up a strong barrier and keep it up later if I needed to.
Anyway there's my little lesson on Tiling. I hope you like it and find it useful (please let me know if you've tried it and how it worked for you). If you have any questions about this please ask me and I'll try to answer them for you. Thanks guys and Blessed Be.
~Fallen~