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

Note: When you are clapping up and down your arm, it might sting a little, and that’s a good thing. It means you are waking up the chi in
your arms.
5. After clapping down and then up your left arm twice, brush your hand down the length of your left
arm to move the chi that you have mobilized and unleashed off your skin and out of your energy
field. Send the old chi into the earth to be recycled.
6. Switch to the other side, cupping your left hand and using it as the active hand to first clap down
the length of your right arm and then up three times, and then brush it off.
Tiger-Claws Thymus Tap
The Tiger-Claws Thymus Tap clears the lungs, removing stagnation and activating new chi flow, and
stimulates the thymus gland, which produces the T-cells in our blood that protect the body from
infections, and are largely responsible for our immunity. As we age, the thymus gland shrinks.
Tapping on it keeps it healthy, “fat,” and able to perform its defensive duties for us, ensuring its—and
our—longevity.
1. Inhale deeply and squeeze your perineum, your Root, making sure that your Bubbling Spring
Points and Crown are open to receive chi. Consciously bring all these energies together in your
hands as you rub them together vigorously to charge them with the most potent healing chi
possible.
2. Separate your hands to feel the buzz or pulse of the powerful chi you’ve just collected. Then unite
the energy of your two hands by bringing them together and interlacing your fingers, holding your
thumbs together side by side, facing your chest.
3. Tap your thumbs against your breast bone, making your first tap the strongest (like an accented
syllable), followed by two lighter, shorter taps. Go at a waltz rhythm—TAP tap tap, TAP tap tap
—because, yes, according to ancient Chinese texts, it just so happens that the thymus gland
prefers the rhythm of the waltz to any other kind of dance rhythm, and so that is what it shall
receive. As you tap, make sure you are breathing deeply and, most important, are focused on
bringing the energy of love to your thymus gland, so that you are powerfully and silently focusing
healing energy on it. Tell your thymus how much you appreciate all that it has done and continues
to do for you in the area of immune defense and health.
4. Here comes one of my favorite parts of the love dance. After tapping your thymus for nine rounds
of the waltz rhythm, very gently stroke the tips of your fingers down the center of your torso,
running them down your central channel from your Upper Elixir Field to your solar plexus,
bringing one hand over and on top of the other to replace it as it sweeps this area. This action
should feel like petting a cat, and I imagine the sensation is one of the reasons why cats purr so
loudly when they are stroked. This downward stroking will calm the area and seal in bounteous
chi.