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

pain, repeat the sequence as many times as you feel necessary in order to restore calm, inner
peace, confidence, and courage in your body-mind.
Cosmic Healing Sound for the Liver: Shhhhh
Mouth position: Tongue near palate to create the “Shhhhh” sound
Paired organ: Gallbladder
Emotion: Anger
Signs of imbalance: Rumination, impatience, restlessness
Benefits: Instills kindness; vanquishes fear
Related sense: Sight
Element: Wood
Sounds: Wooden wind chimes clacking, sticks hitting together
Season: Spring
Color: Green
1. Sitting tall on your chair, inhale and rub your hands together vigorously. With the energy you
generate, place your palms slightly above your liver (just under the bottom of your right rib
cage). The tips of your fingers are interlacing, and your thumbs are just along for the ride,
pointing up. Once your hands are in position, inhale deeply and envision the most beautiful
evergreen forest you’ve ever seen, replete with tall, full pine trees. Breathe in the deep, rich,
refreshing scent of pine and fertile topsoil, and see the sun shining on the trees, creating a
powerful, primordial bright green life force, with a light that soothes your eyes. Remember that
the eyes are related to the liver, so when you soothe your eyes, you also calm the liver chi.
2. As healing warmth from your hands enters the liver, picture what your liver looks like inside
your body. Scan your liver, as if you’re repeatedly reading a message written on it, from left to
right. Gently rock your body from side to side, moving in tandem with your inner vision, looking
from left to right and exploring what lives inside the liver at this moment.
3. As you breathe, see any anger that hides inside your liver. Summon angry feelings, even if you
can’t immediately perceive anger in this moment; still looking left to right, continue to feel energy
from your hands flowing into your liver. Once any anger has made itself known, see it (perhaps
picturing the person, people, or situation that inspired the anger) and consciously breathe into the
feeling. Allow yourself to continue swaying from side to side as you start to “delete” the anger
you’ve uncovered.
4. Complete twenty-one sets of simultaneously rocking left to right, breathing, and scanning, just
allowing those moments that created the feelings of anger inside you to come up in your bodymind
and then be released. Breathe into these images, surrounding them with your powerful
breath, and each time you feel yourself getting swept away in a current of anger, return to the
moment and consciously immerse yourself in the healing light of the deep, forest-green energy
and in the energy of the empowered intention to release anger that you are bringing to the