The easiest way to perceive the energy body is through your feelings and tactile senses. Your energy body, as I’ve said, is DIRECTLY CONNECTED to your physical neurology.
The easiest way to get in touch with subtle energy, and your own energy body, is by learning how to feel it with your tactile senses.
Awareness of feelings and movement of the physical body is know as kinesthetics. I call this Body Awareness. And your kinesthetic awareness will put you in touch with your energy body.
The easiest way to learn energy work is by doing energy work. So let’s move into an exercise...
EXERCISE: Feeling Energy #1
- Sit quietly and hold out your hands. Focus your attention on them. Rub them together for a few seconds, then make fists, rapidly spreading
fingers wide and closing a few times. Then hold up your hands with your elbows resting comfortably at your sides. Focus on the RESIDUAL
SENSATIONS you just caused in your hands. - FEEL and SENSE your hands as strongly as you
can. Feel the air around your hands. Feel for every slight change in air temperature and every slight air movement.
- Continue ‘feeling’ your hands intensely and within a short time you will begin to feel some unusual sensations. These will get progressively stronger as you continue to focus on your hands.
You will feel a heaviness, pressure, warmth or cool, tingling, prickling, or a buzzing. This will get
progressively stronger as your hands charge up.
What causes these sensations is focusing your body awareness on a specific part of your physical body
strongly enough to affect it. When you do this, the nerves there charge up, ready for sudden movement. This causes increased bioelectrical activity in your hands, which causes these sensations.
Beneath your hand’s flesh and nerves, this has a direct impact upon your energy body, stimulating increased activity there.
Now, if you move your point of body awareness back and forth through a part of your body, this stimulation INCREASES DRAMATICALLY in both the physical body nerves and the energy body.
If you use this method at the site of a Major Chakra YOU WILL ACTIVATE IT.
EXERCISE: Feeling Energy #2
- Rub your hands together and make fists and spread fingers wide a few times, and then rest your hands on your lap or desktop, palms up. Look at your fingers and feel the residual sensations you just caused in them
- Move the feel of the residual sensations from your fingertips through your hands to your wrists, and then back to your fingertips, over and over, back
and forth through the whole of both hands, taking about half a second each way
- Continue this for a few minutes. Vary the speed, slower and faster, to find what causes the most sensations in your hands. The sensations in your hands will increase as you do this
- You have now stimulated your hands to a fairly high level of activity.
Move now into the next exercise. EXERCISE: Feeling Energy #3
- Switch to FEELING your feet. Kick off your shoes and rub your feet on the floor for a few seconds, to create residual sensations in them. Then wiggle your toes. Now rest your feet on their heels, or on a cushion
- Just as you did with your hands, now focus on the residual sensations you just caused in your feet. Move this FEEL from toes to heels through the whole of both of your feet, back and forth
repeatedly. Continue for several minutes or longer The sensations these exercises cause are
UNMISTAKABLE energy sensations.
Many people, after doing the above, will feel
throbbing or tickling feelings in their brow center (third eye) or in the middle of the head (crown center) or even the heart or the throat. If you do feel odd sensations at these locations it is because the demonstration exercises have stimulated increased energy flow, which has
activated these chakras.
If you don’t feel much of anything, repeat the exercises until you do.
Another idea is take a shower and try these exercises when you are more refreshed and relaxed.
Chances are, if you haven’t generated any feeling, it’s because you’re accidentally trying to visualize, rather than FEEL into the body part. It is okay to visualize if you can’t help it, so long as you also FEEL with your body awareness.
As you gain competency, you can begin moving your point of body awareness (what you moved through your hands and feet above) in patterns over and through your body, from one body part to the next. You can speed up the movement or slow it down. You can amp up the intensity of the feeling, or decrease the intensity. You are in control.
Another exercise here... EXERCISE: Feeling Energy #4
- Continuing from the hand and feet exercises
above, bounce your body awareness up and down both legs, from feet to hips, through the whole of both legs repeatedly. Take one to two seconds each direction, up and down.
- Bounce your awareness from fingertips to shoulders, through the whole of both arms repeatedly. Take one to two seconds in each direction, up and down.
- Bounce your awareness from your feet to your head, through the whole of your body, up and down repeatedly. Take two or three seconds each way.
- You have now stimulated your hands to a fairly high level of activity.
Continue these exercises for as long as you like. You cannot overdo them. However, it is best not to do energy work immediately before sleep, as this can energize your mind and cause insomnia.