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

and your body. Once your arms reach the height of your upper torso, open your arms expansively
once again to receive heaven chi. Very quickly thereafter, as you bring your arms down to begin
doing that same action again, shake the hands off once while thinking, “I am letting go of what no
longer serves me.”
15. Repeat the entire series of steps nine times.
Love Thyself
Love Thyself is a reunion. The sequence is a dance of courtship with your most sacred, timeless self
—inner and outer. Reminding you of how important you are to yourself, it will inspire you to cultivate
the self-respect, reverence, appreciation, and awe for the miraculous being that you are, which you so
rightly deserve. When you practice the self-massage sequence Love Thyself, you’ll feel as if you’re
being introduced to a long-lost friend.
By allowing yourself to receive the pleasurable sensations that you yourself generate by doing
simple movements and by giving yourself nurturing attention and energy, you are soon going to
discover what feeling good is in your own unique body. When you do, those feelings of pleasure and
new energy will give birth to more. It’s that miraculous, and that simple.
Shake It Up to Wake It Up
Shake It Up to Wake It Up opens and lubricates the joints as it stimulates the lymphatic system,
removing toxins from the body and yielding greater immediate energy and mental clarity.
The full-body shake we’re about to do is like beating a dusty rug. Of course you’re not a dusty
rug, but believe me, there many things hidden in the tissues of your body that need to come loose!
Shaking your body is an opportunity to shake out these hidden issues. Like a rug that receives multiple
footsteps daily, your body receives and processes toxins and stressors as you move through your daily
life. And if you’ve been in the world for a while, that’s a lot of footsteps.
Letting everything you’ve experienced lie dormant can easily lead to energy stagnation. It’s my
guess that there is a good amount of stagnation inside your body that needs to be moved. As soon as
you begin shaking, I promise you’ll start to feel better and instantly feel your energy waking inside
you. You are about to shake your entire body in a way you probably never have before. I have a
sneaking suspicion that you’re going to love it so much that you’ll want to do it every day.
1. Start to softly bounce up and down, imagining that you have no muscles, only bones. Be as gentle
as you can to start, so that you can master the sensation of moving without effort. The bounce you
do should be on the low-key side to begin, so make your knees the shock absorbers of your
bouncing action. As you bounce, allow your arms to relax and bobble up and down along with
what the rest of your body is doing. Breathe naturally and deeply.
2. After ten to twenty seconds of bouncing, start to increase the scale of your bounce to include your
whole body. Involve your hips, shifting weight back and forth from one foot to the other, and
bring your arms overhead where you can shake them freely in the air, as if you were shaking