I arrived late and entered to John Keawe in mid-instrumental. I was struck immediately by the atmosphere of attentive respect and gentleness in the audience.

John Keawe’s slack key appeared effortless and free-flowing like a bubbling stream shot through with glancing sunlight. The ease belied the hidden mastery.

Between songs, John told humorous stories, generally joked around and displayed a humble, down to earth, yet very soulful character.

Keola Beamer displayed an equal mix of deceptive musical mastery and light good humor.

It was clear that both these gentleman have habitually been enormously dedicated in their music practice. And yet they display a gentle ease of being to complement that dedication.

Dedicated practice and lightness of being. Now there’s the formula for success in so much of life and most certainly for your qigong!

Developing and maintaining a good sense of humor will go a long way to ensure that your practice remains enjoyable and rewarding year after year.

Too much seriousness can lead to tightness, rigidity, narrowness and stagnation. Be dedicated to your practice but leaven your dedication with a sense of ease and playfulness. Your body, mind and soul with thank you. And your practice will be longer-lived and richer in its expression.

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And if you want to develop longterm energy, endurance, leg strength and coiling power, then this qigong method is for you.

I am referring to a particular Chen Style coiling silk technique that I have practiced for many years with exceptional results.

If I was only allowed to keep five qigong methods to practice for the rest of my life then, yes, this would be one of them:

One-Hand Coiling Silk

Feet together. Raise left hand and place on the left hip. Sink into left leg while raising right palm to chest height, palm facing up, raising right heel. Step out to the right with right leg, bringing right hand over to left side opposite left shoulder. Turn right foot to face front, while turning right palm down.

Shift weight to right leg, moving right hand across to the right, spiraling the hand out. Turn waist after the shift to the right. Bring right hand down to waist level. Turn right palm up, fingers facing forward. Shift weight to left leg, bringing palm across stomach. Turn waist to left after shift. Turn to left a few more degrees and raise right hand back to the initial position.

After a chosen number of repetitions, switch to the other hand: as the right hand moves to the right side and is about to lower, bring the left hand up from the left hip, until it is opposite the right shoulder, while placing the right hand on the right hip.

Closing: last time left hand crosses at stomach level, bring right hand up from waist, under the left wrist, turn both hands to face away, shift weight into left leg. Push both hands out to the side, bringing right foot in next to left.

Repeat whole sequence from other side.

You can make this method even more powerful and demanding by adopting a wider, lower stance and bringing the hand out all the way to the side of the body, instead of the diagonal positioning described above.

You can find instruction on this method in my Qigong Recharge DVD and companion manual.

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No doubt, when I'm eighty-five, my kidney/adrenal system is going to rear up and bite me back for all the abuse. And perhaps my liver will join in with some choice name-calling and blaming.

Meanwhile, I’ll go on living out my contradiction and go on gulping down these daily hits of espresso.

One of my favorite local coffee shops in Minnesota is Caribou.

Caribou has a great slogan: “Life is short. Stay awake for it.”

One day, while I was waiting in line for my daily fix, an overweight, overwrought and apparently rather whacked-out lady in front of me misread the slogan.

In a loud and slightly crazed and certainly bemused tone, she exclaimed:

“Life is short – stay away from it! Huh!”

No one kindly corrected her on her misreading of the slogan, and she was abandoned to shuffle off, pondering the deeper meaning of this warning from the Coffee Gods.

Once I had choked down my own chuckles and my latest double espresso, I was struck by how rich in meaning both statements are, from the perspective of my qigong training.

A lot of this has to do with the distinction between vertical and horizontal time…

In spiritual traditions, enlightenment or the “eternal life”, or immortality, is associated with a vertical time sense. Linear, or horizontal time, with its progression from past to future, dissolves into the eternal moment of the present, the now.

One interpretation of the Christian cross explains it as a representation of these two dimensions of time, the horizontal, associated with our normal consciousness and the vertical, associated with divine consciousness.

After thirty or so years of qigong practice, I can say that qigong has dramatically helped me to shift more into the experience of vertical time.

Longevity, from a qigong-spiritual perspective, is only very superficially associated with a longer lifespan. Qigong longevity has to do with going deep in the moment—the eternal moment—enriching the present.

Our preoccupied mind lives in horizontal time and fears vertical time.

Qigong practice helps to quiet the mind and bring us into the realm of deeply felt experience that is vertical time.

Yes, life is short—when we spend most of it either living in regret about the past or in worry about the future.

And yes, it’s best to stay away from that kind of “short life”…

And yes, the activity of awakening, the process of awareness, will lengthen that “short life” by deepening your engagement with life…

How richly are YOU engaged in your life?

I recommend qigong as a wonderful method to deepen and strengthen that engagement.

And thank you whacked-out lady, wherever you are… here’s hoping you are having a great day, or should I say, moment…

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At least, I didn't, until the last few years when more and more of Dragon Door’s certified kettlebell instructors started to include Qigong in their training.

At recent Unlock! trainings (the flexibility and mobility seminar I present with Pavel and Steve Maxwell), registrants have included active members from the US Marines Force Recon, the SEALs and undercover narcotics agents.

All of these men have commented to me how practically beneficial qigong has been for them, to help them withstand the stress of combat or undercover operations involving great personal risk.

Many of our RKCs have also been surprised at how demanding Qigong can be: at our April 2006 RKC a former Foreign Legionnaire and general hard man expressed his amazement at the effects of Qigong in even a relatively short session.

However, one of the most remarkable testimonies for Qigong’s effectiveness for those in highly stressful situations, came from my fellow Unlock! presenter, Steve Maxwell.

Here is an email I received from Steve a few weeks ago:

“Over the weekend of April 7th, 8th and 9th, my team, Maxercise, competed in the Brazilian JiuJitsu Pan-American Championships. This tournament is the largest and most prestigious BJJ competition in the USA.

“Coming from the East coast, the time change was of a concern, especially for those that had to fight in the evening. Because of the huge number of participants, the tournament began to run late. Although I had taken steps to adapt myself to the time change, I felt myself getting tired as I waited my turn to step onto the mat.

“I had showed up an hour before my scheduled fight time, did a complete joint mobility warmup and took my pre-fight energy drink. Three hours later, I was still waiting. A last minute change by the tournament staff placed my division near last. My energy began to wane and I felt my resolve begin to falter.

“Pre-match waiting is always a war of nerves. A lot of competitors lose before they even get on the mat, allowing the 'jitters' to get the best of them. Control of one’s fears and staying calm is of paramount importance in fight competitions.

“But even with all my physical preparations, I found my confidence beginning to wane and the nerve fatigue beginning to take it's toll. I then remembered some great Qigong energizers that I had learned from John Du Cane. John is a Qigong teacher who has studied the internal arts for many decades. At the Unlock! seminar, he taught some very simple, but very effective techniques for balancing energy and restoring calm.

“I did several of the tapping drills for energy and a special breathing exercise while walking to build inner calm. As I paced back and forth in the pre-fight waiting area, I did the Qigong breathing exercise that John had taught me. I felt my energy lift and my confidence returned.

“When I stepped out onto the mat, I was ready for business. Between matches, I repeated the Qigong exercises to aid my recovery. I fought better in the finals than the previous match, I submitted my opponent with a rear naked strangle to take the title.

“Qigong is the real deal. It can help in many domains, even a tough competitive sport like Brazilian Jiujitsu. Thanks John”

Steve Maxwell
Black belt Senior World Champion
Pan American Champion
US National Champion

Thank you Steve and a wonderfully inspiring testament to Qigong! I am sure I don’t have to tell you how rugged and demanding Steve’s fights must have been…

Our next Unlock! seminar is scheduled for this October, 2006. I hope to see you there!

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Makes sense to me. Here is the research which I found so disconcerting:

Kids up to the age of five years old were found to exhibit an average of 25 unique facial expressions per day.

And how many unique facial expressions did a study-group of 35-year-plus businesspeople exhibit?

From three to four per day!

Kids up to the age of four were found to laugh an average of 250 times per day.

And the businesspeople?

An average of four times per day!

Very sad…

I am sure that the researchers would have also found that there was a vast difference in the variety of movements performed on average by the two groups.

One of the reasons I love qigong, is that it contains many, many practices to help us open up our range of physical response to the world.

The more rigid you become physically, the more likely that is going to make you rigid in other aspects of your being.

Rigidity contributes to premature aging and diminishes your capacity to survive effectively in the world.

Practice qigong-like disciplines to reverse that trend into rigidity.

And perhaps you’ll notice that your life also takes a creative upturn…

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It's designed to start bringing the energy down into the abdominal in particular. In Qigong practice we recognize that there is a “central intelligence” in the abdominal area. We have three brains, three intelligences: one in the head, one in the abdomen, and one in the heart region. But, generally, the abdominal center is where you really want to have the attention and energy.

So, when you are doing this practice, it’s important to have very good posture. You want the weight very evenly distributed on the feet. The knees are unlocked, a little bit bent. The sacrum is tucked under, shoulders are relaxed, and the hands initially just hang.

You are going to be pushing the arms back and letting the arms float forward. Breathe gently through the nose. Your gaze is a 180 degrees soft focus, level.

This is something that you can do hundreds of times, even a thousand. I have done up to one thousand in the past.

The movement will calm you down, is also gently energizing, and it starts to bring everything down into the abdomen.

An added benefit of this technique, in Western terms, is that the arm movement, along with the concentration on the abdominal breathing, begins to activate the lymph system. When the lymph system is properly activated, you have a detoxification effect. The lymph system is responsible for removing trash from the body essentially.

When the lymph system is activated, you also get a relaxation response. So, after a while of doing this technique, you’ll start feeling very calm and relaxed and centered in the abdominal area. Do it at least 100 of these if you can.

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I recently read a good explanation of this in Ed Baran's excellent newsletter (go to www.combatconditioning.com to sign up for his free tips.)

Here is a paraphrase of what Ed pointed out:

“Cortisol is one of the body's stress hormones. When we get stressed, cortisol levels increase. Prolonged overproduction of cortisol brought on by excessive stress can cause many problems: some brain dysfunction, aging of the skin, impaired immunity, recovery and healing, excess fluid retention, depression, and poor sleep. All of these things accelerate the aging process.

Cortisol also increases your appetite, prompting you to eat large quantities of food, usually sweets and simple carbohydrates. And we all know these make you fat. These foods also make insulin levels rise then fall which gives you that hungry feeling like you haven't even eaten.

So here's the loop: stress increases cortisol; cortisol increases appetite
(of usually bad foods like simple carbs); insatiable eating of bad foods makes you fat.

And here's the real kicker: Not only does cortisol make you fat (indirectly), the fat that you gain is usually abdominal fat. So it isn't bad enough to get fat all over, now it's been concentrated in your gut.”

Well put Ed!

The solution is obvious: control your stress levels to lower your production of excess cortisol.

I have discussed in many of these blogs and in other articles just how well qigong does in helping manage our stress response.

Our culture encourages us to be addicted to stress. Break that stress-addiction by taking up a daily program of qigong. I recommend doing two sessions a day. One session in the morning and one session in the early evening.

After a month or two, life should start feeling a whole lot more pleasant. And who knows, some flab might also start disappearing!

Speaking for myself: I am now 56 years old but have a body fat of around five percent. My diet and other exercise certainly are factors but I have always credited my qigong as another secret for my slim look.

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But can qigong also help us recover faster from the trauma we experience in a car accident, as a rape victim, from surgery or from any event experienced as an immediate threat to our life?

Right now I am reading a fascinating book by Peter A. Levine,
Waking the Tiger, which discusses how to heal from trauma. After my rolfer, Jennifer Enslinger and a somatic therapist, Dakota McKenzie both recommended Levine to me within the space of a week, in quite separate contexts, I thought I’d better check him out.

I’m very glad I did.

From his studies in ethology, Levine identified the “immobility response” as a method animals use to handle a threat to their existence they perceive as insurmountable.

When an impala decides the pursuing cheetah is going to pounce, it switches from a seventy-mile an hour sprint and drops to the ground in a sudden dead-faint. This immobility response prevents it from feeling the pain of being ripped apart by the cheetah – or allows it a chance to feign death for a while in the hopes it can revive itself and escape before the cheetah decides to start devouring it.

The impala’s nervous system however is still operating at seventy-miles per hour. The conflict between its external stillness and raging interior creates a tornado-like force that remains trapped in the body. If the impala survives to escape, it has the instinctive ability to shake this force out of its system and remain relatively unaffected by the experience.

Levine explains that the human animal, confused about whether it is a prey or a predator often fails to shake off the effects of an immobility response -- and the trauma remains lodged in the nervous system, with often highly destructive results.

Levine’s breakthrough in working with trauma victims was to identify the bioenergetic component vital to healing this stuck trauma.

The original immobility experience needs to be revisited as a sensed experience and “shaken out of.”

As the world’s first self-domesticated animals, we humans need help to pull ourselves out of our trauma.

Levine cites the history of shamanic healing, often involving extensive vibration and shaking, to heal an individual’s stuck pain.

I love it.

Clearly, many qigong practices will facilitate this liberation of trauma through the use of deliberately-induced vibration and shaking.

I teach methods to my students to create oscillatory currents in their bodies which can be used either to heal or strengthen. Other methods involve the creation of energy-vortices within the system.

And of course there are wonderful “shaking qigong” and other free-form practices you can use to induce spontaneous healing.

If you have any interest in the subject I strongly recommend not only Peter Levine’s book, but also our own author Zhongxian Wu’s Natural Breath of the Dao, Chinese Shamanic Tiger Qigong, which will give you a wonderful practice and a deeper understanding of the healing potential in this style of qigong.

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I have just finished hosting and part-teaching a three-day workshop (Unlock!) with Pavel and Steve Maxwell. There was one gentleman who showed up at the workshop who can be an inspiration for us all.

Justin is totally blind. Despite this disadvantage, Justin flew alone from Ohio to Minnesota to participate fully in a workshop devoted often to complex physical movements.

Justin did not miss a beat, hung in there for everything and with the friendly help of some other participants was able to absorb a remarkable amount of the content.

Justin could easily have used his total blindness as an excuse not to attend a movement workshop that was frequently challenging for the most experienced and skillful of practitioners.

Next time you whine to yourself about why you can’t make the time to practice or learn qigong, may I recommend you say one word to yourself:

“Justin”

And then make your practice happen!

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However, I’m not writing this to bewail my guilty shortcomings.

But rather because a life-lesson smacked me in the face so hard while I was there, I feel compelled to share it with you:

The usually genial Chinese waiter, who so happily indulges me in my self-poisoning escapades, was this time doubled over in pain.

It was all he could do, between squeezed eyes running with tears, clenched jaw and a face of abject misery, to dump a plate of dubious food at my table before scuttling off to a corner and hunching over in his own world of private pain.

After inhaling my fried rice, I went to pay the damage.

“Are you going to the dentist for that?” I asked my miserable friend as he did his best to process my payment.

It wasn’t really a question, more a way of affirming what he was surely about to do.

His answer astounded me:

“I don’t have time,” he blurted out between grimaces…

And there, I thought, sitting in my car a few moment’s later reflecting on this amazing statement, is our human predicament in a nutshell.

We suffer like hell, a lot of the time we know why we are suffering and we know the remedy but…

“We don’t have time” to fix it.

I hate to think how many times I have gone through a good portion of my day without doing my qigong, while feeling more or less out-of-sorts. And then finally, I can’t stand it anymore or I simply make the time and get some practice in.

The result? Invariably, a flood of well being, followed by hitting myself on the side of the head for being so slow “to take the time” to do what I need to do to alleviate my condition.

Sound familiar to you?

Many years ago I went through the EST process, a benignly cultic, rather earnest bunch who were probably best described as the “Amway of consciousness”. Or perhaps the “Hallmark of self-development”. They specialize in a kind of group spiritual butt-kicking that as obnoxious as it can be, can serve to knock a few cobwebs out of your attic.

One of their favorite homilies (of which they have many) I did love:

“You don’t have the time? Yes, you do, you have all the time there is.”

Words to live by, for sure, and certainly words to live by when it comes to maintaining a regular qigong practice.

Once you have realized the value of qigong practice, be it for greater strength, flexibility, emotional stability, spiritual well being, whatever, then it’s up to you to consistently make the time for that practice.

Qigong is experiential and time dependent. The benefits are not going to happen by sitting around on your duff and vaguely thinking about it or showing up to the occasional session.

Practice qigong on a regular, daily basis and you are less likely to end up with some metaphoric version of the Chinese waiter’s dental pain. Or, if you do find yourself suffering otherwise unavoidable pain (car crash anyone?) you’ll have a toolkit to help you quickly mitigate and resolve that pain.

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"Regardless, there are some concrete steps people can take to maximize their own life span.

“Thomas Perls, director of the New England Centenarian Study, examines people age 100 and above in order to help everyone else learn how to age well.

“He says the key to a long and healthy life is rather simple: Don't smoke, gets lots of exercise and sleep, and eat a balanced diet.

“Centenarians are a diverse group, according to Perls. Some are teetotalers. Others manage to reach extreme old age despite heavy drinking and smoking, deadly behaviors for most people.

“One feature common to most centenarians is that stress doesn't bother them.

‘They seem to be able to shed stress. It doesn't get to them and cause them to age more quickly. They don't internalize stuff,’ Perls said.”

As I love to point out, our relationship to stress is rather like a fish’s relationship to the ocean: we are swimming in it to such an extent we take it fore granted.

Unfortunately, while the ocean waters are of course life-giving to the fish, the longterm impact of chronic stress on our systems is disastrous.

Stress is an insidious, stealthy enemy that creeps up on us day after day, quietly stealing us blind of our life-giving energy.

By the time stress seizes us by the throat and whispers “Gotcha!” in our ear, it’s often too late to recover.

Many centenarians appear to have maintained an innate ability to counteract and shed most stress from their life.

Regular practice of qigong can help you develop this same life-saving and life-prolonging capacity.

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Qigong for internal martial arts will often encourage us to maintain a 180-degree soft focus gaze, so we remain aware and present of our entire surroundings, ready to respond to a sudden challenge from any direction.

A way to ensure we keep this gaze in place is to consciously align your nose with your navel. When the navel moves, the nose comes with it. Turn your head and the waist will turn with it.

This nose-navel alignment can have a profound impact on the energetic power of your whole-body movement. Give it a try, if you are not already.

Of course, there are plenty of times when we need to be able to swivel our heads any which way and I recommend you also practice neck rotations (of the kind found on my Qigong Recharge program) to counterbalance the internal martial art habit of keeping the head aligned with the waist.

In fact I remember way back my friend Ken Cohen commenting to me about how very tight he found many tai chi practitioners necks to be, as a result of this alignment training. A daily practice of twenty to fifty of each of the neck rotations could be a good way to have your cake and eat it too, in this department.

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The traditional Microcosmic Orbit method is one of the most revered, foundational practices for energy generation and restoration. Longterm practice is also considered by many to be essential for advanced spiritual development.

For those of you who may not be familiar with the practice:

Begin with your attention at the lower dan tien and during the inhale run your attention down to the perineum, up the back and down to the top of the mouth, enlivening the Governing Vessel. On the exhale run your attention down to the lower dan tien, continuing to follow the center line of your body and helping to enliven the Conception Vessel. Continue for anywhere between five to thirty minutes.

There are many subtleties that be practiced with this method, but that’s the basics in a nutshell.

However, if you want to quiet, calm yourself down, try practicing the Reverse Microcosmic Orbit. In this case, as the name implies, you send your attention, on the inhale, up the Conception Vessel and on the exhale, down the Governing Vessel.

This calming practice will help lower high blood pressure, balance the heart energy and is also considered very beneficial for conditions like asthma.

I guarantee that at the very least you will feel wonderfully tranquil within minutes of practicing this method.

Stressed out? Overly hyper? Give the Reverse Microcosmic Orbit a quick whirl.

My thanks to Dr Bingkun Hu for this information.

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I exploded back in an obtuse way that as good as that might sound, you will still be in prison, damn it, or words to that effect. The monk smiled at me benignly and replied with great grace: “It is good to question your teachers.”

Now, after thirty years of qigong, I have really learned to appreciate that I have something internal that no one can take from me. I have ways to relax into tranquility and well being, whatever has been “taken away” from me in my external environment.

Don’t get me wrong, I believe in fighting every day for the preservation and advancement of freedom. In fact I was forcefully reminded of this just yesterday, reading an article on the history of marriage in a local mag called The Rake.

The author, Jeannine Ouellette, references the 1958 arrest and subsequent conviction with a one year suspended sentence of a couple in Virginia. Their crime? Marrying each other. Why was this a crime? One was “black”, the other was “white”. The author points out that over forty states in the US at that time had laws against miscegenation. To quote one US congressmen: “Intermarriage between whites and blacks is repulsive and averse to every sentiment of pure American spirit… It is subversive to social peace.”

It got me to thinking…. Amongst other things it made me wonder, from a Yin-Yang interplay perspective, how “black” you have to be to be considered “black”…if one out of four, one out of eight, one out of sixteen of your grandparents was “black”, did that make you “black” and therefore vulnerable to a five year prison sentence if you married a “white”?

The dysfunctional convolutions of the historical human mind are truly a wonder to behold…

So even in a country that prides itself on its democratic traditions, freedom has often been a relative term. Freedom for whom, to do what?

I like to think that the cultivation of our inner freedom, through practices like qigong, has an impact on our willingness to fight with that much more vigor for the external freedoms of others.

The individual who is “chained” internally is the individual most likely to seek the enchainment of others externally.

Practice qigong to liberate yourself physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. And hopefully you will inspire the same in others.

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Besides investigating and emphasizing some wonderful qigong techniques, whether very subtle or straightforwardly physical, to release recalcitrant tightness, scarring and general stagnation, I also recruited a bevy of bodywork modalities to grind away at hot spots.

I have found the following modalities to be helpful in different degrees: cranio-sacral, versions of deep tissue, ART (excruciating!), acupuncture and Thai massage.

I have seen a marked improvement in my mobility but there is still a way to go.

Recently, I discovered a highly competent Shiatsu practitioner, Sheila Gunderson (those of you in the Twin Cities can contact her at 612-801-3538) who used the ancient Chinese technique of cupping on me.

Interestingly, the cupping appeared to have had more success in releasing these tough areas than anything else I have had done to me.

I strongly recommend you try Cupping, particularly for shoulder and upper back problems.

I Googled cupping on the web and would like to share a few of my findings here with you:

Cupping is an ancient Chinese method of causing local congestion. A partial vacuum is created in cups placed on the skin either by means of heat or suction. This draws up the underlying tissues. When the cup is left in place on the skin for a few minutes, blood stasis is formed and localized healing takes place.

Cupping therapy has been further developed as a means to open the 'Meridians' of the body. Meridians are the conduits in the body through which energy flows to every part of the body and through every organ and tissue. There are five meridians on the back that, when opened, allow invigorating energy to travel the whole length of the body. It has been found that cupping is probably the best way of opening those meridians.

Cupping has also been found to affect the body up to four inches into the tissues, causing tissues to release toxins, activate the lymphatic system, clear colon blockages, help activate and clear the veins, arteries and capillaries, activate the skin, clear stretch marks and improve varicose veins. Cupping may be the best deep tissue massage available.

Says one bodyworker on her site:

“I have used Cupping for many years as a Massage Therapist doing fascia release techniques to assist healing of scars, restricted range of motion on the rib cage to improve breathing, and removing old haematomas from old injuries.”

And here are a few references to check out:

1. Cui Jin and Zhang Guangqi, A survey of thirty years’ clinical application of cupping, Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine 1989; 9(3): 151–154.
2. Wu Jiashu, Observation of analgesic effect of acupuncturing dazhui point, Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine 1989; 9(4): 240–242.
3. Ju Huadong, 30 cases of frozen shoulder treated by needling and cupping, International Journal of Clinical Acupuncture 1998; 9(3): 327–328.

However skillful you are at “treating” your own body, it can be a great help to call in outside reinforcements, as it were, to speed the process along.

My advice when choosing a bodyworker, whatever the modality: insist on the best. I have had shiatsus and other bodywork sessions that have been unimpressive to say the least, with negligible benefits.

Sheila Gunderson, for instance, is the Clinical Supervisor for shiatsu-related bodywork at a local school here. And she turned out to be as good as anyone I have received Chinese bodywork from. You may have to pound the sidewalks to find a good provider, but the effort can pay off dramatically!

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