INCREASING YOUR MIND POWER
From Ambrosia Knight's personal Book of Shadows

The following is not a spell.
It is an exercise to help increase your mind power.

Take a glass and turn it upside down.
Place your fingers on top of the glass without any pressure (barely touch it).
With your mind (not your fingers), make the glass move forward.
Either speak this aloud or just think about it.

If it doesn't move at first, don't get frustrated.
With time and practice, it will and you'll be amazed when it happens.
Remember not to get freaked out and think it's a ghost or anything.
You are the one moving it.

TESTING YOUR PERSONAL POWER
From "Making Magick" by Edain McCoy

THE POWER IN YOUR PALMS TEST

The palms of your hands are natural energy centers through which you can direct power. Hold your hands up in front of you about a foot apart, palms facing together. Close your eyes to aid your concentration, and focus your attention on the space between your palms. Between them is a low energy field similar to two opposite poles of a magnet facing each other. Like magnets, they can attract or repel other energies depending on how you set them up to work.

With your eyes still closed, bring your hands slowly together and begin to rub your palms vigorously against one another. Feel the heat they create. This is heat born of energy you are creating. Memorize the sensation.

After a minute or two, move your hands back apart. Now concentrate on the feeling passing between them as you move them slowly toward each other again. Can you feel their resistance to each other? You are sensing the expansion of the energy field you have created projecting outward from your palms. It has created a slight, natural barrier to the energy of the other hand. Memorize the sensation so that you can be confident when you conjure it again.

Before you quit the exercise, take your hands and place them on the ground, mentally willing the excess energy you raised to be grounded away from you. You should never allow unused magickal energy to remain on you or to randomly go elsewhere. Leaving it will only permit it to work against you, making you feel frazzled and unfocused. In extreme cases it can cause you to feel as if you are being haunted.

THE CANDLE FLAME TEST

Light a taper candle and place it on a table or other sturdy surface where there is absolutely no chance of encountering a draft. Do not use a votive candle for this exercise as the glass container can hinder your ability to affect the flame. You will also need to close windows, turn off ceiling fans, air conditioners, and furnaces to avoid indoor air currents.

Stand before the flame and, with eyes open, will your own energies to merge with those of the flame. This can be visualized any way you like. You can think of your physical body as merging with that of the flame, or of the flame burning inside yourself, or as a blending of your subtle energy bodies. Whatever you choose to do, consider this fusion as a pathway to the candle that will allow you to manipulate it without physical contact.

When you feel you have made a connection, mentally will the candle flame to waver as if you had just used your palm or your lips to send a small current of air its way. Try to visualize this both as a continuous stream of energy bombarding the flame and as little bursts of energy. One method may work better for you than imagining a hand or your mouth sending the air, and it can also tell you which of your chakras is most magickally developed.