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: Added diagrams to describe the movements.
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.
Thank you for these exercise tips! I find a brief but immense increase of hand energy after the one where you rapidly move your hands toward & away from each other. The effectiveness of that particular exercise can be summed up by the “whoa…” I heard myself utter. I felt the energy field between my hands more powerfully than ever though my hands were further apart than I’ve ever practiced at.
I’m fairly new to this idea; my sister, a massage therapist, skipped this type of work because there was a tangible spiritual darkness in her class as the teacher and students drew upon unnamed sources. I don’t blame her, but at the same time I’ve always been curious about energy healing.
Being a Christian since I was a child, there are certain things I’ve been careful to protect myself from because I do know there is a lot happening that we never really get a glimpse into. I remember when my family would sit down for a meal and bow our heads, holding hands as my father prayed. I would feel a flow between our linked hands, and always wanted to ask about it; but I was just a child. I was fairly introverted then, and though I wondered why no one else ever discussed the energy flow I decided if nobody spoke of it I was probably the only one who felt it. That, or there was a reason nobody talked about it.
I’ve lived with chronic pain for years now, and I want to be involved with healing somehow. I’ve done well caring for others who are sick or recovering because I have been there and I have a great intuition when someone is in pain.
Last night I practiced on my mother who recently had two surgeries, one on her brain. I prayed over her and concentrated on the “push” I felt in my hand, noticing how in certain areas, when my hand hovered above her, there would be more resistance to moving my hand toward that area of her body. I asked her to do the black and white breathing exercise (a good one if you don’t know it). It was a bonding and rewarding experience for both of us. We were able to key in on a few things that encouraged me, and I greatly hope I have an opportunity to develope this further if I work hard at it.
I hope this something I can use to help people! First and foremost. My sister was always sad that, with all her gifts and ability to ease pain in others, she couldn’t cure me. I understand that well, It’s one thing affecting your own energy for the better, but having this awareness would seem to be a waste if it couldn’t be used for a greater cause.
Anyway, all to say “thank you!” Also. Anyone need an apprentice to mentor? No? Not anyone who posted last . . . decade?
Bummer.
MAY NOT WANT TO DO THESE IF HAVE CARPAL TUNNEL…
when i first read that this could help median, i thought, wow, it will help my sleepiness in my hands. i did the first exercise and it made my hands both more tingly. therefore i thought i best not even try the second one..
great stuff.. moving the energy works! and how about sitting eyes closed, breathing in and out, through the now, in and out, totally there with the breathing, and allowing the stomach to expand and following that rythm for 5 minutes.
That also rejuvenate instantly.
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this isnt really workin for me, am i the only one that feels stupid doin this.
I tried this exercise and felt a little shiver go up my arm.
Felt kinda cool.
This may work for a little spark but people need more on going energy.
Curt
umm hi im new to this, infact this is my first day, i have a question i donno if any of you can answer it, its about moving subjects with eyes, one dude told me the best thing to start from is the smoke, because its so light or something, is that true or any more info about it? thx
the kinds of practises the “dude” told you about are without true purpose.
if you want to impress people or feed the ego’s desire to stand out from the crowd it’s best to discover what your true gifts are then follow your passion. then you won’t care whether you can move smoke with your eyes or hear your fart in a tornado. happiness comes from accepting yourself as you are, not as someone who can move objects.
manipulating energy, objects or people to satisfy your ego’s whim is not the purpose of energy, and does not bring you to a greater understanding of your own purpose.
i would suggest you start by exploring who you are and what you have learned about yourself from what you have experienced in your life. there is greater purpose and learning to be had there.
good luck and much light upon you friend!
Hahaha!
it is a good physical fitness
I think these excercises are great. These are very “simple” and yes I say “simple”. I really don’t know what all the confusion is about. After trying the first exercise, I felt relaxed and had an easier time with meditation. And by the way, I do have a hard time with sleepiness sometimes and that second exercise does , in fact, work for me.
These are great! Thanks for sharing them. I am going to use them daily now with my Qi Gong exercises.
Uh…anything that requires that much physical movement is just like exercise, and therefore will of course increase your energy. You can just to jumpingjacks and it will be the same. : /