Everyday Bliss

Exercise #1: The “Brain Balancer

There are many vibrational healing points all over the body. Some of these pressure points or acupoints as they are called, have special locations that release the stress in number of different other points, all in one go. The Brain Balancer or what we call the “Gamut Point” on the back of the hand is one of those. It’s called the “Gamut” point because it’s a hotline to balancing stress in many different places on the body, notably the brain.

1) Find the Gamut point on your hand. It’s between the little finger and ring finger bones on the back of either hand. Begin tapping gently on this point with the index finger of your other hand. Since these points exist on both hands, it doesn’t matter which you use. Think of the stressful situation and keep tapping for 30 seconds.

2) Next, tap on top of the head at the Crown point. This is where all of the acupuncture energy channels, known as meridians, meet up and it’s right where a puppet might have a string attached to the top of its head, on the Crown. Tap here for 30 seconds.

3) Return to the Gamut Point and tap 30 seconds. Take a huge breath in and release all your stress and tension with it.  Repeat this sequence as much as you want. Feel the glow of pure, clean relaxation spreading over you…

Exercise #2: Cross Crawling

This exercise hooks up snarled and frazzled energies in your body, giving you a lot more energy to use in general, and “roto rootering” stuck energy out of the places it’s stuck in.

Cross Crawling comes from the vibrational medicine branch known as Kinesiology, pioneered by chiropracter Dr. John Goodheart. This specific exercise is from a system known as “BrainGym” and “Educational Kinesiology” and is used in schools with children throughout the United States.

It’s great for pre-test jitters, when you have  “brain fog” from working too long or too late and general calming and soothing.

1) Stand with feet shoulder width apart. Lift one knee and swing it in to cross the center of your body. At the same time, lift the opposite arm and touch the knee briefly.

2) Repeat with other knee and arm. Do ten of these to “uncross” the energy in your body and hook up your right side and left side so they work together for you.

When you speed this up it can become a kind of jumping jack. Think sprinters doing warm-ups on the track: knees high, arms crossing the midline to touch or point to the other side of your body near the opposite knee, brisk and determined. Feel the sides of your brain coming into alignment with each other. Focus on the delicious feeling of being Centered.

“But my arms/legs hurt or I’m unable to stand…”

Other variants of the Cross Crawl include sitting or lying down and crossing the legs at the ankles and crossing the arms at the wrists, clasping hands. When it feels right to do so, uncross arms and legs and re-cross in the opposite direction. Do at least four crossing/uncrossing/recrossing movements or if unable to move well, lie with legs and hands crossed for at least three minutes.

Exercise #3: The Triple Thump Plus²

Thumping on three traditional places on the chest, plus massaging an additional two I’ve discovered instantly changes the vibratory energy signature of stress (which is a frequency, like a radio station you can tune into) and flushes your lymphatic fluid which drains stress away from the body. Do the Triple Thump Plus² whenever you feel stressed during your day – it’s a great one to energize your wakeup period with too! Be sure to drink lots of water when you do these exercises, to help flush stress hormones out of the body.

1) Find the spots on the model above that say “Collarbone”. These are a little below and underneath your actual clavicle (collarbone) at the “L” where it attaches to your sternum, or breastbone. Put two fingers in this area on both sides of your body and gently thump ten times or massage these spots. They may be sore, and if so, need a good working out as this is where stress hormones byproducts can accumulate!

2) Next go to the “Thymus Point” which is on the center of the breastbone, about two to three inches down from the v-notch at your collarbone. Thump ten times or massage here, using a few fingers.

3) The next points are underneath the breast tissue, beneath the crease under the breast and on top of the rib just below that crease. Since these points are tiny, use the entire side of your hand to gently thump here ten times, or use the soft pads of your fingers to massage the area if it’s sore.

4) The above three points are denoted in Applied and Educational Kinesiology as the traditional set. I add a further two. Proceed on to the Underarm points and give them good thumps with a loosely closed fist. If you’re a woman with a large chest as I am, you may want to take these one at a time, reaching around or using the fist on the same side of the body, bent up under your arm rather like a chicken wing. If you’ve ever done the Funky Chicken, you know what I mean.  Tap these underarm points and massage them extra well, as lymph byproduct tends to back up here.  Keeping the lymph and energy flowing through this area helps your immunity.

5) Last, come up to both “Sore Spots”, which are the major neurolymphatic junction in the upper body. Massage these areas tenderly, with the loosely closed fists of both hands for 10 – 15 seconds. Don’t know where they are? Poke around on your upper chest until you go “Ow!”. That’s it.

Go easy – this area may be very, very sore if you are unused to lymphatic massage. Soreness means you’re working old toxins out of the tissues. Be sure to drink plenty of water to flush these away every day, and especially if you’re working on top of acupoints.

Of interest to women: Doctors often recommend lymphatic massage for women with breast disorders to keep fluids and toxins from building up. The Triple Thump Plus is a user-friendly form of self-massage on the lymph tissue that will help keep breasts healthy! And it is believed by some, myself included, that it may also help to prevent breast cancer. All that for just a few minutes a day – how much simpler could it be?

Exercise #4: Cook’s Hookup

This is great when you’re just plain frazzled, exhausted and thinking fuzzy. It will hook up the vibrational energy in your body so it is running smoothly again and infuse you with a sense of calm and relaxation.

1) Sit with one ankle crossed over the other ankle.

2) Cross one wrist over your other wrist.

3) With your two arms crossed in front, turn your hands over so palms face each other. Clasp your hands together like you’re shaking your own hand.

4) Bend your elbows so that your clasped hands turn under and in, towards your body, like a pretzel. Rest clasped hands against your heart.

5) Simply breathe gently in and out for approximately 2 minutes.

6) Then place feet flat on floor and uncross arms. Place your hands together, with only fingertips touching opposite fingertips, thumbs pointing towards your heart, hands in a “steepled” position. Breathe gently for approximately 30 seconds, and release.

Exercise #5: The “Energizer”

The busy Mom’s favorite, this comes from the wonderful folks at BrainGym, who teach kids (and parents) how to be their best. This is a great “pick me up” if all the preceding exercises have you so relaxed that you want to take a nap, but still have much of your day ahead yet. Beats caffeine, which itself may give you a short-term lift, but adds to the stress and toxic chemicals in your body contributing to an even larger “let down” later on. Do “The Energizer” instead!

1) Sit in a chair at a table. Put your forearms on the table and rest your forehead on top of your hands. Breathe out all the air in your lungs.

2) Breathe in again and feel the air come rushing up your midline from the tips of your toes to the top of your head. Your head will lift up as you breathe easily, gently and your neck will stretch out delightfully. Your lower body and your shoulders stay relaxed.

3) As you exhale, tuck your chin and roll your body back down to rest your forehead on your arms. Repeat until you want to stop.

Exercise #6: The “Belly Button Correction”

When you’re having difficulty getting the techniques to work for you, or you feel confused, frightened or upset, try this simple energetic correction before applying energy therapies of your choice (ETHOS Method, ZPoint, EFT, BSFF etc.) to the problem again.

If your energy is reversed or “switched” in its polarity (where we would say “your batteries are in backwards”) and this is a chronic problem (you’ll know when this happens because things you try tend not to work as well!), you should do the Belly Button Correction every day, several times a day, to retrain your body’s energy system.

Use this correction to manage your energy and keep a good hold on the positive!

1. Place your index finger longwise across your upper lip and your thumb longwise across the ball of your chin. Press in around the diameter of your belly button with all of the fingertips of one hand. Rub your upper lip and chin briskly with the sides of your index finger and thumb 10 seconds. Switch hands, rub with other hand.

2. Place your index fingertip and thumb on both collarbone points and rub vigorously 10 seconds keeping hand pressing in on belly button. Switch hands, rub with other hand.

3. Place your whole hand around behind you, just above your coxxyx, or tailbone, and rub vigorously 10 seconds keeping your other hand pressing in on belly button. Switch hands, rub your tailbone with the opposite hand while the hand that first rubbed the tailbone presses in around the belly button.

4. Take a big deep breath and release. Repeat as necessary, if your energy is badly reversed or in a tough mental/emotional situation, repeat at least 3 times a day.