Lighting Matches (Side Effects?)

The other day I was REALLY skeptical about all this Psi stuff, so skeptical that I tried to perform it myself, I set up a Candle, a regular house candle, 2 matchs, and a lighter (to light the candle ). I went through the articles which I had found extremely interesting and read on for days about psi balls, shields, constructs and so on, then I came across the Pyrokinesis which especially bought my interest.

So to see If I could actually "attempt" this I tried it out with a little warming up of meditation, then I sat down with a lit candle, in the dark. I must say I didnt see anything at first, then, all I could see was the candle, literlly, I was so into it, I felt it curve, so I jumped up and blowed it out and I was freaked out laughing like a lunatic, then i tried lighting a match, I sat there for 60 minutes, and holy bejesus, I didnt know what to do when I saw it smoking I saw it turn red but just then when it was about to flare up, I got this huge headache, and I couldnt go on.

what are side affects for attempting pyrokinesis for too long, (also I couldnt stand, and my hands and eyes still sting) Is this just for focusing to long or something else?

Perhaps a burnout, I dunno. I don't do PK.

Nothing to worry about, when you focus energy for a prolonged amount of time, your body starts reacting to your intensive concentration. Just try to take breaks every 15minutes or so when using skills like this, will stop you having these.

Note: You can also get nosebleeds and other compression-related problems from using psionics, but nothing majorly damaging.

there are dangers to it..strain and stress on ones body. plus how far away was the object? I mean come one dude..think of science for a sec when a place heats up how does it heat up? By the molecules moving faster so if you are trying to get the molecules around that match to heat up and light even if it was only three inchs away for a beginner that is a far stretch

Molecules are on a molecular level.. if you are concentrating on a specific area to acheive a specific psionic effect, you are not going to damage yourself thermally.

So are we. they aren't something spiritual or anything they are just to small for us to see. and it has to travel it can not be from point A to point B without a path it can not travel like that nothing in this world can. so how does it travel? every thing does.

Energy travels via the body, but the chances of someone forcing it to become active mid-trip is highly unlikely, in my experience with teaching people who are new to psionics, I've not had one person mess up TK, although not as many are capable of PK.

As long as your concentration is in the right place, you won't be microwaving your bodyparts anytime soon. Infact, one of the few times* I've managed to burn myself with energy was during experimentation with constructs; by 'infusing' an armor construct with thermal energy (it makes the energy unstable, and harder to control, as the molecules are constantly on the move - harder to contain) I lost control of it and it went into my arm while dissipating, no doubt because the energy was being drawn back to my sternum. Either way, unless you start messing about with heat energy as part of a larger construct (ie. trying to make 'fireballs') then the chances of you messing up a part of your body are slim to none.

* Others being flaring thermally active psiballs!

Note
I'm not one of these hippy 'psionics is the power of spirits' retards, I usually give a scientific basis to psionics, as I see it as being on a biological level. I don't need physics explaining to me, and will take offense if you attempt to do so.

see this is why I want to learn more..see I have a baisic concept of physics but the area I excell in is demensions and other worldly stuff not this stuff. To me it doesn't make any sense.

Um.. yes....
From what I recall, energy doesn't really have distance issues. Of course, I don't know what goes on with TK, but I'd imagine you are using subtle energies. Therefore, if you get your mind in the right... mind... set... it shouldn't matter if you are holding the object to be manipulated or if PSISniper is.

there is one other side effect if the energy is blocked as the intent is to evoke flame it is possible to build up enough to cause spontaneous combustion but that would take the average psi several months to build up enough energy. for example think of your body like an electric circuit and psi like the electricity that travels the circuit, under normal circumstances the energy flows and does what the circuit wants it to do. but if the out put is blocked and the energy isn't dissipated in some form it stays in the circuit normally this just overloads the psi causing them fatigue and trouble using psi for a while but if a significantly substantial amount of energy is sent through the system then it could burst into flame. The best real world example I can think of for this is say you have a stereo designed to work on standard house hold voltage and you hook it up to a source designed to supply the electrical power to an aircraft it will explode in flame and it's possible for that to happen with psi not very likely mind you but still possible