Creating Energy  Balls will teach you how to focus your power in one point. When you are first starting out and learning magick but don't have any ritual tools, this is a good way to learn who to draw energy and how to use it and focus it in one place. You can also use them, when you are happy what you have created, to empower books, herbs, candles, tools, yourself.... even set them as mini-guardians around you when you are working. If you are interested in healing, then this will help you to develop the basics.

How can you do all this with a simple energy ball?

You decide the purpose by your intent when making one.

 So how do you make an energy ball?

 You sit and hold your hands a few centimeters apart and feel the tingling between them. This is your aura touching and flowing between. Now you concentrate and push more power into the space between your hands, forming a ball. Slowly move your hands apart until you feel the mass of energy is the right size for what you intend. Often, your hands will automatically move apart and cup around it. You can move your hands around it feeling the warmth of it.

Now put your intention into it. This can be love and peace for the world, it can be a pentagram to use the energy for magickal work... anything.

Release that energy, seeing in your mind where you want it to go. Open your hands so they face upwards and let it go.

Afterwards, brush your hands against your self or on the ground to clear the residue back into your aura or into the earth.

When I do it for love and peace for the world, I feel slightly drained to start with and then I get this gentle filling of peace and love back.

And don't worry.... you wont completely drain yourself doing this: it is a simple technique but a good one for learning to harness energy and focus it until you move on and start using ritual tools. Also, it is a technique that will allow you to harness and use cosmic energy or your own energy, in situations where you don't have your tools nor the time for a formal ritual.  It is also a good way for you to ground excess energy you may have or to send it out to the world to revitalize what has been depleted.

It requires practice but over time you will find it easier to do. You can even practice passing such energy balls between two or more people and seeing how they feel…

Enjoy this technique, for even though simple, it has a multitude of practical applications that you can use in every day and ritualistic magick.