LESSON 5: energy body self-care
Would you go to a dentist with bad breath? A barber with a bad haircut? Given a choice, do you prefer a doctor who looks well over one who seems tired, malnourished, or run down? It is human nature to want the person to whom you trust your care to appear as though they walk the talk. This is especially true when it comes to energy healers. You owe it to your participants to take good care of your energy body. The clearer and more vibrant your aura, the better outcomes your group will have.
Just like your physical body, your energy body requires exercise and care to stay strong and high functioning. Think of your energy system as a muscle --- the more you use it the stronger it becomes. The best way to strengthen your energy system is practice, practice, practice. A well-kept energy system will ensure good energy hygiene and help you to know yourself, live your truth, and access deeper parts of yourself for greater enlightenment.
An effective energy self-care program will involve six steps:
Grounding: Grounding connects you to the earth. It is the process of drawing yourself fully into your body. When you are grounded, you are fully aware and in touch with all parts of your body. A solid grounding practice will keep you in touch with your own energy internally and externally.
Centering: Centering is finding your own internal core and calmly focusing on your own energy within yourself. It’s a form of mindfulness. When you are centered, you are fully connected to the Solar Plexus or Heart chakra, which serves as the meeting ground for all your energies.
Protecting: Protecting is when you clear, repair, and raise energetic boundaries to create safe space. When you feel safe, you trust and believe your intuition and are confidently guided by it.
Opening: Opening is a process that enables energy to flow freely through all areas of the energy body. It is common practice for a Practitioner to open a client’s energy body to channel healing. At the end of the session, the Practitioner closes the client’s aura to ‘seal’ in the work that has been completed.
Accessing: Accomplishing what you set out to do, such as performing a healing, reading, or receiving insights from your Higher Self or Source.
Closing: The opposite of opening. It includes appropriately closing energy centers, re-protecting, centering and grounding.
To establish a practice of self-care that includes all six of these vital steps, record the Meditation for Self-care that is on the next page in your own voice and play it back as often as you like. You can also add other activities to your energy hygiene plan like regular Reiki or chakra balancing sessions with a qualified Practitioner.
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Energy Body Meditation for Self-Care
By Cyndi Dale
Prepare yourself by finding a comfortable position in which to rest. With your feet flat on the floor, begin to breathe deeply. Concentrate first on the in-breath, picturing a soft, yellow light entering your body with each breath. See or feel this light as it circles around your chest, opening and clearing.
With each additional in-breath, this light moves further within your body, swirling first into your neck and shoulders, then through your arms and hands. The light passes through your hands, bringing with it any energies you feel ready to release. The light continues spreading upward, moving into your head, gently pushing all the way to the top of your head, then outward. Here too, the light brings out all the energies you no longer need, clearing your sense of self, your inner vision, your own truth and light.
The light then begins to move downward; pulsing, clearing, opening as it travels into your Solar Plexus, your abdomen, moving into your hip area. Now see the light as it parts into two beams and stretches down into your legs, finally pooling at your feet. It continues downward, finding a path, a channel, into the earth. Here, below, you find a part of yourself awaiting you; an energy center open to this vibration. The light passes into, then through this energy center, carrying with it all the substances that you no longer need, passing them into the earth for transformation.
You rest your attention on this part of you underneath the ground and find that it begins to breathe in unison with your lungs. In, then out. In, then out. You notice that the out-breaths above and below are now removing all energies, emotions, thoughts, colors, and experiences, that have ceased to serve you. Your upper and lower breaths occur in rhythm to each other.
You are now grounded. You can feel yourself from your head to your feet. You are safe. You are able to move your conscious awareness elsewhere, bringing it to your center. Simply allow yourself to find your center; that part of yourself in which you feel most at home. Linger here for a while. Experience the warmth, the colors, the feelings, the knowledge that you hold about yourself there. Bring some light into this aspect of yourself. Allow it to expand; allow yourself to be at one with it.
As you grow comfortable inside of yourself, you become aware of your aura, the energy bands, around you. Draw your attention outward and ask to be shown any discolorations, markings, colors, or shadows that indicate a hole or block. If you see anything, ask for the appropriate color or shade with which to repair your aura. You may also ask your inner-self or an outer guide to tell you if there is a part of your aura that needs attention. If there is, ask for help in repairing it. You may also allow yourself to simply expand your energy out into your aura, bringing with you the feeling of light you have spread throughout your body. Let this light fill in any gaps or holes. Let it push out any unwanted energies. Let it warm and protect you. When you feel safe, bring your attention back to your center.
Centered again, picture a light switch, the center control switch for your energy centers. Flip on the switch. By doing this, you are awakening your intuitive abilities to see, hear, or know what you need to understand. Safely opened, you can now gain access to information.
Right now, concern yourself only with your center. Ask your internal self what awareness would help you stay centered more often in everyday life. Give yourself a minute to see, hear, feel, or sense an answer. Take time to follow any provided instructions.
It is now time to close. You will remain grounded and centered throughout this process, and after you have regained full consciousness. Examine your aura again. Are there any apparent or new holes, blocks, or problems to address? Heal anything preventing you from living a full, active life. Once again, imagine your central light switch, this time picturing it as a dimmer switch. Adjust the dimmer up or down, selecting the intensity that feels safest for you. Bring your awareness back to your breath, feeling your in- and out-breaths as they continue to move through and around your body. Feeling your hands, your feet, your head, your heart, let your breath guide you back to a full and conscious awareness of yourself. When you are ready open your eyes.