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A good place to start is by becoming aware of your breathing. Breathing fully and deeply is essential to the body’s smooth-flowing energy system. Is your breath shallow, constricted, or quick? Try this easy acupressure technique to open up your breath and settle your emotions.
Calming Self-Care Acupressure Technique
Fold your arms across your chest and give yourself a big hug. While lightly placing your fingertips on the opposite arms, inhale deeply and exhale fully. Breathe in restorative oxygen and breathe out toxic carbon dioxide. Touching the energy balance points that are between the shoulder
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and the elbow allows the body to calm down, relieve anxiety, let go of fear, and release old patterns that get in our way. Because the pose naturally drops the shoulders and opens up the back and neck, it feels good physically, too. Hold this pose for a few deep breaths.
Touching and holding energy balance points in combination releases blocked energy in your body and creates new patterns of vital, free-flowing energy. It’s easy to learn, simple to do, and the benefits are noticeable immediately. Anyone of any age can use acupressure to bring balance and harmony to the body and mind. It’s a great tool for kids too! Acupressure gives your body a better chance of not creating health “projects” that can hold you back from being who you want to be and doing what you want in the world. I like to use the word project instead of problem to describe any issue your body is having. Projects are more fun to work on, and they have a beginning and an end. You don’t have to stay stuck when you have self-care tools to work with.
When you practice expanding your breath and balancing your energy daily, you support your whole self — physically, mentally, emotionally — to handle whatever might come at you, like trauma, injury, illness, fatigue, and strong emotions. A body in balance makes for a happier you!