The Salty Basics
There's too much tension in a friend's home, the kind of tension that could break her family apart. So she reaches for the salt and discovers that she can't concentrate on it enough to even direct energy into it. She feels frustrated and helpless, so she calls me. After all, I told her about the salt trick. What else should she try to keep her life together?
It's important to understand that we don't live in a world of well-defined theory and perfect order. I don't expect to be able to recreate her conditions well enough to experiment with various techniques for resolving her situation, and I wouldn't do that kind of experimentation even if I could. But here stands a hurting person, as many we know are, and I wonder how to help her.
Usually it's a fine technique. How much of it is the placebo effect? How much of it is some intrinsic property of salt? Do these two explanations taken together account for all the effectiveness of grounding with salt, or is there more to the story? We inherit the idea of salary from distributions of salt, and now we're using it to separate our magickal lives from our working lives. Ironic, isn't it?
Ironic but effective, at least for me and my friends. It used to work for her, too. But now she feels so distant from her own power. What's next for her? What can I do? At this point, I'm not sure. I'm a Reiki Master and a loyal friend, but she says a better job would be the best solution. Good luck with that. I don't see how it would solve anything. She doesn't realize how rich she is.
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Re: The Salty Basics
Hello Drench,
This being my first post to Prismatic Vortex :)
I would like to echo Andrieh`s thoughts on the matter. I would then like to add that I took special notice of "So she reaches for the salt and discovers that she can't concentrate on it enough to even direct energy into it."
It has been my experience that that kind of mental resistance to taking a physical action toward something, seems to be a result of subconscious resistance. Seems that your friend is consciously wanting to take action in her situation, but must first do some work internally to overcome what is blocking her outward action. My personal technique would involve banishing, meditating on the situation, then reattempting my outward action to overcome that mental resistance.
You as a Magician, could potentially help her situation; But, without proactive actions on her part to work on the situation, it would be short lived and frustrating.
"I'm a Reiki Master and a loyal friend, but she says a better job would be the best solution. Good luck with that. I don't see how it would solve anything. She doesn't realize how rich she is."
Dare I assume that the family tension is caused by finances? If so, the answers may lie in personal work on her part to evaluate lifestyle choices. Which once again points back to how willing she will be to do the personal work that is necessary.
I do hope this helps, though I understand that they are not easy answers.
Well I almost
Think I almost should be a question I answer in depth on my blog page :). Ok, we definately need to work on the technical aspects of the site :) Maybe I should have a bunch of peoeple press me into slavery for a weekend in exchange for them being around physically ( I probably need to make it so pages dont automatically go to the front page, and that you show up in the list of MOGS :)
Force her to laugh out loud in front of you for 5 minutes ( or on the phone ). As you know this is a banishing, but extended laughter does release endorphins which raise mood. The salt is somewhat of a stop-gap measure. When I get clients who are in crossed conditions, I will tell them to laugh out loud for 15 minutes at least a day as a type of laughter yoga, which acts carthetically. I am pretty sure I must of put that into the book to0 :).
But if they take no steps to better the situation, well its a hard lesson, but there is little any of us can do. That is their choice and thus they work against any help ( which by the way is almost the classical definition of a crossed condition)
I do not think that salt by itself does much, likewise I do not think in my experience that is merely placebo effects, but then maybe its my belief in THINGS which empowers the salt or maybe it is the salt that has some intrinsic properties that when connected to with Consciousness works synergenerically. You decide :) I certainly don't have the answers there on this one. Although creating a strong placebo effect through conditioning does seem to improve the results, the results are often more improved then ( for me) if I just use a piece of paper instead of salt. Of course, this starts to go into those big philosophical questions :)
Laughter my friend. Try to bust her out of the self-pity circuit not by talking, but getting her to laugh ( if she will).