Feeding: Techniques (part 2)

There are three main ways of feeding, those being physical, tendril, and breathing.

In physical feeding, touching your source is clearly required. You pull the energy into yourself through physical contact. It can be as simple as a hug or handshake, or as intense and intimate as sex. In a way eye contact is considered contact feeding. Like that awkward moment when you're in Walmart and you make eye contact with someone by accident, you feel either violated or like you were the invader. That's because eye contact makes a link between two people, and it is through a link a psyvamp feeds. Just being the dominant one when contact feeding should be enough.
Tendril feeding is the most commonly used method. Tendrils are extentions of the aura, think of an octopus if you'd like a comparison. There isn't certain number we have, I think it varies by person. With tendrils you penetrate the aura of whatever you intend to feed from and pull the energy into yourself. Almost like a straw.
For beginners: When you tendril feed try visualizing your aura and the person you're feeding from's aura as well. Don't imagine it just feel your "personal bubble" and extend a part of it with your mind to their "bubble", then pull it towards you and into you. Try inhaling the energy through your mouth once it's in your bubble, that helps. It might take some practice. Don't feel too discouraged if it doesn't seem to work, some psyvamps can't feed via tendrils and you may be one of them. Also strength comes with practice, even basic energywork doesn't come to you overnight.
Feeding by breathing is very simple: If you're close enough to a person to where your aura bubbles are overlapping, or if you're in theirs (easiest), you can simply inhale it. It might not get you much but heck it's better than nothing and doesn't take much effort.

Also there are three general levels of feeding.
Astral feeding is just feeding on the stray prana floating around that people naturally give off. If you're at a rock concert or in any crowd it's most effective, otherwise you can starve yourself if you feed on it alone. It floats over people's heads so be sure not to aim wrong. If you're a beginner and can't feel where the energy is yet it should come with time and experience.
Surface feeding is feeding from the top layer/layers of the aura. It'll give you more prana than astral feeding will but you won't exhaust your donor.
Deep feeding will give you a lot more prana than the prior two. When you deep feed your tendrils go farther in, into the inner layers of the aura or into a chakra. You can exhaust your donor and even overdose.

There are other ways to feed of course, for example from words. You can feed from books and not even notice, or via email you can take from someone because words project energy. I have trouble feeding if my donor and I aren't holding conversation, and low dialogue won't give you much. Sometimes it can be watered down but heck it's still prana. When I didn't know I was a psyvamp (at about 10 years old) I fed mainly from books. Instinct will kick in if you don't know how to feed. Also music is a common source to feed from, especially if you really like the song(s).

Feeding: Sources (part 1)

There are lots of places you can get prana--or any other energy really, though I suggest you avoid negative energies as much as possible. I'm gonna start off with the obvious/basic things and go into further detail as I go.

The most obvious source of prana is people. Donors are helpful but be careful who you chose. If you tell the wrong person you're a psyvamp the results could be unpleasant.

On the other hand you can feed without telling a person. Like if someone hugs you you can take a little through the physical contact, or if you're at a rock concert you can just inhale the high-energy atmosphere.

Within the people option there are categories to chose from. The obvious ones are within the usual subculture labels, but then you're really chosing between indeviduals.

New Age people (ex. Indigos, Crystals, Rainbows, starchildren in general if you know about that sort of thing. If you don't you can check out my other blog, True Colors) are a good option, they're pretty open-minded and make good donors because they naturally emit positive energy. Nevertheless, be careful who you pick.

Normal people are harder to keep as donors. Often--especially if you're of opposite gender--they blur the line between feeding for romance or intimacy. Also they're more closed-minded, so even finding one is difficult.

I hate to stereotypically add a subculture as a donor option, but emos are excellent sources. Mind when I say "emo" I mean emotional person, someone with lacking self confidence and sometimes a nasty habit of cutting can identify them. I'm not saying they all do that, but keep an eye out. Even if they don't know you're a psyvamp you can still feed and rather than it being viewed as a negative attack it will be more pleasant to the person you're feeding from, they'll take it as attention and that you care about them.

Feeding from a partner/significant other can also be good, but don't overdo it. You don't want them to feel like they're being used.

Little bit of advice...Do not feed from a person who is feeling sick, has a negative emotion overcoming them, is elderly, or is a small child. That can be very bad for both you and your source.

The reason I say that is if the person is feeling sick you will both make yourself feel sick and weaken them. If they're feeling bad emotionally you could of course take that from them and make them feel better, but you will just take on the very feelings they were suffering from. The elderly...that's just an overall bad idea. Small children, or any children, don't have as much energy as it would seem and the last thing they need is to lose life energy. Unless you're a teenager and you're feeding from other teenagers just avoid that field ok?

Aside from humans you can feed from animals and plants, just nature in general. The earth has a lot of energy you can feed from without causing damage. I suggest not feeding from small animals for the same reason as children. Houseplants can be killed easily as well. So if you're one of those people wondering why they have a black thumb, you've got your answer.

Feeding from the elements is often used as a supplement. A lot of psy's enjoy feeding from rainstorms, I hear about it a lot. Fire is a good source but not something you can live off of. If you meditate in a field surrounded by nature and just focus on the energies around you, you can balance yourself and your energy field will feel revitalized, both to you and to others.

In part 2 I will give feeding techniques and hopefully it can help beginners get their bearings.