what kind do you need?

So, I'm generally looking for advice and information but I felt it'd be easier or more beneficial in discussion form so:

What sort of energy do you benefit from most? What techniques for gaining that energy do you find most useful? Any theories as to why? Do you think this is individualized or are there common traits between different energies and methods?

*smiles* everyone play nice, as I suspect it may be rather personal to share one's feeding methods. So please, no harsh criticisms or negative judgements to your fellow forum members.

I'm a "sanguinarian", I feed on blood. My method for obtaining this is either from rare meat, or blood donors, by cutting the skin.

Occasionally, I will indulge on sexual, astral, emotional, etc energy, but it is not necessary to my survival in the same way, or at all.

The metaphor I use to differentiate is this: "Psi" is to Caffine, as Blood is to Whole foods and nutritients. Feeding on energy is nice, and can be a good pick-me-up from time to time. But anyone can learn how to do it. I don't relate it to vampirism very much, if at all.

It makes the most sense to me that sanguinarians and other "physical" vampires are born this way either from hereditary disposition, passing of genes, or some sort of disorder that has yet to be described properly by medicine. It is possible that it is some sort of auto-immune thing, or maybe even a reaction of a virus.

Thank you for responding to this Astral! I appreciate the insight on the personal differences between "Psi" energy and energy from blood. Do you mind me prodding and asking more questions? If you do, then feel free simply not to answer them.

I'm curious about what different methods you might use for feeding off of "psi" energy and I'm also curious how you came about to understand the different affects that the energies have on you that shows that you are "Sanguinarian" versus "Psi" such as: Have you ever tried to feed off of Psi-energy alone and found that it didn't help as well or that you needed MORE than you would with blood? That is, of course, if you do not mind sharing. I won't pry if you'd like to keep private. :)

When I first started awakening, I tried feeding psi-only. But ended up actually astral hunting a lot where the end result was feeding on blood, I'd wake up with the taste in my mouth like it was real. Perhaps it was bi-location. After a couple years of this, my healthy started to deteriorate, I ended up "feeding" that way a lot more often and it still wasn't working.

Someone I knew told me I should try ordering a medium to rare steak somewhere and see if that helps any. To my surprise it did. I had a major migraine before hand, and that cleared up. I could see more clearly, and was more energized. For the next couple years, this was my "feeding" regimen... until it got worse again. Even the rarest of steaks would not keep both the hunger and my health to a "normal" range. It got so bad to a point where I'd have difficulty getting any food down, and then worse off to digest it. All during this time, I was going to the doctor to try and figure out what was wrong. I've had so many blood work ups, and nothing out of the ordinary is ever found. I was tired all the time, had extreme reactions to the sun and light, being anywhere or doing anything literally hurt.

A bit later I managed to find a donor, someone who will be with me for a long time. Funnily, he's able to know when I'll need to feed, before I even know. And he even knows when skipping a day will make me feel really crappy.

Regardless, I still hope that I'll be able to find what the hell is going on, and sometimes I wish that it was all psychological and I could just wish it away... but the amount of times where I've actually been on the floor crying doing just that, it hasn't gone away. Every time my body refuses normal foods, every time I have to force myself to eat. I just need a schedule and I need to commit to it >_<

...I've started to have more experiences that sound like what you're saying. Several months ago I would get dizzy and nauseous after eating, followed by excruciating pain in my guts.

I've been to the doctor once or twice about the pain and discomfort I still experience weekly, often daily... No matter how I ate or what I drank I was still in pain especially near the end of the day or when I first woke up in the morning.

Then about 3 weeks ago I started accepting psi-energy from a donor and I've been significantly better. Hardly any pain or discomfort... And it's just strange because I can eat more crap, and drink energy drinks again where those were crippling before. I'm still trying to figure out how to balance my diet but it really seems as if feeding off of energy is what keeps my stomach from getting upset.

The doctors haven't come up with anything but I'm calling a gastroenterologist next week to schedule an appointment to figure out what's going on.

The correlation between intentionally trying to feed on energy and then the pain-less-ness weirds me out. I'm also concerned about absorbing energy from other people because I already do passively but it's in a different sense and wears me out more. I've always been a mild empath and will pick up other people's behaviors and speech patterns as well as their emotional state... and I'm not sure how to balance that out with feeding off of a person's energy.

I've always had a soft spot for medium rare steaks so that's about the only kind I eat. Delicious! But I'm not sure if there is a correlation.

Do you, Astral, or anyone else, know how to figure out these things without having to go through all of the physical pain and mental confusion or... is it just part of the ride?