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

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your waking energy journey
Would you have ever guessed that the palms of your hands and the crown of your head were really
solar collectors—actual receiving disks for inviting star energy into your body? Or that the soles of
your feet were pipelines for drawing the riches of the earth’s energy up through your legs into the
energy storehouses in your body? Or that each time you touch your tongue to the roof of your mouth
and squeeze your perineum, you are completing a powerful energy circuit that instantly nourishes and
supplements your life force and promotes your longevity? In Opening the Energy Gates in Awaken and
Play we draw energy up from earth and down from heaven, and in the Sufist Grind from our kundalini
practice we channel energy up from the earth through our perineum along the central channel to our
higher centers. With each practice, even after just your first experience with it, you will start to
immediately see how the universe itself becomes your playground.
Your entire body is an energy transformation station that invites, harnesses, cultivates, balances,
and releases chi. There are specific sites in the geography of our bodies that we will use in our
practices to engage energy; it is at these strategic points that chi can be channeled, regulated, and
strengthened. We will distinguish these portals in each of the practices we do, which will help to
deepen your understanding of energy cultivation and how to activate, balance, and utilize it.
The Age of Energy Interference
Not all the energy we absorb is revitalizing. The same forces of the universe that can infuse us with
new power and life can also wreak havoc on our subtle body and disrupt our bodily functions. We are
under constant assault from naturally occurring radiation, interstellar rays, and solar flares, which can
adversely affect our central nervous system, brain activity, equilibrium, and our mental, emotional,
and physical well-being.
Add to this environmental toxins, genetically engineered foods, mineral depletion in our soils, a
reduced ozone layer, and the surplus of electromagnetic radiation from computers, cell phones, and
other entertainment gadgets (of which we haven’t yet even begun to understand the long-term or short-