(Treebeard explains how to feel and not just see shields as he does as he probes my shields for weaknesses he can exploit. Proper shielding requires practice and suggests that one way to feel my shields is similar to a mime inside an invisible box.) 

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Treebeard: moving to a different topic........

Russ: okay.

Treebeard: we have been discussing my ability and I add to the explanation by saying that with the ability to probe also comes the ability to nudge possibly one way or another if the individual is receptive to the nudge.

Russ: hmm, good point. Now I did notice that in the probe that you used that my left side was more susceptible than my right side. Is that a right, left brain thing or is that just I'm more right-handed so I think with my right than I do more with the left?

Treebeard: that is part of the explanation.

Russ: ahh.

Treebeard: the explanation is I probe one way, you feel the probe, you shift energy so I do.....

Russ: you shift over to the other side.

Treebeard: which is now.....

Russ: which I expected so I switched back over.

Treebeard: but not fast enough.

Russ: ahh well, that's where I'm learning is to get a little more faster on those shifts is to get the feel for the probe and shift over as soon as I know that you're going to be shifting over and it's.....

Treebeard: let me withdraw for a moment and then we will show you a few other little actions.

Russ: okay, sounds good.

Treebeard: to use a phrase that passed through your mind, know your opponent. Where did you?…thank you. Okay now I withdraw.

Russ: okay fair enough.

Treebeard: as I withdraw I will say also, the comment was correct, you are predictable. Okay...

Russ: okay.

Treebeard: put your shields back up.

Russ: okay.

Treebeard: okay I want you to tell me where you feel the push and how quickly, use your fingers to click for the change.

Russ: okay.

(he does the probing while I note with my finger where it I coming from)

Treebeard: you have to be faster than that, you didn't even feel the return did you?

Russ: no I felt the probe, left side still, top part of my head

Treebeard: uh-huh, but you did not feel the reach around the back of the head......

Russ: no, I never got that one.

Treebeard: and then the insert?

Russ: no, back of my head huh? Ah, see there I am, I'm favoring my right side front so I need to get stronger all around.

Treebeard: let me be less subtle, let me be like the juvenile lepidus.

Russ: ah, in that case it will really go through me like butter.

Treebeard: okay.......

Russ: all right.

Treebeard: I am disengaging.

Russ: okay.

Treebeard: okay I went around to the left and low then like a..........what is the thing you use to strikes spikes with?

Russ: a hammer.

Treebeard: on your top.

Russ: hmm, I didn't feel that one.

Treebeard: hmm, maybe I was too gentle on that. It is difficult to be harsh and not finesseful after many years.

Russ: true but still, it's nice though that I'm getting more sensitivity in my shields to feel where I'm getting probed at.

Treebeard: uh-huh.

Russ: I need this practice for people who down here don't have your skill but are still going to be working on me. I can get a little more sensitivity in something that's not even existing except in the etheric form of my energy. Which is a rather unusual thing I'd like to work on for a second too.

Treebeard: okay.

Russ: shields, which require energy and use the energy of our aura and energy we draw in to power them, are also a part of us that we can feel sensitivity to for example when you're probing on various parts of my shield......

Treebeard; uh-hmm.

Russ: and they become almost another extension of your body. And so from that extension of feeling that part of my body that's being probed on, it's almost like a muscle correct?

Treebeard: uh-hmm.

Russ: okay and just like I can move my arm with my brain, it's telling my arm to move, I can exercise my shield in the same way as I would exercise my arm.

Treebeard: as a child you used to get a kick out of watching the individuals on the beachfront make money by being in a invisible box?

Russ: oh the mimes.

Treebeard: yes.

Russ: sure.

Treebeard: you have even tried to be one have you not?

Russ: oh well a little practice here and there in my own private little spaces.

Treebeard: see it as a opportunity to relive that and being your encasement.

Russ: hmm.

Treebeard: I do not like expending energy unnecessarily.

Russ: no I see what....I know what you mean. Oh I see........but actually feel the energy of the shield and not just......

Treebeard: that is correct.

Russ: I see what you mean.

Treebeard: so as a exercise.........and you can even do it on the auspices that you are getting back into your tai chi.

Russ: oh yes.

Treebeard: that you are doing that and you will be able to do it at your workplace and the young lady may even give you pointers on tai chi........

Russ: good point.

Treebeard: but in actual fact you will be......

Russ: practicing shielding.

Treebeard: correct and she may join you in doing tai chi which will be good for her mind as I see that that is playing on you a little too.

Russ: uh huh. Hmmm, now with that, can I then use that in both learning how to use defensive and offensive shielding then?

Treebeard: yes.

Russ: from the tai chi, you get an offensive as well as also a defensive positions to work from.

Treebeard: uh-hmm.

Russ: and so in extending out energy wise, I can actually extend out offensively a shield to ward off attack or to block an attack.

Treebeard: uh-hmm. Okay I am being also told to.....

Russ: of course, we are taking up too much time but of course as always very entertaining and knowledgeable. I needed this.

Treebeard: you are welcome. Now I will dwell briefly on....

Russ: don't please, only briefly.

Treebeard: you have much interest in that.

Russ: yes.

Treebeard: so I will for you dwell as a question.

Russ: okay but over tea maybe. Don't spend your whole off time working on it, just a maybe a cup of tea and think about it and see what happens but yeah don't use all your time up for it.

Treebeard: I will not be hasty in my answers.

Russ: fair enough, thank you very much.

Treebeard: to a hasty individual, enjoy yourself.

Russ: thank you Treebeard.