Step 1 Place your left hand on your left shoulder. Hold the left outer wrist with your right hand. (L SEL 11 + L SEL 17) Steps 2, 3 and 4 Move your right hand from the left wrist to … Read More
I heard once that in the beginning, Jiro Murai used only the Mediator harmonizing flow. At the time, Jiro called it Izanagi and Izanami after the Shintoist Primordial Deities. And indeed, it is easy to see the parallel between the … Read More
Being at the base of the thumb, whenever I hold Safety Energy Lock 18, I invariably end up holding the entire thumb. I held it once for twenty minutes, and I felt a release of tension in the coccyx/hip area. … Read More
So many of us feel disempowered or silenced nowadays. It is easy to fall into the trap of thinking of ourselves as invisible at best and victims at worst. And yes, the temptation is to point the finger outward to … Read More
In her Self-Help Book 1, on page 36, Mary Burmeister offers us to hold our little and then ring fingers. It is a “long” sequence to keep our self-critical and judgmental thoughts from disharmonizing our energetic circulation. Specifically, this sequence … Read More
I am so excited to announce that I have just published a self-paced online Jin Shin Jyutsu Self-Help class available on Udemy. I’ve been toying with the idea for at least a year, but I finally did it! I spent … Read More
“One need not try to destroy one’s faults. Simply change focus,” says Mary Burmeister. [WMS, p. 15] When we fight something, it implies that it has power over us. And by struggling against it, or trying to destroy it, we … Read More
The quickie/self-help hold for opening Safety Energy Lock 13 is to hold first the index and the little finger of the left hand, and then repeating for the index and the little finger of the right hand. And as SEL … Read More
Everyone, please meet my dog Brodie. He is lying on the outer side of my knee. Yes, that is right – exactly where Safety Energy Lock 8 is located. Here is the story behind that…… Read More
Safety Energy Locks 1 and 10 are related to each other, but they are also related to sleep. How exactly they do that remains a mystery to me. … Read More