How remote energy work came about

The path at a glance

Some stages on Rico’s path have a date. Others came gradually, and no one noted the year. The drawing shows the two separately, so that nothing looks more precise than it is.

When he realized that not everyone sees the same thing

Rico grew up in surroundings where no one talked about energies or about what you feel. As a child, he didn’t think of himself as different. He only noticed that he judged some things differently and dealt with them differently. He didn’t talk to anyone about it, and it didn’t bother him either.

Back then he couldn’t yet understand what he saw. When you’re young, you interpret quickly, he says today, and he interpreted much of it wrongly. Only in his early twenties was his perception calm enough for him to recognize in people where they were getting stuck.

Is it a gift or a craft? For Rico, it is both. He has a strong innate talent, and he has trained it over decades of research and in his sessions. It is like a football player, for whom talent alone is not enough.

The first session in which he saw nothing

In 1998, Rico became self-employed and opened a practice in St. Gallen. He was young and wanted to use his perception to work for people. The first people came. And in his very first session, after a lot of practice, he saw nothing when a person sat across from him.

The perception he had relied on wasn’t there in that moment. He tells this in a talk without beating around the bush, as part of his path. He first had to learn how to handle his own perception.

Why explaining wasn’t enough

In the first years, Rico gave advice. He told people what he saw in them between the lines, and in this way showed them other perspectives on themselves. Then he noticed something. Many couldn’t put into practice what he told them, not even the third or fourth time.

It wasn’t a lack of knowledge. Someone who finds it hard to set boundaries usually knows that, and would like to know how to do it differently. Rico says that in his practice he has never told anyone anything they hadn’t already sensed or known. What was missing was the strength to put it into practice.

He compares it to a telephone line. If the line is cut, even a course in making phone calls won’t help. So he began to look where the line is cut: in the energy field. This is how the work on the field itself came about, without words. Rico once called it coaching the energy field without words.

Learning to look without intervening

For what Rico saw, there was no knowledge of how and why energy fields work. He had to work with what he saw. He soon understood simple processes. On some connections he worked for over twenty years before he understood them.

For this, he had to drop two habits. The first was interpreting. For one to two years, ninety percent of the time he only perceived and drew no conclusions. While observing, he also switched off what he had read and learned about energies, so that he wouldn’t see what he expected. Today it is the reverse of his younger years: observation and analysis are the large part, the conclusions only a fraction.

The second was wanting to help. A field that seems weak invites you to give it energy. Rico realized early on that this doesn’t hold up. Someone who puts energy in no longer sees the field afterwards, but their own effect on it. And they make the person dependent on them.

For himself, Rico values a self-determined, independent life, one in which he can be free. That is also how he wants to work on others: the way he would work on himself, without outside energy and without artificially amplifying anything. He started with himself. The first fields he observed over a long time were his own.

While looking patiently, he made a discovery that shapes his work to this day. When he asked himself why a point in the field wasn’t working, the field responded to his questions. It took in his understanding and began to work with it.

This is how the work with information instead of energy came about. What exactly that means is under Information, not energy. Everything Rico has learned this way he organizes in a model he calls Energyology. It is an experience-based model, not a scientifically tested method, and he says himself that his perception can hardly be followed from the outside.

How sessions became daily work

In his practice, Rico worked with people in person for a long time, including with the laying on of hands. He worked intensively, and people came back a week later. There was always the risk of overwhelming a field. You can only work as much as a field can tolerate, not as much as you would like.

Then came requests for which there was no room in the practice. Some lived two or three hours away or could no longer get an appointment. Others went on vacation for three or four weeks and wanted to continue to be supported during that time. The impetus came from a client who was doing badly while on vacation and called to ask whether Rico could support him remotely.

At first, he worked remotely on one day and then observed the field for thirty days without intervening. What he saw surprised him. The field was already overwhelmed by that one day. The burden lay in the portion of that one day, not in the number of days.

Small daily steps turned out to be the way that overwhelms a field the least. Because Rico works every day, the next day he can build on what he did the day before. Why your field sets the pace in this is explained in Why your field sets the pace.

The four daily steps came about in the same way. At first, Rico mainly analyzed, because he wanted to understand how fields work. Later he realized that he could do a trial run in his perception before he works. Then came the execution and the check. More on this under Four steps every day.

What still drives him today

His research question has been the same from the beginning. He puts it like this:

This curiosity hasn’t faded. For him, every remote session is also a piece of further learning. To be able to work, he has to be in his strength at the moment of working. That is why he deliberately works calmly and centered in himself.

What matters to him in his work

Principles have grown out of his question and his daily work. These six matter most for you as a client.

Who he works for today

People come to Rico from very different situations. Some are going through a hard time and are looking for something to hold on to. Some have ground under their feet again and want it to hold even under more pressure. And some are doing well and want to move forward. Rico calls this last part of the work the exciting one. Often a person is in several situations at once, in a different one at work than at home.

The work is the same for everyone, on the whole field and at the pace it sets. More on this under Help, Stability, Development.

What he doesn’t know yet

Rico continues his research. One of his open questions is why people sometimes make decisions that don’t suit them, even though they know better. He says openly that he doesn’t know the answer yet. Some questions have taken him ten, fifteen years.

And one difficulty accompanies him in every remote session. What he sees is hard to put into words. The terms on these pages are therefore attempts to describe a perception in a way that you can follow.

Questions that come up often

How did Rico realize that he perceives differently?

At around sixteen, when he began to engage consciously with his perception. Until then, he thought everyone perceived as much as he did.

Is it a gift, or can it be learned?

For Rico, it is both: a strong talent that he has trained over decades. Some connections in the field he only understood after more than twenty years.

Why does he work every day and not once a month?

Because while observing, he saw that even a single day of work can overwhelm a field. So he shortened the intervals step by step, down to one day. Small steps overwhelm a field the least.

Did he start with himself?

Yes. The first fields he observed over a long time were his own. He works on others the way he would work on himself.

Why is remote energy work now called The Field?

Since October 2026, the offering has been called The Field (remote energy work). Later it will be called just The Field. In older recordings, Rico calls it remote support. It always means the same thing.

Can I also meet Rico in person?

Yes, in a personal session. It is a separate offering for understanding and putting things in context, and it is not part of remote energy work.

Where to go next

Rico tells the full story of his research path and his life in the Research section, under My research path and About me. How he works and what matters to him is in the How I work section. What the daily work looks like today is described in Daily remote energy work.