Self Help for Anxiety and Panic Attacks

There is an energy site on the outside of the wrist which is number 17 – it came into the universe meaning Reproductive Energy (as in generating new energy).

Hold this energy site in emergencies to balance the nervous system.

It is also a great helper to alleviate anxiety and panic attacks; and you can use it as a smelling salt if you feel faint.

This energy site on the outside of the wrist is also fantastic instead of that Mars bar fix in the middle of the afternoon when you might need a quick energy boost – it’s a quick reviver!

Holding the outside of the wrist also helps with the development of intuition, and alleviates chest congestion.

In the case of panic attacks, I would also cross my arms and place my hands on the insides of the knees. The insides of the knees  is THE place to hold in emergencies – keeps you BREATHING, and helps ease nausea and vomiting.

If this hold is a bit awkward because you are in a public place for instance, then just grab your left little finger with your right hand and hold. I find holding the left little finger especially useful at the first sign of my heart racing a bit.

Jin Shin Jyutsu is an Ancient Art of harmonizing the life energy in the body by using the fingers and hands.

In the video below I explain some simple exercises to relieve Anxiety and Panic Attacks.

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Jin Shin Jyutsu Q&A: Self help for Sinus Congestion Pain

Question: Is there a hold for congestion/sinus problems?

Answer: There is no pain worse than a real honest to goodness sinus headache. I had one a few years ago, and  it was thanks to some Jin Shin Jyutsu holds and salt water that I was able to clear the excruciating pain.  The salt water bit is not very  ‘appetising’, but I liken it to taking a plunge in the ocean. Take some natural sea salt in warm water (spring preferably) and inhale: one nostril at a time and a little at a time till you get the hang of it. The salt water will drain the sinuses (or that’s the idea anyway!). No need to overdo it, leave for a while and then try again after a few minutes. STOP if you don’t get any relief!

There are also some dynamic  Jin Shin Jyutsu holds for sinus relief. The key energy site is at the top of the shoulder blade on the side of the spine, it’s the number 3 energy site: our natural antibiotic.

Start by holding this energy site, left hand on left side, right hand on right side.  Then take the left hand to the base of the skull on the left side (energy site 4) and place your right hand on your forehead above your right eyebrow. After a few minutes, move the right hand onto your right eyebrow.

After a few minutes, move the right hand /fingers to your right cheek, close to your nose (energy site 21). A few minutes after that, move the right hand/fingers to the base of your collarbone, close to the sternum (energy site 22).

This is to help clear the right side. To help clear the left side, reverse the left and right hands and sides.

If you suffer from chronic sinus discomfort, it might be worth looking into the Tissue Salts by Dr Schuessler.  In a nutshell, number 2  helps aching sinuses, 3 and 7 help blocked sinuses. Sinusitis is helped by numbers 5 and 9. More about these wonderful Tissue Salts in a separate post.

Here’s a video with some more self help holds for Sinus Congestion and Pain

More on Stress Relief: How to Main Central

In the previous post I talked about using the Main Central Source of Life exercise for stress relief. Because it helps everything on every level, it grounds us, calms us, balances us and most importantly: releases tensions on every level.

Many people who are new to all this energy work ask me: ‘So how do I best do these exercises?’ So here goes:

When I do the Main Central exercise, I like to lie down and prop my arms up with pillows (especially the right arm because the right hand is going to remain on top of the head for a while). I also like to put on a chill out CD so that I don’t have to look at the clock every time I need to move on to the next position. Every time the track changes, I move to the next position.

You might fall asleep in one position. Don’t worry about it. Enjoy it. Sometimes I get ‘stuck’ in position 1 or 2 or 3 for a whole hour because it FEELS SO GOOD! So be it. That’s what you need at the time.

Sometimes, there will be involuntary jerking movements as the energy gets moving. Don’t worry about it. That’s normal. Sometimes there can be a shooting pain when you hold a position. That’s also normal – as long as it dissipates pretty quickly. If it doesn’t,  stop what you’re doing and concentrate on some deep breathing for a few minutes.

Many times, the stomach will make rumbling sounds when the energy gets moving. For me, those sounds are music to my ears. There’s a great release of tension when that happens.

So please have fun with this powerful exercise. 40 minutes to an hour every day would be ideal, especially if there are any special stress projects.

The main thing is to experiment and ENJOY this wonderful exercise for STRESS RELIEF.

Self help holds for Fast Stress Relief

Stress. We all have to deal with stresses every day, which impair the stability and balance of bodily functions. A little stress is good (gives us a little kick to get us going) but a lot of stress, or even worse, long term stress can cause tension on all levels: the physical, mental and emotional.

These self help holds that I talk about in Flows for Life help relieve the tensions of stress. It’s about managing stresses that cause long term discomforts and pains. Anxiety, worry, fatigue, and a compromised immune system are just some of the effects of our modern day stresses that can lead to big label illnesses and conditions over a period of time.

The list of stress symptoms is vast and there is a hold, or Jin Shin Jyutsu exercise to help alleviate each one of them. At this point, a good all around de- stressing exercise is the Main Central Source of Life

Pay special attention to the position where the right hand is on the top of the head and the left fingers are placed between the breasts on the sternum. This position deepens the breathing – and encourages the exhale breath to clean ‘dirt, dust, grease and grime’ as Master Mary Burmeister used to say.

Are you a Doctor?!?

Most of us have suffered leg cramp at some point in our lives and we know how excruciating that pain is.

Well, imagine being up on stage in front of hundreds of people and you get severe cramp, not just in one leg but in both!

This actually happened to someone recently at a seminar I attended.

The poor guy had to get off the stage and sit down – he was in extreme pain and looked very distressed. Immediately, a whole lot of people gathered around him, trying to ‘help’.

I managed to cut through the group, quietly knelt down and put my fingers at the back of his knees and held on . Meanwhile it was complete chaos around him. All sorts of well meaning people asking if he was okay and offering all sorts of advice. At the same time, people shouting at me: ‘Are you a doctor? Are you a doctor?!?!?!’

I reply: ‘No, I’m a  Jin Shin Jyutsu practitioner.’ And kept holding the backs of his knees.

After a few minutes he calmed down, then I asked if the pain had gone. He said that yes, it had – so I quietly got up and left him. I don’t think he even realised what had happened. And that’s the way it should be – so quick, so easy, that you don’t even have time to wonder about it. It just IS – PAIN GONE.

What is Jin Shin Jyutsu?

Jin Shin Jyutsu is an ancient Japanese healing art which uses the hands to harmonise and regenerate the whole being.

By knowing where to place the hands on the body you can manage pain, eliminate fatigue, stimulate your immune systemn and alleviate most conditions.

I often describe it as ‘acupuncture with the fingers’ and it is safe for every body from pregnant mothers to babies to the elderly or infirm. There are no contraindications either, so Jin Shin Jyutsu is a great support to the system, reducing the negative and harmful effects of drugs or invasive treatments like chemotherapy, for instance.

Every body is made up of the same physical parts and so it is that every body is made up of the same energy ‘flows’. The energy body is a complex and intelligent network that is just as much part of our make up as the physical body, and it can be accessed through a myriad ways  (acupuncture, massage, reiki, reflexology, bowen, shiatsu, osteopathy and many others).

So every body can work with their energy for health and vitality to clear small ‘stucknesses’ or large ‘stucknesses’. A small stuckness could manifest as a headache or a cold, and a large stuckness could be cancer.

There are acute conditions like a muscle spasm in the leg for instance and chronic conditions that have developed over time like asthma and arthritis.

To introduce Jin Shin Jyutsu is simply to awaken the awareness of this innate wisdom that each and every one of us has at our disposal to use for a happy, healthy and fulfilled life: Free of stuckness in pain, fatigue, worry, FEAR, anger, grief and pretense.

Awaken your vitality, your health, your power, your wisdom, your potential – you can start, by holding one or more of your fingers. This is the power and the empowerment of Self Help Jin Shin Jyutsu.

Jin Shin Jyutsu Blog Questions & Answers

If you have a Jin Shin Jyutsu question, please send it directly to me at flows(at)flowsforlife(dot).com

When you email me your question, I do ask PLEASE that you tell me whether you’ve attended any Jin Shin Jyutsu classes or self-help workshops and what books or Jin Shin Jyutsu material you have. This is mainly so that I can tailor the answer individually.
And don’t worry if you are new to this ancient healing art – you need nothing more than just your hands and the knowledge of where to put them to alleviate pain, manage fatigue, boost the immune system and deal with the myriad other day-to-day discomforts and complaints such as headaches, cramps, muscle tension, etc.
I look forward to hearing from you.

In the case that you have had a reply from me, thank you if you have sent me your feedback! It is nice to hear how the different holds work for you – it makes me HAPPY (smile)

Self Help for YOUR NERVES

Some days are just thrown at us to test us. Some days one just feels overwhelmed. There is so much going on and the mind just can’t keep up with all the thoughts, worries, anxieties, and nags. However! DO NOT DESPAIR. There is a way to get out of your head and take back control of your runaway mind and life!

For those of you who have done a Jin Shin Jyutsu course, work with the 20, 21, 22 Flow of Text 1 on page 32 (work on the right side first).

The self-help holds TO GET OUT OF YOUR HEAD in layman’s terms are: left hand on left neck (energy site number 12) and right hand on right forehead (energy site number 20), then move right hand to right cheek (energy site number 21) then move the right hand to the right clavicle (energy site number 22).

The Stomach Flow, and Spleen Flows are also helpful (Mary also includes these two flows in her self-help book 1). See the link to the Spleen Flow exercise here: Self help stuff that works and the first two steps of SELF HELP FOR YOUR NERVES stomach flow (right energy pattern): Place your left fingers on the right cheekbone (energy site number 21) and your right fingers on the right center of collar bone (energy site number 22) . After a few minutes, move right hand to left base of rib cage (energy site number 14). Reverse the hands for the left energy pattern.

See a link to the chart of the 26 energy sites here.

Right, I’m off to do some of these lovely holds.

T Harv Ecker: TAME the MIND, TAME the FEAR

Jin Shin Jyutsu for Headache and Migraine

I was reminded in the last few days how I found Jin Shin Jyutsu in the first place: through the debilitating migraines that I used to suffer. Last week I was sitting in front of the computer and PRESTO! started getting the tell tale zig zag signs in front of my eyes.

I immediately closed my eyes and held the base of the thumb – that didn’t do too much, so I went to the outside of my heels (just under the ankles) and held the left one with the left hand, and the right one with the right hand. That started ‘opening’ up this zig zag lightning bolt…then I went back to the base of the thumb (held the left one with the right fingers). Then I also held the back of the head – I dug my fingers in where it was sore and held for a while until there was a strong pulse. Then I went back to the outside of the heels.

Within 20 minutes it was all gone, and I went back to the computer. Isn’t it great to be able to manage pain so quickly and easily? The body knows how.

Do you have a similar Jin Shin Jyutsu story you would like to share? Just send me an email: jsjholds@gmail.com I’d love to hear from you.

See also older post on this blog Self help for Headache and Migraine

Jin Shin Jyutsu for IBS, Colitis, Crohn’s, etc

Jin Shin Jyutsu for a Healthy Digestion – on a final note. Any discomfort like diarrhea, constipation, IBS, Colitis, Crohn’s disease can be helped by the Large Intestine Function Energy.

Below is the Left Flow explained (which helps diarrhea):
Place left hand on right shoulder (SEL 11) and with right hand hold the left index finger.
Then move the right hand to the third rib down on the right side (SEL 13)
Then move the right hand to the last rib on the right side (SEL 14)
Then move the right hand to the left cheekbone (SEL 21)
Then move the right hand to the right clavicle (SEL 22)
Then move the right hand to the left clavicle (SEL 22)

Reverse the order of the hands for the Right side Flow (which helps constipation)

This flow also helps the teeth, gums and jaw, as well as the wrist and shoulder. It is the key to healthy muscles. Also good to help nose bleeds.

Self Help For Fast Wound Healing: A Jin Shin Jyutsu Hold

Someone asked me a question the other day about how to heal a wound FAST with Jin Shin Jyutsu. My brain, bless it, went crazy TRYING TO (sound familiar?) look for the ‘best’ and of course, most complicated answer – ‘do this flow and that flow and all these flows’ – that’s the problem when one is given such an extensively wonderful ‘menu’ to choose from. It was only later that I just RELAXED and I REMEMBERED how to BE instead of what to DO.

Intro – See this older post How the ENERGY moves through our hands

The EMERGENCY hold for healing a wound anywhere on the body FAST: place LEFT hand over RIGHT hand – then place the hands over the wound. See this older post for the photo and more of an explanation JSJ WOUND HEALING HOLD Helps even the deepest wound heal fast.

And while I’m at it….The EMERGENCY hold for taking anything that doesn’t belong in the body (from a splinter to a piece of glass or a contact that’s disappeared to the back of the eye) – and for any burns. Just place the RIGHT hand over the LEFT hand – then place the hands over the affected area. See this older post for this other Jin Shin Jyutsu Emergency Hold ESPECIALLY USEFUL FOR HEALING BURNS (use this hold first to draw out the burn, then the other hold to repair the skin….)

PS Thanks for the question.

Exercise: Self Help For Back Pain with JSJ Hold

My back has been aching all week (it’s probably all that stuff I’ve been carrying lately). So I’ve incorporated some gentle stretching every day and yesterday I worked on SEL 2 (especially the right side) – that Flow has helped because the 2 area was tight and sore!

The simplest Jin Shin Jyutsu self-help for backache is to hold the index finger (and also the thumb separately) every day – go to sleep holding your index finger, and it’ll work as you sleep.

Self Help That Works – Back to Basics: Hold Your Fingers!

The basis of Self help in Jin Shin Jyutsu is the thumb and the fingers. Holding the thumb and the fingers every day is a good way to gently clean, harmonise and revitalise all our 144,000 energy functions. The effects over time are cumulative, so the more you hold your fingers, the quicker the effect. See these older posts for how to hold the thumb and each finger and harmonise each corresponding emotion (or ATTITUDE as we call them in Jin Shin Jyutsu):

Hold the thumb for Worry
Hold the index finger for Anxiety
Hold the middle finger for Anger
Hold the ring finger for Grief
Hold the little finger for Trying (too hard)