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).