Stone Spheres as Healing and Self Actualization Aids

Preliminaries

Introduction - From 'Clarity-Sphere' to Sphere, Pure and Simple

That was the 'Clarity-Sphere', which was, more 
 importantly, a perfectly good stone sphere!

If I have tended to fall into imbalance in various pages on this website, it has tended to be my including more contextual 'story' than has been really helpful to get across the important points. This has become increasingly apparent to me as over time I've found people taking some such distracting snippets out of context and quoting them in various attempts to discredit me and my work. Inevitably my pages detailing personal experiences are one thing and have a particular value in their own right, but pages like this one are intended to keep things simple and straightforward.

For this reason, on this page I am not going to go into the saga revolving around my extremely well intentioned but abruptly terminated Clarity-Sphere project, in which I was following a lead that turned out to be false, in which it had appeared that I had succeeded in putting programming into a stone sphere to very powerfully and comprehensively aid healing and self realization. My reason for not going into that here is simply because the details of that saga would be a particular distraction from the actual content of this page.

The big revelation remaining after the collapse of that project was that spheres of suitable stone type could operate as powerful aids in healing, clearance and self realization work, and indeed positive life change generally, even without any programming at all - provided that they are actively used in certain specific very simple and basic procedures. It's no good putting one on your mantelpiece or bedside cabinet and expecting it to do anything for you - as far as I yet understand, it simply wouldn't*.

* That is, apart from its possibly working as a Feng Shui enhancement to neutralize some environmental stress. That, indeed, could in itself be a life-saver if carefully and awarely used. You would need to use energy testing to establish whether any such use would be beneficial for you, and to establish choice of sphere and exact positions(s) in which the sphere(s) would be beneficial. It's no good using the fairly widely recognised traditional Feng Shui system to guide you, because that is seriously flawed in not recognising the uniqueness of each person's particular sensitivities and vulnerabilities. Energy testing, in contrast, actually indicates what is most helpful or unhelpful specifically for you and your own unique personal surroundings.

I have little doubt that those findings of mine, and indeed the information that I give on this page, will become a target for scorn and derision from those who claim to have produced highly superior healing devices through actually, in some manner, having succeeded in putting real and effective programming into polished stone ovoids or spheres (something that could actually never be verified anyway). In some cases the claims made for such devices may be at least to some extent correct, but that would in no way negate the importance and value of what I am presenting on this page. It would be only the financial interests of individuals who want to unscrupulously maximize sales of their own allegedly 'superior' products, that would motivate them to 'rubbish' the basic, natural and completely free methods that you can use with unprogrammed spheres as detailed on this page.

Without further ado, then, I bring you to the real point of this page, where I show you how you can use polished stone spheres of suitable type as highly effective healing aids / facilitators, without any special programming being involved at all.

Selecting a suitable stone sphere

Stone type

For best results exactly the same range of stone types is required as was specified for the 'Clarity-Sphere', so if you already have one of those, you already have a very suitable sphere for this purpose, but you can forget about its purported programming, because apparently that was nonexistent all along. 

The stone needs to be microcrystalline, cryptocrystalline or glassy in its inner texture, so that there is no large-scale alignment of crystal structure. In the case of glassy stones, natural glasses such as obsidian work pretty well, but synthetic glass, although doing the task okay, is not so harmonious to one's 'energy system' and so is best not used except where that is the only option available. Particularly recommended stone types include marble, aventurine, jade, and yellow jasper (but not the much more common red jasper), though a number of other stone types also work pretty well, such as serpentine (the less reticulations the better) and obsidian (preferably without significant inclusions, so excluding snowflake obsidian). My current favourite is white or whitish marble. Spheres of the latter can be surprisingly inexpensive from some sources.

Stone types that are unsuitable include any that are basically a machined lump of crystal, so all quartz varieties, including amethyst and citrine, and anything else that has a 'macro' crystalline structure, are to be avoided. Also unsuitable are any that are grossly inhomogeneous, and those made up of earth / soil minerals (even though compressed / metamorphosed to produce rock). Thus anything of of a sandstone, gritstone, mudstone, shale or slate nature would be unsuitable.

Additional features affect the suitability of a sphere of basically suitable stone type. If the stone is microcrystalline, such as aventurine, you want little or no obvious banding, because, generally speaking, banding in that type of stone indicates bands of some degree of alignment of the micro-crystals. On the other hand, the banding that you get in marble is much less likely to reflect any significant alignment of crystal structure, so it is not so problematical.

Similarly, variegations of any sort impact upon performance, so it's best to find a sphere that has as little variegation as possible, whether that be banding or some sort of mosaic pattern. And any variegation that is present impacts most on performance if it is sharply defined, while a similar amount of very diffuse variegation impacts least on performance.

Another factor having a quite significant effect on performance is how smooth and even the surface is. Ideally the surface would be well polished and would have few or no 'glitches' or 'pockmarks' - though the odd small ones don't spoil performance very much if they're on a reasonably large sphere. A few of them thus become less of a consideration, the larger the sphere. Similarly, the surface 'cracks' caused by some internal fracture planes where they meet the surface are bound to impact a little on performance - again typically less so for larger spheres, on which such surface 'cracks' are proportionately finer and thus less significant.

Although these particular marble spheres are too large to be convenient for this purpose (155-165mm), they are otherwise excellent. Yes, they do have some banding, but (a) that is not such a problem as with aventurine, because it doesn't represent significant alignment of micro-crystals, and (b) the banding is diffuse and subtle-looking.

Although a trifle on the small side, this 85mm marble sphere is excellent even though not quite 100%. It has some natural fracture planes, which have become marked out in a brown iron compound, but, although perhaps a little unsightly, their impact on performance is actually not very strong. This is just as well, because it can be quite difficult finding a suitable sphere without the odd natural fracture planes. This particular sphere is the one I am now regularly using in preference to the aventurine one illustrated further below.

A brown marble sphere with sharply defined variegations. Because it is marble and has been well machined and polished, it is actually pretty good, but would be still quite a bit more effective if those variegations were very diffuse, or, still better, absent.

Serpentine works pretty well, though not really in the same league as marble, and usually has reticulations. The less reticulations or anomalous areas the better. Note how this sphere has a concentration of reticulations to give a paler area on it. Features like that do reduce performance a bit.

Aventurine usually comes with various inhomogeneities that impact upon its performance, though even a relatively low-grade sphere like this one still works pretty well (better than serpentine), and indeed for a long time this was the sphere that I was using for myself, with the marked beneficial effects that laid the foundations of this whole approach, of using stone spheres as powerful healing / self realization aids. However, aventurine's 'energy' is not as smooth and harmonious as that of marble, because of its strongly microcrystalline character, so, all other things being equal, I recommend marble - especially white marble - in preference to aventurine.

Size and shape

For the very best performance you need a sphere that is as near perfectly machined as is possible. In reality, however, even a really well machined sphere is still not perfectly spherical, but functions very well for our purpose, and I found that quite low-grade spheres still performed pretty well - so you don't have to pay out an arm and a leg in order to get a suitable sphere, and, if you're lucky you might pick up a good quality sphere for a really low price. I've come across very cheap good quality marble spheres from one particular source (MarbleArt4u) - though it's hit and miss whether they would have spheres of the right size and type of marble in stock at any particular time. If you can't access that site (which seems to be having some technical difficulties), you can at least contact Derek Ruffell the proprietor, at Salesflyingelephantsrbselectronics.co.uk, making sure to replace the "flyingelephants" with the 'at' sign. He's very helpful and would try to obtain what you're after if he hasn't got it in stock then.

Spheres that have a 'flat' on them to enable them to sit securely without an additional stand will work, but the 'flat' does reduce performance quite a lot, so it is best to bypass such spheres and use a 100% sphere complete with some sort of separate stand or stabilizer (see below).

Actually an ovoid shape will work almost as well as a sphere (but not quite). This means that if you have no sphere but do have a Guardian Angel or Archangel, you could use that as your 'sphere'. That would in no way interfere with its functioning as a Guardian Angel or Archangel. However, because of its ovoid shape it is liable to topple over when you do certain procedures on it, which can be disruptive in the middle of a procedure. For this simple practical reason it is still best to use an actual sphere that is kept specifically for this purpose.

As for size, this is a matter of what is most practical, for a sphere that is too small in terms of its effectiveness would be too small to be practical to use anyway. I recommend as an optimum size 100 to 120mm (about 4 to 5"), because most people could get their hands nicely onto spheres in that size range, without the particular spheres being really too heavy to move about conveniently. However, anything down to about 75mm can be used at a pinch, if you make sure to have palms and all fingertips in contact with the sphere - but at the bottom end of that range the sphere will most likely not be so effective anyway, so it would be better in practice to regard about 85mm as being a minimum for a reasonably effective sphere.

Stands for the spheres

Whereas the 'Clarity-Sphere' supposedly needed a 'donut' of a suitable stone type as a stand in order to transmit the effects of its programming (and this is indeed the case with the Energy Egg 'family' of devices), non-programmed stone spheres have no such requirement, because, as far as I'm aware, their functionality for our purpose does not involve the sphere having to have remote contact with you.

For this reason any cheap stand or ring of a suitable size will do the job. However, some of those are more harmonious to use than others. On that basis, metal is to be avoided, and plastic is best thought of as just for emergency use when nothing better is available. Small and usually very cheap wooden 'cup' stands are available for spheres (see the photo of the smaller marble sphere above), and you might come across thick rubber rings that are available as sphere stabilizers. While not ideal, if they are of natural rubber they are reasonably harmonious and so could well be used.

The rings of haematite that one can usually buy from crystal shops for stabilizing spheres are usually too small for an ideal-size sphere (i.e. for really good stability). Also, in 'energy' terms, they may not necessary harmonize well with the specific stone type of your sphere(s), so you'd need to use energy testing to establish if they really are the best option as a stand for any specific sphere.

Although stone 'donuts' are not specifically required, ones of a suitable size, with suitably sized central hole / concavity, and of a harmonious stone type, can be very good for the purpose. However, large enough 'donuts' for decent stability are something of a rarity and are liable to be expensive. If you already have an erstwhile 'Clarity-Sphere' you presumably already have a very suitable stone donut to use as the sphere's stabilizer base, and that will do just fine unless you feel that it isn't giving sufficient stability, in which case you may opt for one of the little wooden 'cup' stands, for example. Suitable stone for a 'donut' used like this would typically be jade or aventurine (slight preference for jade). Quartz can be used, but it isn't fully harmonious for this purpose because of its aligned internal molecular / ionic structure. One plus point for such a donut used as stand / stabilizer for a sphere is that, depending on your choice, it may look particularly nice together with the sphere, so just slightly improving the appearance of your living space.

For the record, my own experimentations with the 85mm marble sphere that I'm using for the time being have led to me abandoning the little wooden stand on which it is photographed:

- And instead I'm using one of the specially made (and thus relatively expensive) 80mm jade donuts that I obtained for the Clarity-Sphere project. That is not because of any special 'energy' effects but simply because that large donut gives the best stability for the sphere when I 'pounce' my hands on it when using the Grounding Post procedure on it (see further below).

Using the spheres

General considerations

There is one simple basic principle underlying all uses of non-programmed spheres for healing purposes - at least, as far as I'm aware. In a nutshell, the sphere works in a completely passive way, as a 'resonator' and focus of intent. No magic, no hocus-pocus. Yes, you could build up elaborate rituals involving the sphere in order to focus your intent, but why go doing all that when actually the most simple and basic procedures actually work better (at least, for promoting genuine healing and self realization processes)?

I've come to recognise that the majority of people who are into healing and genuine life improvement are superficially happiest with some sort of mystique and hocus pocus about methods that they use, and so, unfortunately, it looks very likely that only a very small proportion of people would be interested in using spheres in such a straightforward and down-to-earth way. Significantly, the spurious 'Divine Consciousness Reiki' that I was promoting for a time in late 2003 and into 2004, while I was unwittingly being 'pixie-led' by the dark force posing as 'higher' guidance, got quite a number of interested people wanting to gain its supposed benefits. Then considerably less people ever contacted me about the much simpler, safer and actually quite effective Clarity-Sphere, and now so far virtually nobody is contacting me with regard to working with stone spheres, pure and simple. Maybe (I'd like to think), this latter fact is simply because lots of people are getting on with working with their own personal stone sphere, as described on this page, and feel that they have no cause to get in touch with me - but somehow I doubt whether that is really the reason.

"If they can be used to focus your intent, can they be used negatively?"

No doubt at all, some people would try to use such stone spheres negatively. However, my understanding is that a spherical shape, especially with overall non-aligned internal microstructure, simply cannot resonate with the distorted 'consciousness energy' of negative or harmful intents. That is why 'dark' practitioners use crystals and wands and sacred geometry so much. Those all resonate with disruptive, inharmonious intent and distorted 'consciousness energy', and can be used to focus it on a 'victim' (how effectively in real terms, however, I'm not going to speculate). The sort of spheres that we're considering here would be so ineffective for negative or harmful use that they would be really a waste of time for that sort of purpose - and for the same reason they cannot really hold negative or harmful programming, at least in such a way that it would be effective. Basically, a sphere resonates with undistorted 'consciousness energy', and in practice that means positive and constructive intent only.

"They're not safe, because any stone can get possessed by an entity."

First, let's get clear that the sort of 'entity' or 'spirit' that could occupy, possess or be attached to an object is, according to my own understanding, NOT a real entity (i.e. non-physical conscious being) at all but an elemental, which, depending on its programming, may behave in limited ways like a conscious entity.

Second, by their very nature, elementals are patterns of distorted 'thought energy', and so cannot effectively resonate with a sphere, particularly when the latter consists of a non-aligned natural material such as that of the spheres that we're talking about here. So it would be very unlikely and difficult for any elemental to get a 'hold' on such a sphere in the first place.

However, in the extremely unlikely event of that happening (if indeed it really ever could), there is a very simple procedure that you could carry out, which, at least theoretically, would clear that problem - and it's something that you can do as a precautionary measure if you want to make as sure as possible that your sphere doesn't have anything untoward attached to it. That procedure is none other than the Grounding Post procedure carried out on either a wooden post or another suitable sphere, in close proximity with the one that you are wanting to clear, so that the latter is really close to you and well within the radius of your 'energy field'. I think you could do it actually directly upon the affected sphere, but my indications are that it could well be more effective to do it on something else that is itself clear of such problems.

"You shouldn't have to use aids for genuine healing and self realization!"

(a) None of this is about having to do anything; it's about taking up an option that anyone is free to take up in order to accelerate and probably simplify their healing and self realization process - i.e. to make it significantly more efficient.

- and (b) On whose authority does one say "you shouldn't" anything? Things are simply as they are, and all "should" or "shouldn't" statements are thus inherently fighting against the reality of 'What Is', and thus are untrue.

You might as well claim that I shouldn't have to use a mechanical aid to enable myself (living in Exeter, UK) to visit a friend of mine in Agordo in the Italian Dolomites, because I could walk there*. Yes, indeed I could walk there, but I can think of a few very good reasons why I would normally if not always choose a mechanical aid (even including a thing called an aeroplane) to get me there more quickly and with less effort than I'd ever walk it.

* That is, of course, if you forget the English Channel, which would have to be crossed - and in any case it would be too immodest of me to walk across that water in full public view!

The people who rail against using any sort of aid for healing and self actualization / self realization are themselves completely out of touch with the real purpose of self actualization or indeed simple straightforward life improvement, and they seek to put pressure on others to become similarly out of touch with that. Quite a few of them believe that the only valid self actualization comes about through years and indeed decades and indeed whole successive lifetimes of regular meditation practice under a supposedly qualified guru - so, clearly they are attached to a 'path' and really are programmed to be unable to countenance themselves or any 'ordinary' people reaching that objective of self actualization at all 'in the now', or indeed any really 'serious' life improvement.

In contrast, to a fair amount of opprobrium in various of the more traditionally minded circles, I point to self actualization now, or at least as rapidly as possible. That implies using the most practical and efficient methods available, and putting a clear emphasis on excluding attachment to the methods or the process, and simply turning your life around just as quickly as it can turn around.

The methods

I make no claim to any of the following methods being 'mine' or totally original, unique or new - but in one important sense they are 'mine' (except that I don't claim intellectual property rights on them), in that I have picked up methods and procedures here and there and adapted them as appropriate, also originating some details or indeed whole procedures, to produce my own synthesis - just in the same way that a music composer will typically draw on all sorts of aspects and details of pre-existing music and add his own elements to produce his unique synthesis in his composition.

The methods in physical terms are few and simple, but the individual healing, clearance, self actualization and other positive intents that can be used in those methods are as varied as what you need to be resolving. As with all so-called 'spiritual' healing, you aren't guaranteed a specific outcome for any specific issue within a particular time-scale, but my experience, and that of others who have been using these methods and have reported back to me, has been that a significant improvement in quality of life experience has resulted over a remarkably short time-scale - though I counsel against depending on any one healing method, as they all have their own strengths and weaknesses / omissions, at least, as used by any one person. For this latter reason I refer you to Healing and Self Actualization - The Safest and Quickest Way in order to point yourself to taking up a healthily balanced set of methods that are at least to some extent complementary to each other.

Attunement to your sphere - Although my understanding is that this isn't actually necessary for your sphere to function for you, you will most likely feel a better connection with it if you do a simple once-off procedure with it in order to attune yourself to it. All you do is stand in a relaxed state with feet comfortably somewhat apart and your legs relaxed enough that if you relaxed them any further your knees would give way, and, looking into the distance but not in any spaced out way, you hold your sphere on the very top (crown) of your head for five to ten seconds, with as empty a mind as you can have without actually trying to empty it.

Hands on the sphere - In all cases below where I indicate to put your hands on the sphere, they go on either side of it and over the top, not quite meeting, and if the sphere is rather small for your hands to have full contact with it, the important thing is to have palms and all fingertips in contact with it, with the fingers all apart and thus not touching each other.

Grounding Post - a versatile clearance procedure

This procedure is so named because it was originated using not a sphere but the top of a wooden post well planted into the ground. This procedure is more broadly described in Some Potent Self Actualization / Healing Practices.

It can be used for dissolving or removing (or at least helping to do so) anything untoward that is emotional or non-physical, though this will not necessarily happen in just one go. Thus it can be used for clearing thought forms, illusory realities, beliefs, troublesome thoughts, emotional issues, the underlying issues causing patterns (habitual responses to situations), memories* that keep gaining your attention or affecting your life in some way, 'entities', elementals (which are really a particular type of thought form complex), 'energy implants', inner communication pathways that troublesome external influences (i.e. what I call the dark force) are exploiting - and so on.

* Although you go through the motions of 'zapping' the particular memories, you don't actually remove the memories themselves as data. What does happen is that a memory's loading with problematical issues, and one's attachment to it, gets progressively cleared - so the Grounding Post 'zapping' is a cleaning-up operation, not a destructive one.

• You sit on an upright chair at a desk or table with the sphere on its stand immediately in front of you so that you can place your hands on it without having to reach out significantly. Your back is upright and straight, though not stiffly so, and your head lightly poised on your neck, with no drooping of the latter - something that would be natural for you if you have properly taken up the Alexander Technique. Your feet are squarely placed on the floor in a relaxed fashion, and not tucked up underneath the chair, and there is no leg crossing. The tip of your tongue is held to your palate, just a little in front of what I'd call the roof of the mouth.

• Although non-essential, it is good practice to start with a moment of attunement to your sphere. You place your hands (at least palms and all fingertips) on either side of the sphere, maintaining your gaze upon it with as empty a mind as possible (without trying to force anything) for about five to fifteen seconds, while complete breathing.

• Hold your hands together in a cupped formation just in front of (i.e. on your side of) the sphere, and direct your gaze into that 'cup', using your intent, with as little words as possible and preferably no words, to visualize whatever you have chosen to 'zap'. While you are doing this, for best results you are using Power Breathing, still with the tip of your tongue to your palate. You cultivate a sense of problematical, distorted energies gathering in your cupped hands in a confused writing mass. It's best by far to avoid deliberately visualizing anything clear and concrete; it really is a 'visualization' with intent rather than detailed graphic images - so any images that you do deliberately direct into your cupped hands are best to be vague, generalized ones. If any clear, detailed images do happen to appear spontaneously, simply allow them to dissolve into the seething mass in your cupped hands.

• Then, after a few Power Breathing cycles, when you feel ready, you power-inhale again to the straining-full point and at that instant you 'pounce' your cupped hands upon the sphere, so that they are over the top and on both sides, not quite in contact with each other. In the 'pouncing' process the hands do remain in contact but you keep them in contact with each other at their 'heels' as you turn them over inwards, all in one movement as you 'pounce' as you simultaneously power-exhale. I describe this as 'pouncing', because you do it as though what is in your cupped hands would do its damnedest to escape if it knew what was coming to it. The purpose of doing it in this manner is that it greatly focuses and intensifies your intent for that clearance.

• With your hands now on the sphere, and still Power Breathing, you maintain your gaze upon the sphere, with your clear intent that whatever you're 'zapping' is now dissipating and transforming into the ground through the sphere. Strictly speaking, probably nothing is really going into the ground like that, but that particular intent is very effective and grounding as a figurative image. We don't concern ourselves here with what is 'true' (which actually can never be known), but simply with what works best for our purpose.

• After probably three full Power Breathing cycles you power-inhale again to the straining-full point and at that instant you deliver two loud claps with your hands, as rapidly as possible - and that's it. You can then exhale naturally, and return to normal breathing.

• For best results you immediately follow in a relaxed way with your chosen end-of-practice procedure.

Activating and actualizing healing and other positive intents - 'positive intent Grounding Post'

In practical terms you simply use exactly the same procedure as described above for Grounding Post, but with one crucial difference - your intent. Instead of focusing something untoward into your cupped hands for 'zapping', here you start off with the clear intent that what you are focusing into your cupped hands is your particular positive intent that you want to actualize. Thus, when you 'pounce' your hands upon the sphere you are not 'zapping' anything in the sense of getting rid of it, but are putting an intensely expressed 'seal' upon that positive intent of yours.

Normally such intents will be specific healing or self actualization ones, though any genuinely positive and beneficial intent could be treated this way. Indeed, if in the past you've tended to pray, say, for positive things in the world, this 'positive Grounding Post' is the best way that I know of to make anything effective of your positive intent in a way that praying never could.

To be effective, the positive or healing intent needs to be clearly formulated in your mind BEFORE you start, so that, with that intent clear in your mind, you can then focus it into your cupped hands in more or less non-verbal form, and it needs to be affirmative and self empowering in a way that praying can never be because the latter is always asking some external agency to change things, whereas this method is simply affirming your own intent (as a manifestation of fundamental consciousness or 'the Ultimate') that 'the Ultimate' (i.e. your own very deepest aspect) will in some measure then be able to actualize over time what is really its own intent.

Most commonly the most effective intent to set will be a positive statement that would also serve well as the core of a formal declaration of intent (see the next section). Thus, for my quite seriously torn right quadriceps muscle I set my intent that "My leg muscles are all fully functional and in perfect working order, and fully balanced in strength between right and left legs". For clearing the dark force interferences on my anus and bladder sphincter I first formulated my intent as "My anus and bladder sphincter are fully and healthily functional and free from pain or any sort of interference".

There is no one right way to formulate your intents for this purpose, but generally the most straightforwardly positive statements are bound to be the most effective. However, there are times when it is worthwhile using this method twice in succession for a particular issue, using two differently formulated versions. Thus, if we take the latter intent quoted above, another version of that intent, which could be very helpful in addition (best not combined in the same session) would be "My anus and bladder sphincter are actively healing and all interferences are clearing from them - and this is happening as speedily as can be".

You will have noted how these intents are ALL expressed in the present tense. That is extremely important, and is why declarations of intent that you may encounter in some other quarters may be much less effective. The moment I use an intent that my anus and bladder sphincter will be[...], or "I intend that[...]will be[...]", I've weakened the effect, because I'm really then expressing more of a hope that they will improve some time in the future. The future, however, is merely a 'virtual', speculative 'reality', not what I would call a 'real' reality. If anything at all can be called 'genuine reality', it is only the present - 'What Is'. 

I'm not saying that the latter, "will be...", version of the intent wouldn't work at all, but here I'm looking to the most direct, powerful, efficient and empowering ways of working. Why use a weaker format when you can just as easily use the strongest, completely present-tense format?

Using formal affirmations and declarations of intent

This extremely important method, completely omitted from most healing and self actualization traditions and systems, overlaps with the previous method in what it aims to achieve, but actually works in a quite different way, so that the two methods are actually complementary to each other and mutually reinforcing. They are best therefore both used and not seen as simple alternatives to each other.

The formal reading of affirmations or declarations of intent (DOIs) works at a very basic - or you could say, fundamental - level: laying a powerful catalyzing foundation for whatever healing and positive life change measures that you may take, and making them greatly more effective. Regular reading of a full set of affirmations / DOIs for comprehensive self actualization brings about positive effects not only in the background but also enables you to progressively gain conscious focus upon and alignment with your deeper self actualization intent, so making it progressively easier to recognise and let go of obstructive influences or factors in your life experience - whether any particular influences / factors appear to be 'internal' or 'external'.

I have produced a comprehensive set of affirmations and DOIs for comprehensive self healing, self actualization and clearance of entities and all manner of negative or obstructive influences. At first glance they may appear too challenging to stomach, but, by the same token, they demonstrate how incomplete and wide of the mark are almost everyone's aspirations and measures that are supposedly towards self actualization. No wonder virtually nobody has yet got genuinely clear of interferences and influences from the dark force!

These affirmations can be obtained from The Guide to Complete Self Actualization. To make all your healing, clearance and self actualization process and all your methods and measures immensely more effective for you, use the affirmations regularly - preferably daily - for, say, a couple of months (but ANY use will assist greatly) before you reduce the frequency to possibly something like monthly (but best to follow the indications of careful and rigorous energy testing as to when or how often to read them) . After an initial reading of the full version, for most people it would be more practical to read the shortened version daily and the full version weekly.

Important! There is a specific optimal way of carrying out a formal reading of these or any individual affirmations or DOIs, and I give it further below. Just to read them, even if done in a formal manner out aloud, although better than nothing, is of limited effectiveness, so this is where your stone sphere comes into the picture to assist you in clarifying and intensifying the focus of your intent.

I now give here a few examples of specific DOIs that I myself have used, just to show the way that you do this, and the necessary format for greatest effectiveness. You will note that there is no trace in these of asking or communicating with any external presence(s) or 'energies'. Various other people's DOIs or supposed affirmations are replete with such features, and they are all weakening in their effect, not to mention their tending to increase connections with the dark force.

For each DOI that you want to use, you need to write it down first if you haven't already got it in writing or print, and then carry out the formal reading procedure that I describe further below. Formally reading a written / printed DOI makes more connection with your deepest aspects than does just thinking or saying something that is just in your mind, and thus is much more effective.

You will note in the following examples that, for greatest effectiveness, the future tense is not used in any DOIs - only the present tense. I know I'm repeating myself in mentioning again the matter of using the present tense, but this is important and so easily gets forgotten. Even if your health appears to be really poor, you still affirm your intent that you are 100% healthy now and at all times. If you weaken on that by writing “I affirm my intent that I will be 100% healthy…”, you are presenting yourself with a pie-in-the-sky declaration, which reflects a lack of real commitment to your intent and thus weakens its healing effect.

I originally tended to use "and that this is coming about as speedily as possible" to complete DOIs. The problem with that wording is that 'as possible' tends to carry connotations of doubt and of limited expectations, so actually it's best avoided in favour of the expression used in the DOIs below.

• I affirm my intent that I am clear of all connections that would be weakening for me, and that this is coming about as speedily as can be.

• I affirm my intent that I am 100% healthy physically and that I have no remaining adverse effects from any previous environmental stresses, and that this is coming about as speedily as can be.

• I affirm my intent that I am free of all obstructions to my having healthy and fulfilling relationships with other people at all levels, and that such relationships are manifesting for me to the greatest extent that is in my best interests, and that this is coming about as speedily as can be.

• I affirm my intent that my anus, bladder sphincter and all other sphincters, and all other parts of my body, have full and undistorted function, free from the interference of external entities, influences or agencies of any type, and that this is coming about as speedily as can be.

  This one is specifically for people with problems at the anus or bladder sphincter - most of which are caused by interference from the dark force.

• I affirm my intent that I am free of all obstructions to my having abundance in all aspects of my life, and that that abundance is manifesting for me to the greatest extent that is genuinely beneficial for me, and that this is coming about as speedily as can be.

• I affirm my intent that my approach to all my life events and issues is consistently positive and constructive, and that I am without any feelings and tendencies to depression, apathy or powerlessness, and that I am making consistently strengthening and constructive choices in my life, and am following those choices through in my actions as long as they continue to be strengthening for me (as determined by careful use of energy testing).

  If you have been having some sort of 'depression', please be aware that it's no good just depending on the relevant declaration of intent to clear it on its own. You ALSO need to take a range of positive measures to ensure that you speedily get out of depression when it comes on, and to make it much more difficult for depression to take a hold in the first place. It would also be very helpful to have a proper understanding of what depression really is (i.e. as far as I can tell on the basis of my own observations and insights) - please see The True Nature of 'the Dark Force' and its Interference and Attacks.

• I affirm my intent that I am clear of all entities, dark force interferences and influences, soul programming, implants, thought forms and other foreign 'energies', and that this is coming about as speedily as can be.

• I affirm my intent that any entities that are currently attached to or connected with me are clear of all dark force or entity interferences and influences, soul programming, implants, thought forms and other foreign energies, and are thus free to revert to fundamental consciousness, and that this is coming about as speedily as can be.

• I affirm my intent that all thought forms in the astral sub-reality, including all those that are part of the dark force or 'dark side', are now and in all future times free to dissolve and revert to pure, healthy consciousness energy, and that this is coming about as speedily as can be.

• I affirm my intent that the astral sub-reality itself is 100% healthy and clear of all distortions, and is thus reclaimed as a fully functional and useful part of the consciousness of myself and all other beings, and that this is coming about as speedily as can be.

How to read affirmations / declarations of intent most effectively

• You sit on an upright chair at a desk or table with the sphere on its stand immediately in front of you, close enough to you that you can read the writing or print on the sheet with the affirmations / DOI(s), which is placed just beyond the sphere. Your back is upright and straight, though not stiffly so, and your head is lightly poised on your neck, with no drooping of the latter - something that would be natural for you if you have properly taken up the Alexander Technique. Your lower legs (only!) are crossed - i.e. at the ankles, with the soles of your feet still in as full a contact as possible with the floor, and not tucked up underneath the chair. The tip of your tongue is held to your palate, just a little in front of what I'd call the roof of the mouth.

• Although nonessential, it is good practice to start with a moment of attunement to your sphere. You place your hands (at least palms and all fingertips) on either side of the sphere, maintaining your gaze upon it with as empty a mind as possible (without trying to force anything) for about five to fifteen seconds, while complete breathing.

• Keeping your hands on the sphere, you now read the first (or only) affirmation or DOI, slowly and deliberately, while extra-complete breathing. Indeed, read it at least twice, so that it and its meaning are well imprinted in your mind, and then, continuing extra-complete breathing, you let go of those words in your mind and transfer your gaze to the sphere with your hands still on it, and, with your intent transmitted in your gaze, place that affirmation or DOI completely wordlessly (i.e. you place the meaning, not the words) into the sphere, allowing one cycle of extra-complete breathing before moving on.

• If there are more items to read, you repeat the previous action until you have successively read each affirmation / DOI and placed it wordlessly into the sphere. If there are no more to read, you move on...

• Maintaining your gaze on the sphere with your hands on it, you 'extra-complete' inhale to your fullest point (slightly straining), and at that instant, as rapidly as possible you take your hands from the sphere and deliver two loud claps in the quickest possible succession. You then exhale naturally and release your position, for the practice is now finished - except for...

• You carry out your chosen end of practice procedure.

"I'm sorry, but I'm no good at this because I simply can't focus my intent like that!"
A word of encouragement here about transmitting your intent in your gaze, into the sphere. You may well feel that you're unable to do this effectively. Actually the key to this is to STOP worrying about that, and simply to be relaxed and apparently empty-minded and to proceed as though it really is working and your intent is transmitting without your having to do anything, let alone try to do anything! It's that easy - and it will become progressively more effective with practice. Anyone who seeks to put their intent in some tangible form into the sphere by means of conscious willpower is not placing their deeper intent all that effectively (or indeed at all), even if it looks subjectively more powerful or impressive.

Self healing and healing for others

For an enhanced self healing session here is a simple and effective method.

• Carry out the Grounding Post procedure, with one crucial difference: you are not 'zapping' anything untoward, but are setting and activating your positive healing intent for the session. If you do need to 'zap' some untoward things such as illusory realities or emotional issues, you use the Grounding Post procedure on those first, before starting this session (or of course you could do them afterwards).

  Your healing intent for this purpose may be something like "I am fully healthy and complete in body, mind and all non-physical aspects" for an across-the-board general healing, or it may be more specific for the particular session, such as "I am fully and completely free and clear of all interferences and attacks from external entities or influences [/ the dark force], and am fully immune to any future attempts to interfere with me", or "My endocrine system is healthy and fully functioning (with particular reference to my [...])", or "My legs are both fully healthy and at least as strong as would be needed for my most demanding pursuits, and they are in perfect balance with each other" (for, say, a quadriceps rupture), or "I am emotionally free, happy and buoyant, with no further inappropriate painful emotions" and so on.

• Without a break in the proceedings, sitting there with your sphere in front of you and in close reach of it for comfortably putting your hands on it in the standard way, you replace your hands on the sphere and the tip of your tongue to your palate, and keep your gaze on the sphere for something like one extra-complete breathing cycle, just to reinforce your current connection with the sphere (i.e. really with the healing intent that you've just set).

• Again without a break in the proceedings, you place your hands upon yourself to give yourself a hands-on healing session of as long as your intuition or - better - energy testing (internal method) indicates - probably about 5-8 minutes in any one session. You do not try to visualize nor make anything happen, but allow your mind to be as empty as reasonably possible without forcing anything, just keeping aware of your healing intent for the session in a general sort of way without trying to emphasize it (you already did the latter at the start).

  You are extra-complete breathing for the duration of the session, but without the tip of your tongue held to your palate. However, if you forget and do hold it there, it wouldn't cause a problem of any sort.

  In 'energy' terms, probably the best place for your hands to be is on your shoulders - but that is liable to be stressful for most people to hold for long, and actually another excellent position is obliquely on the upper chest, converging at the most comfortable angle to the top of the sternum (breast bone), where fingers may or may not touch. There's nothing to stop you going through, for example, the Reiki self healing hand positions, but for this purpose that is really a lot of unnecessary work, and would tend to distract from the simplicity of working from your core essence.

  An alternative approach for this stage of the sequence is to keep your hands on the sphere and use the sphere as a surrogate, actually representing you.

• When you choose to bring the session to an end, you wait till you are at a (slightly straining) empty point in your extra-complete breathing, then place your hands back on the sphere in the standard manner, simultaneously placing the tip of your tongue on your palate again, and you then inhale fully to slightly straining. At that fullest point, as rapidly as possible, you remove your hands from the sphere and do a loud double clap. You then release your position and exhale normally.

  Alternatively you can keep your hands on yourself for that final inhalation leading up to the double handclasp. In that event you still have the tip of your tongue to your palate for that particular inhalation. Your own energy testing may indicate a preference as to which option to use.

• For best results, immediately carry out your chosen end of practice procedure.

Physical healing

The general self healing procedure given above can include physical healing, according to the intent that you set at the start. However, there is also another simple thing you may be able to do. You may do this as a session in its own right or tag it onto the above type of hands-on session. It's practical only with spheres at the smaller end of the useful size range - so if you have a 120mm sphere it would be difficult to use for this purpose. Indeed, if you want to use this procedure and your sphere is really too large, you may wish to obtain an additional suitable sphere of, say, about 80mm size to use specifically for this purpose. Although still smaller would be more convenient, it wouldn't be such an effective resonator with your healing intent - but there's nothing to stop you choosing that option if you wish.

The procedure is to carry out the full sequence given above for hands on healing, except that in place of the hands-on healing part of it you palm-roll your sphere to and fro on the affected part(s) of your body - at least, if it's any sort of local issue. You may have to come away from your table or desk to do this, but when you have done the palm rolling of the sphere you return to sitting in front of your sphere on its stand / stabilizer to complete the sequence.

If you are addressing a generalized problem such as an infection or blood disorder, palm-roll the sphere to and fro over as much of your body as reasonably possible, with the intent that you are really palm-rolling it over every part of your body. You can do it over thin clothing, but it would be more effective directly on the skin. If the issue is something deep within - for example an issue with your gall bladder - simply palm-roll the sphere to and fro over where you think it is. That would be most effective, of course, if you have a reasonable knowledge of anatomy so that the particular organ really is where you think it is - but because you are working with your intent there would be bound to be reasonable beneficial effect even if you had actually got the position wrong.

N.B. If you have an Energy Egg, despite its small size, palm-rolling that on the relevant part(s) of your body looks to very likely be more effective than doing it with a non-programmed sphere. You still use the sphere for all other parts of the sequence.

Healing for other people

If the person is present, the sequence is essentially the same as that given above for self healing sessions, with the odd differences. You still start with the setting of your healing intent, but when you do that you look at the person and then, using your intent in your gaze, you focus your fresh mental impression of that person plus your healing intent for him / her into your cupped hands for 'pouncing' onto the sphere.

You have the person already sitting nicely upright on an upright chair, and, at the point where in self healing you'd put your hands upon yourself, you get up, come behind the person and gently place your hands on his / her shoulders and keep them there while extra-complete breathing - again with as empty a mind as you can manage without trying to empty it, and a general awareness of your healing intent, without deliberately visualizing or trying to make anything happen. When your intuition or energy testing indicates 'strengthening' for moving on, you return to sitting at your desk to complete the sequence just as in the self healing sequence. Naturally it would be best to remember to advise the person at the beginning that when you complete the session there will be a point where you deliver two sudden rapid loud claps with your hands - though you can omit that action if you feel that it would cause too much startlement or bewilderment; it is an intensifier, so it is beneficial to do, but not essential. You can also carry out the claps in a manner that greatly reduces their loudness, by holding back on the movement of your arms just as the hands are coming together - while maintaining the intent that you are still doing really loud claps, even though they are not much being heard by anyone.

Distant healing

If the person is not present, again the sequence is essentially the same as that given further above for self healing sessions, with the odd differences. 

You still start with the setting of your healing intent, and again, when you do that you focus a mental impression of that person plus your healing intent for him / her into your cupped hands for 'pouncing' onto the sphere. However, to make this most effective you actually have a photo of the person in front of you (probably just beyond the sphere),or, failing a photo, some object that is directly connected with the person - a letter from him / her, a ring and so on. In any case, immediately before you do the 'positive intent Grounding Post' procedure to set your healing intent you place your hands on the sphere, complete breathing, with tip of tongue to your palate, and gaze at the photo or other object with the intent of getting as strong a mental impression of the person as possible (without worrying whether or not you are getting much of an impression!).

• If at all possible, you have a photo of the person in front of you (probably just beyond the sphere),or, failing a photo, some object that is directly connected with the person - a letter from him / her, a ring and so on. You place your hands on the sphere, complete breathing, with tip of tongue to your palate, and gaze at the photo or other object with the intent of getting as strong a mental impression of the person as possible (without worrying whether or not you are getting much of an impression!).

• You carry out the 'positive intent Grounding Post' procedure as described for self healing, but of course here you are setting your healing intent for the other person, and so with your intent in your gaze, you place your overall mental impression of the person (not specifically or limited to a visual image) into your cupped hands along with your healing intent for that person.

• Without a break in the proceedings, sitting there with your sphere in front of you, complete breathing, with the tip of your tongue to your palate, you replace your hands on the sphere and return your gaze to the photo or other object connected with the person, and then transfer your gaze to the sphere, using your intent to place your mental impression of the person into the sphere, as though the sphere has now become that person.

• You stay like that, now regarding yourself as giving the person (via the sphere) a hands-on healing session of as long as your intuition or - better - energy testing (internal method) indicates. That would probably be about 5-8 minutes in any one session. As with self healing, you do not try to visualize nor make anything happen, but allow your mind to be as empty as reasonably possible without forcing anything, just keeping aware of your healing intent for the session in a general sort of way without trying to emphasize it (you already did the latter at the start).

  You are extra-complete breathing for the duration of the session, WITH the tip of your tongue held to your palate (it's only when you put your hands on yourself that you don't gain anything significant by doing that with your tongue).

• When you choose to bring the session to an end, you stay put till you are at a (slightly straining) fullest point in your extra-complete breathing. At that fullest point, as rapidly as possible, you remove your hands from the sphere and do a loud double clap. You then release your position and exhale normally.

• For best results, immediately carry out your chosen end of practice procedure.

Use of surrogates in healing

The use of an object to represent the recipient of a healing, and to go through the motions of giving 'healing' to that object, is quite a widely used means of giving distant healing. The object so used is commonly called a surrogate, and, it would seem, a small teddy bear is pretty widely recommended for this purpose. I had never heard of a sphere being used as a surrogate, though I've no doubt that some people have used spheres in that way before and probably some do now, independently of my own promotion of the use of spheres.

However, something like a teddy bear would actually be an extremely poor surrogate, because it has virtually nothing about it to resonate with the healer's healing intent. A sphere of suitable stone has the strongest and purest such resonance, and the more one varies the shape from a sphere, the more distortion is introduced and the less possibility is there for resonance of fully pure and positive intent, and the more possibility is there for resonance with distorted and problematical intents, including downright harmful ones. The shape of a teddy bear would be too 'chaotic' to resonate really with any intent at all, and also its actual material precludes that anyway. Yes, it would still be a focus for your intent, but not a resonator, and thus, regardless of your good intentions, your healing intent would in practical terms still be pretty weak (because it hasn't been able to connect that much with the 'fundamental intent' of your deepest aspects).

Spheres rule - Okay!

Environmental stress - healing and immunizing

My first recommendation for anyone wanting to protect themselves against environmental stress (ES) sources and to heal the damage done to their non-physical aspects by previous ESs is to use an Energy Egg, preferably connected to a Guardian Angel or, still better, an Archangel - and, if at all possible, also to use the Returning Life Sequence. However, sometimes it may be helpful to focus your intent more powerfully on immunizing yourself against a specific ES source or healing specific ES damage from the past, and this can be done using a non-programmed stone sphere, because the need then is to focus and activate your own intent more powerfully.

There are also some types of ES that the Energy Egg 'family' are not very good at helping you with in the first place - particularly 'wrong placement' stresses, so it is actually quite a serious mistake to regard the Energy Egg 'family' as being a complete panacea for ES problems - greatly helpful though they are - and to spurn other safe and effective methods for dealing with ESs*. In any case many people simply do not want to use any sort of stone or other device that contains programming, which latter they are expected to take on trust.

* My words are carefully chosen here, because I warn about the seriously harmful effects of nearly all devices that are supposed to protect one against ESs. They generally achieve their claimed 'protection' effects NOT by enabling you to heal and immunize yourself against such stresses, but by giving out some sort of 'energies' that are supposed to neutralize specific common ESs. Such devices can at best neutralize only a limited number of ES types that they have been specifically designed or programmed for, and are 100% non-programmable by the user, so each such device cannot help but fail to neutralize most of the ESs that any one person actually receives. Also, as far as I've been able to ascertain so far, such devices ALL are ES sources themselves, and, typically, that happens in particular insidious ways that make their users progressively more open and vulnerable to dark force interferences and attacks.

Basically, for any specific ES (or possible ES) you can use any of the general methods described further above that are based on use of a polished stone sphere.

• You can use Grounding Post to 'zap' a particular ES source together with all its stressful or harmful effects.
• You can use 'positive intent Grounding Post' to activate a positive healing intent to the effect that you are, or are rapidly becoming, immune to any stressful or harmful effects from the specific ES source.
• Similarly you can formally read a declaration of intent embodying that same positive healing intent.
• You can also do a hands-on self healing as described further above, for specific ESs.

When you do any of those, you want to make sure that your intent is not only for making yourself immune but also for retrospective healing of all harm done to you in any way whatsoever by that type of stress source in the past.

So, let's take an example to give you an idea how to go about this. I've got a hunch that exposure to quite a lot of mercury vapour in the laboratories when I was at school caused or at least strongly contributed to quite a number of my long-term health issues, so I want to address this. Because I have an Energy Egg, my first port of call is anyway to tune the Energy Egg to mercury vapour. To do that, I do a Google image search for "mercury vapour" and find photos of mercury vapour discharge lamps. I use my standard procedure then to tune the Energy Egg to the mercury vapour 'energy signature' carried by the photos of mercury vapour discharge lamps, which contain a little mercury vapour.

• Then, still keeping the relevant photo(s) on screen, I do a Grounding Post 'zap', in which, once I have my cupped hands ready to receive their delectable visualized load, I gaze for perhaps five seconds with some concentration at the 'mercury vapour' photo, then, with the intent in my gaze, I place the mercury vapour from that photo, PLUS all the harmful effects of mercury vapour that I've ever had (both known and unknown about), plus any relevant images from my schooldays, into my cupped hands for 'zapping'.
• Then, having completed that Grounding Post session, I carry out a positive-intent Grounding Post, in which I gaze again briefly at the 'mercury vapour' photo and set my intent that I am now rapidly becoming immune to harm from mercury vapour, and all previous harm that I've sustained from mercury vapour is now being healed as quickly as can happen. That intent then is gathered in my cupped hands for 'pouncing' upon the sphere in the standard way.
• For best results I also do a formal reading of the following declaration of intent: "I affirm my intent that I am now maximally immune to the harmful effects of mercury vapour, and no longer carry any harm in my non-physical aspects from previous exposure to mercury vapour, and this is coming about as speedily as can be."

Warning! There is no way that you would become anything like completely immune to a serious poison such as mercury vapour, so it is important not to then go exposing yourself to it in the belief that you wouldn't get poisoned. The aim here is simply to get yourself as immune as possible to the particular poison or other ES source. In the case of the more subtle ESs, a considerable degree of immunity may be possible to achieve over a period with ongoing use of these methods. Energy testing would enable you to tell when it's best to repeat a particular procedure.

'Healing' the astral sub-reality and dissolving the dark force

In The True Nature of 'The Dark Force' and its Interference and Attacks I explain how it is that, contrary to almost universal beliefs about the dark force (that is, almost universal among those who recognise its existence at all), there are real possibilities of our individually and collectively being, at the very least, a weakening influence and, at best, actual dissolvers of the dark force, thus healing the massive problem in the astral sub-reality - the #1 scourge upon human-type beings, most likely from quite near the beginning of all 'Existence'.

The great way NOT to go about such a task is to engage with the manifestations and illusions that the dark force presents us with. Throughout human history people have completely failed to do other than actually reinforce the dark force through their opposing or battling against its various illusory manifestations. The perpetual problem has been people's beliefs getting in the way of their actually looking at what's really there. Only when we've got looking at what is really there do we even begin to have any real possibility of doing anything useful about it.

Knowing even that much of course is greatly encouraging in itself. Actually beginning to effectively address the dark force problem is nothing scary or dangerous at all! You don't go astral travelling (an extremely harmful and dangerous pursuit) and rounding up demons (what the hell would you do with them anyway?! ), and instead you focus your intent for dissolution of thought forms - and I have already described the Grounding Post procedure for doing just that!

So, if you would like to play a part in at least to some extent being a weakening influence on the dark force, and just maybe being one of a merry band of humans actually bringing the dark force to its final nemesis, it is particularly to variants of the Grounding Post procedure (carried out upon your sphere) that you need to look - that is, until any of us find a still better method. Below, I give a suitable visualization to use in a perfectly straightforward Grounding Post session.

If you are confident in focusing your intent for Grounding Post you don't need a special visualization, because all you need 'visualize' (with your intent rather than clear visual images) is a seething mass of distorted energies and confused images that represents the entire contents of the astral sub-reality (including the entire dark force*) accumulating in your cupped hands, ready for 'zapping' in the standard fashion.

* Even though it looks likely (at least to me) that the primary aspect of the dark force, the cacoprotean network, is a network of human minds, which might be thought of as not being at least fully in the astral sub-reality, it would be most effective to include that whole network in the 'zapping'.

If you are not so confident yet in focusing your intent for the purpose, here is a visualization that you can use to get you started. The astral sub-reality is replete with illusions and 'story' that the dark force gives us. Therefore, let's visualize the whole astral sub-reality as a whacking great storybook, but containing a whole mass of stuff that we're all much better off without. So, you are sitting with your sphere immediately in front of you on the desk / table, with your cupped hands ready to receive your visualization. While Power Breathing, with tip of tongue to your palate, you visualize (in a very generalized sort of way) that storybook, representing the entire astral sub-reality, open before you, full of all manner of convoluted tales and writhing masses of night hell experiences, and all the 'spiritual' and religious images, beliefs and experiences that lead people away from self actualization, and so forth - and with your intent in your gaze, you place that open storybook into your cupped hands.

As you continue your Power Breathing you visualize that the book within your cupped hands is slowly and very finally closing. Then, as soon as it is closed, you 'pounce' your hands upon the sphere and continue just as in any other Grounding Post session using the sphere. It's that simple!

There are also relevant declarations of intent that you can use. You can find two particularly important ones in the list of DOI samples further above. You can also take the core intent from those and use the intent without the formal phrasing in 'positive intent Grounding Post' sessions.

Any of the above practices need to be periodically repeated. Theoretically it would be great to make them each a daily practice - except that that would almost certainly be too much work and thus unbalancing for you, for it is important that you maintain priority for your own self healing and self actualization process. This is where energy testing would enable you to establish whether it would be strengthening for you to do any of these practices at all, and, if so, which ones would be most strengthening for you to do, and when / how often.

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