Energy Hygiene - Taking care of your Energetic bodies

When you look into the mirror, you can see yourself, your physical body. What is not visible to the naked eye is your energetic bodies. We are more than what meets the eye.

Most of us have heard about Chakras, that are energy centres within our bodies. They are affected by our thoughts and emotions and they in turn impact our body systems. If you focus around your physical body, you can perceive your aura around your body. Apart from the Aura, a term you may be familiar with, we have Mental, emotional and spiritual energetic bodies around our physical body.

We care about our physical bodies perhaps because that is what we can see and identify with, but our energetic bodies also need nurturing and care. Any dis-ease before it manifests in our physical body, shows up in our energetic bodies. We live in a vibrational Universe and every thought we think, creates a feeling, triggers an emotion within us and this creates our vibration that we send out. You may have noticed people who have a very positive and uplifting vibe and some people who have a heavy or uninviting energy. We can intuitively sense this. Furthermore, the thoughts that we think constantly create our point of attraction and this becomes the vibration that the Universe responds to. If you pay attention, you will notice that if you are in a bad, low vibe mood, you will attract more experiences that match that vibe, it would seem that nothing is going your way and you would go further down the downward spiral. Simply observe your own energy, how do you feel when you are unwell, low or disturbed as compared to when you are happy, motivated and positive?

Here are some ways you can bring awareness, attention and care to your energetic bodies 

Cultivate positive thoughts and emotions

Spend a day paying attention to your thoughts. If you find that most of your thoughts are around lack, lower emotions like anger, guilt, jealousy etc they need to be shifted and released. Journaling about your feelings, emotions, thoughts is a great way to discover where you are putting your energy and attention the most. Here is a simple practice.

Find some time where you can be with yourself. Take a paper and pen. What did you discover during the day? What are your dominant thoughts? Ask yourself What is it that I need to release from my thoughts and emotions? What is my current vibe? Am I peaceful and grounded or am I angry or unhappy most of the time? What can I think or do that will bring me closer to feeling good? Sense your inner world like a Garden, what is in full bloom, what is growing because you are giving it energy. Intentionally, cultivate your inner garden. See yourself releasing the old, stagnant, dried up parts of your inner garden. You can plant positive thoughts and affirmations.

Cleanse your Energy

Just as we take care of physical hygiene, we need to regularly cleanse our energy. There are many ways to cleanse your energy. Regular epsom salt foot soaks, bathing with energised bath salts, using crystals or pure essential oils are other powerful ways. Here is a simple Practice that can easily integrate into your daily routine.

As you shower and cleanse your physical body, close your eyes and hold the intention that the water is also cleansing your chakras, aura and energy bodies, visualise or imagine that all the dirt and dense energy is going down the drain. 

Ground with Gaia

A regular practice of connecting with Mother Earth is deeply nurturing and stabilises our physical and energetic bodies. Here is a simple practice. 

If you can, go out and stand barefoot on the grass, otherwise stand in your space or sit with your feet firmly on the floor. Close your eyes and imagine or visualise strong golden roots growing at the base of your feet and see or sense them going into the Earth like the roots of an ancient tree, see them going deep into the Earth. Now ask that all the lower energies, anything that does not serve you to be released into Mother Earth for transmutation. Now bring up the love and nourishment from the Earth through your golden roots and sense or imagine it like a golden pink light all around you like a cosmic hug from Gaia. Sense that your physical and energetic bodies are held within this golden pink light. When you feel complete, open your eyes.

Energetic boundaries

Just like we clothe our physical body, energetic boundaries are like clothes that protect our energy. This is done from the Space that my energy is sacred and I do not wish to give my energy to other and nor do I wish to take on other energy. I am sure we all have had at least one such experience where we felt that meeting a particular person was extremely draining and we instinctively wanted to keep away from that person. Even when we speak to someone, we are exchanging energy.

Here is a simple practice. Take a moment and be in a space where you won’t be disturbed. Close your eyes and take deep breaths to centre yourself. Now visualise, imagine or sense a bubble of pure white light around you. See yourself within this bubble of light and hold the intention that my physical, mental, emotional and spiritual bodies are within this light bubble. This reflective light bubble reflects away any lower energies and keeps your energies separate, whole and intact. When you feel complete open your eyes.

Bringing awareness and care to our energetic bodies everyday, is one of the ways we can maintain our wellbeing and feel balanced and energised.