Do you ever feel that something is slightly off in your mind or body?
When your internal energy is out of balance, things just don’t quite feel right.
Sometimes, an imbalance this might mean you feel uneasy or nervous. At other times, it might mean you’re carrying physical tension or tightness in your body. There are numerous symptoms that can stem from energy imbalances, but most of these can be addressed through a little-known practice called acupressure.
In this blog, you’ll discover how acupressure can help you naturally cultivate internal balance and experience more energy in your daily life. But first, let’s start with a foundational question…
Acupressure is an ancient practice in which you apply physical pressure to specific acupressure points on your body to activate your internal energy and remove blockages. The practice is one of the five branches of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and is based on the same set of principles as Qi Gong.
To gain a clear understanding of acupressure, you must fist understand how energy (Qi) moves throughout your body. In Chinese Medicine, your body is constantly circulating your life-force energy through specific energy pathways.
These energy pathways are called meridians and work in a similar way to your blood vessels and arteries. In Chinese Medicine, meridians are also compared to the streams and rivers that channel water throughout nature. Just as your arteries bring blood to your different body parts and rivers channel life-giving H2O throughout nature, your meridians direct energy throughout your entire body in a similar way.
When your energy is flowing smoothly throughout your meridians, you experience health, vitality, and overall wellbeing. However, sometimes there are blockages that cause energy to become stuck or stagnant, which leads to imbalances and other health ailments.
Acupressure helps restore the healthy flow of energy by activating your energy and removing these blockages.
One of the core benefits of acupressure is that it helps you experience internal balance within your energy system. Numerous aspects of your health depend on this internal balance, which makes acupressure a powerful practice for cultivating health and vitality.
Each part of your body holds a slightly different quality of energy. For example, the Qi in your heart has its own unique manifestation compared to the energy in your lower abdomen or your liver. If you’ve ever explored the Five Elements, Three Treasures, or other forms of Qi Gong you know that the energies from each part of your body hold important gifts that benefit the whole.
When energy is flowing freely throughout your body, the energies from different parts of your body can blend and circulate. This allows you to feel fully integrated and balanced. However, when Qi is blocked, your energy system can become disconnected and fragmented, leading to harmful imbalances.
Acupressure restores balance by helping your energy move freely throughout your body. This allows all parts of your body to work together in harmony and flow.
As mentioned, cultivating internal balance is important for all aspects of your health. It can help reduce physical pain, clear emotional tension, improve your sleep, and more. It can also unlock an abundance of vitality that may have been blocked or stuck within you.
When you do acupressure, it can activate energy within your body that may have been stagnant. This can help you greatly improve your overall energy levels and give you a sense of renewed vitality.
In modern life, it’s not uncommon for your energy to become a bit dormant. Sitting for long periods, watching TV or spending time on social media, or feeling understimulated can all cause your internal energy to become stuck.
When your energy becomes stagnant, it becomes harder to do the things you love. In turn, this leads to further energy stagnation, which creates a self-perpetuating cycle. You’re not fully engaged in life because you feel low energy, and you feel low energy because you’re not doing the activities that truly make you feel activated and alive.
Similar to Qi Gong, acupressure practices focus on awakening your energy by activating your Qi at key points within your body. By applying the right amount of pressure at specific points, you can unlock your internal energy so it can flow freely. In doing so, you feel energized, uplifted, and ready to embrace all of the opportunities that life has to offer.
If you already have a regular Qi Gong practice, acupressure can complement that practice by empowering you with new techniques to work with your internal energy in skillful. And just like Qi Gong, acupressure can be used to cultivate balance, improve your energy levels, and experience greater vitality and wellness in all aspects of your life.
If you’re interested in putting theory into practice and discovering how to experience these benefits of acupressure, be sure to check out our free acupressure training.
When you sign up for the free acupressure training, you’ll learn powerful practices that can help cultivate internal balance, experience more energy, and address various common ailments in natural and safe way.
This training is taught by master Qi Gong teacher, Lee Holden and combines a lecture-style presentation with applied practices so you gain a holistic understanding of the ancient practice.
As one of the five branches of Chinese Medicine, acupressure goes hand-in-hand with Qi Gong. Learning acupressure allows to add an important new skill to your “Qi toolkit,” helping you become further empowered on your wellness journey.
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