Spiritual awareness is a trainable skill, not a quality some people are born with and others are not. The reason it stays vague for most people is that nobody teaches it as a structured practice. Energy healer and teacher Jeffrey Allen spent years developing a system that does exactly that: a sixty-day programme that trains six distinct domains of awareness in a defined sequence, each one building on the last.

Six awareness domains: self, body, mind, spirit, emotion, and impact, developed in sequence
Each domain follows the same five-step cycle from self-assessment through to real-world application
The body has an energy field that can be perceived and worked with directly using specific techniques
Intuition is a receptive state, not an act of effort. Mental noise is what blocks it
A large proportion of the emotional difficulty most people carry has been absorbed from others, not generated by themselves
The programme closes by developing conscious, constructive impact on other people and the world

The most surprising finding in this system applies to emotional difficulty. Much of what people experience as personal emotional struggle is not actually theirs. People with strong empathic sensitivity absorb the emotional states of those around them and carry them as if they were personal. When a student learns to ask "is this mine or not mine?" and can perceive the answer clearly, a large proportion of their habitual emotional difficulty resolves without any further intervention. The emotion was never theirs to carry.

Why awareness training starts with locating yourself

The first domain is self-awareness, and the starting point is a question most people have never seriously asked: where, precisely, is your attention right now? Not where you are physically, but where your conscious awareness is located in this moment. For most people, the honest answer is somewhere between the past and the future, rarely settled in the present.

The exercises in this domain train the student to place attention at a specific point inside the head, then to extend it outward into the body, move it to other locations, and travel along personal timelines. These are not visualisation exercises in the ordinary sense. The aim is a tangible, first-person sense of where awareness is and the ability to move it deliberately. This skill is the foundation everything else in the programme builds on.

What your body is actually telling you

Most people operate their physical body at a distance. They are present enough to function but not genuinely inhabiting it. The body awareness domain introduces a practical self-assessment tool: a gauge for measuring how much of the spirit is actually inside the body at any given moment. For many students, the reading is surprisingly low.

The techniques for increasing body presence include working with the body's energy field: feeling and generating energy between the hands, releasing stored tension from specific areas, and synchronising the energetic body with the physical one. There is also a prototype-cell meditation that communicates directly with the body's self-repair systems by sending updated instructions to the cell that carries the original blueprint for how the body is meant to function.

The key principle here is that the body and spirit have separate agendas and compete for the same space. Physical pain, illness, and exhaustion often intensify when awareness increases rather than decreasing, because the body is processing what the spirit is becoming conscious of. Understanding this prevents students from misreading physical discomfort as evidence that something is going wrong.

Does your inner mind help or get in the way?

The third domain separates two aspects of mind that most people treat as one. The inner mind is the internal stream of thoughts, judgements, and commentary that runs almost constantly. The outer mind is the quality of attention brought to the external world, specifically to other people. Both can be trained, and both affect awareness development in different ways.

Inner mind training uses a room-based method. The student enters the space inside the head, identifies the accumulated clutter of habitual thought, and clears it. The result is a quieter mental state that can be returned to throughout the day. Outer mind training addresses listening: most people spend conversations waiting to speak rather than genuinely receiving what the other person is communicating. A personal filter sits between perception and reality, shaped by assumption and habitual interpretation. Developing the ability to hear what is actually being said is the outer mind's core skill.

These two domains are trained before intuition and emotional awareness for a specific reason. Intuition is most accurate in a quiet, receptive mental state. Emotional work is easiest when the inner mind is not generating constant commentary about whether the emotions are acceptable. Reducing mental noise first makes everything that follows more effective.

What intuition actually feels like when it is working

Intuition tends to be taught as something you develop by trying harder or believing more. This system takes the opposite approach. Accurate intuitive perception is not effortful. It arises in a relaxed state and is characterised by simplicity, surprise, or a quality of recognition. These qualities are what distinguish it from the analytical mind's output, which tends to feel complex, plausible, and self-confirmatory.

Four practical techniques are trained for receiving intuitive information. The first is observing from a stable centre point, watching a location or situation without relocating your awareness into it. The second is relocating awareness to the information itself. The third is drawing information back toward the centre rather than going to it. The fourth is knowingness: the direct, wordless arrival of understanding that does not require any of the other three steps. Each technique produces a different quality of information and suits different types of questions.

The spirit connection domain also introduces the Akashic Records, understood here as a non-physical information field that encodes patterns across time. Access to this field allows a student to identify where a deep-rooted behavioural pattern originated and to modify the energetic record of it, which loosens the pattern's hold in present-day life.

The emotional difficulty you carry that is not yours

Emotional awareness is the fifth domain, and it sits here deliberately. The preceding four sections develop the perceptual skill and mental clarity needed to approach emotional material without being overwhelmed by it. The foundational insight is deceptively simple: not all the emotion you feel belongs to you.

People with strong empathic sensitivity absorb the emotional states of those around them automatically and unconsciously. This is not a metaphor. The absorbed emotion sits in the body with the same felt quality as a personal emotion, responds to the same triggers, and generates the same internal stories. The difference only becomes apparent when the student applies the mine-or-not-mine gauge and discovers that a significant portion of what they assumed was personal has a different origin.

Personal emotional material is addressed through a separate sequence: identifying the default emotion each person habitually returns to, locating stored emotional content in a specific internal space, and learning to release or transform it. The programme also works with the relationship between raw emotion and mental story. The primary source of emotional suffering is usually not the feeling itself but the layer of judgement, interpretation, and self-conclusion built on top of it. Separating the emotion from the story is the precondition for resolving either.

How developed awareness changes what you put into the world

The sixth and final domain addresses impact: the effect a person has on the people and world around them. Every person continuously broadcasts an energetic signal shaped by their internal state. Most people do this unconsciously. The training makes it conscious.

The personal impact work begins with a self-assessment exercise that reveals the extent to which a student has already positively affected others, often far more widely than they recognised. It then addresses the two failure modes Allen identifies: playing smaller than your genuine capacity out of fear, and overreaching beyond it out of ego. The positive spiral of life energy is always available and radiates outward naturally when the student stops suppressing it.

The programme closes with collaborative impact: the amplification that occurs when multiple people with developed, clear awareness work toward aligned goals simultaneously. This is why the impact section is last. Individual clarity is the prerequisite. Collaborative work built on unclear inner states produces mixed results at best.

The structure that makes this different from scattered practice

What distinguishes this system from most awareness or meditation approaches is the activation cycle that underlies each of the six domains. Every section follows the same five steps. The first session is a self-assessment: the student discovers their current level of access to that domain before any training has occurred. The second is an easy success, a guided experience specifically designed to be accessible. The third is a challenge session that deliberately introduces discomfort, because proximity to discomfort signals proximity to growth. The fourth is an expansive practice at the edge of what the student believed possible. The fifth applies the developed awareness to real situations in daily life.

The conceptual content across all sixty sessions is minimal by design. The theory that matters is discovered through direct experience. This is why the programme works at all: the awareness being developed is experiential, and instruction about it before it is experienced only gives the analytical mind material to manufacture a simulation of the real thing.

If you want to explore any part of this for your own situation, you can ask a specific question on tryit.tv and get a personalised answer drawn from this and other sources in the knowledge base. You do not have to work through all sixty sessions to get something useful from it.

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