Benita Perera   BBSc. B.Psych AKA

Intuitive Counselor       Kinesiology Healer       Psychic Reader       Dream Interpreter

 

Reducing Stress: A Natural Method That Can Change Your Life

Coping with stress is no easy task. You may be good at it sometimes, then other times you can totally lose it. This is because stress management doesn’t come naturally to most people. Doctors see the proof of this, telling us that stress can cause illness. I’m sure you have physically suffered as a result of general stress or something specifically stressful in your life. But if we accept that it is a part of life, then how to manage stress is one of the keys to making life easier. And it’s good to know that there are ways to reduce stress naturally.

Having a Kinesiology treatment is natural and one of the best ways to relieve stress. Kinesiology works to balance the energy in our body, mind and emotions through naturally stimulating energy centres in the body.

There’s a great Kinesiology exercise that acts as a stress relief activity that I use often with my clients which I’d like to share with you to do on yourself. It’s done by making a wave like motion with your hand, from the bottom of your torso to the top of your torso and is called ‘exercising your central meridian’. The effects of this natural stress relief exercise are marvellous to bring your thoughts into order and to centre yourself. If you can achieve a more ordered, centred state, you won’t become stressed as often. Let’s look into this further.

Exercising Your Central Meridian

What is a meridian?
A meridian are lines of energy that run through your body. Just like wires run through a house to provide electricity, there are ‘electrical’ lines of energy that run through your body and they’re called meridians.

What is the central meridian?
There are meridians that relate to each organ in your body, including your brain. In Kinesiology, rather than calling it the brain meridian, it’s called the ‘central’ meridian and is central to all activity.

Where is the central meridian?
The central meridian is a straight line travelling through the middle of your torso, starting approximately from your pubic bone and ends just below your bottom lip.

How do you exercise the central meridian?
With all your fingers together roughly pointing toward the centre of your torso, palm facing upward, move your hand upward from your pubic bone to under your bottom lip. Try to keep this motion about 2cm away from your body.

 

When you get to the top, turn your palm down and follow the invisible line down to where you started. Keep going up and down like this.

 

To finish, do a couple of motions just upward and when you get to the top, continue the motion out to the side of your face.

 

When you’re stressed, you can get quite scrambled in your head. Organising your thoughts and thinking sequentially rather than in a scattered way, can feel impossible.

 

When the central meridian is balanced, ordering your thoughts and keeping them still for longer is far easier. Stimulating the central meridian acts like a librarian collecting scattered books from all over the floor and putting them back on the shelves where they should be. Imagine how good it would feel to order yourself like this : )

How to prepare yourself for this exercise
. Set up a safe and quiet place where you won’t be interrupted. Put aside about 5 minutes at least three times a day. The more often you can do this exercise in a day, the better. You could link doing this three times a day with meals you may eat.

This exercise is good to do while you’re active during the day as this is when you need to be centred the most. Having somebody else do this exercise for you can help you to focus on its effects rather than on the process as well. Doing it on yourself will work fine.

Method

You can stand or sit, depending on how you feel right now.

Begin exercising your central meridian. Move your hand in a slow, gentle movement so that it takes about one second to travel in each direction.

You don’t have to mentally focus on anything. Just keep going with the motions and breathe.

Do this for a whole minute, breathing slowly and deeply.

You can coordinate your breathing with your hand movements. For example: inhale as your hand moves up then down, exhale as your hand moves up and down again, and so on.

Finish each (approximate) minute with two upward movements like described above.

Take a few seconds break. Notice feeling like you’re slowing down.

Start again for another full minute. It’s important to keep breathing slowly and deeply.

Continue until you’ve exercised your central meridian for about three minutes. You may want to do an extra couple minutes depending on your concentration and the stress level you feel at the moment.

To finish off this method, allow yourself to slowly become aware of your surroundings; wriggle your arms and legs and gently make your way back to whatever you were doing. (End of method)

Do your best to continue to breathe slowly and deeply during the rest of the day. Controlled breathing is also a natural stress relief technique.

Depending on your personality type and how sensitive you consider yourself to be, you may notice the mental organising effects of this exercise straight away. If not straight away, you will notice feeling more focused and together within half an hour.

This uncomplicated yet valuable stress relief activity can be used any time you feel stressed or think you may be at some point in the very near future. Bringing this exercise into your day, regularly, will act to quickly de- stress you and naturally prepare you with a collected mind, for other possible stressful situations. You may enjoy its effects so much, that you don’t wait til you’re stressed to do it. Add to your natural stress relief activities by taking gentle walks in the park or by the beach and remember to engage in your favourite ‘play’ activities.