Pyrokinesis I & II

Pyrokinesis I & II
By c0verst0ry
EDITOR’S NOTE: Please read the ENTIRE thing, paying close attention to part II before attempting Pyrokinesis.
Pyrokinesis is the ability to control fire. This is an advanced skill, and can be dangerous to others around you if you don't have control over it. The key to Pyrokinesis is focusing on what you want the fire to do, and willing it to happen. Here I have listed a few ways to develop and increase you pyrokinesis skills.
The best way to develop and train your Pyrokinesis skills is a technique called the "dancing flame". Get in a relaxed position, and grab a match. Light the match and focus on the flame. Create a "tunnel" between you and the flame. Visualize the flame moving, or reacting to your movements. Concentrate on the flame’s movement. Now, move your hand in a direction. The flame should move away from your hand. Get used to moving the flame away from your hand. Practice and continue concentrating, but try not to concentrate too hard or become frustrated. After you are “good” at making the flame move away from your hand, try to simply move it without moving your hand. You may get varied results, such as the flame jumping toward you, growing hotter/larger, or moving away from you. Just concentrate and visualize the flame doing whatever movement you’re going for. With enough practice, concentration, and belief in yourself, you should be making the flame “dance” in a sufficient manner. The next step is putting out the flame.
Visualize the flame slowly dimming, flickering, and finally, going out. You must be focusing only on the flame. With enough will power and hard concentration, the flame will go out. Putting a flame out is NOT the easiest part of Pyrokinesis; it's more like an intermediate step.
Getting used to the heat and not jumping away from the flame when it gets too close is the easiest part of Pyrokinesis. Although this step isn’t a necessity, it is a good idea to help you not break concentration from a simple burn. Making the flame relight is the hardest part.
Once you can make the flame go out, focus on the flame relighting, concentrating the same way you did before, only trying for the opposite effect. After a few weeks of doing this, you will notice that once the flame is out, you're able to see the ember start to turn red again, as if it wanted to relight. Once again, when you have practiced enough, it will relight.
PART II
Pyrokinesis. To many this term simply means controlling and producing fire by psionic means. There’s more to it than that, though. Before you can understand exactly what pyrokinesis is, you should know what the word means. It comes from the Greek words Pyr, meaning heat or flame, and kinetics, meaning mechanics. So, pyrokinesis is the mechanics, or the movement, of heat. So, in this article, I will explain pyrokinesis as it is compared to the manipulation of heat, not just fire.

MANIPULATING HEAT
You have to understand exactly what heat is to be able to manipulate it. If you haven’t taken a high school Chemistry or Physics course, then you may not know how things gain heat. Everything is made of billions or trillions of beyond microscopic atomic particles. Even in materials that are completely solid, these particles are in constant motion. This motion is what creates heat. The more excited the particles are, the more they move, collide, and bounce around, and then the more heat they produce. Now that you understand that, you’re ready to begin pyrokinesis. You may need to buy a thermometer at some point, but you shouldn’t need it right away.
After you complete any pre-exercise warm-ups, you just need to sit down in a quiet place. Take a few deep breaths and make sure you are relaxed. You need to choose an object to heat up. It can be anything, such as a pencil, a candle, a piece of glass, yourself, or a piece of paper(though I would advise not to use something so flammable, but it’s your decision). Any surface that you can heat sufficiently and then touch to feel the change will work. Once you have your surface, choose a small area no bigger than the tip of your index finger. Touch this spot and get a sense for its temperature, just making a mental note of how hot it is before you begin. Now, focus all your concentration on the spot. Visualize the countless particles making up that one spot. See how they move. The colder your spot was, the less active the particles were. To increase the heat, concentrate on the particles becoming more excited. Visualize them jumping around, colliding with each other. As they continue to move faster and grow more excited, concentrate on the spot that you felt slowly increasing in temperature. Continue to visualize the particles gaining motion and the temperature of your spot increasing. After several minutes of this, touch your spot again. If this is your first attempt, you may not feel any change in the spot. After continuous practice and hard work though, you should begin to feel a change in the temperature of your spot. As you gain experience, try to get your spot hotter every time or even spread out the spot so that you are heating a larger area.
Once you are confident in your heat manipulating capabilities and you have successfully heated a spot at least two inches in diameter, then you will need to get your hands on one of the simple “heat strip” thermometers that you hold against your forehead. Also, to forewarn you, in this exercise you’ll be heating yourself. You will be not only visualizing the heat and excitement this time, but you will feel it(if you significantly increase the temperature). Choose an area on your body that’s twice the size of the thermometer strip. Your body temperature should be somewhere between 98.5 and 98.7 at any given time (unless you’re sick), but if it makes you feel better, go on and check the temperature of your skin before heating it. Once you’ve confirmed that you have the natural body temperature of your species, begin the heating process on your skin. Keeping the thermometer strip on your selected area (try not to look at it while you‘re heating your area no matter how tempting it is), visualize your skin cells. Now, go deeper than that and see everything inside. Go deeper and see all the particles that make up you. Visualize them swirling and spinning in excitement. As you concentrate on the usual heating method, feel the warmth begin to spread in that area. As you concentrate on the particles becoming stimulated, continue to feel the heat build up on you. After you can feel a change in the temperature of your area, check the thermometer to see how well you did.
MANIPULATING A FLAME
Now, this is the part that most people want to do right from the start. To be honest, I started with manipulating a flame rather than heat, but the thing is that I could not explain how I made the flame move to and fro or how it got larger when I did nothing but stare at it and concentrate on it growing. I had to personally learn the above method of controlling heat before I was able to write an understandable article on pyrokinesis. Now, that’s different. To simply manipulate a flame, you’ll first need a flame. The best choice would be to light a candle. You may also want to put something on your face, like a cloth or a surgical mask, to prevent yourself from breathing on your flame. Once you have the flame going, just sit and watch it for a while. As you watch it, visualize all those particles that are just going crazy inside of it, moving so quickly that they create a mesmerizing orange, blue and yellow light seemingly out of nothing. Hold your hand close to it to feel its heat and the way it moves. This flame is just as alive as you. It breathes the same oxygen and produces CO2 just the same, and that is close enough. It can harm and consume, so be careful. There are several ways to proceed from this point. You may wish to hold your hand there simply for aid in your visualization. At the same time, you could hold your hand near the flame and channel a small amount of energy from your hand to the flame to make a connection. You could even make a small psi ball around the flame, or just put your hand down. Personally, I just keep my hand in place to aid with the visualization, but feel free to choose your own method. Now, keep in mind the super excited particles concentrate on the fire. If you chose to keep your hand in place, feel the heat from the flame. Visualize the particles moving like a wave through the air in any direction that you wish, each particle moving individually and pulling at all those behind it as well. At the same time, concentrate on the entire flame moving. Be sure to move your hand as well because if(!) you are successful at moving the flame, you could easily burn yourself. Continue practicing this same technique, moving the flame however you want. I wish that I could be more specific on this subject, but from my own experience I’ve discovered that controlling the flame only becomes easier with practice and good visualization as well as concentration.
That’s all there is to this article. I’m sorry if it was not helpful. If that’s the case, please let me know. And to anyone who had the misfortune of reading the original pyrokinesis article, I apologize for its lack of detail. Please remember that this is fire you’re dealing with. If you reach the point where you can ignite things easily, you must be careful. I cannot stress that enough. Like I said above, fire breathes and can consume just about anything.