When you’re raising energy in a group, most people just do something together. They all drum. Or they all “Om.” Or they meditate together.
But different people are…different. Their experience, temperment, and ability to respond and move with energy are different. They have different comfort levels, and different experiences of pleasure.
Try this:
In a group, first do something together to get a feel for that. Om or breath together or something.
Then everyone do something different. One person drum, one person Om, one person breath, one person clap hands or shake a rattle, and so on.
It’s powerful to discover that you’re all still together. There’s a beauty to it. I don’t see a lot of Pagans exploring that beauty of being different together. Try it.
Well, it sounds like something we’ll have to explore next time I can “herd all of our cats”…
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We’ve tried that and as nice as it was for a while, we still had trouble getting folks to be aware of the overall energy and responding to that.
One of my folks has a tendancy to close everyone else out
If someone is shutting out other’s energies, there are things you can do. Working with everyone together doesn’t necessarily help. Let the energy-blind person do his/her own thing (drum, clap hands, Om) and have everyone weave their stuff around it. When the energy works well despite the deficit, it may start to break in.