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

negative thoughts out to make way for new ideas and positive thoughts.
2. Holding your arms away from your body, shake your hands vigorously and do a nice big Horse
Breath.
Eyebrow Press
An exercise that stimulates an important liver meridian point to relieve liver stagnation and
headaches caused by stress or long hours staring at a computer screen is the Eyebrow Press.
1. Rub your hands together vigorously to charge them. Then place your thumbs underneath your jaw
on either side of your face to serve as an anchor and bring your index fingers up to press into the
inner upper crests of your eyebrows, right by the bridge of your nose.
2. Press and drag your index and then middle fingers progressively along the arches of your
eyebrows, stroking outward toward your temples, allowing your ring fingers to naturally join in
the completion of the sweeping motion.
3. Then allow your pinky fingers to extend freely on their own away from the face and serve as
entrance points for chi, as you use your index, middle, and ring fingers on both hands to massage
small, very gentle circles on your temples. Breathe deeply.
4. Start again and do a total of three passes over the eyebrows followed by circles on the temples.
Then continue to the next exercise without pausing.
Jaw Massage
Be prepared to discover some surprisingly sensitive spots doing the Jaw Massage. Like the nasal
area, the jaw area is loaded with tension and stuck chi. Think of all the “heavy lifting” your mouth
does—how hard your jaw works at chewing, talking, and helping make facial expressions. Speaking
of expressions, the jaw is also a reservoir for unexpressed feelings, particularly feelings of stress and
rage. When you “bite your tongue,” guess where the tension goes? Jaw Massage relieves chronic
tension in the muscles of the jaw, resulting in feelings of calm and rootedness in the body as a whole.
1. Rub your hands vigorously to charge them and then, starting just below your earlobes, use your
fingertips to massage the muscles of your jaw. Using small circular motions, work into and
around the hinges of your jaw, and then into the muscles and bones of your lower jaw.
2. Breathe deeply as you make a thorough inspection across the territory of the jaw with your
fingers.
3. Then, with your mouth closed, use your fingertips to massage your upper and lower gum line
through the flesh of your upper and lower lips. Move your facial skin up and down and in small
circles over the gums. When you massage your gums, it may feel both good and weird at the same
time. Ignore the weirdness of the sensations, because this simple action is remarkably beneficial
in a way that you wouldn’t necessarily expect. You instantly improve circulation to the gum tissue