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codeine1337 said:
In order to answer your question, do you feel results at the most basic level? For example, when you direct energy around your body, or breath in energy, or chant mantras, can you feel anything?
At the core of magic, you are manifesting something into the material based upon your spiritual abilities. To do this, we employ both our yin and yang side. The yin side, like a trance or our senses, create space for creation to occur, and the yang side, our willpower, sparks the creation into existence.
So if your goal is to simply spin your chakras, you want to try to both "push" and intend for this to happen, but also sense the result as well. Do this simultaneously and have faith in this process, and the chakra will simply spin faster.
The fundamental exercises described in the beginner section of JoS are crucial for developing not just competency, but also confidence.
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When you are saying affirmations, this is programming the energy, or the yang side. Affirmations do not always need to be said because we can still apply our willpower/programming through visualization as well. However, the affirmation is a guide for any programming (whether visual or not) to occur.
If you chant a rune, but do not program it to do anything, then what do you expect to happen? It will just dissipate. You have to first chant the energy, then direct it towards your objectives, using the above methods.