How to Experience Life Energy

If you have any doubt about the actual energy that is your spirit, the following steps will help make it real for you. This essential life force can be experienced outside the body as well and used for healing, meditation and just plain old fun. In learning to manifest this energy, you’ll use spiritual muscles you never knew you had. Similar to the Kundalini energy in Tantric practice, the energy is called “chi” in Taoism and Buddhism. Elaborate disciplines such as Aikido and T’ai Chi teach how to master this force. Modern science has approached this primordial power most closely through the work of Wilhelm Reich, a student of Freud’s, who postulated a universal animating energy he named “orgone". He believed, and some say proved, that orgone energy can be used to heal mental trauma, cure cancer and restore sexual vibrancy. Reich believed that sexual repression and shame in particular diminished our personal stores of this divine and natural energy. Most traditions say that the unimpeded flow of this energy is as essential to our health as is the blood in our veins.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderate

1. Rub your hands together briskly until you feel heat and friction.
   Allow your palms to drift apart about an inch. Feel a difference?
2. Push your hands together gently as though you are compressing a sponge rubber ball. Don’t let the palms touch.
3. Push your hands in and out slowly, feeling a sort of “bounciness” between them. You’ll notice that the space between your hands feels thicker, charged somehow. This pulsating, nearly magnetic energy has been called “biological plasma” by Russian psychic researchers.
4. Play with this energy, holding your palms as wide apart as possible until you feel the energy getting weaker.
5. Rub your palms again vigorously. Place your palms over your heart area and forehead, the location of both the heart chakra and third eye. These areas are said to open when the life energy is applied to them. Do this whenever you’re feeling out of sorts or low on energy. No need to turn to a drink, drug or object for a fix. You already have an inexhaustible and renewable source of energy!