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

Mouth position: Lips form an O shape, as if you’re blowing out a candle
Paired organ: Urinary bladder
Emotion: Fear
Sign of imbalance: Lower-back pain
Benefits: Instills calm, stillness, confidence, clarity, attention, focus, willpower, purpose, good
feelings; vanquishes fear, phobias, trauma
Related sense: Hearing
Element: Water
Sounds: Ocean waves crashing, a flowing stream, a downpour of rain
Season: Winter
Color: Dark blue
1. Sit tall in a chair and rub your hands together vigorously. Then bring your palms to your lower
back, in the area of your kidneys, and send the energy you’ve generated with your hands and
warmth to your kidneys and adrenal glands as you breathe deeply and smoothly. Close your eyes
and imagine a soothing, deep, oceanic blue light surrounding and bathing your kidneys. Visualize
and hear ocean waves washing up on shore or a gurgling brook playing over rocks. Invite the
sound to soothe your ears as you listen. The ears are connected to the kidneys so they both benefit
from this practice. Picture sunlight shining on the water and breathe the powerful life-force
energy of the reflected rays of the sun bouncing off the water into your kidneys.
2. As you inhale, turn your inner vision toward the kidneys themselves. With your hands radiating
warmth into your kidneys, smile at each one, first looking left and then right in alternation, and
send the healing energy of your intention into the kidneys. As you do so, gently sway your body in
tandem with your inner vision, rocking your body from left to right. Complete twenty-one sets of
looking left to right.
Tune in to your kidneys and hear what they have to say. Are they feeling depleted and in need
of your attention? Is there a tender quality to the lower back, a sense of fragility or sensitivity?
Your smile, the breath of your intention, and warmth from your hands is nourishing and
recharging them.
3. As you look left and right, with your hands still in position over your kidneys, bring up any fear
inside your body-mind and allow it to breathe. Give it space inside you, so that it can come to the
surface of your consciousness and express itself fully. Then escort it out of your body-mind and
send it into the earth below. As you continue your twenty-one repetitions of looking left to right,
switch your focus to “deleting” fear. Acknowledge it, push the “delete” button, and then send it
on its way. You have the power to “delete” anything that no longer serves a positive purpose.
You have the power to release fear, to let it go completely in this very moment.
4. Now that you have started to effectively clear the fear, shift your focus. Intentionally connect to
your hands on your kidneys and direct your mind to harness energy from the earth and send it into
your Sea of Chi and bring energy from heaven down into your kidneys at the same time.
5. Now inhale and bring your feet and knees together, rounding your upper body forward toward
your knees (creating a large C shape). Clasp your palms and press down, so that the insides of
the wrists rest upon the knees.