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Our personal power is the spirit that gives us the ability to live. Without personal power, we would die, however, our personal power is much more than that. This inner magic is one of the greatest sources that we have for the energy we use in spells and rituals. We need to be aware of it, to learn to control it and to learn to increase it.

Energy is lost and gained on a personal level every day. This happens all the time without anyone thinking about it. You gain energy from the food that you consume, and then you expend it by doing your job, or yelling at a traffic jam. You gain energy from the light of the sun and then expend it cleaning house or playing with your dog. For most people this simple exchange of energy simply goes on and never goes any further. It is important that you become aware of power expended and gained.

A magician has control over their personal energy does not expend it needlessly. This is one of the first key lessons that must be learned. Every bit of energy you expend is energy that has to be made up. If you expend energy needlessly, you will never be able to increase the amount of energy that you have. Worry and stress are prime causes of expending unnecessary energy. Rather than spending time on those emotions, it is better to address the causes of worry and stress and move on. This is a difficult lesson to learn, but also a very useful one.
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Understand that power is a physical thing. This is not a metaphor. Power is a real thing that exists. A fun and simple way of playing with power is to rub the palms of your hands together lightly. Start slowly, feeling the warmth of your skin and then increase the speed of your rubbing hands, feeling them grow warmer. Continue this for 20-30 seconds and then stop, holding your palms about two inches away from each other. The tingling warmth you feel between your palms is the energy you raised in this simple exercise. It is real and physical. When you perform a spell, you are raising this same energy in yourself.

As you learn to control your personal energy expenditure, you should work on your mental control of your energy. Meditation and visualization are important skills for those who are trying to control their personal energy. As you meditate, work on learning to feel energy the same way you did in the palm rubbing exercise without doing anything physical. Learn how to direct it with your mind through your body. You control the shape and the form of energy, and so as you visualize, change the way the energy appears to you. You will find that in doing so, you change the energy itself and what it resonates with.

Playing with energy has a very real impact on your spells. Rather than mouthing words and calling on other sources for power, you are raising the power within yourself.

Mana is taken from the food and air by the inner self and is stored in the energy body. This is the force we know vaguely in modern psychology as “the will.” It is seldom used in its full strength, and so the inner self gets out of hand or flits from one activity to another, without carrying out any suggestion or command fully.

We know that taking a slow, deep breath will give us an extra amount of energy. We can use certain techniques combined with specific mental images to accumulate a surcharge– an extra large and powerful charge– of vital force any time we need it. This assumes that we are in reasonably good health and are not weakened by physical or emotional trauma. We can use these surcharges of Mana in several very valuable ways, particularly in healing ourselves and others, and in making a Prayer-Action that will have real power.

By combining the Mana from food and air with additional Mana from unlimited cosmic sources, we can always have the power we need to accomplish whatever we truly and justly desire.

Exercise or any form of physical exertion always starts the inner self manufacturing more Mana, otherwise we would use up what we have in a few minutes and would begin to feel faint. Athletes know that they can go only so far on their first wind, which is the charge of Mana they happen to have in their body and energy-body at the start. Then in a short time they get a fresh supply of energy (the second wind) and can then keep going steadily and at top speed. It is important to use the surcharge, over and above the basic physical energy required to maintain health and daily activity, in working toward a specific goal, such as healing or solving a social problem.

Instead of exercising, we can assume the mental attitude of getting set to run a race. We hold the picture in mind of getting ready to run, we breathe more rapidly and tense up the muscles a little. The inner self will begin to create the desired vital force.

The point that is most important when considering Mana or vital force is that when you have learned to accumulate a surcharge, it is possible to use it, with the help of the High Self, to perform “miracles,” which range all the way from slow and simple healing to miraculous changes in bodily tissue and even the fabric of the future.
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