For me, the past couple of months have been a sudden shift to listening to the Guru's words and understanding the meaning behind them. Lots of reruns of previous years' talks and book reading.. Seems like I am on the "Explore" stage of the LEE principle (Listen, Explore, Experiment).
Since the focus this year for the message study has been concentrated on the Kundalini Stavah, it gives me a great opportunity to explore the musical aspect of a hymn too, other than understanding the meaning.
Another way is to visualize everything. The kundalini as the coiled serpent, the chakras as petalled lotuses..
Its going to be exciting and powerful :)