Or, Not your Uncle Al's LBRP.
Be somewhere quiet. I do this often, in the bathroom during shower time, or outside especially in the morning, or in my bedroom.
Starting with your favorite element, I always start with the North, Earth, you salute the element, acknowledge its presence in your life, address it in some way. Then coalesce its essence in front of you, all around you. Feel the Earth. With this element in particular, my chest feels heavy and it's harder to breathe. I feel chilled and cooler than I did. If it helps, visualize it as a color, or a tangible thing. Then breathe it all into your pores/lungs/self, taking in all the essence into yourself. Fill yourself with this element that you materialized. Something un-writable happens, where you become it, it becomes you. I'll do the best to describe it. With Earth, my limbs feel heavy and dense. I feel strong and grounded and rooted. While it's within me, I am able to contemplate and examine its role in my life, tweaking it as I need. If I've been particularly stodgy lately, stubborn, un-budging, I'll perhaps seek to lighten the Earth element in myself. Maybe changing it from heavy clay and rock to light and airy leaves and wood and branches and reeds, growing things, living things with movement. Plants are all Earth, too. Once I've "mastered" it, within myself, for the time being, I exhale it, pushing it back into the Universe, where it can do some good. I expel it through my pores, lungs, everything.
Then I repeat the process with water, fire, and air. I finish with air, then close with a dedication to spirit. Where I stand grounded and push my, um, life energy, my chi into the ground to stay rooted, and then summon every bit of soul energy I can, starting with my solar plexus, and then it's a warming sensation, where I feel like/visualize a ball of white light. I pull it up and out, through the crown of my skull to connect with the fifth and most important element, my way of connecting to...it. The collective unconscious, the dream sea, spirituality, divinity, Clive Barker calls it Quiddity, while keeping my feet and chi rooted solidly to reality. When I read cards, I do a little of this, too.
That's my "LBRP" I don't fool around with names of things that might represent elements. If I need Earth, I call earth. If I need fire, I will collect fire energy from around me in the world, and tap directly into it, like plugging into some kind of socket, where I and the element become one.
