Choose the state.
What does the next important thing require?
The next practice
Energize
Keep the calm. Add enough energy to begin.
The instructional path
Do not stop at feeling energized.
Use the 27-page guide to direct energy into one action, design a seven-part ritual, rehearse it, and decide what belongs in your day, week, month, season, and year.
- NoticeDistinguish low energy from scattered activation.
- ChooseSelect Energize, Calm, rest, or ordinary breathing.
- ActBegin one visible action within five minutes.
- DesignConnect cue, conditions, practice, action, close, and review.
- TransferUse a different decision at each time scale.
Five scales of practice
One system. Five different decisions.
Adjust one condition.
Which cue, place, time, or step helped?
Decide what survives.
Keep, change, pause, or retire one ritual.
Protect the period.
Choose one ceremony and one boundary.
Re-choose direction.
Close what is complete and name what is worth creating.
The practice
Energy with direction.
This is not a rush. You will check your state, complete the track, and use the energy for one chosen action.
Step 1
Check your energy
Step 2
Choose a safe place
This track uses two rounds of rhythmic breathing and includes breath retention. It can feel stronger than Calm.
Read the safety choices before you begin
- Sit or lie down. Do not practice while driving, in water, near an edge, or while operating machinery.
- Never force the rhythm or a breath hold. Breathe normally or stop when you need to.
- Stop if you feel faint, confused, panicked, short of breath, have chest pain, or lose control of your movement.
- Get medical guidance first if you are pregnant or have a heart, blood pressure, blood vessel, seizure, serious breathing, fainting, or panic condition.
Step 3
Let the rhythm build
Track by Niraj Naik. Used from Jai's licensed SOMA library.
Step 4
Use the energy
Take one small step on the action you chose within the next five minutes.