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

Waking Energy Stance
The significance of your stance when doing qigong is vital to your success in balancing your chi. In
the ideal stance, the three elixir fields in the body (Lower, Middle, and Upper) are aligned one above
the other along the Conception Vessel and the Governing Vessel, which intersect the elixir fields and
distribute chi throughout the subtle energy system.
1. To begin, stand tall, with your feet hip-width apart and in parallel alignment, with your toes
pointing forward. Your head and neck are lengthening upward effortlessly. Your shoulders are
open and relaxed, arms down by your sides. Soften your knees slightly. Make sure that both legs
share your weight equally.
2. Tuck your pelvis ever so slightly and lightly bounce or pulse your legs so that you can feel how
the knees almost become shock absorbers. It’s like being on your very own mini-trampoline. Test
the feeling now before you root into the earth, and when you first begin to learn the practice, feel
free to perform this “test” as many times as you need to in order to feel it becoming second
nature.
3. Focus your attention on your feet and open the Bubbling Spring Points to receive earth energy,
drawing it up through the meridians in your legs to your kidneys and adrenals.
The Power to Heal Is in Your Hands
Shaking, thumping, tapping, rubbing, massaging—all the techniques in Love Thyself that you are about
to learn to wake your energy—cultivate glowing good health and longevity. Taoist adepts have used
these methods for thousands of years to stimulate energy flow in the body. These techniques restore
health to blood cells even as they shake stagnation loose from the fabric of the body in much the same
way that shaking out a rug on the porch shakes loose the dust and detritus caught in its fibers. The
joints and tissues become more fluid and free, as trapped, stagnant chi is released and discharged
from the body. The cleansing process is further enhanced when we bring our consciousness to
transforming our negative emotions.
Just to be alive and thrive, to stave off and protect ourselves from the deleterious effects of the
environment we live in as well as from ourselves, since our “thinking minds” and personalities create
so much stress and duress for us, we have to tap, clap, thump, and shake. These techniques shake
loose the negative byproducts of overthinking and overindulgence in food and drink, both of which
manifest as stagnation. They balance and smooth the flow of chi in our bodies.
Manipulating chi in this manner is how you can offset the stress from being alive on this planet.
The effort you invest will strengthen your body and your spirit, making you a more formidable
opponent on the battlefield of life, capable of managing the challenges of living in today’s modern
world and succeeding in accomplishing your dreams. With the right tools, anything is possible.
You will find that the simplest qigong movements are the most powerful. They will equip you to
surf the waves of our seemingly random universe and all the diverse challenges you can encounter as