20 Friday Dec 2019
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Tap your chest!
There’s an acupressure point in the middle of the breastbone – at about where your third rib would be. Gently tap that point for a minute every couple of hours. Eastern medicine experts say it’ll trigger the thymus gland to produce more T-cells, which are the cells that help our immune system find and attack viruses.
01 Friday Feb 2019
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Acupressure, Connie Sellecca, conniesellecca, constipation, gas, headache, intelligence for your life, intelligenceforyourlife, motion sickness, nausea, nauseous, pain
If you want to try acupressure on yourself, here are tips from Janet Shaffer, from Duke Integrative Medicine:
For example: To kill nausea, press the inside of your forearm 3-finger widths up from your wrist. That’s the same spot targeted by motion sickness bracelets.
For a headache, pinch the webbed skin between your thumb and index finger.
And for gas or constipation, rub your abdomen in clockwise circles, 150 to 300 times.
13 Tuesday Feb 2018
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Try this acupressure technique to help you wind down at the end of the day:
Massage your eyebrows!
According to University of Miami researchers, rubbing your eyebrows for 2 minutes once you’re tucked into bed helps stimulate the brain to release calming theta waves. And that can help you drift off 54% faster!
06 Monday Nov 2017
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aches, achy, Acupressure, Connie Sellecca, conniesellecca, endorphins, fall, feel-good endorphins, intelligence for your life, intelligenceforyourlife, massage, massage your ears, reduce pain, rub, winter
If you feel achy when the days get shorter, and the temperatures start to drop, you’ve got a lot of company. The reason? Because our body’s production of mood-boosting and painkilling endorphins drops as we head from Fall into Winter – when our pituitary kind of goes into hibernation.
But studies show acupressure can boost endorphin production. The trick: Firmly massage the outside edge of your ears from the tops, to the lobes, for one minute… And it’ll soothe your aches and pains for at least an hour.
20 Friday Oct 2017
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Acupressure, boost your immune system, Connie Sellecca, conniesellecca, de-stress, foot massage, foot rub, immunity, intelligence for your life, intelligenceforyourlife, massage your feet, relax, relaxing, rub your feet
Get a foot rub! University of Miami researchers found a 10-minute foot massage stimulates acupressure points… Which energize the white blood cells that destroy invading viruses on contact. Don’t have someone around to massage your feet? Put a couple cans of food or tennis balls on the floor, and gently roll each foot back and forth.
08 Monday May 2017
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Acupressure, back pain, bye, bye-bye, chronic, chronic back pain, Connie Sellecca, conniesellecca, inflamed, intelligence for your life, intelligenceforyourlife, massage, National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, neural pathways, Oriental medicine, University of Pittsburgh
If you have chronic back pain, ear acupressure can provide relief! So no needles – just ear massage. According to the University of Pittsburgh, patients who got ear acupressure once a week for a month cut their pain almost in half! Because points on the outer ear trigger neural pathways to release fewer inflammatory chemicals. So find a practitioner who can show you how to massage your own ear for pain relief. Go to NCCAOM.org – which stands for the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.
03 Monday Apr 2017
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3rd eye, Acupressure, allergies, American Massage Therapy Association, Connie Sellecca, conniesellecca, Cynthia Ribeiro, headaches, intelligence for your life, intelligenceforyourlife, itchy eyes, nose, pressure point, pressure points, runny nose, seasonal, seasonal allergies, sinus, sinus cavity, sinus headaches, sinuses, sneeze, sneezing, third eye
Try this acupressure trick: Arrange your three middle fingers in a triangle, and apply pressure just above the bridge of your nose, also known as your “third eye.” Do that for 30 seconds and repeat as needed. Cynthia Ribeiro, president of the American Massage Therapy Association, says that pressure point breaks up tension in the sinus cavity and relieves sinus headaches.
07 Wednesday Dec 2016
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Acupressure, asleep, calm, Chinese medicine, Connie Sellecca, conniesellecca, earlobes, fall asleep, intelligence for your life, intelligenceforyourlife, massage, sleep, sleeping, stress
If you find it hard to fall asleep, try this: Gently massage both earlobes using your thumbs and index fingers for 30 seconds, or until they feel warm. Traditional Chinese medicine says the earlobes are acupressure points that relieve stress and calm the body – which could help you sleep.
06 Friday May 2016
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Acupressure, can't sleep, Connie Sellecca, conniesellecca, fall asleep, insomnia, intelligence for your life, intelligenceforyourlife, motion sickness, nausea, relax, relaxation, restless, wake up, wrist, wristband
Wear an over-the-counter acupressure wristband! The kind that helps motion sickness. A study found that insomniacs who wore an acupressure wristband fell asleep faster, slept more deeply, and woke up fewer times during the night. That’s because the same acupressure spot on the inner wrist that prevents motion sickness and nausea, also induces deep relaxation at night.
11 Thursday Feb 2016
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Acupressure, balance, barefoot, Connie Sellecca, conniesellecca, intelligence for your life, intelligenceforyourlife, no shoes, pressure points, reduce stress, soles, stress, stress-reliever, walk barefoot
If you need some stress relief – kick off your shoes and socks, and go barefoot. Walking barefoot not only helps us improve our balance – it stimulates pressure points on the soles of our feet that reduce stress. To get the maximum effect walk barefoot for 20 minutes.
