Basic Forms Meridian Gym Exercising
1 Shaking
|2|   Body Patting improves blood circulation.  It is especially effective for strengthening the nervous system.  Start by patting your left shoulder with your right hand.  Doing this to music makes it real easy.  Count to 10 as you pat down the top of your arm.
Make two pats in one spot to each number. When you get down to your hand pat the top of the hand to the count of 10. Then turn your hand over and clap 10 times then start patting up your arm to your arm pit again to the count of ten with two pats for each number. 
|1|   Let's start by Shaking your body moving arms up and down. Shaking the legs and feet. Gentle shaking exercises improve blood circulation by activating the blood vessels.  This relieves over-load on the heart and helps to lower high blood pressure.  It also improves energy circulation to each cell of the body.  It alleviates anxiety and improves concentration.

Relax your whole body.  Shake both arms and hands over your head.  Slowly bring your hands down with gentle vibration. At the same time shake your legs and feet. 
Think of the scarecrow in the wizard of oz.  Have fun with this.  Just totally relax all limbs as you shake. This exercise releases the stagnant energy in your shoulders and arms.  It also stimulates the meridian points in your hands and increases the blood circulation throughout your whole body, because your hands are connected to all of the meridian channels in your body.
2 Body Patting

When you get to you arm pit go over to your chest, patting 10 times, then back to your arm.  Pat the inside of the arm to the count of 10 until you get to your thumb.  Count 10 at your thumb then go to the baby finger on the outside of your left hand.  Again count to 10 then pat up the outside of the arm toward your arm pit but on the back side of your arm then down your side to your abdomen.  With both hands begin patting your abdomen 10 times.  Now  repeat the exercise completely on your right side with your left hand. When you get back to your abdomen again bring your hands to you back and pat the kidney area.  Be gentle.
|3|   Twisting - relieves stiffness in the muscles.  Stimulates metabolism.
Restores balance to the body's shape.

With Arms stretched out to your sides at shoulder height, begin twisting your arms forward, then backward coordinating with your breathing.  Then twist your left hand  forward, turning your entire arm, while at the same time twisting your right hand and arm backward.  Repeat this movement, with your right hand forward and left hand backward.  This movement eliminates tension in the neck and shoulders as well as numbness in the arms.
Continue patting all the way down the back of your legs until you get to your heel.  Patting again to the count of 10. And count to 10 at the heel.  Now pat the top of your foot 10 times and start up the front of your legs to the abdomen.  Then to the outside of your legs down to your ankles.  Count to 10, then to the inside, start by counting to 10 on the inside ankles then up the inside of your legs all the way to your abdomen, end with 10 pats to the abdomen.  Then do a gentle rub of the abdomen see phot on the left.  And a body sweep. Place both hands at opposite shoulders and sweep out and down your entire body all the way to your toes. 
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Twisting
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Stretching
|5|   Rotating exercise releases the stagnant energy in the spine, neck, shoulders, and joints (elbows, wrists, hip-joints, knees, ankles.

Gently rotate your waist with hands loosely at your sides.  Keep your arms and shoulders relaxed and let your arms naturally follow the rotation of your waist in a swinging motion.  Next, raise the level and repeat the rotation.
|4|  Stretching facilitates blood circulation and flow of Ki-energy.  This increases the supply of oxygen, blood and energy to the muscles and joints.  It also corrects spinal structure and helps to improve flexibility and relieves stress.

With feet together, bend over at the waist and touch your hands to the floor.  Repeat this motion with your hands crossed and touch the floor with a gentle bouncing motion.  Next, clasp your hands behind your knees, bend forward and gently bounce.  This exercise also improves your kidneys and bladder and has an "age reversing" effect.
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Rotating
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