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

ountiful new chi that you’ll be able to “swim” in.
5. Rub the hands together with increasing intensity and focus, breathing naturally but deeply, and
becoming ever more aware of the energy you’re creating. Imagine that as you are rubbing your
hands together you create a pool of pristine, healing, cleansing water. Continue also to place
some attention on your Bubbling Spring Points, your Crown, and your Root.
6. Separate your hands by six inches. Feel a buzz in your palms again, becoming aware of the
waking energy that you’ve summoned and focused. Think of the Dead Sea or of a highly
mineralized, potently healing hot spring—your own sacred imaginary bathing reservoir. Picture
the basin: perhaps it’s fashioned of magnificent, glittering mosaic tiles or seashells, or smooth
porcelain.
7. Now, dip your charged hands into your sacred bowl, scooping up handfuls of fresh, earth-infused
energizing, healing, cleansing chi. Bring your hands closer together so that you can splash your
face with the purifying waking-energy “water,” and each time you do inhale deeply.
8. Caress your face with your hands and the water, as if you were rinsing off a soapy lather. After
you splash your face, immediately bring your hands down from your face and head in a tossingaway
motion, shaking out your hands at your sides. Exhale deeply through your mouth, letting out
a deep, audible sigh of relief, knowing that your exhalation is also carrying the stagnant chi that
was stuck in your head and face out and away from your body.
9. Now, in a kind of rhythmic dance with your hands dipping into your “pool of chi,” continue
scooping into the energy bowl and make larger, splashing motions, sweeping your hands up over
your forehead and the top of your head and running them down the back of your head and over
your shoulders. As you bring down your hands, shake off stagnant chi.
10. After you have done this three or four times, imagine your sacred basin has suddenly grown in
size and you’re now standing in a pool of chi that surrounds your upper body. Instead of dipping
into a bowl, lower your arms toward your waist, and, with an upward sweeping motion, begin
wrapping your hands and arms around your body. Hug yourself as you drag your hands up the
sides of your torso as if you were taking off a shirt. As you perform this action, shift your focus
from drawing earth chi upward to drawing heaven chi downward. Inhale as your head and eyes
move upward with your arms until they are facing heaven—in essence, you are celebrating it. As
you open your arms to heaven, you are consciously harnessing astral chi. Lift your gaze to smile
up at the sun (whether you are actually outside or imagining it) and feel its soothing, penetrating
warmth on your face and body.
11. After completing the “taking off the shirt” action, raise your arms to heaven, opening your chest
and shoulders, and acknowledge the heaven chi. Consciously draw chi down from heaven.
12. In one grand gesture, throw your arms outward and down to your sides as if you are shaking
water off your hands. What you’re doing is shaking off stagnant chi and making room for new chi.
13. Repeat the “taking off your shirt” action, allowing the movement to morph into a larger, more
involved physical action by deeply bending your knees and once again shifting your focus to
drawing earth chi up into your body.
14. Now imagine that you’re at the edge of an ocean, standing knee-deep in water. Bend your knees
deeply and inhale as you bring your hands and arms together to scoop up the “ocean water” with
your hands. This time, instead of hugging your body as your arms travel upward, cross your arms
about six inches in front of you and create a kind of space for a globe, or orb, between your arms