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

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.