Energy Circulation Exercises | Qigong Energy System #1 – Acupressure Points

Hello Earth Citizens. My name is Chris. Welcome to Brain Education TV. In today's video, we're going to go over some Qigong basics. There's a fundamental system in our body, an energy system that all human beings have that allows us to utilize Qigong, the practice, the accumulation, and then the utilization of energy to help create more health, more happiness, and more peace in our life. So we're going to go through the next four videos are going to go through this system. Today we're going to focus on the acupressure points. So in our body we have 365 acupressure points. You might see them in acupuncture where they will stick needles in these areas to open these windows and open these gates. We don't use needles. We use vibration. We use tapping. We use a lot of focused light energy to help us to activate the system. So today we're going to get a little experience in stimulating that system. So first I'd like you to get started with our practice. We're going to bring our feet about shoulder width apart and just gently start to bounce a little bit. Breathe out through your mouth and start to recognize how your body feels. So our 365 acupressure points cover our entire body. They're on our soles, they're on our palms, they're on the crown of our head, across our face, all over our body. So when we do this gentle vibration, we bring a little bit of stimulation to all the acupressure points at the same time. And some places feel pretty clean and pretty happy and pretty light, and some places might feel a little heavy, a little sticky, a little stuck. Those are telling us where we need to put more focus. So we want to be able to feel energy, energy sensitization, brain sensitization is our first step in brain education. We need to feel to know what's going on. So we're going to use the vibration through the bouncing. The focus is our mind's eye. So anytime you're welcome to close your eyes and bring your focus into your body. The heaviness in your shoulders or the stiffness in your lower back or even some slight pain or discomfort. Focus. Recognize it. And then through the exhale, sigh. Release some of that heaviness and that tension. You might want to be more loud or more vigorous. So you can amplify the sound and make it louder to release quicker. You can vibrate stronger. You can tap harder or gentler depending on what your body's asking for. Our body becomes our best guide as we begin to sensitize. Good and then slowly stop. Now notice what you feel. Do you feel something moving? Tingling, vibration, flow, light, heavy, dark, thick. All just watching and observing and being aware of what's going on. Take a deep breath in and out. Good. So in this practice, we're gonna go through some of the areas where our meridians are and show you how the energy should be flowing directionally. So you can do this gentle dusting. This is a very general practice from vibration to a little bit more specific to really digging in with acupressure can be very specific. Depending on your condition, you can adjust what you need on a day. This practice is more of a check-in and kind of a daily routine to kind of see where the sticky spots are. So I'm gonna start with my right hand. I'm going to mirror for you. So this is my left hand, but I'm gonna mirror for you guys so you can just copy the way I'm going. So with your other hand, you're just gonna tap on your shoulder. Good, so you can feel some of it feels heavy or thick, some of it feels comfortable. That's okay. So we're gonna go down. The inside of the arm. This inside of the arm energy flows down towards the fingertips. There's six meridians in the arms and then flip over your hand and come up the back side. So energy flows up the back side. We're going to take a couple more laps so we're going to go down the front side and then up the back side. For me on a daily check-in I'll do about three laps to get a feel for what it feels like. Now feel that right arm compared to your left arm. Does it feel different? Good, so we're gonna stay with that right arm. This time your thumb is gonna point up. You're gonna tap on the front edge of your arm. Down, energy flows. And then you're gonna tap on the pinky side. And then you're gonna lift your arm and you're gonna come down towards your armpit. You can even tap in your armpit a little bit. There's a lot of lymph nodes, a lot of things in there that we can remove some tension. Then come back up. We're gonna do two more times, three laps. Thumb side, pinky side, lifting the arm. So the tapping intensity will be determined by your body condition and how much you need to tap, how hard, how frequently you need to go. Now relax. Now feel more change, less change, more comfortable, less comfortable. All is just watching what's going on. So let's come over to the other side. We're going to take our right hand now and start to tap down, palm facing up, down the inside. Palms can get a little extra love and then coming up the outside. So three laps. And the direction is important because this is the direction the energy wants to flow. If you reverse the direction, it can feel a little extra sticky sometimes. Good, feel that buzzing and tingling. Now thumb facing up, coming down the front edge. And you may find that some places are a little sticky into the armpit and you might want to just spend a little extra time there. So in my three laps, I'm trying to see do I feel good or do I need some help somewhere. On a day where I'm extra sticky or extra heavy, I may go six, seven, eight laps, or I might find one spot and spend a lot of time there to help open that place. Good. Now, feel the change in your arms. They should feel a little bit of flow. You might feel a lightness, energy flowing, stuff dripping out through your fingertips. So creating this circulation helps our energy system overall start to work better. It helps to keep your focus in. Now we're gonna do a little bit of tapping on our chest. So just open palms is good for here today. You might go fist, you might go fingertips and breathe out through your mouth. So when we get through the organs and the middle of the body, you can feel some heavy tension. So the sighing and the sound might naturally want to creep up. So a little chest area. Then come down to your rib cage. Good, come down to your abdomen. So as I mirror for you, right side, this is gonna be your liver side. And then your left side is your stomach side, where your spleen is as well. You might feel that there's some heaviness or some tension. If you go right in the middle, you got your solar plexus area. So where it feels uncomfortable, you wanna spend more time. Now come down to your lower abdomen, lower abdomen. So intestines. You might feel a little bit of that tension, that discomfort. Your focus is to breathe, releasing any tension. Closing your eyes helps you to bring the focus and watch a little bit better. Good. And now we're going to wrap around to our lower back. This is where our kidneys are. You can get as high as you can on your back or a little bit lower. So not only are we dealing with the acupressure points, we're also dealing with muscle tension, releasing some of the stagnant energy, stiffness and soreness that lives in our muscles. So from this lower back, we can go down the back of our legs. We're gonna do the same similar that we did with our arms. We're gonna do three laps. So you might wanna watch me the first time, good. So as you come down, you're gonna tap your buttocks. Good, and then you're gonna come down into the back of your thighs, back of your knees, calves. And you can bend your knees, no problem. Just get down as low as you can. Try to get your heels. And then the tops of your feet a little bit. And then coming up your shins. So as we talked about direction, energy moves up. The front side of your legs. Try the hip bones here right in the pocket. We're going to wrap around to the buttocks again and come back down. So this is lap number two. Some of you will go fast, but we want to go and kind of watch what's going on. Get the information we need and then to the backside and down. Lap number three. So there's meridians that run up the back of the legs and the front of the legs. Come into your hips again for a little extra. Sometimes the joints like a lot of tapping. It's good for the skeletal system, ligaments, tendons as well. Ah. Good, and now let's come to the outside of our hips. Outside of our hips. Good, now three laps on the legs. Also going down the outside, up the inside. Good, I'm gonna spread my feet just a little bit wider. Good, and then you can go down the outsides of your thighs. Big strong muscles, so you might want to tap a little harder. Listen to what your body's saying. The sides of your knees, if you have achy knees, you might enjoy the tapping here to release some of the tension. Outside of the shins, down the outside of the legs. To the outside ankle bones, ankle bones. This can be done seated as well. Good, inside ankle, ankle bone inside, inside, inside. Good, and then coming up the inside. Inside the calves, inside of the thighs. Back up to the hips, and then back to the outside. Two more laps. Down the outside. Breathing out. So getting the energy to flow. We have meridians that run down the outside, up and down the outside of the legs, and inside. And the meridians are made up of those acupressure points that we're focusing on today. Good, so coming to the outside. And then slowly stop. Now check in the circulation to the legs. Better, worse? Looking to figure out where the tension is, where the blockages are. This will help us to make every other exercise on our channel better when your energy system works better. So now we're going to take our fingertips and we're going to tap on our crown here a little bit. So a lot of the thinking energy, a lot of the fire energy that we get in our head from a busy day can start to get a little stressful and tension. So try to tap your forehead, your temples. Many, many, many, many, many acupressure points around the head and the skull. So as you're tapping, you're going to find some tension around eyebrows, temples, cheekbones. You can tap on the nose. There's really no area that you cannot tap. You just soft tissues, be more gentle. Hard tissues and bones you can tap a little stronger but the guidance comes from your body. It'll tell you that's too much or please hit me a little harder, love me a little bit stronger. And your throat, neck, jaw and now slowly stop. Just let your arms float down. Take a nice standing posture and just feel what's happening in your fingertips, in your toe tips, your feet, your hands. What's happening up and down your arms, up and down your legs, chest, lower back, Back. Hoo. everywhere you tapped, what are you feeling? Now let's bring our palms almost to face each other. We did a little Jigam exercise in many of our videos. We're doing this energy meditation, so try to feel that sense between your palms. You can close your eyes and as you inhale, let the energy expand. As you exhale, squeeze and compress, building this power of sensitizing energy. is the foundation for our healthy energy system. When you can feel energy well you can recognize blockages and take the desired actions through sound, light and vibration. When your energy system is functioning optimally it's so much easier to feel this energy. Good job. Now just inhale your hands down all the way up gathering energy and exhale down. Two more deep breaths, you can close your eyes. Exhale down. Keep watching the sensations in your body, what's happening inside, outside, and gently stand. Keep watching what's going on inside your body. Slowly open your eyes. Try to keep feeling what you're feeling as you open your eyes and be a little bit in and come out to join me. So this Gentle tapping is a very basic element of opening up our energy system. Acupressure points, you might find certain areas are uncomfortable, so you might spend more time tapping there. You might massage. Some of them are good for headaches and digestive issues. There are very specific points that you can use as a remedy for certain symptoms. But what we're doing here is a very general overview to recognize where you have blockages. to understand the system that we have at our disposal that every human being is designed with that we can help to improve our health our happiness and our peace. So I'd love to hear how your experience was if there are any tricky areas and how we can help you in future videos. So with that we'll finish our practice let's bring our feet together we'll bring our hands together and we'll say thank you. If you'd like to continue to expand your journey into brain education and Qigong, the foundation of growing our power, health, happiness, and peace, please join our online community. It's free. You can find the description in the link below. There we'll have some live classes where you put a lot of this together. We'll have opportunities for workshops and different ways that you can continue to grow and expand your energy. I look forward to seeing you in the community.