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By Starhawk
Grounding: before ritual, during action, as a daily practice so you can do it instantly. Together with breathing from the belly, it's a prime "Don't Panic!" technique. Moving while grounding. Wide attention, eye contact -- staying present.
Casting a circle: Both for making sacred space, and for protection, with variations for invisiblity, changing the energy in a rotten place (like jail).
Calling the elements: Basic familiarity with correspondences of air, fire, water and earth, calling them in in tense and difficult situations, drawing vitality and energy (even through concrete), working with the elemental powers.
Invoking the sacred/deity: Finding your personal allies and the allies for the work of the action, getting to know them, invoking under stress.
Visualization: Clarifying a ritual/action intention Developing an image/anchor to hold that intention Visualization practice__being handcuffed
Energy work: Basic energy sensing Identifying how we already do sense energy Shifting group energy: songs, chants, story telling Building a cone of power/grounding Hands on healing
"Changing consciousness at will": Anchoring to a core state of being Inflated/deflated self practice Speaking/acting from core
Closure and cleansing: Returning from intense states Cleansing techniques: brushdown, salt water Caring for the body/ food and drink Devoking. letting intensity go