Bowing Exercise

1. Bring your hands to your chest in the prayer position — palms together next to your heart. Stand strong as a big and powerful tree or mountain.
2. From the prayer position, drop your hands to your sides, palms facing forward. Then lift your hands as high above your head as you can, palms together. As you do so, inhale. Imagine that you are absorbing all the positive things from the earth and all the positive things from the sky into your hands: hug them together.
3. Move your hands to your chest in the prayer position. Bring all the positive things from the universe to your heart — you deserve them.
4. Holding your hands in the prayer position, bow deeply from the waist. Bow to all the positive powers in the universe: a higher power, god, people you respect, saints, etc.
5. Kneel down, spreading your toes back flat on the floor. Bow by bringing your head down with your palms on the floor in front of you. Bow to your parents and to your ancestors. As you imagine them, pay them your respects and thank them.
6. Turn your palms up. Keeping your elbows on the floor, lift your palms to your shoulders. As you do so, exhale. As you exhale, imagine that all the negative things that ever happened to you, all anger, frustration and other negative feelings, are passing over your head — like a powerful ocean wave. Feel the wave washing over your head and over your body.
7. Stand up and put your hands in the prayer position.