Wands, I have not heard of the "barrowing" energy from the elements tactic.
What you described about draining yourself of energy is definatly how i have been feeling lately. I feel that I am on "protection duty" while at work (there is an entity there) so I am conscious and unconsciously lending my energy to the protective process. I will do some reading about barrowing.....
Thank You!
I will also do an "update" on the protections i have already out in place.
Looking forward to that update - should be interesting Aces.
And I didn't mean to introduce any confusion(s) via any spelling errors. I meant to imply you might consider "borrowing" (certainly not "burrowing" either) some energy from others.
What I mean here is that when I first learned about shielding a long, long time ago, I wasn't given any strong instructions for where the energy that goes into the shield originates from. So I made the assumption based upon my very limited experience with energy that I should be exporting my own energies to the shield. And rarely - but sometimes - I still do rely upon only my own energies. I envision my own energies moving down my spine from my head and up my spine from my feet to meet in my thorax; then, I send it down my arms and out through my hands and fingers. I repeat that process several times over a minute or so until I envision that I'm completely enclosed in a globe or egg-shaped shield AND that the shield is several inches think.
Once I learned through repeated instances that I was feeling weaker with my shields up, I elected to try to use others' energies to help build the shield from the outside. So now I instead close my eyes and make a psychic plea to a god or goddess or a prolific element nearby to lend me it's energies too so that I might be protected. Then I envision the source's energy moving towards me from the outside intermingling with a smaller amount of my own energy coming off of my fingertips to create the stronger globe/egg.
Like I said in the earlier post, I solicit energy from whatever natural wonder is most in abundance near me - which is most often the earth/ground, trees/plants, or water. I do recall once being on a plane and wanting to shield; since no other natural wonder I was used to using was within close proximity, I asked the air to lend it's energies. I suspect there is a LOT of energy up there.
The other things I always do when I feel I'm no longer in need of the shielding I've constructed:
1. I envision whatever remaining energies might still be in place dissipating to return back to it's source god, goddess, or element.
2. I stop to thank that same source for temporary use of it's energies. (I've only infrequently apologized for any co-mingling of my own energies that might return to that source. I do that when I know I've been especially aggressive with how I handled the source's stuff!)
3. Also, Debi has recently reminded me too that a cleansing or a brushing off of any residual energies is important for full closure.
