Waking Energy 7 Timeless Practices Designed to Reboot Your Body and Unleash Your Potential

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the grand stage at London’s Royal Festival Hall all those years ago, I’m amazed at how much more buoyant and capable I feel now. Waking Energy is a unique synergy of ancient teachings that fosters the connection of body, mind, and spirit, facilitates a heightened awareness of the self in the world through breath and movement, and results in an embodied awareness that sets the stage for miraculous transformation—for waking your energy. The seven practices all engender the creation of inner space, both physical and emotional, allowing the body to discharge held energy that can turn against it, to engage in a stunning process called somato-emotional releasing, where trapped energy (that’s keeping old wounds alive and proliferating new stress and life-detracting thoughts) can be released and transformed into usable, life-enhancing energy. In Waking Energy, I pay homage to the generations of disciplined seekers who paved the way and who, over thousands of years, pledged their lives to exploring the energy universe, dedicating themselves to creating a towering, veritably infinite library of work about how to bring consciousness to the mind and body in order to set the spirit free. The Taoist and yogic teachings you will soon discover will not only engage you and transform you physically, mentally, emotionally, energetically, and spiritually; they will help you to access your greatest potential and a feeling of oneness and inner peace. I know, because I am living proof. One for All Tell me, what would it mean to you if you felt hopeful, invigorated, and alive again? What would it feel like if you were fully embodied, if you could stand tall, rooted and utterly confident in your own being? What would it mean if you saw yourself through loving, compassionate, appraising eyes? I can answer that for you. It would mean everything. You would see yourself as an energy being, a being of light, at one with nature under canopies of emerald green trees, flying over whitecaps like a seagull celebrating its own wings. What if I told you that you have the power to produce this state, those incredibly powerful effects, and the feelings that generate them whenever and wherever you wanted? Waking Energy is about waking up to yourself, to life, to nature, to the world outside, and to the world within, so that you can enter this magical state of flow where you discover your essential aliveness and let it fly free—where you optimize, support, and nourish it. And the only thing standing between you and your essential aliveness, to opening this portal to a more enlightened way of being, to new ease and joy, is your very next conscious breath. You will soon learn that the secret to waking your aliveness, your life force, is by consciously cultivating a mindful awareness of what you’re doing and why you’re doing it; by contacting, courting, respecting, and conserving it through “right action”; by using it wisely. It’s a kind of embodied presence and attending to what is without trying to make it be any different than it already is—without spending your precious energy trying to change it. The Waking Energy Way offers you a world of energy, and this is your pass, your golden ticket, to it. Welcome officially to the world that you can live in when you learn how to wake up the energy

inside your own sacred vessel. And Waking Energy is one way for all. It is for everyone regardless of age, fitness, or capability. It will unite all aspects of your own amazing body, mind, and spirit, all aspects of who you are; it will unite the subtle body and the body you can see to nature and the world around you, to what lies beyond, and to what lies within—your own true nature, your timeless essence. When you consciously wake up to yourself, to life, to nature, to the world, become aware and channel and nourish your essential inner life force, that becomes Waking Energy. When you learn how to waken and cultivate your energy so that your inner world matches your world outside, you will come to see that what is within is also without, and you will discover that you are a powerful agent of change. The ancient Chinese philosophy of the Tao, which informs so much of Waking Energy, is often referred to as the “Way of Ways,” and although this book offers many different paths, they all converge into the way, the way to you. That’s what separates Waking Energy from everything else— why it truly stands alone. All the practices you will encounter and explore demand total participation and yield consciousness, a deeper awareness of the self, others, and the world outside. Waking Energy is about giving yourself permission to express yourself fully, freely, consciously, to celebrate yourself and to live life to the fullest. Waking Your Energy We are beings of light. We are electric. We are energy itself. Right there inside us is more energy waiting to be awakened than we can ever imagine. Today’s world has made us forget who we are. We are constantly looking for solutions outside ourselves—resorting to technology instead of turning inward. We have forgotten that everything we need to live our best lives, to wake our energy, is already here—inside us and around us in nature. Creating a balance between the fundamental cocreative energies of the universe within and without, the divine female and male energies, yin and yang, which make all of life possible, is the secret not only to waking your energy, but to improving your quality of life and longevity. Waking Energy is a new way of being, a new way of breathing, of thinking, of seeing yourself and the world around you. It is an awakening. Waking Energy means waking up to who you truly are and to your greatest potential—to the world around you. Waking our energy and enhancing our longevity depend upon balancing the dynamic and complex environment of modern life with a conscious awareness of nature and our primal needs. In spite of the seeming chaos and distractions that have become a hallmark of our modern lives, if we can refocus our minds so that we can make wise choices and invest our efforts in life-enhancing ways, we can simplify our lives and manifest vibrant health and energy. We do this through cultivating our energy— by becoming aware of and gaining access to a few key elements in our bodies, the immediate domain we have access to, that significantly impact the quality and length of our lives. Waking Energy is your introduction to the incredible importance of mental focus and not letting your emotions get the best of you—these are the first rules to longevity and peace, and they inform every practice in this book.

the gr<strong>and</strong> stage at London’s Royal Festival Hall all those years ago, I’m amazed at how much more<br />

buoyant <strong>and</strong> capable I feel now.<br />

<strong>Waking</strong> <strong>Energy</strong> is a unique synergy of ancient teachings that fosters the connection of body, mind,<br />

<strong>and</strong> spirit, facilitates a heightened awareness of the self in the world through breath <strong>and</strong> movement,<br />

<strong>and</strong> results in an embodied awareness that sets the stage for miraculous transformation—for waking<br />

your energy. The seven practices all engender the creation of inner space, both physical <strong>and</strong><br />

emotional, allowing the body <strong>to</strong> discharge held energy that can turn against it, <strong>to</strong> engage in a stunning<br />

process called soma<strong>to</strong>-emotional releasing, where trapped energy (that’s keeping old wounds alive<br />

<strong>and</strong> proliferating new stress <strong>and</strong> life-detracting thoughts) can be released <strong>and</strong> transformed in<strong>to</strong> usable,<br />

life-enhancing energy.<br />

In <strong>Waking</strong> <strong>Energy</strong>, I pay homage <strong>to</strong> the generations of disciplined seekers who paved the way <strong>and</strong><br />

who, over thous<strong>and</strong>s of years, pledged their lives <strong>to</strong> exploring the energy universe, dedicating<br />

themselves <strong>to</strong> creating a <strong>to</strong>wering, veritably infinite library of work about how <strong>to</strong> bring consciousness<br />

<strong>to</strong> the mind <strong>and</strong> body in order <strong>to</strong> set the spirit free. The Taoist <strong>and</strong> yogic teachings you will soon<br />

discover will not only engage you <strong>and</strong> transform you physically, mentally, emotionally, energetically,<br />

<strong>and</strong> spiritually; they will help you <strong>to</strong> access your greatest potential <strong>and</strong> a feeling of oneness <strong>and</strong> inner<br />

peace.<br />

I know, because I am living proof.<br />

One for All<br />

Tell me, what would it mean <strong>to</strong> you if you felt hopeful, invigorated, <strong>and</strong> alive again? What would it<br />

feel like if you were fully embodied, if you could st<strong>and</strong> tall, rooted <strong>and</strong> utterly confident in your own<br />

being? What would it mean if you saw yourself through loving, compassionate, appraising eyes?<br />

I can answer that for you. It would mean everything. You would see yourself as an energy being, a<br />

being of light, at one with nature under canopies of emerald green trees, flying over whitecaps like a<br />

seagull celebrating its own wings.<br />

What if I <strong>to</strong>ld you that you have the power <strong>to</strong> produce this state, those incredibly powerful effects,<br />

<strong>and</strong> the feelings that generate them whenever <strong>and</strong> wherever you wanted?<br />

<strong>Waking</strong> <strong>Energy</strong> is about waking up <strong>to</strong> yourself, <strong>to</strong> life, <strong>to</strong> nature, <strong>to</strong> the world outside, <strong>and</strong> <strong>to</strong> the<br />

world within, so that you can enter this magical state of flow where you discover your essential<br />

aliveness <strong>and</strong> let it fly free—where you optimize, support, <strong>and</strong> nourish it. And the only thing st<strong>and</strong>ing<br />

between you <strong>and</strong> your essential aliveness, <strong>to</strong> opening this portal <strong>to</strong> a more enlightened way of being,<br />

<strong>to</strong> new ease <strong>and</strong> joy, is your very next conscious breath.<br />

You will soon learn that the secret <strong>to</strong> waking your aliveness, your life force, is by consciously<br />

cultivating a mindful awareness of what you’re doing <strong>and</strong> why you’re doing it; by contacting,<br />

courting, respecting, <strong>and</strong> conserving it through “right action”; by using it wisely. It’s a kind of<br />

embodied presence <strong>and</strong> attending <strong>to</strong> what is without trying <strong>to</strong> make it be any different than it already<br />

is—without spending your precious energy trying <strong>to</strong> change it.<br />

The <strong>Waking</strong> <strong>Energy</strong> Way offers you a world of energy, <strong>and</strong> this is your pass, your golden ticket, <strong>to</strong><br />

it. Welcome officially <strong>to</strong> the world that you can live in when you learn how <strong>to</strong> wake up the energy

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