I've been watching the series, 'Hunter x Hunter.' The discipline for controlling and applying one's aura, nen, seems pretty on-point and realistically applicable. In fact, it has helped me to more easily perceive calling my aura back to me. I was wondering if these methods sound accurate to anyone else here. I will post the description from the show's wiki page.
http://hunterxhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Nen#Four_Major_Principles
You could also just relax your attention to it. It is your attention which breathes life into the manifest world. The more attention you give; the more things solidify, but it depends on you. This is why concentration, is the master key to mind powers.
Concentration solidifies things; emptiness disperses things.
The constructs which tend to linger, are the ones for which one may have built up habitual attention to & the construct seems to go on autopilot. Though, even then it is still a matter of attention or lack thereof.
Your influence over reality will be in complete congruence with how much impulse control you have:)
That has been my experience:)