Over the years, I have tried to create many drawings and images of the human energy body. Now that AI has become so widespread, the possibilities have become even better. Nevertheless, in this presentation I have chosen not to include any detailed image of the energy body. The reason is that when you see a picture that is supposed to represent your own energy body, you start thinking about it. And that is not the intention. Therefore, you will not get any image. Instead, I ask you to read this description and then close your eyes and feel and sense your way to the energy areas I describe.
(Yes, there is a picture of a body along with this text, but it is a classic way of illustrating the energy body and does not correspond to my description.)
Imagine that around your physical body there is an etheric energy body that is almost identical to your physical body, only slightly larger. From your shoulders in an arch up and over your head is the mental body, which contains all your thoughts. From your jaw and down under your feet in an arch around your body is your astral/emotional body. This is where the emotional energies corresponding to your emotions exist.
Now imagine how your mental body is filled with your thoughts, all existing as small energy forms/lines.
Then sense into the area around your chest and stomach, and see if you can feel that it is in these areas that your emotions often send a signal. Your emotions are also energies, and they reside in your astral/emotional body both inside the body and a bit outside it.
You will typically be able to perceive your thoughts inside your brain and your emotions inside your chest and stomach area. But you also have a kind of antennae in all three of your bodies, and they pick up energies outside your body. This can be the atmosphere in a room you are in – or other people’s emotions, etc.
In practice, your antennae therefore pick up energies outside yourself, but when you process this incoming information, you do so with your own thoughts or your own emotions and your entire personal memory.
I do not really focus on the mental and etheric bodies. My focus is on the astral/emotional energies. However, I will add that many thoughts – if not most – are created because of activity in the feelings. And if you have problems with your etheric body, it is often also due to blockages/tensions in the astral body.
Yes, we have a physical body of “flesh” – but inside and around it we have an energy body. And it is the energies in this body that partly keep the “flesh” alive and make everything else happen in the physical body.