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Centering, Grounding, and a Headache?

I'm not sure this is the right place for it, but I have a problem so I’m throwing it out there:

I'm not sure if I'm not grounding properly, but every time I go to ritual I feel fine before centering and grounding; after I center and ground, however, I get a huge headache. Sometimes it happens over time while in ritual, but lately it's been happening right after I ground. There's a twist though, we have class once a month and we have it in the room next to our High Priestesses sacred space (which we use for ritual, but haven't the past few months due to rain-we go to someone else’s house instead and the headaches are happening there too). When I get into her house I'm perfectly fine, but when I go downstairs for class I sit in my little corner and the headache starts up again (and I hadn't done my centering and grounding for the day yet).

Can anyone help?

ADDITION:

Thank you all for responding, I haven't been able to get on it a while but I have read your comments and will try to do some new things. It hasn't happened in a while, but that could always change so I'd rather add to what I do then not and it get worse. Thanks again.

Skye

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Permalink Reply by Eirlys Lady Hawk )O( on October 27, 2011 at 4:29pm

MM I have not done this class but this answer is excellent. I am new to Witch School, and am only now beginning to take classes. Which class is this from please? Also,I feel that the headaches several of us are experiencing are because, as I've said above, because of increased energy. Sometimes there is so much of it, it is so intense, that it does I believe effect us physically. I had read a piece (not sure if it was an urban myth or not, someone please correct me if so) that in Britain during WW2, witches gathered and raised a power cone to prevent a German invasion, and that it was so intense that some of the older witches got very sick, and so they say some even died because of the intensity of the power raised and the effort to do that. I don't know again if this was a true story, but it does speak to physical effects of the increase of energy in a circle, and perhaps to in a sacred space, where there may be already raised levels of energy before a circle is even cast. BB

Permalink Reply by Mary Blood on October 28, 2011 at 8:17pm

I have this problem as well - I find that I absolutely have to shield after I ground and remain aware of the shield throughout ritual. I allow positive energy movement through the shield so that I can participate in ritual, but anything out of synch, negative, or just unfocused gets blocked out, and I find that it really helps. I did however, rule out other more mundane possible causes first - I'm not allergic to anything, I wasn't eating or drinking something to trigger it, and it doesn't happen at home when I do magical work by myself. Only in group where high amounts of energy are raised. Sometimes even when we're just meeting socially and emotions are running high I get them. The thing is that in the ideal group, everyone's perfectly focused on the magical goal, but in reality, there's always a tiny bit of random energy floating around in the group. Somebody had a thought about an old boyfriend that left them, or somebody else remembered the fight they had that morning and it distracted them for a moment. In the very sensitive, it can kinda cause problems.

Your HP should be able to help you investigate it through meditation or journey work once you rule out mundane causes. Best of luck.

Permalink Reply by Jules DarkOwl on November 16, 2011 at 1:53am

Just as a thought - are you always near the same person when the headaches start? I've never participated in group work, but it seems to me that you've grounded and centered, so you've possibly relaxed your shields... and someone in the group may be a "sink" for you; that is, someone who grounds on the same wavelength and whose energy levels are habitually low. Maybe ask the group, casually, if anyone feels a sudden rush of energy at the times when you feel the headache coming on. You may have to develop a shield specifically against that person.

Permalink Reply by Siw Hand on November 16, 2011 at 6:12am

MM,
Or maybe they are a Vampyre.........well think about it? they could be draining you and thus giving you headaches. I know ppl don't like the V word here. But it is a thought .
Blessed Be your path .