The following are the biggest enhancers especially to improve ones perception and work with subtle energy and the subtle body. The listing is not hierarchical and its importance depends on each individual person.
Yoga, Meditation & Breathing Practices
Yoga is probably the most advanced system of knowledge and practice around energy and being. It goes deep into the topic of the subtle body and its connection to the universe and the higher worlds. Yoga says, God is within. The mystics say, as within so without, and as above so below. Many systems and schools still teach these principles to this day. Yoga postures, Pranayama (yogic breathing exercises), and meditation practices are just a fraction of the whole science of Yoga. Anyone can easily feel how energy perception increases and harmonizes. The wave of energy we run through our body in this course intensifies a lot after a session of Yoga.
Physical Exercise & Stretching (not exhausting but invigorating)
Authentic Yoga postures go far beyond just stretching the physical body. But specifically to enhance the effects of the exercises shown in this course, physical exercise and working out with the body is a great way of increasing body awareness.
Massage, Bodywork & Energy Work
Any form of massage and physical touch helps our skin and body to increase awareness. Tissue gets worked through, tendons and muscles get softened and stretched and energy can flow easier. Especially traditional massage styles with spiritual religious orientations have a great knowledge of working with the energy body, energy lines and points, and improving the body-mind-complex. South Indian Marma Massage is probably the most advanced style, even though it seems oftentimes that it has little to do with a classical massage as we know it in the west. Ayurveda Massage, closely connected to Marma Therapy and Yoga, is especially helpful in balancing and integrating the elements. Thai Massage, if done properly, can improve the body energy flow and harmony tremendously. Just as traditional Yoga, it was never meant as just a simple stretching exercise for the physical body. Yoga and Thai Massage both developed originally as a practice primarily for the energy body and its effects to the mind and connection to the physical body.
But also regular massages or purely energy based bodywork can have great effects. Like Reiki, Pranic healing, or accupuncture. For general health and to restore it, chiropractice and craniosacral therapy are also great tools.
Many more styles and practices exist. Try and choose what resonates most at any moment.
Purification & Detoxes
A general maintanance of purity is essential for spiritual progress. But especially in our modern days it is important to cleanse the body regularly and free it from toxins that get accumulated through life. Cleaning and detoxing the colon, gut and stomach can solve many issues, physical as well as mental and energetical.
Sleep, routine & regular sun exposure
A healthy routine and morning ritual, ideally with sun exposure for several minutes in the morning is ideal to start the day in a good way. Enough sleep and early bed time should also be in anyone‘s schedule who wants to improve their life and energy work.
Regular Practice
The golden rule of energy work and any spiritual practice: Daily a few minutes is better than a few hours once a week. Visualization and psychic abilities improve successively. So they have to be practiced regularly.
Healthy & organic food, Vegetarianism, Ayurveda
We are what we eat. Food is one of the greatest influences to our energy. A vegetarian diet and regular fasting increases the effectiveness of energy work, perceptions and spiritual progress.
Ayurveda is a big system and science of health and wellbeing, and food is a major part of it. It analyzes the constitution of a being through their bodily form and recommends specific foods and treatments. A recommendation to look into for anyone on the path of Yoga or personal development.
Healthy well maintained environments & architecture
An organized and tastefully designed home is not a luxury, but helps to keep your mind and being clean and content. Feng Shui, specific architecture like pyramids structures or symmetrically organized homes can increase wellbeing and the effectiveness of energy work.
Also read about the biggest killers of energy and health.
This is an excerpt from my Free Mini Course „Our Energy Body – feeling, experiencing and vitalizing it“. I encourage you to read through it, if you want to learn more about your own nature, your different bodies (yes we have more than just one) and how to work with it. Also to use the 5 elements to energize your body and whole being with them. The whole course takes just around 30 minutes to read with the practice depending on your own pace.
