Jin Shin Jyutsu Self Help: Harmonising Attitudes

There are five Attitudes: Worry, Fear, Anger, Grief and Pretense.  Each finger corresponds to an attitude, so you can harmonise Worry by holding the Thumb, Fear by holding the Index Finger, Anger by holding the Middle Finger, Grief by Holding the Ring Finger and Pretense by holding the Little Finger.

You don’t hold your thumb or finger so that the attitude ‘goes away’ – rather, you hold it so that you allow that feeling to harmonise and so that you can observe that attitude and gain more clarity. Attitudes in themselves are not bad – we are, after all human beings and part of our make up is to experience all these emotions, or attitudes.

The ‘problem’ arises when we get STUCK in the behaviours that go along with these attitudes.

The prime attitude is FEAR (False Evidence Appearing Real) – out of FEAR come all the others. Anger, for instance is about wanting something to happen in a certain way, our way. And if that doesn’t happen then I get ‘angry’. Sadness or grief has to do with losing something that I cherished – but if that grief goes on for 20 years then I have got stuck in that grief.  Attitudes are not right or wrong – but they can be changed so they don’t control our every day behaviour.

So hold your thumb and fingers whenever your hands are idle. You’ll be harmonising attitudes, moving the energy and revitalising your whole being. What could be easier?

And the effect is cumulative, so the more you hold, the more you ‘clean’ and the more you harmonise.

Self Help that works: As Easy as Holding a Finger

The hands and the fingers are the keys to self help in Jin Shin Jyutsu. Master Jiro Murai practised only a few  finger positions for seven days when he was labelled ‘terminally ill’ and made a full recovery.

He also fasted and meditated which I’m sure fast tracked things considerably – but I wouldn’t advise anyone doing this without medical supervision, especially if any condition has already been diagnosed.

However, holding the fingers every day, whenever your hands are free to do so, is a good way to  clean, harmonise and revitalise all our 144,000 energy functions.

The good news is that the effects over time are cumulative, so the more you hold your fingers, the more you’ll feel the effects (you’ll feel calmer, think straighter, have more energy etc).

See the links below for how to hold the thumb and each finger and harmonise each corresponding emotion (or ATTITUDE as they’re called in Jin Shin Jyutsu) as well as helping many other things:

Hold the thumb for WORRY (and insomnia)
Hold the index finger for FEAR or ANXIETY
Hold the middle finger for ANGER
Hold the ring finger for GRIEF (and tinnitus)
Hold the little finger for PRETENSE or TRYING TO (too hard)

Comment: Middle Finger for Anger WORKS

(Re Post Hold Middle Finger For Anger) i know i will be using this alot! i have been feeling angry alot lately, for no reason at all, and i have anxieties, its just crazy, so i came across this jsj in care2care, and a woman uses it to help her, i thought, omy goodness!! i don’t like the idea of taking meds for depression and all these crazy things, sooo i’ve come off of most of them, {they were overmedicating me} so i’ve been looking for a natural way of dealing with things. i really do like how you’ve explained everything out! i’ve been glued to your blog all morning **grin** thank you so much!! ~Medo

Thanks for this comment. I really appreciate the feedback and glad that you’ve discovered the power of holding the fingers. So simple yet so easy. And the effect of holding is cumulative, the more you hold, the more is cleaned. Very Happy – SMILE

Exercise: Hold MIDDLE finger for ANGER

Hold MIDDLE finger (either side) to harmonise the attitude of ANGER, and to help:

* regulate blood pressure (high or low)
* general fatigue
* eyes, vision
* irritability
* balance emotions
* liver and gallbladder energy
* when have to READ a lot