Acupressure
Reduces Many Signs Of Aging - It's Plain Healthy
By H. Bernard Wechsler
Is Acupuncture Real And Useful or Not?
Yes.
It doesn’t replace Western Medicine with this ancient Eastern
art, but the proof is that it works on specific maladies.
“Acupuncture
is an effective, non-pharmacological method to reduce intra-operative
nausea during elective cesarean section in the awake patient.”
BJ Stein, St. Luke’s Hospital; and Columbia University,
college of Physicians and Surgeons.
This
research was published in 1997, and has been continually cited
in other scientific reports through 2005, on ‘morning-sickness’
and ‘motion-sickness’.
Dr.
Robert O. Becker, twice nominated for the Nobel, said in “Cross
Currents: The promise of electro-medicine is: our bodies are filled
with electromagnetic energy; meridians, and pressure points contain
large amounts of such energy - that non-acupuncture do not exhibit.
Does
it impress you that the use of acupuncture, and its sister system
– acupressure,are 3,000 years old? Acupuncture is the use
of needles at the ‘meridians’, while acupressure is
the application of manipulation of the pressure points using the
fingers or a tool.
One
thing to remember is that acupressure is based on the ‘pulse’
being felt because the spot underlies an ‘artery’.
It is neither voodoo nor random massage.
Acupuncture
was first reported in the U.S. when Nixon went to China in February
1972 to meet Chairman Mao. In 2006 there are almost 10,000 physicians
practicing acupuncture in the U.S., and the federal government
endorses research by offering grants.
Auto-Acupressure
We
suggest that you can gain the benefits of acupressure without
the help of a physician, using your own hands. Another method
is using simple tools to trigger the healing reflexes of our body,
when linked to our mental imagery strategies.
Grab
a tubular stick, the wooden part of a mop or broom, or a foot
massage ‘roller’sold in sporting goods and natural
health stores. Some of our graduates manipulate one-foot at a
time, others want to release the stress or initiate massage in
both feet simultaneously. Your choice.
The
areas to use a ‘roller’ for acupressure are: your
feet, hands, face, and ears. A pen or pencil produces excellent
results on the face and ears.
Reflexology
Millions
of people worldwide act on the belief that the foot, face and
ears contain links to the organs and glands of the body. They
believe that massage of one produces an efficacious effect on
the other. There is no scientific evidence that massage of ‘reflex
points’ on the foot produces an improvement of a particular
organ’s condition.
The
only good result of daily massage is improved circulation, and
flexibility of the manipulated muscles, tendons and ligaments.
Still, it is non-invasive and potentially useful.
Two-Minute
BIS™ Behavioral Intelligence Strategy
Step
#1 – find a foot roller or use a tubular-stick to place
under your naked feet.
Step
#2 – sit down, hands on top of your thighs, and drop your
shoulders in relaxation.
Step
#3 – eyes open, focus on your feet, and begin to do a log-roll
using the palms of your feet. Move from your toes to your heel,
and back. Continuous massage by rolling your feet back-and-forth
often produces warmth in your abdomen or other areas of your body.
You have one-minute and about 25 slow rolls to perform.
Step
#4 – Simultaneously inhale a diaphragmatic breath, hold
it for a count of five, and slowly exhale – while rolling
from toes to heels. This releases stresses and excites the activation
of ‘endorphins’ of deep relaxation.
Step
#5 – Now, close your eyes while simultaneously rolling your
feet from toes to heels, and mental visualize on the movie-screen
of your imagination in great detail exactly what you are physically
doing. The goal is both mentally-seeing the virtual reality, and
physically exercising. You have one-minute and about 25 slow rolls
to perform.
Step
#6 – Prior to opening your eyes and getting back to work,
mentally repeat and hear subvocally – “And it is so!”,
with great enthusiasm. This Target Affirmation doubles the strength
of your acupressure exercise.
Endwords
You
are responsible for your own experiment. The results improve if
you follow the law of 21, practicing this six-step exercise for
three-weeks until it becomes an ‘engram’, a memory-trace.
After that you may use this acupressure method to randomly improve
your immune system and perhaps relieve pain at specific times.
Speedlearners
are interested in strategies that produce stressbusting, and perhaps
increase the activity of our immune system. For many years we
have been offering this strategy to graduates. Many have embraced
it, and none have complained of any negative feedback.
We
have received scores of recommendations about the roller acupressure
system.
“It’s
not that some folks have willpower and others don’t.
It’s
that some people are ready for self-improvement, and others
are
scared of change.”
Evelyn
Wood
Can
you remember the last personal-growth skill you added to your
arsenal?
Would
it improve your career to read-and-remember three (3) books articles
and reports in the time your peers can finish just one?
See
ya,
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partner of Evelyn Wood, creator of Speed Reading, graduated 2
million, including the White House staff of four U.S. Presidents.
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