How do you handle your daily life?

[Ståle]

Rather a simple question, that I hope we can get some discussion and more openness about.
A great deal of us, are Psi Vampires, but our practices in how we actually cope with this (in lack of a better word) with this is rarely discussed.

How do you conserve your energy?
How often do you take energy?
Are you able to use other sources than direct "feeding"?
Meditation, I know for myself how important this is, but there are lots of different techniques?

-Ståle

[Sybilla]

For me, the biggest cause of energy drain is worry, fear, and stress. Also fighting against the natural flow of life, the negative things that happen, drains a person. Maybe it's why Buddhists teach to just observe all emotions and events in life..don't attach yourself to them. Because when you do, that's when the problems start. And that's when I feel the most drained is when I fight against everything that happens. I've found meditation and yoga are good ways to relieve the stresses that drain my energy. And that's helped me to conserve energy. I don't find myself consciously taking energy anymore, like I used to. It's more subconscious now from the environment like normal people take in energy daily.

[ShadowMind]

These are very good questions Ståle and practical to boot. We do often get caught up in theoretical or political topics, but less so those everyday applicable ones. The answers you are going to get, I suspect, will be all over the map.

I conserve energy through a couple of means. First, I do a lot of qigong. This helps in a couple of ways. First, it centres and calms me. It slows my breath and makes me aware of it and on this breath flows a great deal of energy. It also helps condense and rarefy the energy I have and am taking in. By enriching the energy thus, I need a lot less of it. It is like taking a super vitamin. Second, I try and maintain a clam demeanour so that I get emotionally rattled a lot less. Mental stress takes a lot out of you.

I will answer your second and third questions together. I take in energy everyday. My qigong and martial practice is really all about energy, breathing, intent, and awareness. Thus, it cannot be practiced without the manipulation and exercise of energy. Because of this, I do not directly feed. There is little need for that. I will, however, take the time to experience another person’s essence from time to time as Exchange is an essential part of what makes me, well, me. This is a mutual experience of one Being with another.

Meditation; well, I do a form of standing meditation fairly regularly in conjunction with my qigong (which is essentially moving meditation). You are correct in your assessment of there being a bazillion different ways to meditate. Juts doing a search on Google will keep you busy forever. I do believe this to be important on many, many levels not least of which is becoming aware of Self.

ShadowMind

[Allin]

As is always my habit, when I do speak up on such subjects, I mean no offense to anyone else's personal ideals or beliefs. None is intended or implied.

A wonderfully worded open-ended question with the potential for a variety of perspectives. I gave myself some time to ruminate on my own thoughts on this before answering for many reasons, some construct and others abstract. No matter though. One of the more fanciful perspectives that brought me back to where I had been a very long time ago in my own thoughtfulness regarding daily life ironically encompasses this very subject though not in quite the same manner.

In time I’ve personally come to break with much of the accepted dogma that surrounds a lot of the talk regarding energy sufficiency as a conservation effort, instead finding myself growing as a re-return into previously recognized realms of thoughtful existence.

The statement that has come across in latter days that, “Everyone is an energy vampire…” can be both descriptive and depicting of the understanding that everyone uses energy as a means of existence. Everyone absorbs, processes and filters energy and due to the same, exists.

Its my own belief that people inherently exhibit their own particular energy levels associated with their own level of vibration. Some vibrate at much greater rates using more energy and burning greater amounts of energy. Some shift their rates of vibration with the awareness of an altered creation of their own momentary existence, and others for a lacking of real reasons, vibrate at such a greater rate than others that they need to replenish their energy at much greater levels than others. In terms of how I myself conserve my own energy and take energy; I use what I use and manage my own energy centered-ness through your latter phrased question, meditation.

To me, the “direct feeding” method is descriptive of the core essence of all of existence itself, for regardless of how one infuses their energy, through material consumption, through the flow of an energetically expressed state of being, or though other means, in the end it all is the same and it all is expressed by all life forms and all things.

To me, there is nobody an nothing left out of this in any way. Some need lesser amounts of energy, some need more, some shift their needs in many ways hence the fanciful “feeding” methods that are so the subject throughout this community. The family is all the same though, and no there is nobody left out of it at all. If one keeps to the proposition that a vampire is so due to their energy needs, then I myself have to accept the proposition that everyone is a vampire and in fact everything, secondary conditions and attributes allowed at the extreme ends of all scales allowing that is. This is a daily and a momentary basis for all of existence from rock to tree, from dog and cat to human and bird. In terms of the ways that I myself manage this thing we all call life in an energy sense, the best way to put it is an inner-sensed self-awareness of who I am, where I am putting myself and how I am expending my own resources over a daily basis. Thus far, one of the best descriptors set to word that I’ve ever read that yes, hits the mark was from an older community member with quite a number of texts to his credit he himself admitted that hi perspectives grew over time about all of this. He stated and I paraphrase that “the nature of those who tend to fall into the category of those “vampiric”, tend to vibrate at much greater frequencies and thus have the need to replenish their energy levels at much greater rates. In a metaphysical sense and in a surreal sense to everything I have meditated on, this makes the most sense. Undoubtedly, there will always remain others set against such propositions not that it matters to my own construct, for it doesn't in any way. The end product is the same whether someone colors their roses red, or should they color them white.

Now, meditation is the first and best tool for regulating myself, for managing my own states of being and for varying my own energy needs. The practice has been a core living skill from both training and habit for a long time and the product of which has opened up unbelievable boundaries over many horizons. If one doesn’t practice this existence skill at all I highly recommend some effort.

Interesting subject!

Peace>

Allin>

[M4ng4man]

Im not a psy-vampire or occultist. But I just handle life as it's dealt to me, I occupy my time with things I enjoy. Occasionally, I look for people to help out, if they have problems emotionally and physically, as I feel it's what keeps me going: To help someone that needs or wants it, to not ask for anything in return. I like to help people out, rather than help myself with my own arduous problems, so I block them and keep them sealed, so I don't ever get troubled by how I feel, which in the end, I just smile a lot and remain positive, sometimes passive and a feeling of serenity.
I almost feel as if by helping other people, I get comfort and emotional healing for myself. I'd like to think I'm special, but I know I'm not, and probably because I seal my feelings away. I just enjoy life as I face it every day when I wake out of sleep. Maybe I help others to make up for myself. I rather don't want anyone, and often or not, don't have anyone to listen to my problems. But it just doesn't seem to bother me as much as it should.
I also practice Taekwondo, which involves integrity and self-control for tenets, which keeps me calm after a training session, so that helps too.
So how I deal with life? My way. Through maybe (unknowingly to myself) putting up mental barriers to keep most of my feelings locked away, so it doesn't harm me and possibly regenerating those barriers with my acts of being helpful and kind? Just a thought, so I'm prepared for if I'm wrong

[Antarctica]

Rather a simple question, that I hope we can get some discussion and more openness about.
A great deal of us, are Psi Vampires, but our practices in how we actually cope with this (in lack of a better word) with this is rarely discussed.

How do you conserve your energy?
How often do you take energy?
Are you able to use other sources than direct "feeding"?
Meditation, I know for myself how important th is, but there are lots of different techniques?

-Ståle

Short simple answers. I don't conserve energy, the energy conserves me. My nature defines and detemines the taking. A misnomer on feeding. A still moment in time is my meditation. Great topic wish we had a closed forum in our community to expand.