I think a lot of people don't fully understand that energy work is thought work. That's it. It's not some elusive magical thing you do, it's realizing all energy around you is ruled and shaped by thought, and operating as such. Think of it as kneading your thoughts like bread dough. Imagine the act of absorbing, redirecting, and sorting out your thoughts as slowly incorporating new ingredients into the dough of your stream of thought. It is handsy work in the sense that you have to dig your hands into it, because no one can teach you what you can only intuitively know. You need to feel around the crevices of your mind and begin to name its ingredients out loud: what is human thought rumination, coming from the organ, the brain? What is coming from the body itself, as the body communicates via thought too? What is outer communication from protectors, divine guidance? What is my higher-self, the part of my soul that is all-knowing and aware of the bigger plan for this lifetime? What are thoughtforms and egregores draining my energy, what does it feel like not to be in my own energy alone? What does it feel like to interact with abstract energies and quantum possibilities, to receive information from different points in time? The way you do this is by running the possibilities whenever you feel like a thought warrants it, and seeing what feels right — hence the kneading of bread dough. It is an acquired skill that is refined through practice like any other. You need to feel it hugging your consciousness, slipping through the fingers of your being, so that it can become second nature. There is no other way. You cannot rationalize a fully intuitive, hands-on process. At one point, do not ask me how, you will begin to instinctively recognize what is what, and that is when the skill of alchemy will take on its most powerful form available for you.