Flaring - By Ness

Flaring
By Ness
This is my flaring article. I'm going to go over the technique I use when I try to flare psiballs. I haven't gotten a good, solid flare yet, but I'm working on it.
Obviously, you should be pretty good at making psiballs. Visualization skills (visual and tactical) and concentration skills help too. Some basic energy skills help, mostly gathering large amounts of energy and controlling it. Meditation or tracing before hand would also probably help, although I do neither of these.
First of all, and I hope this is common sense, make your psiball. Make it strong. I recommend keeping it small (explained at the bottom).
Now, once your psiball is strong and you're ready to actually try to flare it, you can begin this. Visualize a lot of energy flowing into you from some outsides sources. I usually use the sky and ground. Visualize massive amounts of energy flowing into your body and going to your shoulders. Once there, visualize it pulsing down your arms and to your hands. When the energy gets to your hands, visualize it squeezing out, tightly, and being forced into the psiball. The pulsing and tight feelings you tactically visualize should help you know there is a lot of energy there. Of course you know there's a lot of energy, but if you can FEEL how much there is... well, you get my point.
As you continue adding massive amounts of energy to the psiball, visualize it spinning violently. I visualize my psiball spinning quickly at first but gradually speeding up to the point where it's all a blur. Continue to add energy to the psiball as it gets more and more dense and spins even faster.
Eventually, visualize the psiball sparking. By sparking, I mean visualize sparks, like sparks of electricity, on or in the psiball. Visualize it sparking many times, randomly and violently, and then visualize it slowly beginning to glow as it spins and sparks.
Keep this going until the psiball is glowing very, very brightly. At this point, you have some options. If you have a buddy and there is a camera nearby, have them take a picture or video of it. I recommend this option because even if you can't see the psiball with your naked eyes, you can edit the picture and see if anything comes up there.
If you can't take a picture or video of your psiball, just look at it. This may make you lose focus, especially if you see something and you freak out with joy, so be careful.
That's about all for the flaring article. The steps are simple, but actually having the energy to flare isn't. Just keep working at it. You'll eventually notice a faint glow, then a slightly stronger one, and so on.
Now I have a few tips.
Above, I recommended you keep the psiball small. This has to do with the density of the energy. To explain this quickly, I'll make something up. Let's say psi is a unit of energy. One psi is a little amount of energy, like a watt of electricity or milliliter of water. Say you have one hundred psi crammed inside a psiball the size of a baseball. That energy is compact, isn't it? Pretty dense? There's so much energy in that small space that it's all cramped and tight. The psiball would probably feel pretty powerful.
Now, imagine one hundred psi inside a psiball, but this psiball is the size of a house. Look at how dense the psiball is. Not very, is it? The psi has so much room to float around that it's like the psi is barely contained in anything at all! This psiball would probably feel really, really weak, even though it has exactly the same amount of energy as its baseball-sized friend.
My point is: flaring should be easier if you can take a lot of energy and compress it into a little space. I practice flaring psiballs the size of softballs or so (normal size for most people, probably), but I have also played around with small psiballs, about the size of a nickel or so, and I've probably seen better results when it was small.
My second tip involves shelling. I recommend you shell your psiball well and often, just because a shelled psiball stays together better than a non-shelled psiball does. This means that you can stop worrying about holding the psiball together and focus on just adding energy.
My last tip involves sickness. This technique requires a ton of energy. If you're not ready for it, it may make you sick. Probably not to the point where you're vomiting blood or anything, but it could give you a nasty headache and make you feel weak for a while. If you feel bad while doing this, stop. There's no shame in being smart and recognizing your limit. You can always work on controlling energy and come back to this later. It's no big deal.
That's all!