Energy manipulation, or energy work is an important topic in the magical practice of any practitioner. A large part is visualization. These exercises are going to be in the course papers and the coursebook for whoever chooses to buy that. If you have not done anything like this before, i highly recommend it. It adds a large helping of understanding to your practice, as it’s almost like anecdotal evidence that energy exists. Please do them when you have the time. 

The first one is a simple one, grab a pencil or some sort of wooden stick around the size of a pencil. Visualize yourself pouring energy from your hand moving into the object and filling it, almost like a glass. Observe the object. Does it feel heavier? Lighter? Hotter? Colder? Also, something important to note, the colour of the energy. This extremely important thing to note, as, yes, energy can change colours, but usually the colour of the energy will be your “soul colour”, and that can have some implications for your practice in future. Research the correspondences of this colour, and try to understand your personal energies with this understanding. This is called the “Pencil Exercise”

The next one is the “Flood Exercise”. Firstly, you must close your eyes and feel your energy fill every last crevice of your physical form. Then, open your eyes, and visualize the energy almost bursting out of your body. Then, go about your day, with the knowledge that you have energy within you. See the energy as you go about your everyday tasks. What you have done here is not adding more energy, you have simply opened your eyes to a form of the true nature of yourself. This is not an exercise, this is a realization.
The third one is the “Movement Exercise”. You will find something or someone, an object, a person, a cat, anything, and visualize energy moving from your fingertips into the thing. You should put emphasis on the energy moving forcefully, in an attempt to make it more “concentrated”. Then, you will observe the thing. Is it hotter? Colder? If it was a cat, did it react to the energy? 

There are many guides to energy manipulation online and in books but these naturally discovered exercises were the thing that jump-started my spiritual practice. With slightly advanced study of these techniques, you can start working with energy right away, creating your own path out of the basics. This is the path i encourage you to walk down, but of course, do as thou wilt. Free discovery of energy manipulation and the practical application will help you not only find your own limits, but the limits of the energies you have access to.
So, start now, O Great One! In conjunction with these exercises, please try to follow the regimen of Israel Reguardie’s one year journal, the book “start now!” from Rudolf Steiner, along with reciting the verses if the calendar of the soul daily.