Hello @christina4,
I know this will sound potentially crazy but when I first learned sorcery it was in a name called Nen. I know most people think there’s no way its real but it was that very practice which Togashi created for his show and comic book called Hunter x Hunter which taught me everything I learned from the past 4 to 5 months.
In the show Nen is referred to as a life force between all living beings and the structural form for the departed. Some are able to utilize it like me though in this world. I do not own the show and don’t earn money from typing all of this but I fear there may be some truths to the show itself for its approach regarding aura and sorcery.
The only thing is there are 2 different approaches to learn it you either use deliberate methods which involve meditation or a practice called Sen / Zen, the second one involves initiation and is considered unorthodox since it requires someone with expertise to shock open the person’s life force in the body, too much of it with ill intention may render one unconscious or worse kill a person which is why its frowned upon.
I know Nen’s basic principles since I’ve studied it for the past several months by using both methods in both practical and theoretical approach to the point my own lover thinks I’m already a Master in the art even though I am not one nor have I ever been taught formally. The more accurate description for me is that I am a prodigy in it since I learned alone with only a few guides to follow for the basic and advanced principles. Because of the fact the physical pain he was in left after I did a Hatsu that drained a lot of my aura since he lives at Africa which is continents and miles apart from my home country.
Ten is the ability to shroud your entire body with enough energy to protect oneself in western witchcraft though I believe this shows under a protective spell or circle, Ren is the measurement of how high of a level one’s life force is, western witchcraft for this manifests as the amount of energy one would use to do a spell or enchantment, Hatsu, the method in which a Nen practitioner utilizes his or her energy to the outside world as a manifestation of it, in western witchcraft though it shows as spells a person casts to achieve a goal, Zetsu, the ability to hide one’s lifeforce from being tracked through supernatural means and increases the user’s healing at the cost of losing the protection Ten offers, in western witchcraft though I have yet to see if there are those able to do it in hiding their items from unwanted attention.
Hatsu has 6 categories, Enhancement, Emmission, Transmutation, Conjuration, Manipulation and Specialization. One’s life force is innate and cannot be changed unless you’re born under Conjuration or Manipulation since both have the highest chances of becoming Specialist later in life. The Hatsu categorization is known through water divination, a glass of water with a leaf on top of it is used to discover one’s categorization for Hatsu. I was born under a Manipulation category but I turn into a Specialist whenever I am about to use Reiki so I can utilize Enhancement to heal or cure someone from his / her illness or pain however I do have certain conditions for it to work on a person or animal first. There are advanced variations of Hatsu which mostly requires masterall of the basic principles of Ten, Ren and Zetsu and may or may not lean on a certain Nen category.
The pulses you were feeling I’d say it’s your life force or energy. With enough meditation that can be controlled as long as one keeps calm and doesn’t freak out as the energy opens one’s body system if it crawls through the skin to open one’s body. There are those who feel like its an electric shock in an unknown high voltage that opens their system like mine and those who literally roll because they have difficulty controlling the energy itself. This very practice is a dangerous art under the wrong hands so don’t attempt it if its for retribution or revenge only or if you take pleasure in seeing others suffer in pain.
Merry meet, merry greet and merry part,
-Margaret