The Feel Good Energy Routine is a great warm-up to your day, or to an activity that you already do. Allow yourself to add these exercises in for a few days, and notice the impact. The purpose of  the Feel Good Energy Routine is to stretch and create space in the body, clear toxins, maintain positive energy habits to optimize health and vitality, balance your hormones and reprogram deep-seated energetic patterns in your body and mind. This should take no longer than 5 minutes, once you understand the exercises.

Three Thumps
(30 Seconds)

By tapping these specific points, you can activate a series of responses that will restore you when you are tired, increase your vitality, and keep your immune system strong amid stress. Don’t be concerned about perfecting the location of the points, if you use several fingers in the vicinity described, you will hit the right spot .

Thump #1: k-27 points
Place the pointer finger of each hand on your collarbone and move your hands toward one another until you reach the inside corners of your collarbone. Drop straight down from these points to en inch below your collarbone. Breathe slowly and deeply as you firmly tap your K-27 points for 2-3 deep breaths.

Thump #2: Tarzan Points

1. Place the fingers of either or both hands in the center of your sternum, at the thymus gland, 2 inches below the K-27 points in the center of your chest.
2. Using your thumb and all your fingers as you tap firmly, breathe slowly and deeply, in through your nose and out through your mouth for 2-3 deep breaths.

Thump #3:  Spleen Points:

1.    Tap the neurolymphatic points, tender point just below the center of the breasts on the  rib-cage.
2.    Breathe slowly and deeply, in through your nose and out your mouth, as you tap, for 2-3 deep breaths.

Cross Crawl
(30 seconds)

The cross crawl is simple as marching in place, and facilitates the crossover of energy between the brain’s right and left hemispheres.

1.    Briskly tap the K-27 points.
2.    While standing, lift your right arm and left leg simultaneously.
3.    As you let them down, raise your left arm and right leg.
4.    Repeat, this time exaggerating the lift of your leg and the swing of your arm across the midline to the opposite side of your body.
5.    Continue in this exaggerated march for at least a minute, again breathing in deeply through your nose and out through your mouth.

Wayne Cook Posture

1.    Sitting in a chair with your spine straight, place your right foot over your left knee. Wrap your left hand around the front of your right ankle and your right hand over the ball of your right foot.
2.    Breathe in slowly, letting the breath lift your body as you breathe in, at the same time, pulling your leg toward you and as you exhale, breathe out your mouth slowly, letting your body relax.
3.    Switch to the other foot and repeat using the same breathing.
4.    Uncross the legs and “steeple” your fingertips, bring your thumbs to rest on the “third eye”. Breathe in slowly and out through the  mouth 3-4 times,.
5.    On the last exhalation, curl your fingers into the middle of the forehead and separate them, firmly and pleasantly, pulling across your forehead to your temples.
6.    Slowly bring your hands down in front of you. Surrender into your own breathing.

Crown Pull
(30 seconds)

1.    Place your thumbs at your temples on the sides of your head. Curl your fingers and rest your fingertips a the center of your forehead.
2.    Slowly, and with some pressure, pull your fingers apart so you stretch the skin above your eyebrows.
3.    Rest your fingertips at your hairline and repeat the stretch.
4.    Continue this pattern with your fingers curled, pushing in at each of the following locations:
a.    Fingers at top of head, little fingers at hairline.
b.    Fingers over curve at back of head
c.    Fingers at the bottom of head
d.    Pull to sides of neck with 3 passes (top of neck, middle, bottom)
e.    Pull fingers firmly forward over tops of shoulders and let them drop

Zip-Up
(20 seconds)
When you are feeling sad or vulnerable, the central meridian can be like a radio receiver that channels other people’s negative thoughts and energies into you. The Zip-Up can help you think more clearly and protect yourself from negative energies.

1.    Briskly tap the K-27 points for a couple of full, deep breaths.
2.    Place your hand or hands at your pubic bone.
3.    Take a deep breath as you simultaneously move your hands slowly and with deliberation straight up the center of your body to your lower lip.
4.    Bring your hands past your lips and exuberantly raise them into the sky as you connect your central meridian with your aura and forces that are beyond you.
5.    Turn your palms upward and, slowly releasing your breath, extend your arms out to the sides as far as they will go and back down to your pubic bone.
6.    Repeat three times.

Hook-up
(15-20 seconds)
This is a powerful tool for centering. It increases coordination and stabilizes energies, including energies that surround you. Breathe in through your nose and out the mouth as you perform this exercise.

1.    Place the middle finger of one hand on your third eye.
2.    Place the middle finger of the other hand in your navel.
3.    Gently press each finger into your skin, pull upward and hold for 15-20 seconds.

*Source: Energy Medicine for Women, by Donna Eden, Penguin Books, 2008