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How I work

Maybe you are wondering how I can work with your energy field without ever having seen you. I don’t need a photo or your story for this. I read your energy field. The path you will walk is your own, not mine.

What I see before you tell me anything

When people get to know me, what surprises many of them most is that I manage without a photo and without a preliminary conversation. I read your energy field directly. That is how I see where I need to work; how this goes is described under Reading the energy field.

A photo would not help me, because in it I see what someone looks like, what they are wearing and what expression they have, but not their energy field. A photo and a story even leave impressions, and they get in my way when I want to look at an energy field neutrally.

Reading energy fields is a strong innate ability in me. On its own it does not go far, just as talent alone does not make a good soccer player. I have honed it through research and in the sessions themselves, of which there have been over 60,000 since 1998. In 2016, at the HSP congress in Münsingen near Bern, I spoke as a speaker about how I work with energy fields.

“And I have practiced for thousands of hours in my life.”

Rico Brunner

At around sixteen I noticed that many people perceive differently from me. It took its time until my perception was stable. I have a photographic memory for energy fields. I don’t need clairvoyance for this; I call it perception.

Why I work quietly

In The Field (remote energy work) I work quietly. I say nothing while I do it, and you don’t have to do anything, not even be especially open. This puzzles some people. They wonder how they are supposed to tell that I am working at all.

I don’t send any energy while I do it. I give your energy field an impulse, and what it does with it, it decides for itself.

“I inspire the energy field without steering it, without manipulating it.”

Rico Brunner

Your energy field responds to the state I am in. That is why I am completely calm, clear and collected while I work. I also make sure that my wish to help does not grow too big, because otherwise I lose my clear view.

A large part of your energy field lies outside what you perceive yourself, for most people even the larger part. Exactly how much differs from person to person. When I work there, you often only notice it later, even though many notice a change right away. What this depends on is described under How you experience the work.

So whether you notice anything depends on where the work is done. I work on the causes, where your energy field needs it, even if you would notice it sooner somewhere else.

Two things I never do

Two firm principles apply to my work, and each has its own page.

Working in the right place

Problems can lie in three places. Whatever concerns the body belongs in medicine. Whatever concerns behavior and the psyche belongs in psychology. Whatever lies in the energy field is the domain of Energyology and of my work. It matters to me to work where a problem actually is.

“It does not compete with any other discipline, it complements it.”

Rico Brunner on Energyology

For me, working on the energy field is something mechanical, not a matter of belief. You don’t have to believe in it for me to be able to work.

Why I don’t set a path for you

Some people come to me because a lot is hard right now. Others want to hold on to what they have built up. Still others sense that there is more in them and want to move forward. Often several of these apply at once, one in the relationship, another at work. In every case it is about your life, and you know it better than I do.

Someone means well and knows exactly what would be right for you. Their advice suits them, but it rarely suits you.

That is not how I want to work. I am a different person from you, with different preferences and a different view of life. If I worked according to my own ideas, you would end up at my philosophy. I am interested in yours. That is why I set my preferences aside, even when I would personally like something else better.

Your field sets the direction

No two energy fields are alike, any more than two fingerprints are, and unlike a fingerprint, an energy field changes constantly. A fixed procedure that is the same for everyone would therefore miss most energy fields, including your own a few weeks later.

I am not out to improve your energy field, as if it were not good enough. I don’t make a different person out of you. That is why I don’t set a goal; I work process-oriented. I read what it needs next and follow that, even if I might have started somewhere else myself. An energy field consists of many parts that belong together. If one part becomes strong faster than the rest, tension arises between them, and it affects the whole energy field.

“The energy fields set the tone.”

Rico Brunner

Why I want to know exactly what I am doing

For me, guessing is not part of this work. I want to understand what I see and be able to repeat it, because what cannot be repeated is chance to me, not knowledge. I have held to this since my beginnings.

Every piece of work I do has four steps. First comes the analysis, then a simulation in which I play through the next step, then the execution. Finally, I check whether what I intended has happened. That is why, afterwards, I can explain what I worked on and why. Some connections I only truly understood after more than twenty years of research.

“For me, a person’s energy field is something very precious. That is why I have to know what I am working on. I also have to know why I am working on something.”

Rico Brunner

Looking honestly, even when it is uncomfortable

I look at an energy field as it is, not as I would like it to be. Everyone likes to see what they expect, and I am no exception. If I gloss over something, I no longer see where it isn’t working.

Part of this is that I think in long periods of time. I never aim for a quick effect that someone will pat me on the back for. My values give me guardrails here. Some things would work in the short term, but the price would be that energy fields get damaged. That is why I don’t do them. There is no guarantee in this work. I would rather say that openly.

“I was never looking for quick success.”

Rico Brunner

Who I am when I am not working

Working with energies was very important to me early on, and yet I never wanted to be someone whose life consists only of that. There were times when the work left little room for private life, but what I had was always relaxed, with a lot of joy and with people who matter to me.

I take that ease with me. I take things seriously, but not too seriously, because too much seriousness creates tunnel vision. With a little distance, I often see a matter from a side I had missed before.

Many people who get to know me privately don’t even know what I work with, because it plays no part there.

“I can talk about energies, but I don’t have to.”

Rico Brunner

What you will find in this section

Questions that come up often

Do you need a photo or my story?

No. I read your energy field directly. A photo or a story would rather get in my way. More under Reading the energy field.

Do I have to believe in it?

No. For me, working on the energy field is something mechanical, not a matter of belief.

Do you send me energy?

No. I give your field an impulse, and what it does with it, it decides for itself. More under No foreign energy.

Do you tell me what to do?

I don’t set a path for you. You know your life better than I do. More under No manipulation.

Does your work replace a visit to the doctor?

No. Whatever concerns the body belongs in medicine, whatever concerns behavior belongs in psychology. I work on the energy field.

Do you give a guarantee?

No. There is no guarantee in this work. I would rather say that openly.

Where to go next

How The Field (remote energy work) runs step by step, and what others have asked before you, is in the section The Field (remote energy work). The best thing to read next is where your path leads: Your development journey. After that, how I find and read your field: Reading the energy field. What The Field costs and why a low price matters to me is described under Prices. How I came to this work, I tell in My research path.

How I work section · Version 1.0 · 23.10.2026