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

Related sense: Taste
Element: Earth
Sound: Rocks and gravel crunching underfoot
Season: Late summer or early autumn
Color: Yellow
1. Sitting tall, inhale and rub your hands together vigorously. Using the energy you’ve generated,
bring your palms right above your spleen (on the left side of your body behind the lower edge of
your rib cage), with your fingertips facing in. Start to rock from side to side and turn your inner
vision to look into your spleen and smile at it. Visualize the spleen being bathed in a golden,
yellow light, like sunlight through stalks of wheat in a large open field at the close of a late
summer day.
2. Breathe deeply and naturally as you scan the spleen from left to right with your inner vision and
rock back and forth twenty-one times in all, deleting worry and anxiety on every exhalation.
3. After twenty-one sets of rocking, inhale and round your body slightly forward as you bring your
arms toward one another in front of your body in a gathering motion, sweeping earth chi into your
stomach and spleen on the left side of your abdomen and the pancreas on the right side of your
abdomen.
4. Keeping your eyes open, exhale and press the first three fingertips of each hand gently but firmly
into your spleen, on the left side of the rib cage, slightly below your sternum. Now round your
torso forward into a deeper C shape, using the movement as a means to accentuate the action you
are performing with your hands, pressing progressively deeper into the spleen and compressing
it. Begin to make the healing sound “Whoooo,” like the beginning of a guttural, almost gurgling
sound deep in the throat, riding into a wave that becomes a kind of deep whisper. Feel the
vibrations of the sound initiating the clearing of stagnant chi.
5. Inhale to rise upright again and use your deepest abdominal muscles to actively push your
fingertips out of the depression you created by pressing into your spleen.
6. Inhaling, bring your arms out to your sides, with palms facing up, and make a scooping motion in
a small and gentle low arc to gather earth energy before returning to your tall, effortless, relaxed
seat, where you will resume swaying from side to side.
7. You will immediately convert this fresh earth energy into the warming golden glow of healing
yellow light energy. Visualize it pouring into your spleen, pancreas, and stomach through your
palms, which will now come to rest right above your spleen to do their healing work of radiating
courage, groundedness, openness, and fairness directly into the organ. Resume your gentle
swaying motion, and breathe deeply and smoothly with your hands above your spleen.
8. Transition by placing your palms on your knees. Now as you sway, look from your spleen (left)
to your pancreas (right), eyes moving in tandem with the action of your body. Use this as your
opportunity to let go of worry, anxiety, and mistrust. Feel the vibration of the healing spleen
sound currents continuing to reverberate throughout your stomach, spleen, and pancreas,
removing any last residue of excess heat. Let it all go, sending it down to Mother Earth. Smile at
your spleen, pancreas, and stomach, and enjoy the feelings of stability and peace that are riding
in on the currents of soothing golden light.