Procedure

1. Create a pleasant mood and relax. Put on soothing music and candles (if it’s dark). Lie the person on either side with head on a small pillow. An easier way is to lie the person flat on their back with a large firm pillow under the knees and a very small pillow under the head. The idea is to keep the spine flat. In the flat back position you need just move the head from side to side as needed. If it’s chilly, put a blanket on them.	photos copyright © 2004 Cozy McFee
2. Place one towel on the pillow, and one to cover hair and neck to protect from possible wax drip. I ask for assistance (silently) from the devas of this realm of clearing. Center yourself.	photo copyright © 2004 Cozy McFee
3. Light the wide end of the cone and tap till smoke spirals out the small end.	photo copyright © 2004 Cozy McFee
4. Gently place small end on the ear canal. Angle the cone away from face, 45 degrees. Adjust cone to seal in the ear canal. Wave smoke away from the ear with your other hand until sealed. No smoke should escape out of the ear canal.	photo copyright © 2004 Cozy McFee
5. Let the wide end burn about 2" down. Remove from ear. Cut burnt section into bowl of water and leave 1/4" burning. Or cut the flame off and empty cone and re-light, whichever suits you.	photo copyright © 2004 Cozy McFee
6. Turn upside down and ream out with skewer into a bowl of water. Turn upright and tap with skewer until smoke comes out. Return to ear and seal again. Repeat. Burn halfway down. It takes three cuttings. You should be left with about six inches of the cone when finished.	photo copyright © 2004 Cozy McFee
7. Cut flame off or douse in bowl. Place cone down on plastic bag or paper. Break skewer in half (to make sure you do not re-use it.) 8. The cone may contain some earwax and some cone wax. The active force in coning is the smoke spiraling in the ear canal. We need as much smoke as possible pouring in. If the wax is properly emptied out each time you cut the cone, you continue a strong flow of smoke. The smoke does its work regardless of the amount of wax in the cone. 9. Clean out ear with Q-tip dipped in oil. Do not go deep. Gently swab only what you can see of the ear canal. This soothes the nerve endings. If one ear still feels plugged, you can use another cone. I use a pendulum or muscle test to see if another cone is needed. 10. Balance the ears - Position yourself at the head with person lying down, face up. Place your hands on both ears and wait for an energy pulse between your palms. Release (silently) the person's energy field from yours. Bring hands from ears to top of head to close auric field.	photo copyright © 2004 Cozy McFee

The active force in coning is the smoke spiraling into the ear canal. We need as much smoke as possible pouring in. If the wax is properly emptied out each time you cut the cone, you continue a strong flow of smoke.

Put cotton in the ears to protect from cold wind if you are going outdoors (not necessary indoors). A few drops of ear oil or olive oil may be put on cotton. Clean and sanitize bowl. Remove wax from scissors with fire or hot water and wipe with paper towel.

You are done!

Xtras:
Practitioners add whatever they feel will help the process. Feel free to do the same.
Some do Reiki, massage, cranio sacral, essential oils etc. to enhance the coning.
I also add some extras to my routine. I incorporate Helichrysum essential oil as per Dr. Young’s (of Young Living Essential Oils) suggested use of Helichrysum for ears. I use one drop of Helichrysum on the index finger, place finger in the ear canal and press in 4 directions. First forward then top, toward back then down. On the down stroke, give it plenty of pressure and jerk down. Next, put one more drop of Helichrysum on the index finger and massage the bone in back of the ear, especially the TMJ joint under the earlobe.
You may also use acupressure on the rim of the ear (use index finger and thumb), from the top to the ear lobe. This can be done before or after the candling.
*Make sure to clip your index fingernail or it can be too hard in the ear canal.
*Never use essential oils directly in the ear as drops, they can burn the eardrum.
External use is all you need due to the penetrating action of the oils.
*Pressing index finger in the ear canal can be used whenever you feel blockage
(i.e.airplane), with or without oil. Press in 4 directions. On the down stroke, give it plenty of pressure and jerk down with thumb behind the earlobe and index finger in ear canal.

For three hours - If you are going outdoors, put a little cotton ball in to protect your ears from wind and cold. In warm, mild weather this is not necessary.
Earwax replenishes itself in 24 hours. For 24 hours after an ear coning, it’s best to not immerse you head in water.

Notes:

1. It takes 3 separate conings to finish the cleansing started with the 1st.
   Space them 3 to 7 days apart.
2. In case of an earache with no medical help available, cone aching ear first, then other ear, then the aching ear again.
3. If ears feel drawing or dry, use olive or Mullein flower oil - a few drops of warm oil is very soothing.
4. If you burn a cone by itself, it has a small amount of wax from the cone. After coning hundreds of people, we have found that this is not always true. For instance, suppose a burnt cone (without subject) yields one inch of wax. There are many conings that yield one eighth inch, one fourth inch, or no wax at all. All should have one inch plus whatever came out of the ear. This indicates that other factors are involved when working with the human body.

A variety of herbs are used. These herbs contain natural antibiotics, decongestants and balancing properties. If cleansing is too rapid, a plain cone may be used. We are not responsible for misuse of this product. Ear cones are not a cure all. They are effective in many cases but not all. Please use your judgement. The process has long been used to relieve ear infection as a home remedy. Pioneers on the etheric levels must of course find their own way.