Using the Dantian (下丹田 Xià Dāntián) and Building Your Battery. This blog is about building your energy, and increasing the number of 'bars' in your personal battery. Energy Circulation. There is an esoteric side to focusing on using the centre; this is to do with something called the 'Microcosmic' and 'Macrocosmic' 'Orbits'. One of the reasons that so much importance is placed on the Dantian is because, in Chinese thinking, it is considered to be the energy storehouse. The