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

through.
8. Inhale as you think of one thing that you wish to release from your life. Then, as you exhale, see it
leaving your life, your body, and your mind just like the sand that has slipped through your fingers
and the breath that you have released down into the earth below.
9. Inhale the new lightness in your heart that you feel when you think of the energy surrounding what
you have just released from your life. Rest in this new energy you have liberated by courageously
saying good-bye to something that was no longer serving your highest good. Breathe this new
energy into the consciousness of your every cell and allow yourself to stay here bathing in this
new light for several breaths.
10. Now breathe into your open hands and turn your attention to what you would like to usher into
your life or what you would like to receive.
11. See this new energy coming in through your open hands, into your heart and into your life.
Breathe the truth of this new life into your every cell. Open your heart even more to receive.
12. Shifting your focus, rub your thumb and fingers of your left hand together in small circles, as if
you were sprinkling salt on a dish. In your mind, assign the past to the left hand. Think of the past
and all the wonderful memories, certainly, but then also of the all-too-human regrets and
disappointments, what you wish you could have done better, what you wish could have happened
differently, and acknowledge the feelings that arise inside you. Feel how you are suddenly pulled
out and away from yourself, whisked into times gone by, where you have no control, and allow
yourself to be with the feelings that come up.
13. Now rub the thumb and the fingers of your right hand together in small circles. Assign the future
to the right hand. As you do, think of all the exciting things that the future holds, bright promises
and dreams coming true, and alongside the beauty see the clinging and the attachment to what you
need to have happen, what you anticipate, and then feel the anxiety that surely arises when you
allow yourself to be pulled ahead into a space and a time that don’t yet exist.
14. As you inhale, now bring the palms together into Prayer Position, bringing past and future
together into the gift of the present moment, out of which greatest clarity is born—pure, clear
space that you have created, perfect liberation, like the sound “AUM,” the sound of divinity
itself. Bathe in this sacred moment where you are one with your own true nature, your timeless
soul essence that knows no attachment, no dissatisfaction over impermanence, no suffering, but
the highest wisdom of no self and perfect, infinite transcendence, at one with all that is and ever
will be.
15. Rest in this moment; open your heart and allow it to receive this clear light, the energy of infinity,
true and endless love.
16. Now bring your hands into Open-Heart Mudra. As you breathe now, inhale love and exhale
gratitude, remembering what you surrendered and what you ushered into your life, and feel the
energy that is rising up inside and swirling around inside you from this courageous, self-loving
act. Allow yourself to be swept into the currents of this profoundly healing and enlivening
energy, deep inside this sweetness, softness, and light.
17. Send your breath now from the crown of your head down to your root, like a cleansing waterfall,
sending new life and new energy to every part of your body. As your breath, energy sweeps
down and through you, releasing what you no longer need into the earth below. Inhale and relax
even more deeply now, as you effortlessly reach even slightly taller, lengthening your crown up