You can train yourself to sense subtle energies within your body, in your environment, as well as with other people. Essentially it is a matter of having

• the desire to sense energy,
• then pausing and directing your thoughts and attention to the what you want to sense,
• then allow yourself to FEEL what is happening within you, and then
• let your thoughts interpret those feelings.

You can do this process to better assess what is going on in your body, or what is affecting your body. For example, you can tune in and assess which foods and beverages your body agrees with, and which ones your body prefers you stay away from. 

You can use this process to better assess the subtle energies in your environment, such as your home, your room, or your work. This can help you recognize where, and even how, to change and improve these subtle energies-- or if you need to leave.

You can use this process to also assess the subtle energies of other people around you. This can help you determine which individuals your inner self is negatively reacting to, or which ones are a positive connection and are helping your own inner-self expand and grow.  

You can develop and improve your skills to sense those subtle, invisible, spiritual energies that are in all living things. Knowing which energies you interact with and help you feel good, as well as which energies smother and drain you, can help you make wiser decisions and better choices.

More information about the tools, skills, and spiritual gifts you can develop are in the book "Cultivating Spiritual Energy".

A way you can improve your skills to sense different subtle energies is to pay more attention to how you feel. You can start by paying attention to how you feel at different times during day, and then see if you can associate a cause and affect to what you are feeling. Is For example, do you feel differently based on the time of day it is? Or do you feel differently due to what you ate? Or where you are located? Or with the people you are with? Or could it be based on what you are thinking about? Or hearing? 

Bringing your mind and thoughts back to what you are feeling, and then determine why, is one way to help you improve your skills to feel and sense different subtle energies. ​

You can cultivate the energy of the first chakra and train yourself to develop the spiritual gifts associated with first chakra energy.  This spiritual gift is known as personality sensing. It is the ability to not only sense subtle energy of a person or place, but to go deeper, beyond just sensing, but to KNOW. It is as if you are being given inside information about a person or place so you have a complete understanding or awareness of this person or this place. Often times, with personality sensing, you will be SHOWN and image in your mind about hidden events, or will receive the hidden conversations via a telepathic message, or even sense the actual type of energy you are in contact with in a sensing experience.
 
Often the personality sensing experience is triggered without warning. Because I’m more of a visual person, many of my personality sensing experiences will be displayed as visual images, showing me an actual event that happened with this person, showing me what this person is really up to.
 
Personality sensing may serve as a warning, to be cautious in your dealings with this person, or to just have expanded data.  Other times, the personality sensing may be a type of “pull” to a person that you can not shake. When this happens, it is more than likely your Higher Self letting you know you NEED to be connected with this person because this person is part of your life path.
 
When the spiritual gift of Personality sensing kicks in, it often is INTENSE and IMMEDIATE. You essentially have no control over the feelings, images, thoughts, and data you are receiving in that single experience.None.

In order to develop and cultivate this skill, you begin by using the tools to cultivate the 1st chakra energy so that chakra is vibrant, available, clear, and it is aligned and balanced with the other chakras. Next, you focus on tuning into your IMPRESSIONS and FEELINGS and pay attention to what happens when you meet or interact with different people. As this skill improves, you may then start to experience images of events these people are in, or have been in - almost as if you are in a waking dream. Later, you will receive messages in your mind that are not yours, providing you with much more detail about what is really going on with this person.

Summary
In summary, personality sensing is a spiritual gift associated with the 1st chakra energy. One can cultivate this gift by using the tools associated with the 1st chakra. While one is using the tools to nourish and fortify 1st chakra energy, one practices and develops this gift by

• becoming aware of the personalities of different people (and places)
• tuning into your impressions and feelings about different people (and places) and determining why you feel that way or have that impression
• be open to receiving subtle messages about other people (and places) via dreams, thoughts, or telepathic communication
• pay attention to those subtle messages about other people (and places) 
• be open, tuned in, and react (or respond)  when you receive these messages and thoughts which come into your mind as if from no where

​Sensing Qi is one of the first steps in cultivating Qi. Tuning in paying attention to our feelings is one of the first steps to begin to expand our sensing skills. 

Feelings are one of the first sensing tools we use because our feelings are always with us. As a result, our feelings naturally become our internal navigation device, almost like a compass or our internal GPS system to help us find our life purpose and navigate our life to satisfy that purpose.

Our feelings are the way we learn to maneuver through our life. It is the way we learn to steer which way we want to go, which decisions we should make, and the type of life we want to live. It is our feelings, and being able to tune in, and then learn to interpret and understand the feeling and the message associated with that feeling.  

We have lots of different types of feelings, but when you first start to cultivate Qi and pay attention to feelings to help you learn how to sense Qi, you begin by grouping your feelings into different buckets:

• Positive feelings
• Negative feelings
• Neutral feelings

This helps you identify the type of subtle energy associated with different feelings.

Next, you notice when and why you are having that feeling. For example, “I get a feeling of dread each morning when I get off the elevator and go through the doors at work.”  You then recognize you have a negative feeling, you labeled it as dread, and it happens when you go to work.
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You then bring in your mental skills and begin to analyze and interpret why you are having those feelings. “Is it just in the morning? Is it just on this floor of the building? Is it associated with the type of job you have? Is it associated with someone you work with?”

As you expand your awareness and go deeper into understanding your feelings and why you are experiencing those feelings, you expand ability to sense and interpret subtle message through feelings. This process and expansion improves your ability to understand your life purpose and to get on, as well as stay on, a life path that is right for you.