The etheric body

The Human body is very complex, as many of you know. What most people
do not know is that the Etheric body is just as complex. Just as the
physical body has veins organs and muscles, so does the Etheric body—
and just as the physical body needs proper nutrition and exercise to
work properly, so does the Etheric body.

First lets explain the importance of developing the Etheric body.
Your body absorbs energy through sleep, sunlight, digesting, &
breathing. Lets say the average person absorbs 100 units of energy a
day. This energy is normally left alone, so its allowed to surplus.
Through out their life they have built a surplus of 2000 units of
energy. This person then develops an interest in the metaphysical.
They skip the whole "energy development" because they figure, "Hey,
I'm practicing by using energy, so technically I am developing my
energy." They go on practicing psychokinesis, or telepathy, or astral
projection for another week, but because they are doing these things
their energy requirements jump, so within that week their energy
surplus drops to 0. They find themselves suddenly unable to do any of
what they were able to do before. Because their daily intake is only
100 units, and they keep attempting these things daily, they never
develop enough energy to do any of these effectively. Not only will
this person be unable to perform psychic feats, but they will suffer
physical symptoms of energy depleation. Now another person, in the
same beginning situation begins to practice the metaphysical. They
have a lifetime surplus of 2000 units and absorb 100 units a day.
They dabble with a bit of psychokinesis for a few days, and drop
their surplus to 500 units. Then they decide to do some basic energy
work. They do all the exercises, and then decide to CONCIOUSLY add
more surplus to their energy reserves. Because they exercised their
energy body, their daily intake goes up to 300 units. Also, because
they consciously added to their surplus, the surplus itself went back
to 2000 units-completely restoring their previous surplus. Most of
you will say something like "I'm ok, I don't need to do any of this.
I've got enough energy". I'm telling you now, you're wrong, always
keep yourself humble, you are never above the basics.

Another reason to exercise your energy body is because it allows more
movement of energy. Unexercised etheric "veins" are closed, small
pathways that energy travels on. These make energy movement and work
very difficult, because it's like trying to shove a gallon of water
through a straw in a minute. This causes a lot of resistance. Energy
resistance is what causes the tingling, rushing, pins and needles
feeling of energy work. If you work your energy body, these "veins"
open up and become larger, making the energy movement process much
easier. Now the energy movement more resembles spraying a gallon of
water through a fireman's hose, a much easier task. When the energy
pathways open up, resistance decreases, meaning the energy movement
symptoms become less intense. This is often misinterpreted. People
often think that they are now doing something wrong because of the
lack of symptoms, when in reality they are doing everything right.
Training the Etheric body is also much like training the physical
body, in that certain training types will generate different muscle
and support structures. For normal training purposes I suggest that
you put in the same amount of effort you would put into reading a
book or having a conversation. This way you are not putting too much
effort into training the etheric body, but neither are you putting in
too little. In the same way that body builders build big but weak
muscles through much effort-the etheric body will become large and
weak if too much effort is put in. This causes instability, in that
the etheric "veins" will collapse if too much strain is put on them
for long enough, which can cause many problems-which I'm sure you can
figure out.

The Etheric body is made up of 5 "levels". Each level has its own
purpose, and is supported by the levels before it.
The first and most basic level is made up of the energy exchange
ports. These energy exchange ports are located like pores all over
your skin. Their purpose is to draw in new raw energy and expel old
and used energy. They are also used for sensing energy to various
degrees. The energy exchange ports are located most strongly in the
palms, soles of the feet, air passages and lungs, lips mouth and
tongue, and the genitals. The hands and the feet have the most
concentration, and therefore will be most sensitive and should be the
most worked with.
The second "level" is made up of the secondary chakras. They are
located in the palms. Their purpose is to refine and transform energy
so that the primary centers can use it. The secondary chakras are
attached to muscles, nerve centers, & organs.
The third level is the major chakra system. There are 7 major (well
known) chakras. The Root, Sacral, Solar Plexus, Heart, Throat, Third
Eye, and Crown. There are several more less known chakras, but they
are irrelevant for now, the next energy body article will address.
The fourth level is comprised of the energy storage centers. There
are three of these, the sub-navel, the sub-heart, and the sub-brow.
Each stores a different type of energy. The sub-navel stores pure
physical energy, and is located 3 inches below the belly button and
roughly two inches in the body. The sub-heart stores pure emotional
energy, and is located at the sternum roughly two inches inside the
body. The sub-brow stores pure mental and psychic energy, and is
located between the eye sockets about two inches inside the skull.
The fifth and final "level" is the kundalini circuit. This level
holds unimaginable power. It rarely is activated on accident, and I
will not be addressing how to, it is beyond most here.

Now I will discuss how to develop your energy body.

There are several ways to stimulate your energy body. Stimulating
your energy body is based off of creative imagination. There are 3
main ways to stimulate your energy body, they are based off of the
three spatial senses. The focus should be on moving your body
awareness.

Visual Imaging- With this system, you visually imagine anything
dynamic. Nothing stationary will work, as it is not moving the energy
body.

Auditory Imaging- Imagine sound coming from, and reverberating
within, different parts of your body.

Tactile Imaging- This I find to be the easiest and most effective
system by far, it
is body awareness in action. In this system you feel your body---you
sense yourself.

With each of these systems there are several major ways to stimulate
your energy body, although they each can be adapted for the others, I
will list three for each..
Visual- (for the sake of simplicity I am saying you are visualizing
electricity- but you can use whatever you want to.)
Spinning- You spin the electricity around your body, limb, digit ect…
This stimulates the energy body in a forceful swirling action,
forcefully loosening the energy body and removing blockages.
Poking- You visualize the lightning striking your target area as
hundreds of separate bolts, entering your body and then retreating.
This creates more "rippling" in the energy body (this will be
discussed in more depth later) which has the effect of subtly
loosening the energy body and making it more pliable and fluid.
Burrowing- You make one straight line of electricity flow along a
path, for example, from your shoulder to your hand. This strengthens
the energy pathways, making it easier for energy to travel.

Audio-
Broadcast- A section of your body sends out a pitch, sound, or song-
as if it were a speaker. This stimulates the etheric body much the
same way as the poking of visualization, except it also expands the
energy body.
Reverberation- Sound bounces back and forth between your bone and
skin, or inside of bone and surface of bone, it never escapes your
body. This is very good for building the density of the health aura.
Pulse- Send a beat of energy down your limb or through your body. It
helps to imagine a starting point for the "beat" to originate at.
This encourages movement of energy.

Tactile-
Wrapping- Feel something like an ACE bandage wrapping over your
target area. This stimulates large areas of the etheric body, but its
not quite as intense as other techniques.
Swirl- Feel your body, just one point, and move it around in a
continuously shrinking and enlargening circle. This is mainly used to
stimulate secondary and primary chakras.
Brush- Imagine you are painting yourself, going back and fourth with
the brush. More intense than wrapping, but not as much area. Mainly
stimulates the energy exchange ports.
(look for energy work training regimen relatively soon. It will
introduce more advanced energy movement methods, and will be
formatted on a week to week basis.)

When many of you manipulate energy you will find that the energy
movement sensations (tingling, heat ect…) will continue even after
you have finished the exercise. This is due to what I call the
rippling effect. Because the etheric body is fluid, and is easily
influenced by thought, there is thought "residue"(your sub-conscious)
that keeps the etheric body moving even after your consciousness has
moved on. Also, due to the fact that there is sensation still
lingering, your conscious flicks back to it-- encouraging further
sensation and movement.

Now onto building your energy surplus. Your energy surplus is held in
the energy storage centers. The most important of these storage
centers is the sub-navel center. The sub-navel storage center stores
pure physical energy, the most physical of the energies. It is the
densest energy, and is commonly referred to as chi or life force.
You may ask "If I want to develop psychic abilities wouldn't I want
to add surplus to my sub-brow center?". The answer is absolutely not.
Doing so would upset the natural balance of energies, with the most
energy being in the sub-navel, second most being in the sub-heart,
and least being in the sub-brow. What the system has developed is
a "threshold" of sorts. The sub-navel storage center fills up to a
certain point, but then overflows to the sub-heart, which then
overflows to the sub-brow, and then continues back to the sub-navel
to add EVEN MORE energy to the system. In this way, the human energy
body maintains a balance, a sort of ratio that has little leeway.

Now onto adding energy to your sub-navel storage center. I will
outline my personal favorite.

Choose a visualization method- be it visual, audio, or tactile. I
will refer to this as awareness or visualization.

First, you must spend some time stimulating the energy body, mainly
in the feet, legs, arms, and hands. Spend at least two minutes on
each, start with the extremity(hands, feet) and then work on the
whole limb(feet and legs, hands and arms), so that overall there
should have been four minutes spend on the hands and feet, and two
minutes should have been spent in the legs and arms.
Get in a comfortable position, as comfort is important—certainly more
important than any predetermined position. Put your awareness in your
feet. As you breathe in draw a stream of energy up your legs(be
careful not to stimulate the genitals, as this can cause major
distractions) . Make this energy flow into your sub-navel. When your
in breath has finished flick awareness to your hands. As you breathe
out visualize energy streaming from your hands to over your shoulders
and then finally down flowing into your sub-navel storage center.
Repeat this as long as you wish-you can never do to much.