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

1. Inhale deeply. Then, as you exhale, bend your knees and round your body forward in a large C
shape, with your navel drawn up toward your spine.
2. Breathing deeply and smoothly through your nose, rub your hands together vigorously to charge
them. Then place your palms on either side of your lower back, below your lowest ribs and
above your sacrum, and infuse your kidneys and adrenal glands with new, life-giving chi.
3. As you continue to breathe naturally, with your head and neck relaxed, focus your eyes down at a
slight diagonal in front of you at the floor, rooting your feet into the earth and consciously
drawing chi up through your Bubbling Spring Points and Root.
4. Now make fists. Start to make small circles right over the kidneys, circling your fists inward
toward the spine. Circle your fists on your lower back for five rounds of breath.
5. With alternating right and left fists, tap on your lower back using a gentle, but firm pressure. Be
prepared to experience far greater sensation than you might have anticipated. Continue tapping
those areas rather firmly, even if it feels counterintuitive. Of course, modify your love taps and
make them gentler if your lower back feels exceedingly tender, but know that your own loving
and intentional tapping can help disperse negative energy responsible for stagnation that led to
what you now perceive as tenderness.
6. As you tap, inhale through your nose and exhale through slightly parted lips; exhale fear and
inhale courage and confidence. Use your exhalation to release any discomfort you feel. Do a few
Horse Breaths to help you release any feelings of surprise, stress, or frustration you may
experience. Since you are giving love to the kidneys, you will likely be contacting fear, which is
an emotion they govern. Know that it’s coming up in advance, so that you can move it out of the
body and create space for new chi to flow.
7. Keep tapping your lower back for three breath cycles; then start to allow your tapping action to
migrate higher and lower. If you encounter a tender spot, rather than moving away from it, linger
on it compassionately and lovingly and breathe focused chi into the spot before moving on. In
total, travel up and down your back at a moderate and mindful pace for nine breath cycles before
immediately moving on to the next exercise.
Hindquarter Love Tap
The Hindquarter Love Tap activates the kidney and urinary bladder meridian and the lung and large
intestine meridian as it releases held tension in the gluteal muscles of the buttocks, thus eliminating a
potential source of lower-back pain.
1. Begin in the same inverted position as the last exercise. Still rounding forward in a large C shape
and still in the flow of the Door-of-Life tapping sequence, begin not just to tap, but to hammer
your glutes, covering the expanse of your entire buttocks. Increase the velocity of the impact of
your fists against your body.
2. Breathe deeply and smoothly and focus now on making the tapping movements a substantive,
vigorous action with each love “hammer” you do against your buttocks, and feel as though your
fists are pounding against the flesh of your buttocks without apology. This should be a don’t-