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

a lot of tension. As you breathe deeply, using your breath to move stagnant chi out of your body,
start to make small circles inward, opening the energy of those spots.
2. Work your way now into the tissues surrounding the base of your skull, moving down the neck
itself on either side of the cervical spine. Apply firm pressure, massaging your muscles in small
circles.
3. As you are bringing life-giving chi to the back of your head and your neck and discovering all the
tight and tender places that have been hiding there, take a Horse Breath to discharge stagnant chi,
of which there is likely an abundance. It will feel good to be able to let go, as you are liberating
your muscles and sending new energy down your kidney meridian, which runs along the spine.
4. Perform the neck massage for several rounds of breath, using your intuition to know when the
area feels complete before moving on and working your fingertips downward and outward, into
the denser muscles of the shoulders.
Arm Clap and Brush
The Arm Clap and Brush opens and activates the lung and large intestine channels in the arms and
relieves muscular tension and stagnation often caused by excessive typing on handheld devices.
Note: If you suffer from arthritis in your hands, carpal tunnel syndrome in your wrists, tennis elbow, or any shoulder ailments (for
example, a rotator cuff injury), spend more time on the particular spot that is giving you trouble and focus your breath and energy there
as well to increase the flow of chi to it and aid in healing.
1. Rub your hands vigorously to charge them. Then use your right hand to rub down the length of
your left arm on the top, the deltoid side, from the shoulder to the back of the hand, as if you were
polishing it like a piece of silver.
2. Flip your left hand over and work your way back up the inner arm to your chest. Start by brushing
the laogong points in the palms of your hands.
3. Once you reach your shoulders, start the journey again, this time covering a greater expanse of the
shoulder area, moving into your trapezius and upper back closer to the shoulder blades to the
best of your ability to reach them. Send chi to that entire area of your body, breathing deeply the
entire time and knowing that your breath is helping you unblock, stimulate, and harmonize the
meridians in your arms and upper body. Repeat the brushing of the arm, up and down, twice.
4. Now form your right hand into a cupped shape, and start to firmly and rather vigorously “pat
yourself on the back,” so to speak, starting on the left side of your upper back. Continue, using a
clapping action to thump on your left arm all the way down its length with the left palm facing
down to the earth; once you reach the wrist, immediately flip the left hand over, so the palm faces
up. Clap your own hand at least once here: this is a meeting of your two laogong points that will
give an extra jolt of chi to both of your hands. After clapping, work your way back up on the
inside of the arm.