Tools for Qi Cultivation

​You use different tools and methods to assist your development of subtle, invisible, spiritual energies. There are tools and methods to help you train your mind to be able to control and direct your thoughts and emotions. There are other skills and tools to help you learn self care and keeping your body well. Then there are additional tools to help you learn to raise and change your subtle, invisible, spiritual energies so you can connect with different subtle, invisible, spiritual energies to better receive and send subtle messages, or interact with spiritual beings, or project your energetic self to other locations. These abilities open new doors to wonder, adventure, and the ability to expand your awareness.  

Tools for the Self Care and Healing of the Body

The tools that help nourish, move, or change qi in the body are:

Tools to Train Your Mind to Manage &  Direct Your Thoughts ,  Emotions

5 Minute Breathing Exercise from Mindful.org
A Meditation to Tame the Inner Critic
Healing Sounds
Meditations
Qigong Exercises
Breathing techniques
 fro Visualization

Tools to Cultivate Your Chakra Energies 

The tools that nourish the chakra energies are:
  • Food (1st chakra)
  • Sex (2nd chakra)
  • Sound/Music (3rd chakra)
  • Color (4th chakra)
  • Rituals (5th chakra)
  • Meditation (6th chakra)
  • Contact and Integration (7th chakra)
Food
Each chakra point can be influenced by food, but there are some food types that produce different types of energy that have a stronger affect on different chakras. The first chakra point is more influenced by those foods that come from the ground, such as roots and tubers. The other points have similar types of relationships.
  1. The first chakra point is related to tubers and root plants.
  2. The second chakra point is related to sugar and fats, even chocolate.
  3. The third chakra point, which is related to emotions, is tied to animal products, such as milk, cheese, and meat.
  4. The fourth chakra point is related to grains.
  5. The fifth chakra point, or the throat, is related to fruits, such as apples, grapes, pomegranates, and derivative products, especially wine.
  6. The sixth chakra point is related to vegetables, such as olives and other associated products, and fruits that do not contain large amounts of sugars.
  7. The seventh chakra point is water. 
Food produces energy. Food and its energy also nourish the spiritual body. The energy body will utilize the energy created by food and/or water to nourish itself. Different foods have different energies and energy frequencies.  These different types of energy frequencies will have an affect on the different chakras.  When you use food as a tool to help create spiritual energy and also to help nourish the spiritual body, engage your thoughts to think and ponder how this food is providing nourishment to not only your physical self, but also to your spiritual self.  Then allow yourself the opportunity to "feel" what this means or how it is impacting your spiritual self.  Allow your spiritual self the opportunity to sense and connect with this food energy, and then respond back to you through your feelings. 

Sex
Sex is a life force creation process, but ONLY if love is present. It is the manner in which life is created. But sex and that life creation process can also impact the energy body. Different sexual positions can impact different chakra points.  Most of the sexual positions have a focus on stimulating the female). 
  1. Oral (female being stimulated orally) impacts the first chakra
  2. Digital (female being stimulated) impacts the second chakra
  3. Male behind female (with digital stimulation) impacts the third chakra
  4. Side to side impacts the fourth chakra
  5. Sitting (female on male) impacts the fifth chakra 
  6. Prone (female on top) impacts the sixth chakra
  7. Completely prone (female on top) impacts the seventh chakra
When you use sex as a tool to help create and expand spiritual energy, you begin by identifying a purposeful thought for this energy, such as "I want to travel to the astral plane" or "I want more love to be created between me and my partner".  This direct thought gives energy to the idea.  You then allow your feelings and passion to grow with sex, and then after sex, just enjoy. Your directed thoughts and energies have been combined and ignited.  

Sound
Sound can affect the chakras.  Each chakra is sensitive to the vibration of different notes.  The different notes can affect the different chakras because of the sensitivity to that energy wave or pattern by the different chakras.  The following are the chakras and the notes connected to each chakra.
  1. The note "C" impacts the first chakra.
  2. The note "D" impacts the second chakra.
  3. The note "E" impacts the third chakra.
  4. The note "F" impacts the fourth chakra.
  5. The note "G" impacts the fifth chakra.
  6. The note "A" impacts the sixth chakra.
  7. The note "B" impacts the seventh chakra.
Notes create music and music and the creation of that music can be nurturing to the chakras. The harmony of sounds can also produce a harmony of the chakra points. That is why you may like good music or that you have a feeling for good music.  When you listen to music, you can pause and connect with the music and get a sense for which chakra is being impacted by that piece of music. Some pieces of music will affect different chakras at different points in the score, but overall the feelings produced and their affect on the chakras is what you are looking for.

Colors
Different colors and light waves can affect the energy on the energy body. You may ask, how does this work? If the physical eyes see the color, how is this transmitted to the chakra points? It is true that the physical eyes do experience the colors, but by their nature, the chakra points can differentiate the incoming stimulus and are fed by it.   Colors have subtle energy in that they communicate with our inner spirit or soul. They work similar to radio waves—only color waves—waves of energy. Some people are more sensitive to one color than others. Some can physically feel the effect of a color on them. Perhaps a favorite color means that you are most sensitive to the energy of that color.
Light, of course, is part of the giving of life. Areas that are brightly lit induce a feeling of strength and positivity simply because of this life force. Those areas where color is introduced into the light will produce a brighter or stronger sensation that can feed the chakra points directly. The colors relating closer to the earth, such as the reds and oranges and shades of such, activate the chakra points that deal with earth forces.
Certain seasons also display colors that may activate these feelings that your soul is most tied to. This color wave frequency comes from the Tao. A color that stimulates energy in you and certain emotions, such as peace, love, and harmony, can help you understand how a color can have energy of its own and can stimulate and affect the energy of your chakra.
  1. Red affects the first chakra. 
  2. Orange affects the second chakra.
  3. Yellow affects the third chakra.
  4. Green affects the fourth chakra.
  5. Blue affects the fifth chakra.
  6. Indigo or Purple affects the sixth chakra.
  7. White light (all colors combined) affects the seventh chakra.
When you use color as a tool to help create spiritual energy and also to help nourish the spiritual body, engage your mind and allow your thoughts to direct the color where and how you want the color used.  Then allow yourself the opportunity to "feel" what the color is doing and what it is impacting or changing. Allow your spiritual self the opportunity to sense and feel what happens with this color energy. 

Rituals
Rituals are another way of creating energy that affects the chakras. Rituals help us better focus our thoughts on specific outcomes, and thoughts have energy. The ritual process is one of engaging the body and the mind together in an activity with a desired spiritual outcome. This process creates energy and directs the energy to a desired outcome.  This process can be very powerful, and as such, can affect the different chakras to create different energy frequencies.  
  1. An earth ritual impacts the first chakra.
  2. Fire ritual impacts the second chakra.
  3. Wind ritual impacts the third chakra.
  4. Water &/or Spring impacts the fourth chakra.
  5. Winter impacts the fifth chakra.
  6. Fall impacts the sixth chakra.
  7. Summer impacts the seventh chakra
When you engage in rituals, you are actively using your mind with different symbols along with a desired purpose.  You need to also make sure you allow the opportunity to "feel" the experience so the energy transfers to the spiritual self.  Allow your spiritual self the opportunity to sense and connect with the ritual and then respond back through your feelings. 

Meditation 
Meditations can be used to engage the mind and body to connect and interact with the spiritual body. There are different types of meditations that can affect the different chakra point. These meditations affect the different chakra points:
  1. Discovery meditation is closely associated with the first chakra.
  2. Instructional meditation is associated with the second chakra.
  3. Travel meditation is associated with the third chakra.
  4. Balancing meditation is associated with the fourth chakra.
  5. Male dominant meditation is associated with the fifth chakra.
  6. Male/Female meditation is associated with the sixth chakra.
  7. Female meditation is associated with the seventh chakra.
Meditation allows the body and mind to take notice of the soul. It puts the individual into a frame of mind to receive input and information and to become aware. It provides an opportunity for the spirit to “speak”.  Meditation engages the mind and allows the mind to start receiving messages from the soul.  The important aspect of meditation is to allow feelings to be part of the meditation experience.  

​Integration & Contact
The ability to integrate, contact, connect, communicate provides an opportunity for the soul to learn, expand, commune, and blossom.  The following is a summary of the different types of communication and contact that are associated with each of the chakra energies.
  1. Movement on/with the Earth affects the first chakra.
  2. Movement on/with water affects the second chakra.
  3. Movement on/with air affects the third chakra.
  4. Pure love affects the fourth chakra.
  5. Integrate/connect with the physical/earth energy.
  6. Integrate with the Astral plane.
  7. Integrate with the Tao.
When you use integration as a tool to help create spiritual energy, you need to allow yourself the opportunity to "feel" what movement and integration feels like as your spiritual self engages.  Allow your spiritual self the opportunity to sense and connect through your feelings. 
As you learn to use the various tools and methods to create, stimulate, energize, balance, align, and clear your energy body (your chakras), your spiritual energy will change.  As you allow yourself to use the tools and engage your mind into using the tools, and then allow yourself to feel the energy and the experience, your spiritual energy will change.  You will be able to have more spiritual experiences and you will be able to feel and understand them.   The intensity of your spiritual experiences will also increase.  You will spiritually grow, develop, and expand your awareness and consciousness.