Jin Shin Jyutsu Self Help to Relieve Emotional Upset

Whenever I feel emotionally upset or stressed and need to calm down FAST, I do this great Jin Shin Jyutsu Self Help Hold: I cross my arms and hold my elbows. Wrap right hand/fingers over the outside (or the crease) of the left elbow, and wrap the left hand/fingers over the outside (or crease) of the right elbow.  Close your eyes and breathe until you feel calmer.

All you need is a bit of privacy and a few minutes to restore calm and perspective… Try it out.

And when you feel calmer, use the Donna Eden zip up technique to cement the calm: all you need to do is ‘zip up’ your chakras from the base (pubic bone) all the way up the front to the mouth and ‘lock’.

This will protect your energy from outside attack and help you remain more grounded and strong.

Will talk more about Donna Eden’s zip up technique in a separate post – if you live in the city it is very useful to do this before you go out, and again when you come back home.

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.