UpBeat Living: Acupressure to Zap Your Stress and Pain

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Effective living, energy, Energy therapy, Feeling energized, Health, Jin Shin Jyutsu, Jin Shin Jyutsu classes, optimal health and wellbeing, Stress Management, vitality

© 2013 Kebba Buckley Button.  World Rights Reserved.

 

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The best healing art I have ever experienced is an acupressure art called Jin Shin Jyutsu ®.  Jin Shin is an ancient healing art that looks like acupressure and feels “like melting”.  It was revived in the early 1900’s by Jiro Murai and brought to the US by the late Mary Burmeister. Imagine “nature’s jumper cables”, your own arms and hands, jump starting your own energies? Working on yourself, you gently hold pairs of points, or “hug” certain fingers or toes, while you feel tension, pain, and other disharmonies “melting away”, “unwinding”, and “lightening up”.  Jin Shin Jyutsu brings balance to the body’s energies, promoting optimal health and wellbeing, and bringing forth our own profound healing capacity.  It complements conventional healing methods, relaxing you and reducing the pains and dysfunctions caused by stress.

How does it do this?  Without needles, using only light finger touch, Jin Shin Jyutsu uses key points, or small zones, called “safety energy locks” along energy pathways that feed life through our bodies.  This seems to work by accessing nerve junctions, opening up the flow through the nervous system.  Whether you call this nerve function or meridian flow, when one or more of the paths become blocked, the resulting stagnation can disrupt functions and cause discomforts.  Holding these points, or energy locks, in combination can bring balance to mind, body, and spirit.

I personally have used Jin Shin with dramatic effects for myself and my clients.  In my first experience, in 1982, I had a foot/ankle injury that refused to heal.  After 2 orthopedists, two casts, and 4 months on crutches, my foot and ankle were still very painful, swollen triple, and a lovely purple-fuscia color.  Friends sent me to a Jin Shin practitioner, and twenty minutes into the treatment, my pain was rolling away.  I walked out carrying my crutches.  In six weeks, this ridiculous, aggravating injury was healed.  A huge part of the healing was my stubborn use of Jin Shin self-help holds, twice a day, during the entire healing period.  I wanted to be well and mobile again as fast as possible!

I was so astounded by the power of Jin Shin that I became a direct student of Mary Burmeister, the world’s living master teacher at that time.  I ultimately gave up my other work to devote myself to healing work.   I have been helping others with stress relief, pain dissolution, and other often-dramatic results, in the twenty-plus years since.  I have experienced Jin Shin improving every condition I have applied it to.  It’s a secret weapon in my life, which allows me to manage moods and frustration, work long hours, feel energetic and cheerful, quickly zap illness, and have unusually young-looking skin.  Is this a secret weapon you would like in your stress-management toolkit? Hmmm!

If you are interested in learning to use this healing art on yourself:  in the Phoenix area, our next Jin Shin Jyutsu Self-Help Classes are coming up.  Part 1 will be held February 2d, from 9 am to 1 pm, and Part 2 will be February 16, from 9 am to 1 pm.  The class is $100 for each part, which includes the book for that part and a laminated chart of the key points.  Your payment (Cash-Check-Visa-MC-Amex) holds your place.  Space is limited, so call or email now, 480-250-1177 or kebba@kebba.com.

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● Kebba Buckley Button is a corporate stress management trainer and the author of the award-winning book, Discover The Secret Energized You (on Amazon.com >Books>Buckley), and the 2012 book, Peace Within:  Your Peaceful Inner Core (on Amazon.com >Books>Button).  She also has a natural healing practice and is an ordained minister.

● Your comments are welcome!

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● Reach the writer at kebba@kebba.com .

UpBeat Living: Natural Help for Colds

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Colds, Energy therapy, Flu, Healing Touch, Health, Jin Shin Jyutsu, Reiki

© 2013 Kebba Buckley Button.  World Rights Reserved.

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Fifty years ago, it was believed there was little you could do for colds.  You could try aspirin or decongestants for fever and stuffiness.  Some claimed chicken soup was beneficial, but no one had a scientific reason.  Mainly, people with colds had to rest, suffer, and wait for the symptoms to go away.  By the 1970’s,  Tylenol was being widely used, and the benefits of chicken soup had been proven and published.  Today, much more is known about helping the body with colds.  Try these 4 steps to reduce your symptoms and strengthen your system out of illness.

Step One, if you have severe muscle aches, you probably have influenza, “the flu”, and not a cold.  Call your doctor.  There are some new antiviral prescriptions that may help you.  If you are sure you have the flu, and you prefer a homeopathic remedy, you may want to try Oscillococcinum from your health food store.  Dissolved under the tongue, this is very effective for many.  Also, if you have special medical conditions and should call your doctor in case of cold symptoms, do that immediately.  Every doctor’s office has 24-hour paging or emergency numbers.

Step Two, make yourself comfortable and get extra rest.  Do you normally get enough rest?  Drink lots of water and nutritional fluids.  Alcohol is generally not helpful for a cold.  Take a hot bath, at the “ahhhhh” temperature for you, which may be about 103 degrees F.  Add 2 cups, or a one-pound box, of Epsom salts and set a timer so you stay in for at least 20 minutes.  If you are concerned about your tub’s jets being hurt by the Epsom salts, dissolve them before adding to the tub, or buy your Epsom salts in liquid form.  Most drug stores and grocery stores have both forms.  If your throat hurts, mix salt and baking soda in equal proportions in a small storage jar; use a teaspoon of mix in a glass of pleasantly hot water, and gargle thoroughly.  Making deep tones while you gargle will give you better coverage at the back of the throat.

Step Three, bolster yourself with nutritional helps.  These will help strengthen your immune system so it can fight and dispose of the cold virus quickly.  These are generally inexpensive and will help you feel better fast! Drink black, or preferably green, tea, with minimally processed honey in it; the tea contains heart-healthy compounds and the honey contains many helpful enzymes and other energizing nutritional components.  In Chinese medicine, a cold is a “yin” condition, so adding “yang” foods to your body will make you feel much better.  Drink your tea or soup warm.  Stir a little ginger powder into that tea or chicken soup. You probably have ginger powder in your spice rack.  Or use ginger extract drops from your health food store.  Try Vitamin C with bioflavonoids.  One highly absorbable form is the widely available “Emergen-C”, available in most grocery stores and drugstores in many flavors; the small packets contain ascorbate compounds of Vitamin C, B complex, and minerals.  A similar preparation is “Airborne”.  Soluble B-12 with folic acid and B-6 is also widely available now. Eat fresh fruit, not frozen or canned if possible, due to the loss of nutrition in processing; the colors represent the natural bioflavonoids.  Additional herbal drops are widely available for strengthening the immune functions.  Separately or in combined drops, these may include:  astragalus, Echinacea, Shitake Mushroom, Fresh Red Root, Licorice Root, and Suma Root.  A popular combination product is  Zand echinacea drops with goldenseal.

Step Four, get yourself some energy therapy–Jin Shin Jyutsu(R), Healing Touch(R), or Reiki(R).  You’ll feel stronger right away.  Then you’ll finish this cold and come out on a higher vitality level than you went into it with.  And let me know what worked best for you!

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● Kebba Buckley Button is a corporate stress management trainer and the author of the award-winning book, Discover The Secret Energized You, and the 2012 book, Peace Within:  Your Peaceful Inner Core.  She also has a natural healing practice and is an ordained minister.

● Your comments are welcome!

● Get these articles by email– just click the Subscribe Free option in the right column.

● Reach the writer at kebba@kebba.com .