doing NEW for the sake of NEW

[Aunt Clair]

NEW is a good preliminary technique to learn to feel energy to become
aware of how energy feels as it is moved through your physical body.

NEW techniques are useful to facilitate healing

Any energy work will promote the manifestation of new energy centres and facilitate further development of existing energy centres.

Raising the vibration or the light body quotient of the human energy body is a good thing because it ;
aids healing
sustains health
boosts immune system
reduces blockages and dis-ease
raises awareness and consciousness
affords higher vibration which affords more Sidhi Powers
such as;
clairsentience
clairvoyance
clairaudience
astral projection
evocation

et cetera et cetera ...

[BDeye]

Aunt Clair would a strobe of a center indicate an overload?.

[jamboh]

I currently have mixed feelings about this.. my motivation for NEW has dropped considerably due to some of the points already mentioned, and partly because I've been concentrating my limited time each day (those precious early morning hours when both toddler and baby are asleep!) on mastering trance meditation. Firslty at the risk of sounding too negative I'll just mention what NEW definitely HAS done for me:

1. Given me solid personal evidence that humans have an 'energy body' and that it can be stimulated/manipulated
2. Given me solid personal evidence that the 'chakras' (whatever they may or may not be) definitely exist, and that the sensations produced from them can be extremely significant.. I remember vividly when I first 'activated' my heart centre and lay on the bed for a good 30mins with my heart feeling like it was beating at an unbelieveable rate, with energy pumping all around my body. I have also had strong sensations from all the other major centres at some time or another.
3. Relaxation?... i guess... although i find trance meditation much more relaxing

And that's about it. I've just actually had a bit of a realization while typing these that 1. and 2. are of no small significance, as I have proved to myself first-hand the existence of something that is widely regarded to be non-existent nonsense. Which is incredible! So I defintely don't consider my time spent learing NEW a waste.

But I can't deny that, other than these points above, I don't have any quatifiable or even sujective evidence that NEW has done anything else for me. Perhaps it's true that NEW should be done for NEW's sake, like a general exercise/fitness lifestyle.. but to continue the analogy.. if someone were to start a physical exercise regime from a lifetime of non-exercising, just as someone starts a regime of NEW exercising from a lifetime of no energy work, would they not expect to gain the real tangible ability to lift heavier weights, or to run further and faster without tiring etc. Unfotunately I can't really identify any corresponding benfits I've gotten from the many hours spent practicing NEW.. hence why my motivation has dropped. It's easy to sympathize with the people mentioned in the original post who were hoping to get some tangible new skills/abilites from practicing NEW, but became disillusioned when they did not appear.

All that being said, I don't disbelieve all the purported benefits of NEW... they're in my 'probable' list waiting to be proven, as for me any benefits have yet to occur. Perhaps I need to dedicate myself more fully to it... but now when I practice, I don't feel such strong sensations as when I first started and my original fascination with them has worn off a bit. BDeye it sounds like you were in a kind of similar situation but that you progressed beyond it by more intensive/longer practice... would you recommend the way you approached it and how did you achieve the stronger sensations? Any advice?

Sorry for the long post, was going to start my own thread but this one seemed quite relevant