(Looking for the Index? Click the Mastery Mode button above.)
Evolution is based on tiny, almost insignificant improvements that build on one another over the centuries. A new species can take a very long time to develop from tiny increments—sometimes over a million years.
This Wisdom Tool only takes a minute or three to create a tiny improvement. Boosting harnesses a natural resource we all have to speed up personal evolution. This natural resource is chi energy, and you get it by using your breath. Boosting focuses chi energy into the parts of you that you want to develop. It works. You'll see.
Try it out. Just click the button, and follow the directions. Once you try it, I hope you'll come back and click the Mastery Mode button. You'll have lots of options, plus extra information about how to breathe more effectively, how to capture skills from people you admire, and how to make this into a habit that you don't even have to think about.
For now, just try it out. It'll only take a few minutes. See if you like it.
Turn boosting into an automatic habit by practicing it using this list and the "How and Why" section above. Please suggest additions to the list by clicking the Feedback and Sharing Page button at the bottom of the page. (Scroll down.)
After you're learned boosting, this button provides links to enhance your progress. Select the option that best fits your needs.
How would you change the direction of Joyful Wisdom Journey and Community? Read our ideas by clicking this button, and add your ideas to the comment sections below each page. If you comment, you will be invited to a Chrysalis that can take your ideas to the next step—if you're interested, of course.
Finish up by visualizing yourself a master of boosting—or boost mastery with it. Use this link for a suggested visualization, as well as a place to provide suggestions about making this tool better, to share your experiences with the tool, and to suggest new situations for practicing boosting in. Add your ideas to the comment sections at the bottom of the page. If you comment, you will be invited to a Chrysalis that can take your ideas to the next step—if you're interested, of course.
Throughout this practice, notice the how the nuances change when you use different words. What's the difference between "blessing" something and "embracing it with gratitude?" How is "supporting" something different than "nurturing" it?
With Verbose Boosting, you not only notice these different nuances, but you
describe what the difference is.
Make sure that you pause regularly to mentally grok these nuances. Doing so enhances your
understanding of them for every type of boosting. Pausing and thinking are required steps in all
boosting—and all the words you use in Verbose Boosting do not eliminate the need for
contemplation.
Using Verbose Boosting regularly and thoughtfully increases what you get from every other form of
boosting.
With Progressive Boosting, bring your intuition to bear on the
situation, allowing your focus to shift as you continue. Nuances are still important, but less so.
Emphasize your growing understanding of the quality as you focus in—deeper and deeper and deeper.
Summarize what you intuit with sharp, focused key words. Select new key words every time your
intuition changes.
The more you practice Progressive Boosting, the more often you'll use your intuition to shift your focus when
using every other form of boosting.
To allow your intuition to sharpen your focus, take plenty of time to tune in. If tuning into intuition is difficult, practice your skills using the app Focus In Deeply to Discern the Hidden Messages in Your Emotions. (This link opens a new tab, but be prepared to spend 30 to 45 minutes on that exercise.)
Before any form of energy work, please use psychic protection. There are as many negative energies in the psychic world as in the material world. Do you trust everyone you meet? Do you feel safe everywhere?
It's easy to protect yourself. Breathe deeply and imagine that your aura fills with protective white light from the sun. Then imagine that there's a reflective blue skin on the outside of your aura. Hold this visualization in place for a breath or two. That's it. You're protected.
I recommend learning Ujjayi breathing to bring extra chi energy into your body for boosting. Learn Ujjayi breathing from an Ashtanga yoga class or by clicking Ujjayi breathing on the Yoga Journal website. (Opens a new tab.) Use Ujjayi breathing throughout this practice.
In our regular Joyful Wisdom groups, we use Transpersonal Boosting at the end of a meeting
in which we've already established ourselves as an energetic circle. Thus, we rarely
set up psychic protections—they're already in place. If you're boosting
alone, set up the protections.
At the end of a meeting, we use three "Facets" of Transpersonal Boosting in
this order:
⇒ We first boost each person, ending with the
group facilitator.
⇒ Then we boost the group's sense of community.
With two people, we boost the relationship.
⇒ Finally, we boost any portion of the movement
toward transformation on this planet that we
individually and privately choose. Choosing this element privately eliminates any social pressure
to boost Joyful Wisdom, which is part of this global movement.
It's very powerful to use all three facets in Transpersonal Boosting, even when alone.
To learn this sequence:
⇒ Click "TB1" to turn on the People boosting
facet. Then click I'm Protected
and Ready. Next step. to begin the meditation.
⇒ After going through the first cycle, click
the button to return to the beginning. Repeat the meditation using the Group boosting facet.
⇒ Use the same link to return to finish up by
using the Planet boosting facet.
(It's not necessary to read all the background information on this page to do the meditations.)
After clicking TB1, TB2, or TB3, leave the green text visible when going to the next step to
view the suggestions for that specific facet.
Inhale and exhale slowly for at least four long, rhythmic breaths.
As you inhale, draw white yang energy from the sun down your spine and into the earth. Identify how the 'personality' of yang energy feels: strong, powerful, and energetic.
Enjoy the yang energy personality.
As you exhale, draw in blue yin energy from the earth up your spine and into the sky. Identify how the 'personality' of yin energy feels: receptive, foundational, resting, and intuitive.
Enjoy the yin energy personality.
When you notice that this step has had a positive effect on your energy state, click the button below.
We usually begin our regular Joyful Wisdom groups with a different meditation that
uses this same breathing pattern. Later in the session, rather than returning
to this breathing pattern, the facilitator generally just says something along the lines of
"Slow your breath, and remember how your body and heart chakra were filled with energy. Breathe
the energy into your body again, watching the yin and yang energy rise and fall, activating
your entire energy system." Typically, nothing else is needed, but there is no rule that is
more important than your intuition.
Similarly, when you're engaged in Transpersonal Boosting by yourself, you may
only need to use these two breathing steps on the first cycle. You can skip them or include them
in subsequent cycles in whatever way you feel drawn. Flexibility helps you develop your sensitivity.
Whether leading a group or boosting alone, you will sense what you need. It's good to let your intuition
guide you.
After your heart chakra feels warm, full, and satisfied, send heart chakra energy into the quality, trait, or element that you acknowledged and appreciated.
Repeat the label that you created. This keeps you focused on meditating as you send energy for several breaths.
In our regular Joyful Wisdom groups, we move seamlessly from an Acknowledgment Round into
Transpersonal Boosting, and creating a label for what we've acknowledged is not a convenient
part of the Acknowledgment Round.
So when using Transpersonal Boosting in a group, the facilitator says something like, "Our group is part of a world-wide community of people who are working
to evolve ourselves and the planet. Send energy into
the quality that you acknowledged or that you appreciate and value
so deeply about _____(this person).
the quality that you most appreciate and value
about our small community (or our relationship or group).
the quality of that world-wide movement of transformation that you most
appreciate and value.
a quality within another person, this group (community) of ours,
or the world-wide movement towards growth and transformation.
And as you do this, create a short label for what you appreciate to help you stay focused."
In leading a group like this, always pause to allow everyone to catch up to the meditation. Count three or four
breaths to ensure that you're not rushing.
For Verbose Boosting, say aloud, whisper, or subliminally whisper what it means to you to be sending energy into this quality. Pause after every sentence to fully visualize what you just said.
I send energy into my commitment to personal growth, because if I can increase it,
I see it will help me develop many different skills and qualities.
(Pause for several slow breaths to visualize yourself evolving, however you mean it.)
I feel the energy of my heart flowing into this skill, and I see myself becoming more and more a
master of my life.
(Pause for several slow breaths to visualize achieving greater mastery.)
For Progressive Boosting, say, whisper, or subliminally whisper
briefly what it means to you to send energy into this quality. Repeat its
label every second breath.
After each repetition, focus deeply on the quality for several slow breaths. Watch for
for changes in what you sense about it. When your focus shifts, create a new label that
reflects your new intuition.
I send energy into my commitment to personal growth, because I really need to develop it.
(Pause for two slow breaths and focus on your commitment to personal growth.)
Commitment to personal growth. (Focus nonverbally on this for two slow breaths.)
Commitment to personal growth. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
Commitment to personal growth. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
Commitment to personal growth. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
Commitment to personal growth. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
OMG! I see I'm actually feeling an undercurrent of deep pain, like I'm broken. So I really need to
focus on... releasing my deep pain. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
Deep desire for releasing my pain. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
My intention to release my pain. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
For boosting a quality in yourself, point your palms point toward your body from a foot or two away. Imagine yourself as a healer who's sending healing energy into your whole body.
For boosting a quality in a situation, imagine that the situation's someone else, imagine that person's your group, imagine that the energy field of the community is the personal growth movement, imagine that a network of energy that reaches around the world is spreading out someone else, your group, or the transformation movement immediately in front of you. Point your palms towards it. him or her. him, her, or it. Imagine sending healing energy into the quality you've identified.
Continue sending energy in this manner until you feel the energy connect with your target.
If you have trouble focusing during this step, you may be feeling some emotional conflict about what you're trying to boost. You can either just keep going and see what comes up, or use an app to understand the conflict and work through it.
Click Focus In Deeply to Discern the Hidden
Messages in Your Emotions to tune in to whatever emotions are interfering with your boosting
meditation. Take plenty of time to sharpen your focus and allow your intuition to speak to you. (Animated)
Click Chase a
Whisper Through a Secret Door to Find Your Place of Power to move
forward with your goals or dreams or when feeling trapped in an unworkable or unpleasant situation.
This process opens doors into a more supportive reality. (Animated)
Click Use Inner
Silence to Be More Thoughtful Throughout Life to transform automatic
patterns into conscious choices, to rethink and choose the wisest path, or when feeling upset,
trapped, or unempowered. (Animated)
Click In a Journal,
Complete your Relationships with People or Concerns to tune into your intuition and deepest
wisdom and to abandon false roles. Dialog with a person, an organization, an event, or our body
to tune into an energy that has a mind of its own. (Animated)
Request a Chrysalis
session from a group of Joyful Wisdom volunteers to achieve deep clarity about your issue. This is
our premier tool that enables each group member to access their deepest wisdom effectively and efficiently.
Repeat that label whenever you need to increase your focus. Continue to send this energy into this quality or achievement that you have chosen to boost. Aloud, say you're doing this to support it and nurture it.
Once again, do this slowly, so that you can fully grok the differences between this step and step of blessing it and embracing it. There's a progression from the last to this one.
Seek to grok the differences between what it means "to support it" and "to nurture it." Can you feel or sense how this meditation is moving to a higher level with each step?
Take your time. It's worthwhile to fully grok the energy you're sending with each breath—especially since you're getting the benefits, too.
Repeat the label, and send energy into the quality to boost it and help it to grow.
Take a whole lot of time to just keep watering the quality, boosting it, and visualize it growing, evolving, and changing.
Let this evolution process sink it and integrate. Keep visualizing and breathing until you feel you've fully grokked it.
Then release the energy so that it can do its work, unhindered by your conscious mind.
You do not need to release the white light psychic protection shields you erected. They will continue to serve you.
Say or whisper something like the following: "I send energy into _________ to bless it."
Verbose Boosting: As always, verbalize your words to help you keep focused. In other words,
express your thoughts aloud or by whispering. With practice, you can speak subliminally—without
using your mouth or vocal cords—but even subliminal verbalizing involves specific words in
the same way as speaking aloud does.
After speaking, pause to visualize the energy moving. Then verbally express the positive feelings that are
involved with blessing this quality.
If you've ever received a blessing from someone else who was practiced at it, what
did that feel like? Seek to speak your deepest understanding of what it means to you to
bless this quality.
Speak aloud for at least two or three sentences, pausing between each sentence to visualize the blessing fully.
I send energy into my commitment to my personal growth, instead of just getting depressed about what
just happened. I choose to bless it.
(Pause for several slow breaths to visualize yourself growing stronger, no matter what happens.)
It feels so much better to look at this experience in a positive way and I'm really glad that I'm
able to do so.
(Pause for several slow breaths to visualize achieving greater mastery.)
This is a part of me that I truly want to energize and grow, because it's such a more centered
way of living. I bless this part of me.
(Pause for several slow breaths to visualize blessings flowing in.)
For Progressive Boosting, say aloud, whisper, or subliminally whisper
briefly what it feels like to bless the quality. Repeat the
label for what you’re boosting after every second breath to keep focused.
After each repetition, focus on the quality you're boosting for several breaths.
Watch for changes in what you sense about it. When what you sense changes, create a new label that
reflects your new intuitions.
I send energy into my intention... No, it really is a commitment to move beyond
the pain I've dredged up.
I bless that commitment. (Pause for two slow breaths to send energy to bless this commitment.)
Commitment to move beyond the pain. (Focus nonverbally on this for two slow breaths.)
I bless that commitment. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
To move beyond the pain. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
I bless it. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
Moving behond the pain. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
Actually, I'm pissed. That was just not right! I'm pissed because it was so wrong.
Okay. I'll focus on... harnessing my rage. I bless the personal power that it invokes.
(Focus for two slow breaths.)
I bless my personal power. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
My inner power, my inner strength, my clarity.
Say or whisper something like the following: "I send energy into _________ to support it."
Pause to visualize, and then describe what it means to you support this quality, which might involve
actions, such as studying, making phone calls, or having a conversation. Sending heart energy into
whatever is realistic to you as a way of supporting this part of you is just as valid a part of an
energy boosting session as the energy work itself. Sending energy those other actions helps to make
sure that they happen.
Articulate your thoughts about what you can do to support this part of you for at least two or three sentences.
I send energy into this commitment to support it, and I know that there are things that I can do
to really build this part of me.
(Pause for several slow breaths to visualize yourself going to classes or studying.)
I'm thinking about a book I want to read, but I'm not sure it's really enough or even the right book.
(Pause for several slow breaths to visualize yourself finding the right book and being deeply inspired.)
I send energy into the impulse to make sure that I find a way to add to my understanding and
make sure I grow further.
(Pause for several slow breaths to visualize yourself growing wiser and more thoughtful.)
Hmm-m-m-. I'll have to think about it some more. (You don't have to be conclusive or know the answers
to boost a quality.)
(Pause for several slow breaths to visualize all of the above images together as one image.)
After saying that you support this quality you've newly identified (and a sentence or phrase to describe it),
repeat the new label for what you’re boosting several times. After each
repetition, pause and focus deeply on the quality your focusing on for several breaths.
After each repetition, focus deeply on the new quality for several breaths. Watch for changes in what you
sense about it. When it seems to change, create another new label that reflects your new intuition.
I send energy into myself as a defender of justice. (Pause for two slow breaths to send energy. Visualize
yourself carrying within you the power of being such a defender.)
I support my self image as a defender of justice. (Focus nonverbally on this for two slow breaths.)
Defender of justice. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
Defender of justice. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
I support myself as a defender of justice. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
Defender of justice. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
Strategic defender of justice? Or maybe an activist?(Focus for two slow breaths.)
I support my self-image as a strategic activist? (Focus for two slow breaths.)
Say or whisper something like the following: "I send energy into _________ to enhance it."
Then describe the different aspects of skill and growth that will arise as you nurture this part of
yourself. Consider how your skills grow when you practice the piano, listen to great pianists, and
begin to compose your own piano pieces.
The more things you do, the more it enhances your understanding and skill.
This is the kind of growth you are promoting when you enhance this quality. Just as you can promote
the growth of plans in your garden by sending heart energy into them, you can enhance your
personal growth by sending heart chakra energy into it.
Describe what this means to you for at least two or three sentences.
I send energy into my commitment to my personal growth to enhance it.
(Pause for several slow breaths to visualize an image of yourself as someone to admire—your future
or ideal self.)
My understanding of this part of me is growing more and more complete and send energy to enhance it.
(Pause for several slow breaths to visualize your ideal self and you in a respectful, fulfilling
dialog.)
It's becoming less like a single insight and more and more like a path with many new aspects as I
move forward.
(Pause for several slow breaths to visualize you and your ideal self walking together along a path.)
My understanding deepens and my clarity is developing in unforeseen ways.
(Pause for several slow breaths to visualize your ideal self flying invisibly above you as
you go about your day, advising you, warning you, and leading you to make the right decisions.)
This is a journey, and I'm discovering new elements about that journey as I go.
(Pause for several slow breaths to visualize all of the above images together as one image.)
After briefly describing what it means to enhance the new quality you've sensed, repeat the new
label that you’re boosting several times, always pausing to tune in on on the new quality that has just emerged
from your intuition.
After each repetition, focus deeply on this quality for several breaths. Watch for a new intuition before
moving to the next step.
I send energy into myself as a person who can lead by generating enthusiasm in others. (Visualize
yourself drawing a crowd of enthusiastic people around you.)
I'm enhancing my ability to generate enthusiasm. (Focus nonverbally on this for two slow breaths.)
Generating enthusiasm in others. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
Generating enthusiasm. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
Generating enthusiasm. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
Enhancing the skill of easily generating enthusiasm. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
Generating enthusiasm through effective communication. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
An effective leader who generates enthusiasm in others by being a really great communicator.
I'm enhancing that quality with my energy. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
Say or whisper something like the following: "I send energy into _________ to boost it."
Think of how people boost one another—for instance, when kids can't climb over a fence, they will
ask their friends to boost them. Describe what fences you want help this inner quality to climb
over and what challenges you intend your heart chakra energy to help it overcome. Describe some
specific ways that you intend your heart energy to help this part of you to tackle.
Describe this process in sufficient depth to satisfy your heart.
I send energy into this commitment to growth to boost it.
(Pause for several slow breaths to visualize yourself as a kid who is boosting another kid
named "commitment to growth" to climb over a fence.)
I intend that it will help me find the inspiration and resources I need to guide this part
of me into taking greater control of my life.
(Pause for several slow breaths to visualize finding treasure and pleasure on the other side
of the fence.)
As I boost it, this part of me will do things that it's never had the freedom to do before,
such as _______ and ______.
(Pause for several slow breaths to visualize the kids running around and doing more
of _______ and ______.)
I'm boosting it to give it power.
(Pause for several slow breaths to visualize the two kids becoming muscular, like body
builders.)
After briefly describing what it means to boost the new quality, repeat the new
label several times, pausing to tune in on it throughout.
After each repetition, focus deeply on this quality for to allow a new intuition to emerge.
I send energy into myself as a trustworthy guide. (Visualize
yourself leading a small group through a forest.)
I'm boosting myself as a trustworthy guide. (Focus
nonverbally on this for two slow breaths.)
Trustworthy guide. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
Trustworthy guide. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
I boost myself as a trustworthy guide. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
Boosting myself as a great guide. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
I'm a great guide because I empower others. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
I'm a trustworthy guide who empowers others, and I boost my skill at doing that.
(Focus for two slow breaths.)
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