Energy Self Care:
Tools and Techniques for Clearing and Supporting Your Energy Field
Everyday energy self care is critical to staying healthy and well. This is true on an energetic level, just as it is on a physical level.
We all have our daily rituals and regimens to take care of our physical bodies, such as bathing, brushing our teeth, taking our vitamins, exercising, etc. And we all know how important these things are.
Nurture Your Energy Every Day
It's just as important to clear, nurture, and support your personal energy on a regular basis. This is especially true if you are an energy healer. The more sensitive to energy you get, the more you will feel the need to care for your own energy. You will likely become more sensitive to imbalances in your energy, and states of being or feeling that you may have been able to tolerate before become less and less tolerable.
Your methods of energetic "hygiene" don't have to be long, involved, or esoteric. In fact they can be quite simple, easy, and pleasant to integrate into your daily life. You undoubtedly already do some of them. But however you do it, it's important to establish a conscious regimen of some sort to help clear and support your energy systems. This helps to build and maintain physical wellness, emotional wellness, and mental wellness as well.
Centering yourself is a great foundational practice to learn. We all know what it feels like to feel scattered. This is an energetic state as well as a mental one. Having a way to "unscatter" your mind and energy is incredibly helpful.
Similarly, grounding (also called earthing) is another critical skill for energy healers and other sensitives and intuitives. Sometimes we can get a little...airy! We need to know how to bring our energy back to earth, to anchor ourselves into this beautiful planet of ours, which is an energy being as well as a physical orb.
Another powerful tool for energy self-care is your breath. Learn 9 ways to use breath for self-healing. One of the great advantages of breathwork is that you can do it almost any time and any where.
Spaciousness is an often overlooked aspect of self-care for energy healers. Here's how to cultivate a calm, uncluttered, spacious environment--inner and outer--that makes room for the magic of Energy, Healing and Intuition to show up.
And yet another important form of every-day self-care is simple self-kindness. Many of us are shockingly judgmental of ourselves. Our compassion is not complete until we can feel it for ourselves as well as for others. Read more about this crucial practice here.
Altars can play a role in energy self-care as well. Creating, tending, and meditating on altars can help us keep our energy elevated and help us focus intention.
"First Aid" for Your Energy
It's also helpful to have some techniques for energetic "first-aid" -- shifting your energy when life's little scrapes and bumps send you into a tailspin, threatening to plunge you into an all-day funk. By working with your energy, you CAN change your reaction and your mood. Life's too short to lose a day to a bad mood!
Energy Self Care for Your Aura
Sometimes you may need to clear your energy field, or aura. We can take on the energy of other people or situations, accumulate emotions that we should let move through us, store traumas or events from the past, or hold on to energy that doesn't serve us any more for a variety of reasons. Learn about aura cleansing and clearing here. It'll help you create some good clean energetic space for yourself.
Self-Energy-Healing for Your Chakras
And, it's important to have some chakra healing techniques in your self-care "tool kit." Find out more about chakra healing here, including links to a chakra meditation, exercises for chakra opening, information about chakra blockages, and ways to clear, balance and align the chakras with sound, gemstones, and essential oils. And here’s a link to my friend Elle’s excellent meditative chakra balancing video that leads you through opening and balancing of all your seven chakras through simple movements and yoga poses.Or if you'd like lots more ideas for chakra opening and balancing, you may enjoy my book, Chakra Care: Do-It-Yourself Energy Healing for a More Joyful, Loving, Fruitful Life, which I wrote to help people understand and work with their own chakras.
Energy Therapy For Your Meridians
Tracing your meridians is a simple, effective way to keep your meridians balanced and flowing, with wonderful benefits for your mental, emotional and physical health. Learn how here.
A Blessing Ceremony For Your Hands
For anyone who uses his or her hands for healing, blessing or other sacred work, hand blessing ceremonies are a lovely, poetic, deeply satisfying form of energy self care.
Taking care of your energy is one of the best investments you can make in your own wellbeing. And, it feels GOOD--so enjoy!