The Energy Ball Between Your Hands

A meditation you do with your hands. Wake the body first by clapping, shaking and circling the wrists, and loosening the neck and shoulders, then rub your palms until they are hot. With your eyes closed, feel the warmth and pulse in your joined palms, open them a finger joint apart, and slowly move them apart and together until you sense a soft pull and push between them. Let that feeling become a ball that grows and shrinks with the breath, then bring it down into the lower belly, where its warmth gathers like a small stove at the center of the body.