Donna Eden’s Daily Energy Routine is so beneficial for so many people, and for so many health-related aspects–I wanted to do a quick run-through/review of the basic routine.
I give this routine to my students, my clients, and my friends, and I hear from so many people–as I know Donna Eden does (she hears from thousands of people)–about what a difference this Daily Energy Routine makes.
It’s quick and simple.
Video Transcript
We start with the four thumps. The first thump is right underneath the eyes and we’re just going to tap that gently. Please be sure to use your breath as you do the Daily Routine–I am fond of saying that your energy medicine technique is only as good as the breath that you bring to it.
Now move to the end of your Kidney meridian. Kidney 27 is just underneath the collarbone—there’s a nice divot under there that you can find. I like to use a cluster of fingers to tap the end of kidney meridian. This stimulates the meridian and pulls up the Kidney energy.
Now we’ll tap in the center of the sternum. The thymus gland is underneath the sternum, so this stimulates the thymus gland (which is key to our immunity). The fourth tap is at the end of the Spleen meridian which also helps with immunity and with metabolizing pretty much everything.
Now let’s get the energies crossing over the midline. We’ll start with the over-the-shoulder pull. Reach over your shoulder and take a full breath in, exhale and pull down and across the body, from the shoulder to the hip. Repeat on the other side, and continue pulling from shoulder to hip on both sides for several times. Again, please use your breath to your advantage. My friend Debra Hurt is fond of saying “you must be present to win” and the breath really helps us to be present.
Now continuing to get the energies crossing over, we’re going to do a Cross-Crawl march. Lift the right hand and the left knee, then lift the left hand and the right knee. You can reach across your body to tap your hand on your knee if you like. Continue this march for a minute or two. This movement requires the right and left hemispheres of the brain to coordinate with each other so this exercise helps to get those synapses happening.
Next we’re going to do the Wayne Cook. There is a standing-up version and a sitting down version (please see the accompanying video to see how the sitting version is done). Extend your arms in front of you with your thumbs pointing down. Cross one wrist over the other and lace your fingers together. Then pull your hands toward your body and tuck them up, resting against your chest. Follow this by crossing one ankle over the other. Breathing in, you’re going to lift your body up a little bit and when you exhale you’re going to let your body relax a bit. You’ll want to do at least 3 or 4 breaths before switching sides.
To change sides, unlace your fingers and hands and switch so that the opposite wrist crosses over this time, and again tuck your hands up to your chest. Now you’re doing an opposite twist of your hands and wrists. You’re also going to recross your ankles at this point. Inhaling through the nose and exhaling through the mouth–lift your body as you inhale and let your body relax as you exhale.
This posture helps to balance the energy between the back brain and the forebrain. The back is the reptilian brain–that’s where we get alarmed and reactive—and the forebrain is where we can actually think our way out of a paper bag or situation. Finish this posture by touching your fingertips together (like a tent), and placing your thumbs between your eyebrows and take another couple breaths here.
Follow that by pressing your thumbs into your forehead and pressing them out to the temples. Then push your fingertips in to your forehead and dragging them out to the temples too. Now we’re going to segue straight into the Crown Pull; starting with your pinky fingers at the hairline, press your fingertips into your scalp and pull apart firmly, dragging out toward your ears. Repeat this process as you work your way back over your crown to your occiput. Use your breath as you go—inhaling as you push in, exhaling as you pull out. When you’re finished, be sure to sweep down and around the ears to clear any excess energy that you may have dragged into the Triple Warmer channel. Finish by hanging onto the shoulders. Inhale. Exhale, pulling your hands forward to the chest and then shake your arms off. You can give the back of your arm a quick sweep from the shoulder to your ring finger now which will help take energy of
Triple Warmer.
Now let’s do Connecting Heaven and Earth. Stand with your hands on your thighs—inhale—exhale, sending your energy and your breath down your legs to your feet into the earth. Inhale. Bring your arms out to your sides and then down into a namaste prayer pose at your chest. And now as you inhale, one hand presses flat up toward the sky, while the other hand presses flat down toward the earth. Hold your breath while you hold that stretch. As you exhale bring your hands back to the center, and then inhale again and switch sides, pressing the opposite hand to the sky and the opposite hand to the earth. You can even say a little hello to the sky, and hello to the earth as you make yourself a conduit that’s available for the descending Yang energies and the uprising Yin energies. As you exhale this time, you’re going to hang forward and rest for a breath, and then begin to swing your hands in a figure eight pattern–one hand chasing the other.
Draw those figure eights up into your aura all the way up over your head, and when you get over your head, cross your arms (instead of chasing) and bring those figure eights back down through your aura—all the way back to your feet. End by scooping your aura up from your feet and over your head, spilling it down your back and off your fingertips.
Now, I am a big fan of the Belt Flow and I can’t do a Daily Routine without a Belt flow. Grab your waist with one hand on either side and squeeze really tight. Take a breath in and then as you exhale, deeply drag your thumbs and your knuckles forward to your belly button and then shake that off. We’ll repeat that several times (at least 3). Inhaling fully—squeeze–and then exhaling completely and–drag.
Now reach both hands around your waist and sweep from one side to the other. Repeat on the opposite side. Once you’ve done that deep squeeze and drag you’ve really opened up that Belt channel so that the energy is now more available as you sweep around the Belt Flow and down the opposite leg. The Belt Flow is super important for the interactions of energies between the upper and lower body.
To finish the Daily Routine we’ll Zip Up–drawing the energy with your hands up through the Central line (from pubic bone to lower lip) and up the Governing line (from the sacrum up the back, over the head, and to the upper lip). Since the Belt Flow is open now it’s going to make these energies up the center column move much easier. And finally we’ll Hook-Up with a finger in the belly button and a finger at the third eye, pulling up as you breathe fully. Again, having done the Belt Flow before Zipping Up and Hooking Up the connection between the Central and the Governing meridians will be solid and will help the connections between all of the chakras, and facilitate the movement of energy in the Penetrating Flow.
I hope that you’ll do Donna Eden’s Daily Routine—with the addition of the Belt Flow–on a daily basis, or at the very least several times a week.