So I have a bit of a confused understanding on hands. Lots of times in rituals you use both of your hands to send out energy. This confuses me a bit as I’ve also heard that the left hand is used for taking in energy while the right hand is used for pushing out energy. So could someone help me understand this?
I call bullcoughshit
I was born a left handed but was forced to be a right handed. Now I’m using my right as I “should”, aka being my dominant hand.
But some times I might start using my left as dominant without giving it much thought only to have a total black out for a few seconds (error 404) as I realize what I’m doing and my brain can’t copy how the hell I’m writing or eating with a hand I never used as dominant.
Long story short, both my hands can send and receive. I see the traditional approach as just a limitation and purely symbolical.
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Hiya OP! The conception of specific hands specializing in sending or receiving energy originates with the Kabbalah- the Tree of Life, as a reflection of the human body, has two pillars, Severity and Mercy. It is often regarded that Severity corresponds with the left hand and Mercy with the right (absorbing with the left and giving with the right), but, this is a misrepresentation. The Tree of Life mirrors the human form, it does not depict it- so what is on the left of the tree represents the right side of the human body, and vice versa. In other words, originally speaking, the right hand is the absorber and the left hand is the giver! 
That is not to say that either hand is limited to these functionalities, but, that is the origin of the concept of their specialization.
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This comes from the idea that the left hand represents the feminine and receptive side of the body and the right hand represents the projective, masculine side of the body (this was before it was discovered that the left side of the brain actually controls the right side of the body and vice versa)
The patriarchal religions, like Christianity, branded the left as “sinister” (left handedness is known as sinistrality in the medical lexicon, and it generally means that the left side of the body, not just the hand, functions more efficiently than the right).
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100% this. If you can’t push and pull from both, you are missing the boat.
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This also exists in Taoist magik and qigong. It depends what you’re doing. If you’re performing an operation where you’re only giving out or pulling in energy, using both hands is fine.
Generally, I’d say keep to the techniques of the system you’re using within the context that you learned them.