* Acupressure
Extraordinary Channels & Points
www.Acupressure.comthe choices we make in our lives, how we think, use our badies, eat,
sleep, exercise, and set our priorities, affect our health and wellness.
The more conscious we are of giving our bodies what they require, the
more we take responsibility for our well-being.
Preventing illness is just as important as healing illness, and yet many
people don’t become concerned with their health until they get sick. An
acupressure approach to health maintenance combines daily self-acu-
pressure with choices for a healthy lifestyle, including good nutrition,
exercise, positive thinking, relaxation, and deep breathing.
‘The acupressure points illustrated in this booklet not only relieve com-
mon ailments, they are also effective for preventing them. By stimulat-
ing these points daily, you can improve your overall condition and also
increase your vitality.
Deep breathing exercises are the most gentle and effective methods
known to incorporate with acupressure. If your breathing is shallow,
your body’s vital systems are not functioning at their optimal levels.
When you breathe deeply, however, the respiratory system can fully
oxygenate and rejuvenate the body.
Everyone can be radiantly healthy
by eating wholesome foods, thinking positively,
practicing stretching and deep breathing exercises,
and getting daily aerobic exercise.
Use acupressure whenever you have a free hand
and you will enjoy greater aliveness,
vitality, and well-being.Introducing Acupressure
cupressure is an ancient healing art. Finger pressure is used on key
points to stimulate the body's natural self-curative abilities. It
encourages the release of muscular tension, the increased circulation of
blood, and the flow of the body’s vital life force (chi) simply by pressing,
these special points. Like acupuncture, acupressure accesses the energy
of the body through the points and meridian pathways — both use the
same points and meridian pathways — to influence the health and well-
being of a person,
In this system, symptoms are considered an expression of the state of
the whole body. For instance, a tension headache may originate in the
shoulder and neck area. Using points, acupressure can not only relieve
the local head pain and discomfort, but also can reestablish the body's
balance — before the stress and strain can cause more problems in other
areas of the body.
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History of Acupressure
wre there is pain, it is naturally instinctive to hold the place that
hurts. More than 5,000 years ago the Chinese discovered that
when certain places on the body were held, not only did the place that
was held feel better, but other remote parts of the body also benefited.
Over time, they observed that pressing certain points helped alleviate
specific health conditions.
In the early dynasties of China, when stones and arrows were the only
weapons available for warfare, unexpected benefit occurred in battle
when wounded soldiers reported that symptoms of other diseases that
they had lived with for years suddeily vanished. Though this baffled
ancient physicians, for whom there was no logical relationship between
the trauma and the recovery, they continued to observe these phenome-
na. Stimulating these areas of the surface of the bedy, by trial and error,
these physicians charted the points and developed ways to relieve trau-
mas, dysfunctions and pains in the body. One of these methods was acu-
pressure.
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