Energetic self-perception
Energetic self-perception denotes the practised capacity to perceive fine bodily sensations consciously – warmth or coolness, a light tingling, a kind of resonance in the body, as they are described in many spiritual and worldview-based traditions. This entry explains the term neutrally and separately from individual methods or products.
The contents presented here render a spiritual view and personal experience and are no medical statement.
What is energetic self-perception?
What is meant is – in the logic of the respective tradition – the attention for subtle sensations that one can observe in oneself. It ties in with the conception of a life energy (called, according to culture, prana or chi), but means not the teaching about it, but one’s own perceiving. Important is the placement: it is a matter of experience and interpretation, not of a scientifically proven measured quantity and not of a medical diagnosis.
To experience instead of to believe
The core of this term is an attitude: not to believe, but to perceive for oneself. Whoever firmly resolves that they must have a quite particular feeling read somewhere often blocks the view for what actually shows itself – perhaps at a quite different place in the body. Too strong a willing too can block the perception. It is therefore helpful to guide the attention away from forcing and towards calm observation.
How does one school the perception?
The perception can be developed through simple exercise. A well-known example without any aid: hold both hands parallel in front of the body, imagine an “energy ball” between them, move the hands slightly apart and together and breathe calmly in doing so. Many thus learn to notice fine sensations between the hands. Such exercises are described as ways of schooling one’s own attention – not as a healing procedure.
Related ways are the conscious guiding of the breath (pranayama), meditation and relaxation procedures such as autogenic training. In the environment of the Kyborg Institute the perception is practised, among other things, in Energytraining.
What does this have to do with resonance?
It is frequently described that the perceived sensations turn out differently according to person, place and moment – now as warmth, now as tingling, now as a kind of resonance. This variety belongs to the thing: there is no fixed result, decisive is one’s own observation. At shaped objects such as the Horus energy pyramids, people report such perceptions – as an experience that one makes oneself, not as a promised effect.
Frequently asked questions
What is energetic self-perception?
By this is meant the practised capacity to perceive fine bodily sensations – such as warmth, coolness, a tingling or a kind of resonance – consciously, as they are described in spiritual traditions. It is a matter of one's own experience and attention, not of a medically or physically proven effect.
Must I believe in something in order to perceive something?
No. Whoever fixes on a particular, previously read feeling rather blocks their own perception. It is not about belief, but about one's own, immediate observation – open in its outcome.
Can every human being learn this?
The perception can be practised – for instance via breathwork, calm attention and simple exercises of perception. How clearly and in what form someone perceives something is individually different; there is no unambiguously right sensation.
Is energetic self-perception medically effective?
It is a form of perception and self-observation, not a healing method. Statements about it are to be understood as a spiritual view and personal experience, not as a medical promise.
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Autor: Tobias O. R. Alke