In this example the wind at the top of High Hrothgar that leads to the Throat of the World. I personally found this a little slow so opted for the slightly modified method below.Īn alternative method is to stand on a device or area that will harm you constantly, such as a under a fire trap or as So, one way in which to harm yourself so you can heal straight away and do so in a controlled manner, is to cast the alteration spell Equilibrium - which converts health to magicka for the duration of the cast, but can kill you - and then heal once your health is low enough for the restoration spell to apply. To summarise: the general idea is to take some damage and then cast a restoration spell.
Casting on a full health bar won't give you experience. In the case of restoration spells and therefore leveling it, you'll need to cast a restoration spell - Healing, Fast Healing, Close Wounds for instance - so that it gives you health. The trick for leveling spell-based skills is to cast the spell so that it will have some affect or rather: change the environment/game. I found myself needing to do this in order to balance my character better I had completed the main quest line so was merely playing for the hell of it.
There are actually many techniques to leveling restoration in Skyrim.
