Energy Body
The energy body is a subtle anatomy, or you may prefer to think of it as a spiritual anatomy of the body. The basic concept is that each living person at each visit to a life has a separate energy anatomy that is distinct from what is called the physical body. The effect of this energy body is to give life to the physical.

Question:       How does the energy body and the physical body relate?
Answer:          It, the energy body, is affected by the physical body. The physical body is also affected by the energy body. In other words, the two are by nature intertwined and only death causes separation. What happens to one affects the other.

Question:       What does the energy body look like?
Answer:          It looks as you would imagine. In other words, your mind does not relate to the plane on which the energy body is associated with. By its nature it is part of the lower astral.

Question:       Is there then a difference between a person’s higher self and the energy body?
Answer:          Yes there is. At death, those who expect a heaven or a hell, experience such. But not through their higher selves, which understand the true nature of their life’s experiences. It is the energy body’s experiences or experiences that dwell in the lower astral levels and as they gain awareness may migrate upwards to eventually join their higher selves.

Question:       Is the higher self different from the energy body? If so, how does the higher self relate to the energy body?
Answer:          First, you should understand that the energy body is a spiritual body or an unseen energy field or as you would say a subtle and distinct different aspect of the human form. You can call it an energy body. It relates to the higher self, the same as a life experience does. 

Physical Body, Energy Body, Higher Self

Your physical body, your energy body, and the Higher Self share a unique relationship.
This relationship allows the soul and the mental aspect of the human body to be able to communicate. 

However, the Higher Self can also give guidance that it feels is necessary to the soul without the human or physical person realizing that the instructions are needed.

Spiritual energy and physical energy are not the same. They can be related but are not the same. Your physical mind and body does not and can not recall or visualize the energy body. It does not feel it, nor does it really understand it. Therefore, different systems of helping the mind accept the spiritual aspects or energies are taught by different teachers. No matter how many autopsies a person does, for example, they will never find an energy body. It does not physically exist in the body. But energy flows through the body and it helps one to understand the relationship between the energy body and the physical body because it can help one gain insight. And it therefore becomes part of your reality. You have created it and therefore are able to gain its benefits. One could devise another system, but what use would it be? It is better to keep things simple, easily understood, and therefore more useful.