Thursday, December 29. 2005
Increase your energy levels in 1 minute.
There exist a lot of different exercises to increase one's energy levels. There are breathing exercises coming mostly from yoga tradition. These exercises are based on breathing in prana which is the yoga name for the life energy that chinese call Chi. Breathing exercises are good and can have a profound effect.
This article describes 2 short and simple exercises that will allow you to quickly increase your energy levels when you feel tired, either at work, in the morning or just about anytime. If you do energy healing work and your energy levels are low, these will help you prepare by collecting more energy just before the treatment.
Update 2: I've added the third exercise by request, in a separate post: Third exercise for the 1 minute increasing energy level set
Update 3: Added new images for exercise one submitted by a reader, Ulf
Exercise 1.
This exercise takes exactly 15 seconds but it can be a real life changer. It quickly rejuvenates and also helps in cleaning the meridian channels in the hands.
- Stand straight. Preferably remove hand watch so that it won't interfere.
- Hold your right hand straight but relaxed, pointing down and a little forward with the palm facing inwards (down).
- Press firmly with your left palm on the back of your right palm and move it fast up until the shoulder while keeping the pressure. Roll your right hand to the right 180 degrees to make your palm face outwards (forward up) and return your left palm all the way down the fingers with the same pressure as before.
- This all should take about 1 second. Roll your right hand back and repeat the previous step 6 more times for a total of 7 times.
- Now perform the same exercises after you switched hands, rubbing the left with the right.
Exercise 2.
Stand straight. Spread your feet a little. Face the palms of your hands towards each other on shoulder level with your elbows pointing downwards and near or on the body. The palms should be relaxed, slightly cupped.
Now start shaking the hands fast by bringing the palms closer together and farther apart. The movements should be fast and short. Don't bring the palms together, make short movements of the arm, like flapping little wings. Make about 150-200 such movement. The tempo can be about 8 repetitions per second, so the whole exercise will take a little more than half a minute.
These 2 exercises performed together one after another will quickly restore your low energy levels and wake you up, if your feel tired. They also have profound positive effect on the mental state.
Discuss this and other posts in the mind-energy.net forum.
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At the start of #1, where is the right hand? Held down near the hip? Held at shoulder level with the arm outstretched to the front? What's the position of the forearm, upper arm, and elbow? What does "up until the shoulder" mean? Does the right arm move?
Now rotate your right hand in place so it faces up and away from you, just flip it over. Now with your left hand still around your shoulder, roll it back down to arm to your palm. Repeat about 7 times total, then switch arms.
For exercise two, have your hands about at your shoulders and your elbows against your sides. Make a rapid clapping motion, stopping just short so that you don't actually hit your hands together. About 8 claps per second, so quite fast. I think the point is that the motion will make you take several short breaths or something.
Note that I don't really advise any of this as I've no idea what I'm talking about or how safe it is, just following what I think it says.
I'm sorry if my instructions were a little bit unclear. It is comforting, though, that someone got them right and that's Tony, so if you find his explanation better, use it. He got it right. I'll try to add simple picture to describe the exercises but I'm not a great graphics artist.
I am performing these short exercises myself and I find them very helpful in case I feel tired and need some push without drinking coffee.
I was originally taught them for increasing energy levels before doing energy healing but I was also advised to perform them anytime I felt tired, like at work after lunch.
There was also a third exercise coming with it. It's also very short and easy, just personally I didn't find it that helpful, but maybe it's individual. If there's demand I'll add it, too.
Suggestion - All that is needed really are some photos, and anyone can take those.
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Exercise one: Rub your arms.
Right arm with your left hand. Rub from the wrist up to shoulder, flip over, rub back down. Then switch arms.
Exercise two: Clap. Fast.
Elbows against the sides, hands at shoulder level.
I'll also write the third exercise in the next post, since you've asked and more people may be interested.
Thanks for this post! I found the link to your blog from del.icio.us. I find your and Tony's instructions pretty clear, except I have one question.
My question is around the following statement in Excercise 1: "Hold your right hand straight but relaxed, pointing down and a little forward with the palm facing inwards (down). "
Does inwards (down) mean that my palm is facing in towards my body or down towards the ground?
I would also be interested in learning the third excercise you mentioned. I look forward to more of your posts.
Just hold the palm naturally without any strain with the palm pointing to you when you rub the hand upwards to the shoulder. Then rotate the palm to point from you and rub with the other hand downwards from the shoulder to palm, this time on the inside of the hand.
Hope this explains a little bit.
It's really very simple. I might need to rephrase the exercises, so that less people find it complicated.
The link to the third article is in the post, look update 2. You must have missed it. It's the next post on the blog.
I'm happy that for now I've seen in 2 places on the net were people commented that they found that the exercises actually work. On is on http://digg.com, in the coments to the link to the article.
thank you
new zero
Thank you Jacob, a good (and healthy) alternative to cafeine
Obrigado...
Anyways... I tried them at 1:00 am really tired... and I'm feeling really good now ha ha. Prolly should have waited for a better time to do so. As with the energy I also have a calm feeling through me... like I got a great massage or something.
Thank you so much...this will be great in the wee morning hours when my daughter wakes early! Ha ha.
The second one is just taking your arms up to shoulder height with your palms facing each other and then bring your palms closer and farther away from each other very fast. Kind of like if you had a beach ball between your hands and were pressing it together and then letting it go back to normal.
Another great exercise is the breath of fire. just inhale and exhale through your nose very quickly for about 30 seconds to a minute. You can also do it while jumping up and down.
Hope this helps ^_^
and for the record, i found your descriptions and stick figures to be clear and concise.
I tried it and it appears to have revitalized me. I hate feeling tired.
Kevin