Sure, you can try on yourself. But no guarantees. For some reason I have had reasonable success healing others, little to no success on myself. Also relatively little success having others so skilled work on me. I think this has to do more with me, as a somewhat special case, vs. the effectiveness in general of energy healing.

I'm sure there are books out there, don't know of any off hand. I learned from classes in a psychic institute and seminars.