Select a block to be associated with a particular emotion, then while holding it in your hands, focus all your attention on experiencing that emotion. You should attempt to feel the emotion as strongly as you can while you imagine filling the stick with it, pushing the emotion from your chest and head into the object. If it helps to focus on a particular mental image, then do so, and note the nature of the image in your notebook. Sometimes the best way to focus on an emotion is to remember a time when you felt it clearly and concentrate upon a particular image connected with that event. Perform this concentration technique with one emotion for between
five and ten minutes. Then wait at least ten minutes for your emotions to clear before repeating the process with the next block. Follow this procedure until all five blocks have been "charged," each with one of the five different emotions.
Some precaution should be taken to keep the sticks from making physical contact with each other. This is to prevent the psychic energy of one stick from "contaminating" the others. Metaphysical literature suggests wrapping each block in a silk handkerchief, but rolling them up, separated in the folds of a hand towel, should be sufficient.
In a party situation each guest will need a piece of paper to write down their impressions. Everyone should be told what the five target emotions are, then the five numbers should be listed in a column to the left on each participant’s paper. Each of your guests in turn will be given a block to work with, one block after the other. (If everyone is sitting in a circle it is easy to pass each block to the person next to you.) Then while holding the object in their hands for one or two minutes, each person should focus their complete attention on it while waiting for an emotion to come clearly to mind. The trick here is to clear the mind of any preconceptions and try to "feel" emotion coming from the wood rather than simply "guess" what the emotion might be. Also be on alert for any mental image that comes to mind.
After everyone has selected which emotion they believe is associated with the block they are holding, they should write the name of that emotion on the paper to the right of the identifying number of the block. Any mental image that came to mind can be written down to the right of the emotion. Once you have written down this information, pass the block to the next person. Repeat this process until everyone has worked with all five objects before checking for results.
If you find yourself feeling the same emotion with more than one block, go ahead and guess that emotion twice if necessary. Logic has nothing to do with this, and it's better to get four out of five than ignore a correct impression because it has already been guessed previously. If you wish you can return to a previous object to reevaluate your guess before making a final conclusion.
Statistical odds tell us that in five attempts each person should successfully choose only one of the five emotions correctly. Repeating the entire exercise five times would produce twenty-five attempts and odds alone would produce a total of five correct impressions. Anything better than this is evidence of psychic perception.
After playing the game, you and/or your friends might want to repeat the "charging" procedure in order reduce incorrect emotional energy placed into the sticks due to missed guesses, and to saturate the sticks with as much energy as possible. If your friends assist you, have them concentrate on a specific image you want associated with each emotion. If a particular image is included every time it will reinforce the "target" image you are hoping others will be able to detect.
It can also be entertaining to have everyone place their key rings together in a paper bag, then one person can draw out a key ring with their eyes closed and see if they can tell who it belongs to without looking at it. Each person can do this in turn, mixing up the key rings by shaking the bag each time before one key ring is withdrawn.
You can also charge other objects, say by concentrating on feelings of love while holding a small gift for a loved one.
Note: Psychometry, as described here, can be an excellent tool for learning to develop clairvoyant ability, since once you are familiar with perceiving "impressions" from specific objects you can easily switch to turning your attention to people, events, etc.
Psychometry: Summary of Instructions
1) Prepare "charged objects" by following steps (a) -- (e).a) Create five identical blocks of wood.
b) Number one end of one side of each block (1 through 5).
c) Charge the five objects with one emotion each by "pushing" the emotion into the object from your head and chest for 5-10 minutes. (Wait 5-10 minutes before
charging the next object.)
d) Write down which emotion is associated with each block.
e) Store the blocks by rolling them up in a silk handkerchief or small towel.
2) The objects are distributed to the first five guests sitting in a circle, each guest having a pen and paper with the numbers 1-5 listed in a column on the left.
3) Each guest attempts to feel which of the five, pre-selected emotions are associated with the object they are holding (1-2 minutes) then the object is passed to the next person.
4) The selected emotion is written next to the number of the object, along with any visual image perceived.
5) After everyone has written their selections, the results are compared.