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Has anyone tried wearing a magnetic or ionized bracelet?

A friend let me try on one and I had a sense of energy tingling gradually spreading from the bracelet area.  I do not know where he bought it or how exactly it was "charged".  He said it was expensive. I've seen cheap magnetic bracelets at GNC, but did not get any energy sensations when I tried one on.

Any advice or further information would be appreciated.

Has anyone noticed an increased sensitivity to electromagnetic radiation as a result of energy work?

I find that electronic watches give me an unpleasant tingling sensation, my computer mouse is worse -causing aching in my palm, and I now need to turn the computer screen so that it does not face me.

If you have experienced something similar, do you know why and does that sensitivity diminish or increase with further practice?  Is there a way of turning it to advantage, such as the way Mr. Bruce describes converting negative energies to positive in Psychic Self-Defence?

I would really appreciate any further information.

Shedt raised this issue in a discussion we were having in the OBE forum, but it seemed that we might get a more thorough answer here:

What are the different ways that one can "use" the extra energy gained from the NEW techniques?  I am sure that any adequate answers must take into account the level of development.  So please help us on this and tell us:

How to define various levels of energy development? What are the signs of each stage and perhaps how long / what practice schedule it took for you to get there.

After identifying the stage, please let us know what are some of the things that can be done with that particular energy level.

Or, perhaps since there are different types of energy present in the chakras and people chakras tend to develop at different paces, it might be helpful to address the question from the perspective of a given level of develpment of a particular chakra rather than of energy in general.

I have been raising energy faithfully for about a month, but sporadically during the previous month and a half.  Probably 1/2 to 1 hour per day.  I have clear energy sensations, etc., and these sensations as well as my body awareness are much stronger/clearer than was the case with my previous (limited) work with taichi and chi gung.

Nevertheless, I have not been able to achieve an OBE and the symptoms of the failure have been consistent.  I enter a light-to-mid-level trance, then after a mild sense of my consciousness sinking, begin the rope technique.  I then get a sense somewhat difficult to describe, but it is like being swept suddenly by a torrent.  That usually jolts my consciousness up and halts the process.  At other times I have had a sense of getting caught somehow in my throat area, a certain feeling that my breathing is suddenly constricted, but associated with my movement.  It is as if I were moving out of body and got held up at the throat center, with the movement somehow squeezing off my ease of breathing.  Once or twice this was accompanied or slightly preceded by rapid heartbeat.

I read the about problem Robert mentioned in AD regarding some people having a pre-existing tendency to stop breathing during sleep that only becomes noticed during OBE attempts due to the maintaining of consciousness into the bodily-sleep state, and so tried to notice my breathing prior to this experience and it seemed normal, unconstricted and regular.

This is starting to frustrate me.  I have read almost all of Astral Dynamics, have had a good sense of the increased energy resulting from the NEW technique, seemed to have gained some health benefits therefrom, but achieving OBE was for me the first key milestone.  Any advice?

Hi,
Does anyone know when Robert Bruce's books *New Energy Ways* and *When the Aummm Becomes You* are due out?  Dates given in the website are all past.
Regards,
Aeneas

Well, brainstorming, it would seem that the following require energy and, therefore, might be enhanced by the application of energy gained through the NEW techniques:

Brain functions in general, memory in particular.
Knowledge of remote events
Telepathy
Psychokenesis
Infusing speech with power (to convince or to work magic)
Purification of soul
Discerning the divine intentions within events, creatures
Lessening the hours of sleep required
Enhancing sensitivity to be able to perceive positive and negative influences, the properties of stones, astrological influences, astral properties of trees and animals

You are, of course, correct that the list of possibilities is virtually endless.  But I think the categorizations I asked for last might still be possible.  And forum participants might relate their own experiences and methods, especially if they relate to the above list or things similar.

Optimal phrasing of the question is a first step in obtaining helpful answers.  Does this help?  My limited experience makes it somewhat difficult to formulate the questions well, but the dialectical questions posed back to me help me work through the issues, too.

That's an excellent question, Shawn.  Since I am new at this, I do not have much to say in answser to it, except that I have used a directed flow of energy into my nose and throat area and it seemed to lessen the severity of a cold I have been trying unsuccessfully to get rid of for a month or so.

Let's address this quesiton to others.  I'll raise it in the energy development forum.  Search for my post there and let's see what others have to say.