Exercise 1. Observe those things around you which have the elemental qualities of Air. See if you can determine the relative Airy qualities as you experience them.
Exercise 2. "elemental pore breathing." To do this, start off by doing the Relaxation Ritual. Next, become very aware of your breath. Become aware of the slow in-and-out motion of the physical air. Notice the way the air feels as it comes in through the nose, goes down the air pipe and into the lungs. Sense the interchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide within the lungs, and feel the C02 laden air as it goes out of the lungs, through the air pipe and out the nose and mouth.
Now imagine that your entire body is nothing but a large breathing apparatus. Imagine that every part of your body has only the function of breathing. Visualize that your skin is part of this system.
As you physically breathe, imagine that every pore of your skin is also breathing. However, just as your lungs breathe in physical air, your pores should be breathing in elemental Air. (Personal note: see how magical elements are just as much "concepts" and "qualities" as they are physical substances.)
Exercise 3. Spend a period of up to three minutes (no more), once a day, imagining that you are the element Air. Feel the lightness, the floating giddiness, the warmth and moistness of Air. Feel how physical things don't seem to matter and learn the true meaning of the term "airhead." This is not said in jest, but in all seriousness. Become Air.
Do this exercise for a week only, no more. Do not repeat it (if repeating it is your desire) for at least a month. Do not repeat it more often than one week out of a month. That is, no more than 12 weeks per year, one week at a time. If you notice that you are having trouble finishing your normal work, halt this exercise immediately. In a day or two you will be back
to normal. (Another personal note: I totally disregarded this and would spend hours each day in the realm of water, but haven't noticed any particularly bad side effects... but, then, while water is my main element, I like to balance it with small exercises in any/all the other three.)
Exercise 4. Once you have learned how to "be Air" (without allowing it to take over your life), the next step is to take greater conscious control of the element Air. Take a moment and imagine yourself to be Air. Bring the feeling from the last exercise into your consciousness.
Next, hold your hands 9 to 12 inches apart, palms facing each other. Imagine a bottle or box between your hands. Now, as you exhale, visualize all of the Air element which is in you going out with your breath and being trapped in the container between your hands. Three to five breaths should be enough to fill it.
Then, with three breaths, inhale it back into yourself and go back to normal consciousness.
The Test. This test will allow you to see whether or not you really have become not only in harmony with the magickal element of Air, but also to see if you are able to control the element.
The next time you feel heavy, bloated, slow or lazy, form the container of Air as described in the previous exercise. Once the container of Air has been formed, with one big inhalation draw the contents of the container back into you.
Within five minutes you should feel relaxed and refreshed, lighter and anxious to do those tasks you wish to do.
The next time that you feel light headed, giddy, overly silly, unstable, etc., again form the container of Air. Next, visualize a large "black hole"in the physical air in front of you. When your container is filled to overflowing with your excess elemental Air, "throw" the container into the black hole. That is, visualize yourself tossing the container
of elemental Air into the black hole, and then see the hole
sealing up after your container has entered it.
You should feel more grounded and balanced in a few minutes, but it may be necessary to repeat this "black-holing" experiment two or three times to feel totally normal.
When you have passed both parts of this test to your satisfaction, you will have mastered the element of Air.
Before I got myself a copy, I just did psychokinesis exercises meditating on the material aspect-- it didn't move, but I 'got' what a magical element was. Some elemental tattva (symbols) meditation also helps, I've heard, but if elemental magic is your specialty/discipline then I would recommend this book. Hope this helped.
