Probing is the technique to send out your energies and feel out the environment you are in. It can be used on individual entities to determine placement in the environment you are looking in as well as their shielding. Advanced probing is sometimes called delving to those that are familiar with any healing work.

Probing is a very essential tool and comes naturally to those that start doing any kind of meditational work. The first aspect to probing entails going into a meditation and blocking out all distractions. Blocking out all senses except focussing on one. which is hearing or smelling. Personally due to my own personal choice I stick with hearing. Blocking out every other sense keeping the eyes closes and listening to as much as you can.

Starting out in a quiet environment you meditate in the style of your choice. first making sure that the breathing is constant and complete. Listen, even if you feel there is no sound there ought to be something. You should be able to in this quiet even listen to your own beating of your heart. This however is also an advanced step so preferably find something external to yourself to listen to. Focus on that object and try to surmise what it is. Remember exactly the sound it made and from what direction it came.

Perfect concentration is what is being looked into here as well as the ability to focus on one source. To better accomplish this you need to move into another environment that is less peaceful. One that has a lot of noice in. While you are meditating you focus on just one of them and try to dim the rest. This is to help you focus your awareness and probe for a specific physical sound. In time you should be able to distinguish specific sounds at your choice and where they come from with better success even in a loud environment.

Now that you have explored the focus needed to moniter the sound aspect. shift gears and start sensing your own energy. (see sensing own energy by Fiona) Just like with sounds and smells there is energy everywhere. Starting with your own feel how your own leaks out from you and travels to your shielding (That should be up). From there moniter how even the shielding gives off your energy and how that travels through your environment.

Now in that the energy is your own and is connected to you. You have the ability to almost a sentient part of it. Your energy becomes more like your five senses and astrally speaking this is exactly the way your environment gives your psyche the information to build the environment you are in. Working on this level visualise a construct and you are comfortable with to do scans on your environment. If you have a specific target visualise this energy moving towards your target gathering information on the kinds of energies it is using, if the energies are stable, if they are compatible with your own. Is the energy in a fixed or of fluid state? Is there emotion in the energy? Is it harmful to your own or of no consequence. All this should be able to be answered by the probe.

To make sure of an accurate read the practicioner should start out by in-animate objects objects. Objects that you know and are familiar with. A flower in your window to a baseball bat in the toy box. send your construct out and remember the information that you gather from it. There are different levels of probing this one being the basic. Advanced practitioners usually come to the degree of skill that they can use their energies like so many small tendrils all coming out of them and they are able to moniter a more wide area of energy all around them. As with anything on these levels though you start small and then advance through your ability.