[Help] What are some beginner tools and practices that you still use today?

[vmcry]

I am very much a beginner in spiritual practices. I have been interested in learning yoga and playing Celtic/classical guitar, and even small goals like sending telepathic or energetic feelings of love towards my dad or sister. I was wondering if there are any practices advanced practitioners or non-beginners still use in their practices currently?

 

[saber]

Something along those lines that I practice frequently is simple energy manipulation. It can be as basic as circulating energy in your body to drawing in energy from an outside source. I try to do a little bit of this every day because having the practice really does help in more complex rituals when you need to be receiving or sending out a specific energy.

Seriously, I do this almost every day and it helps a lot!!!

Another thing that’s falls into the category of “things I learned when I was just starting out that I still use frequently” is banishing/cleansing magick. It’s an important part of preparing the space you work in before a ritual, and it also serves as a defensive technique against any kind of magickal trouble. I personally use the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram for this, but there are many ways to do it.

 

[gerardobraham]

Meditation is basic. If I had to mention one practice which made the difference is that one.

 

[AbammonTheGreat]

Tarot can get very adept and advanced, but its one of the first things the 19th century descendant schools teach and I still use it frequently. Im very grateful for learning that practice when I first started. Sometimes I dont need to conjure the spirits, identify with a godform, or do some huge ritual/advanced meditation. The tarot pulls through just as well.

 

[SkullTraill]

Simple rituals like LBRP + prayer + simple sigil magick form the cornerstone of my practice. As others mentioned, I think meditation and basic divination are also really useful essentials. Great thread.

 

[Eyesofhell9]

Qlippothic breathing exercises

 

[Diamond-otherkin]

Simple rituals like LBRP + prayer + simple sigil magick form the cornerstone of my practice. As others mentioned, I think meditation and basic divination are also really useful essentials. Great thread.

Same although, coming from a very atheistic and materialist-reductionist background (at least openly), I struggle to understand what people mean by prayer and like how they do it actually, I tend to just talk and ask for the kind of help that I could give myself if I had God powers while inhabiting my own body (if that makes sense).
For me super simple banishing ritual is a big one, I it often although not daily while I should (naughty neophyte!), meditation as well, more rare but super useful and should be trained. Breath-work I don't know if it is or isn't magic to you but it's part of it, could be considered 'energy work' depending on how you view things.

• banishing
• breath-work/energy work
• meditation
• divination

 

[Firetree]

There are many ; sometimes I might still throw an I Ching or Tarot or do an LBR if it feels like I need to do it * . Some things I still use all the time , some, I still use 'but in a different way ' .

I still have a some fav things and objects from the early days , but also a lot I no longer have .

* they can also be examples of early practices I dont do any more (most of the time ) eg Tarot ... now if I want to know what is going to happen I just collate observations and extend them to conclusions ( some think I have 'esp' when I do this ....well, maybe , in that I am using my senses to their 'extra' - more than usual - perceptions ) .... another is LBR ; for some after long term continual practice , you, sort of, hold it ever present .... in a way .

 

[Morell]

Meditation, banishing ritual...

Damn, I use everything I used as beginner, just on more advanced level, I guess.

 

[unholyReverie]

Same although, coming from a very atheistic and materialist-reductionist background (at least openly), I struggle to understand what people mean by prayer and like how they do it actually, I tend to just talk and ask for the kind of help that I could give myself if I had God powers while inhabiting my own body (if that makes sense).
For me super simple banishing ritual is a big one, I it often although not daily while I should (naughty neophyte!), meditation as well, more rare but super useful and should be trained. Breath-work I don't know if it is or isn't magic to you but it's part of it, could be considered 'energy work' depending on how you view things.

• banishing
• breath-work/energy work
• meditation
• divination

I would say prayer has at least three aspects to it. The verbal is probably the least important aspect, as intentions can be communicated without words, though words help us. Words help clarify intent, and also set up right emotion (if you do not find them spontaneous). Depending who or what you are praying to, some mixture of awe, respect, honor, gratitude, affection, hope, etc would be in order. The emotion carries part of the intent, shows the entity the due respect, and also helps with what I think of the final aspect: tuning in. In some energetic or psychic way, once you are used to making contact with a being, you "tune" into the "signal", like tuning a radio.

All together it is a matter of giving and receiving attention.

 

[Feywer]

One practice that I find extremely useful is a sort of energetic, cyclic breathing visualization. I imagine a scintillating sphere of white light above my head or crown (Kether), and with a deliberate and slow inhalation pull it down through my head, through the throat, into the lungs, down my arms and hands; and torso, legs to the feet - and with a deliberate, slow exhale, make the white light I just drew in, 'scoop out' that black gunk and psychic debris inside my "shell", which follow the same route out of the body to be expelled. I do this multiple times until I feel better. It's very basic, but extremely effective. I have been doing that for decades at this point.