A Quick Way to Harmonize our Total Being

I talk a lot about the Main Central – Source of Life exercise to harmonize our whole being, and if you do this exercise every day you will be well on your way to ‘cleaning house’. Main Central is a great exercise to do when you’re at home, but more difficult to do outside in public as you need to use your hands in different positions that might look rather ‘strange’ to people when you’re waiting for a bus or travelling on a train.

But not to worry, because there is a way to harmonize our whole being anywhere, even in a meeting, without anyone having any idea of what you’re doing (unless they also know about Jin Shin Jyutsu!).

A note on harmonizing in public or let’s say in a meeting. My experience is that you are harmonizing your own energy, but at the same time, you are helping to harmonize the energy around you. If you are in a room with others, you also help harmonize those that are present. My personal experience is that you have a much more productive and harmonious meeting! I am so often reminded that if you want something to change around you or if you want your reality to change, work on YOURSELF first!

Anyway, remember that to harmonize a particular attitude you can hold the corresponding thumb or finger of either hand. Holding each finger helps to harmonise 14,400 energy functions!! How cool is that!

However, there is an even EASIER way to harmonize our whole being and all our 144,000 energy functions, and that is to put your fingers on the Center of the Palm. So left fingers can be placed on the center of the right palm or vice versa.

Working with the center of the palm harmonizes our whole being on a physical, mental, emotional and soul level, and so it also helps to ease the attitude of deep despondency or depression and along with it, fatigue. Depression (despondency, despair, dejection, gloom, sadness, grief) can be helped by holding center of palm and then the ring finger (attitude of grief) of either or both hands in turn.

So next time you have nothing to do with your hands, place your fingers in the Center of your Palm!

Self Help to Beat Fatigue and the Heat

Fatigue colours our world and affects how we feel, and Jin Shin Jyutsu is one of the most powerful ways to overcome fatigue.

Time after time, I have tried and tested these holds and it is absolutely amazing how my whole world can change in 20 minutes – purely because I have been able to energise myself. And if I can, you can too with this simple exercise.

The Spleen energy governs our energy levels and this exercise is very powerful for vitality and calm (one needs energy to stay calm, believe it or not!) – 20 minutes minimum every day.

The Spleen is the biggest lymphatic organ in the body and if kept happy, helps all the other organs.

In Jin Shin Jyutsu, a sequence of HOLDS is referred to as a FLOW. The following self-help flow can be used to revitalise and re-energise the whole system, and to be ‘happy and content where ever you are’. Use it to regulate the body’s temperature (to warm the body when it’s cold, to cool the body when it’s hot), and to balance the nervous system (to calm).

Hold each step for a few minutes or until you feel you want to move to the next position. Tip: put on a chill out CD and when the track changes, move the hands to the next position… The music can add a wonderful dimension to the session…

GENERAL ENERGY REVITALISING FLOW (Spleen Flow)
(Right energy pattern)
Step 1
Place Left hand on base of spine (coccyx)
Place Right hand on right inside of heel
Step 2
Move Right hand and place on left base of rib cage and hold
Step 3
Move Left hand and place on right above breast area
Step 4
Move Left hand and place on left center of collar bone

So to summarise: the Spleen flow helps beat fatigue, insomnia, headaches, anxiety and much more. It stimulates the immune system, helps the digestive system, helps regulate our body temperature (you can use it to warm and to cool the body – isn’t that great?) – this flow also helps the skin, helps beat the attitude of WORRY and well, it’s just a great general all round wonder flow – use it with HUMILITY AND GRATITUDE!

What are your stress symptoms?

Stress is probably the largest reason for dis-ease and pain, and this is why it’s so important to have tools at hand (excuse the pun) to deal with every day stresses so that they don’t become every day stucknesses.

We all have different stress symptoms – some of us get headaches and or fatigue, and or pain, and or allergies and the list goes on and on.

Because stress management is such a large subject, I would like to ask you: ‘What are YOUR stress symptoms?’ A stress can be physical, emotional and mental. Sometimes we experience all three at the same time.

I would love to hear from you! Just send your comment to flows(at)flowsforlife(dot)com (use @ and . instead of the words please!). All identities are kept confidential and no information will be divulged to anyone else under any circumstances.

How to Lose Weight with Jin Shin Jyutsu

Now that Spring is here, many of us are looking to shed a few winter pounds…and I know that we need all the help we can get.

The good news is that there are two energy sites on the body (four if you count the right and left sides) that help with weight loss.

The first one is right under the cheeckbone on the face (energy site number 21). Hold the RIGHT side of the face just under the cheeckbone (near the nose) for weight LOSS, hold the LEFT side of face on the cheeckbone for weight GAIN. If you forget which side is which, hold both sides and the body will adjust itself to what it needs. It will! The body is very clever that way.

The other two energy sites are on the right and left  sitting bones (number 25). Sit on your hands (with the palms up) at least 20 minutes a day to stay fit, to take lactic acid out of the muscles after exercising, and to lose volume from the hip and thigh area. It also tones the body.

Both these exercises can be done in front  of the TV, or for a more meditative experience, sit or lie quietly with your eyes  closed.

Self help that works: How to Overcome FATIGUE

Fatigue colours our world and affects how we feel.  There are many reasons why we might feel fatigue, but the obvious thing is that the body is crying out for rest and re-generation. Jin Shin Jyutsu is one of the most powerful ways to overcome fatigue. I say this from experience. Time after time, I have tried and tested these holds and it is absolutely amazing how my whole world can change in 20 minutes – purely because I have energised myself. I say: make fatigue a thing of the past. I can, and you can too.

The Spleen energy governs our energy levels and this exercise is very powerful for vitality and calm (one needs energy to stay calm) – 20 minutes minimum every day.

In Jin Shin Jyutsu, a sequence of HOLDS is referred to as a FLOW. The following self-help flow can be used to revitalise and re-energise the whole system, and to be ‘happy and content where ever you are’. Use it to regulate the body’s temperature (to warm the body when it’s cold, to cool the body when it’s hot), and to balance the nervous system (to calm).

Hold each step for a few minutes or until you feel you want to move to the next position.

GENERAL ENERGY REVITALISING FLOW (Spleen Flow)
(Right energy pattern)
Step 1
Place Left hand on base of spine (coccyx)
Place Right hand on right inside of heel
Step 2
Move Right hand and place on left base of rib cage and hold
Step 3
Move Left hand and place on right above breast area
Step 4
Move Left hand and place on left center of collar bone