What is the biggest hurdle a practitioner of any of the 'touch' therapies has to jump? How something so simple, so painless, so...... nothing.... can work. But it does. Even if a person doesn't feel that 'frisson' running down a leg or tingling in the toes or fingers, it is still working.
Meridian Channels |
But getting back on track: how can something - that feels like nothing - work?!
Acupressure is one of the foundations of Traditional Chinese Medicine, an over 5000 year old healing tradition. It works by increasing circulation to areas of the body that have become congested, or stagnated, and the circulation compromised.
This can happen many different ways - injury or by the slow deterioration of circulation because of improper nutrition, lack of exercise or stress. All have been documented as causes in chronic ailments. Acupressure, acupuncture and many other bodywork therapies have been documented to be very beneficial for chronic health issues as well as acute ones. Simplistically, it works by connected the dots (acupoint) along the meridian lines.