The First Movements of Norse Energy Work

Part Two: Push and Pull (from the Energy Manipulation series)

In Part One, we talked about how energy work starts by recognizing what’s already happening in your body. The goosebumps. The tension in the room. The way your hands tingle when you’re focused. We named the thing you’ve probably been feeling for years without knowing what it was.

But recognizing it is only step one.

Now let’s talk about what to actually do with that energy.

If you're going to work with energy, really work with it, not just play around, then you’ve need start here. This is where everything begins. Push. And pull.

That's it. Norse Energy Work

You're either putting energy into something, or you're taking energy in. That's the whole thing, right there. Every working, every ritual, every moment of Seiðr... it’s all riding that current.

And the thing is, you’ve probably done it already. Maybe not on purpose. Maybe you didn’t have the language for it. But you’ve felt it.

Like, you ever walk into a room and suddenly feel all your attention pull inward? Like you just know you don’t want to be noticed, or there’s something off in the air? That’s a pull. You’re pulling your energy back into yourself. You're bracing.

And then there’s the other side. You ever get so fired up or focused that people around you start reacting before you even speak? Like their heads snap over or they shift in their seat? That’s a push. You sent something forward, and they felt it.

This is real. It's not something you have to believe in. It's something that happens.

When you're pushing, you're putting energy out. Out into the space, into a person, into a charm, into the air itself. You’re charging. You’re setting the tone. It builds in your chest, sometimes your throat, your hands. It’s a pressure. A tension. You’re leaning forward with your field.

You push when you want to bless, or protect, or shift the energy in the room. Or honestly, when you just need someone to feel you, without saying a word.

Now pulling? Pulling feels different. It's more internal. Heavier sometimes. You’re bringing energy in. Could be from a person, from the land, from a charged object. Or it could just be from yourself, calling your own energy back after letting too much scatter out.

You pull when you’re grounding. When you’re cleansing. When you’re listening. This is what we do in trance work. When the völva sits quiet, eyes half-closed, not saying a word... she’s pulling. She’s drawing the thread toward her, not pushing hers out into the world.

And while we’re at it, your body knows when this stuff is happening. There’s actually a word for that in Old Norse.

It’s called læti.

Most folks translate it as “noise” or “disturbance,” and that’s close, but not quite it. In this work, læti is the reaction. It’s what happens when energy moves, and your body picks it up before your brain catches on.

It’s the skin tightening. The deep breath you didn’t mean to take. That pulse under your ribs. That sudden wave that makes you sit up straighter or drop your eyes.

That’s læti.

It doesn’t mean something’s wrong. It means something’s happening.

And we don’t ignore that here. In Seiðr, we pay attention to that kind of thing. That’s part of the communication. Your body is in on the work, not just your mind.

So when people ask, “how do I start learning energy work?"...this is it. You start by getting honest about whether you’re pushing or pulling. You practice. You try it on purpose. You see how it feels. You find out where it lives in your body.

Because if you can’t control that, the rest won’t land. It won’t matter how good your chant is or how cool your altar looks. If you don’t know how to move the current, you're just making shapes.

But if you can do it, if you know how to push with clarity and pull with strength, then suddenly, everything changes. You don’t need to tell people what you’re doing. They’ll feel it.

That’s the work.