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

13. Repeat the above sequence three to six times. At times when you feel especially overtaken by
anger or consumed by frustration, or if you have a bitter taste in your mouth or any issues with
your eyes or vision, repeat the entire sequence as many times as is necessary to feel relief and
restore equanimity and balance to your liver. You may also perform the sequence multiple times
if you want to detoxify the liver.
Cosmic Healing Sound for the Heart: Hawwww
Mouth position: Mouth wide open to create the “Hawwww” sound
Paired organ: Small intestine
Emotions: Hatred, impatience, cruelty
Signs of imbalance: Chest pain, palpitations, high blood pressure
Benefits: Engenders joy, honor, sincerity, patience
Related sense: Taste
Element: Fire
Sounds: Kindling igniting in a fireplace, the crackling and hissing of burning logs
Season: Summer
Color: Red
1. Sitting tall, inhale and rub your hands together vigorously. Using the energy you’ve just generated,
bring your palms right above your heart with your left fingertips slightly overlapping your right
fingertips, thumbs pointing upward. Turn your vision inward toward the heart and smile at your
heart as you start to sway from left to right. Close your eyes and imagine the colors of a sunset,
brilliant shades of red, orange, and pink, and breathe this vibrant light and energy into your heart.
2. As you breathe and look from left to right at your heart, scan for impatience, jealousy, and hatred.
Whatever emerges, allow yourself to feel it and start to delete it, allowing your heart to ride the
motion of the body from left to right in tandem with your eyes, as they explore the inner
topography of your heart.
3. Complete twenty-one sets of looking left to right, breathing naturally as you do, while you
consciously delete the shadow-side emotions of the heart (hatred, impatience, jealousy, and
envy). With your breath, send them down into the earth below.
4. Now, as you inhale, bend your elbows and raise your palms up toward the ceiling at the sides of
your body. Then continue to circle your arms up until they are overhead, framing the top of your
head.
5. Interlace your fingers and invert your palms so that they face up. Then lean your torso over to the
right, with an emphasis on mobilizing the rib cage itself, feeling a deep stretch in the left side of
your body, down into the heart and the pericardium, which is the heart protector, a fascial sac
surrounding the heart.
6. Lift your head and with eyes open, look up directly at the back of your hands, still leaning over to
the right. As you progressively stretch your arms with greater energy and emphasis, press the left