The quantity and quality of our energy flow deeply affects our emotions, thoughts, and reactions. The quality of our relationships, productivity, creativity, and health all depends upon creating a high level of harmoniously flowing energy. The following techniques and ways of life will aid us in building a freer and more positive energy flow and raising our vibrations.
1. Proper Diet: Few of us realize the powerful effect of a proper diet not only on our physical health, but also on our emotional, mental, and spiritual states. A clean diet can create greater health, more positive emotional states, clearer mental functioning, and increased spiritual attunement.
2. Vitamins: If we suspect our emotional state may also be the result of a worn-down nervous system, we might benefit from a strong multivitamin and mineral supplement for one month.
3. Fasting: We can dramatically improve how we feel with short one-day fasts or a “mono-diet” in which we eat only one type of food, such as apples, watermelon, or grapes. When fasting, some may experience an increase in symptoms if a “healing crisis” is provoked. A beginner in this process should be assisted by an experienced guide.
4. Herbs and Flower Essence: Some herbs can be very calming and/or invigorating, offering an extra boost that may give us the needed optimism we need to make internal changes.
5. Daily Physical Exercise: The body is a living machine, and like all machines, it needs to move, or it will begin to develop problems. Exercise is essential not only for a healthy muscular, skeletal, and circulatory system but also for a relaxed nervous system and balanced endocrine system. This systemic harmony is necessary for emotional and mental peace.
6. Breathing Techniques: These are essential for the abundant flow of vital energy throughout the body and mind. Bioenergy is the basis of all physical and mental functions. Breathing exercises are one of the most effective ways to increase our energy level and keep it steady and harmonious so we will be less susceptible to low emotional states or illness. We should, however, have the guidance of a person experienced in breathing techniques before we begin.
7. Daily Deep Relaxation: This will calm the muscles, nerves, and all other bodily systems, and thus rejuvenate the body and the mind. Deep relaxation, in conjunction with the above-mentioned techniques, contributes to the development of a strong and healthy immune system as well as a form of self-therapy for psychosomatic illnesses.
8. Creative Self-Expression: This is much more important to our physical, emotional, and spiritual health and harmony than most people imagine. Humans are creative beings. Our purpose on Earth is to create in some way. We might create a painting, a piece of music, a dance, a family, or a business. Creative self-expression is essential for our health, harmony, and happiness.
9. Meaningful Activity: This is necessary for us to feel that our life is worth living. If we do not see what we are doing as meaningful, useful, or helpful in some way, we lose our reason to exist, and our health and happiness gradually deteriorate.
10. Massage: Shiatsu massage, polarity massage, spiritual healing, Reiki, and other such energy-oriented types of massage can be especially effective in relaxing the nervous system and reducing negativity.
11. Cleansing Techniques: One simple method is to increase the number of showers or baths. Contact with water can be healing and calming.
12. Emotional Release: We might need to partake in a program of emotional release under the guidance of an experienced professional, who can help us release pent-up emotions which undermine our health and energy level.
13. Social Harmonization: We need to discover and overcome any fears or beliefs that prevent us from feeling comfortable with others.
14. Spiritual Orientation: Each of us has our own personal relationship with the universe. Whether or not we adhere to any religion, it is important for our inner balance that we feel and cultivate our relationship with the whole as humanity, as nature, or as Spirit.
15. Self Knowledge: We need to understand our own inner mechanisms, needs, desires, fears, expectations, beliefs, and subconscious workings in order to free ourselves from the negative emotions, and mechanisms, which undermine our health, happiness, and relationships.
16. Enlightening the Subconscious: This aspect of self-improvement usually requires an experienced professional who can help us reprogram the subconscious with positive, more objective beliefs and perceptions of ourselves, others, and the world.
17. Unconditional Love: Showing this towards us and others is the ultimate key to a high and harmonious energy flow.
