Brilliant, Unconscious Use of The Safety Energy Locks of
Jin Shin Jyutsu

We all engage in the ancient Japanese healing art of Jin Shin Jyutsu, most probably without even realizing it. Placing fingers to the forehead in concentration, cradling an injured body part, a baby sucking her thumb, such reflexes make use of the concepts of Jin Shin Jyutsu to restore harmony to the body from imbalances due to stress, injury, or illness.

Like most Asian healing modalities, Jin Shin Jyutsu works to harmonize, not just the body, but the mind and spirit as well. The healing art works to bring into balance the twenty-six "safety energy locks" that run through the energy pathway down center of the front of the body and back up the spine. Reading pulses throughout the body, a Jin Shin Jyutsu practitioner is able to restore balance to the body by unblocking points of stagnant energy. Jin Shin Jyutsu can also be self administered, allowing one to recognize the wisdom of the body and what it needs to heal itself.

The Main Central Vertical Harmonizing Flow is the source of our life energy. Harmonizing the flow regularly helps us feel centered and energized or relaxed, depending on what our body needs. Jin Shin Jyutsu works like "jumper cables" to recharge the "battery of life." For optimum results, do the following exercise daily.

Place the fingers of your right hand on top of your head. Place the fingers of your left hand on your forehead, between the eyebrows, and hold them there for two to five minutes or until the pulses at your fingertips synchronize. Move the fingers on your left hand to the tip of your nose and again hold for two to five minutes or until the pulses synchronize. Next, move the fingers of your left hand to your sternum at the center of your chest and then to the base of your sternum, the center where the ribs start, above your stomach. Stay at each point for two to five minutes or until the pulses synchronize. Move the fingers of the left hand to the top of the pubic bone and again stay there for two to five minutes or until the pulses synchronize. Now, keep your left fingers in place and move your right hand to cover your tailbone, holding for two to five minutes until your fingertips synchronize.

Self healing opens the door to self knowledge. Jin Shin Jyutsu is a simple practice that can be done in a matter of minutes leading to a life time of healing.

 

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How you can benefit from Jin Shin Jyutsu
	Jin Shin Jyutsu can help you: Increase your energy and clarity of thinking Reduce aches and pains caused by body disharmonies Boost your immune system Reduce pain from chronic illnesses such as arthritis, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, or lupus Experience better sleeping Repair broken bones more quickly Reduce depression and migraines Cope with addictions such as overeating Speed up the healing time from traumas such as surgeries, accidents and posttraumatic stress.		Jin Shin attributes all disharmony and dis-ease in your life to five attitudes:      1. Worry      2. Fear      3. Anger      4. Sadness      5. Try-to's (pretense)

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The Origins of Jin Shin Jyutsu

Various forms of traditional oriental medicine have been used for millennia to restore health, vitality, and mobility, to heal injuries, and to prevent sickness, by bringing to balance and maintaining a smooth flow of life force or internal energy throughout the body's energy pathways. Jin Shin Jyutsu is an advanced form of traditional Asian medicine that is known to pre-date Buddha. Jin Shin Jyutsu predates the more well-known arts of Acupuncture, Acupressure and Shiatsu, and is thought to be the source from which these healing therapies sprang. Its origins have been traced through ancient texts to approximately 1300 B.C. and it is believed to be the innate healing art of ALL Living Things.

Jin Shin Jyutsu is an ancient Japanese art that existed for many centuries, passed from one generation to the next through oral teachings. However, over time it slowly fell into obscurity as the interest in its practice declined and eventually faded from common knowledge. Jin Shin Jyutsu was rediscovered in Japan in the early 1900's by Jiro Murai, who in his quest to heal himself from an untreatable terminal illness, researched and studied a number of different schools of traditional oriental medicine and spiritual disciplines.

By using these ancient teachings, Jiro Murai was able to miraculously heal himself, and proceeded to devote the rest of his life to further researching and refining this methodology for harmonizing vital internal energy that we now know as Jin Shin Jyutsu. He passed on this knowledge to his students, Mary Burmeister, who then brought it to the United States in 1954, and to Dr. Haruki Kato, who remains in Japan practicing and teaching Jin Shin Jyutsu to Japanese Medical Professionals.

Literally translated, Jin Shin Jyutsu means: "Art of the Creator through Compassionate Person"

JIN    ̵  Person of knowing and compassion
SHIN   ̵  Universal intelligence, Spirit, or Creator,
JYUTSU – Art.

 

Master Murai also referred to this system as “the Art of Longevity” and “the Art of Benevolence.” After many years of research and practice of the art, Mary Burmeister added the description, "Physio-Philosophy" because she felt it would facilitate a better understanding of the true breadth of this art. Physio in this case meaning "Nature, (One Order)" and Philosophy meaning the "Effortless Reality".
 

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Safety Energy Locks

We all engage in the ancient Japanese healing art of Jin Shin Jyutsu, most probably without even realizing it. Placing fingers to the forehead in concentration, cradling an injured body part, a baby sucking her thumb, such reflexes make use of the concepts of Jin Shin Jyutsu to restore harmony to the body from imbalances due to stress, injury, or illness.

Like most Asian healing modalities, Jin Shin Jyutsu works to harmonize, not just the body, but the mind and spirit as well. The healing art works to bring into balance the twenty-six "safety energy locks" that run through the energy pathway down center of the front of the body and back up the spine. Reading pulses throughout the body, a Jin Shin Jyutsu practitioner is able to restore balance to the body by unblocking points of stagnant energy. Jin Shin Jyutsu can also be self administered, allowing one to recognize the wisdom of the body and what it needs to heal itself.

The Main Central Vertical Flow is the source of our life energy. Harmonizing the flow regularly helps us feel centered and energized or relaxed, depending on what our body needs. Jin Shin Jyutsu works like "jumper cables" to recharge the "battery of life." For optimum results, do the following exercise daily.

Place the fingers of your right hand on top of your head. Place the fingers of your left hand on your forehead, between the eyebrows, and hold them there for two to five minutes or until the pulses at your fingertips synchronize. Move the fingers on your left hand to the tip of your nose and again hold for two to five minutes or until the pulses synchronize. Next, move the fingers of your left hand to your sternum at the center of your chest and then to the base of your sternum, the center where the ribs start, above your stomach. Stay at each point for two to five minutes or until the pulses synchronize. Move the fingers of the left hand to the top of the pubic bone and again stay there for two to five minutes or until the pulses synchronize. Now, keep your left fingers in place and move your right hand to cover your tailbone, holding for two to five minutes until your fingertips synchronize.

Self healing opens the door to self knowledge. Jin Shin Jyutsu is a simple practice that can be done in a matter of minutes leading to a life time of healing.

 

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HOLD YOUR FINGERS!

Jin Shin Jyutsu is an art, a practice, of harmonizing the energy in the body. Jin (man or person of compassion) Shin (the Creator) Jyutsu (art) can be translated as “the art of the Creator through the person of compassion.”

Jin Shin Jyutsu, as we know it today, is a rediscovery of ancient healing wisdom. Having been passed down orally for generations, it had disappeared from general knowledge. It was rediscovered by Jiro Murai, in Japan, at the turn of the 20th century. Experimenting on his own body, he was able to heal himself from a life-threatening illness that no doctor had been able to cure. He dedicated his life to discovery and to teaching what he learned. Mary Burmeister, a Japanese-American woman who studied with Jiro Murai, brought Jin Shin Jyutsu to the United States in the 1960’s. Her systemizing of the knowledge and her teaching has spread the art all over the world.

Classes are taught in self-help and in practitioner training. This art can be used by oneself, for oneself. The theory behind it is that energy flows naturally and easily through a relaxed, open body. However, our daily tensions cause the energy to become blocked at various points in the body. The art of Jin Shin Jyutsu, applied through self-help or through the hands of a practitioner, unlocks the blockages and allows the energy once again to flow freely. It is very much an awareness practice of “Now Know Myself.”

Mary Burmeister has said, “The truth is that within each of us lies the power to cast all misery aside and to KNOW complete Peace and Oneness, to BE that beautiful creation of perfect harmony, to truly KNOW (Help) Myself.”

One need not even attend a class to begin practicing the art of Jin Shin Jyutsu. You can start right now.

All of the flows of energy in the body pass through the ten fingers of the hands. Simply holding each finger of each hand in succession, using the fingers of the other hand, can release blocked energy and move us toward peace and ease. It’s a wonderful practice for times when you must wait, like standing in line at the bank or the market. You can spend as little as ten seconds on each finger, or you can sit quietly and focus on each finger for as long as you like.

Each of the five fingers is also associated with an attitude:

thumb = worry

index = fear  

middle = anger

 ring = grief, sadness

 little = pretense or “trying to” or “efforting”

So in times when we might be identified with one of these, simply holding the associated finger can begin to release us from the grip of that identification.

 

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JIN SHIN JYUTSU IS…

Jin Shin Jyutsu is the ancient art of harmonizing the life-force energy of the physical body system with the Universal Pulse (Rhythm); The Creator's Art, an innate part of Human Wisdom. Jin Shin Jyutsu® was widely known before the birth of Buddha in India, before Moses and before The Kojiki (The Japanese Record of Ancient Things, 712 AD.)

Practitioners of Jin Shin Jyutsu are not the "do-er's". Rather we act as "jumper cablers" to restore the correct flow within the body, from the Infinite Supply of Universal Energy. Jin Shin Jyutsu is the Creator's Art of Compassion and Self-Awareness, an innate part of human wisdom waiting to be Harmonized.
 
Plato said, "All learning is remembering." And all is within us, waiting to be brought to correct movement. We are always utilizing parts of Jin Shin Jyutsu naturally; folding our hands, leaning on our cheeks, placing our hands on our hips. With increasing awareness, we understand what these holds mean, how we move to un-block the stagnation of energy, when to utilize the flows and mudras, where the energy flows and the way of life - the philosophy. All the answers to our life and form are contained right within us.
 
Jin Shin Jyutsu is the knowing of the three main vital energy pathways, known as "The Trinity Flows” which descend and ascend, back and forth within the body. These pathways harmonize and balance the mind, body, and spirit, connecting through twenty-six key energy point locations within the body. These key points are called Safety Energy Locks. These SEL’S release stagnated or blocked energy and tension allowing the energy to flow freely in its natural harmonious pattern.
 
Now the question arises; How? We have two hands that act as jumper cables-simple, gentle placement of the hands on specific SAFETY ENERGY LOCKS (“The Little God’s”) to revitalize and harmonize the body system. This application is an easy and practical method to energize and balance the body physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, with and through the Universal Energy Source. Through Jin Shin Jyutsu, attitudes (emotions) and disharmony (illness) begin to dissipate one by one. And all unnecessary burdens are unloaded to make way for complete harmony from within and beyond.

 

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GET YOURSELF SOME HARMONY

Jin Shin Jyutsu is the art of harmonizing the life energy of the body. It was rediscovered in the early 1900's in Japan by Jiro Murai, who saved himself from a fatal illness and subsequently dedicated his life to developing, studying, and teaching this art.  His first student, Mary Burmeister, was a young Japanese-American whom he offered the gift of Jin Shin Jyutsu to be brought to America.  Mary brought Jin Shin Jyutsu to the US in 1954 and since then, Jin Shin Jyutsu has spread world-wide, being taught now in over 23 different countries to well over 14,000 students.

 
Jin Shin Jyutsu is considered a "physio-philosophy," which means that it is more than just a type of body-work; it is a way of life. It can be performed on one’s self or by a trained Practitioner. It works through holding certain places on each side of the body, known in Jin Shin Jyutsu as Safety Energy Locks. There are 26 Safety Energy Locks on the right side of the body and 26 on the left. In a Jin Shin Jyutsu session, the practitioner applies her hands (over clothing) to the client's Safety Energy Locks in any number of specific sequences to facilitate the release of blocks to optimal energy flow. Such blocks are acquired through the tensions and stresses of every day living, and can be caused by any number of abuses to the body or mind: improper nutrition, habitual bad posture, stressful lifestyle, pollution, or negative mindset. One will often notice after treatment that not only has the body profoundly relaxed, but the mind and spirit are more relaxed and positive as well.

Part of what Jin Shin Jyutsu Practitioner, Pat Gallagher, loves so much about Jin Shin Jyutsu is its accessibility; it can be performed by anyone who is shown which place on the body to hold, and results can be felt almost immediately. Also, its tenant of self-help is appealing. Clients can be taught to work on themselves at home so that they no longer experience the pain or symptoms that originally led them to seek assistance. And if nothing else, people acknowledge a deep sense of relaxation after a Jin Shin Jyutsu session that is healing and beneficial. With the abundance of research linking well-being to stress-reduction nowadays, who couldn't use a good dose of Jin Shin Jyutsu?

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Finally…Instant Anxiety Relief (Without Needles or Drugs!)
©2008, Pat A. Gallagher
 

Do you ever feel like someone is sitting on your chest? Like you can’t take a deep breath? Like you can’t stop the thoughts from racing in your brain?

Anxiety is an everyday reality for many and an occasional problem for almost everyone. There are just too many things to worry about, juggle and resolve. Too much information to process!

What to do? The way I see it, you have 3 options: 1) take a pill; 2) go live in a cave or 3) experience a Jin Shin Jyutsu series to clear the anxiety from your system.

Let’s assume that you want to avoid the drugs (or find that you don’t like the side effects) and cave dwelling is not a realistic option. That leaves Jin Shin Jyutsu (JSJ). JSJ is an ancient Japanese Healing Art, which predates acupressure and acupuncture. Like acupuncture, it works on the energetic flows of the body, but without the needling.

While Jin Shin Jyutsu is fairly new to the Midwest, hospitals across America and around the world have practitioners on site to help alleviate anxiety and pain, enhance the immune system, balance digestion, prevent chronic fatigue, and achieve emotional equilibrium.

The Jin Shin Jyutsu perspective of your state of health or disharmony is based on how the energy flows in your body. A JSJ practitioner is trained to assess your energetic flows by feeling for “pulses” and noticing how you hold the body. During a session, you lie on a table, fully clothed, while the practitioner uses her hands as “jumper cables” along critical energy centers of your body. The experience is safe, harmonizing and relaxing.

Clients commonly report great relief from anxiety, especially with a series of sessions. Seasoned Jin Shin Jyutsu practitioners can also provide clients with simple self-help techniques to support the body between sessions.

SAFETY
Intensive care patients, children, elderly, and other patients who are not good candidates for deep
tissue or massage bodywork CAN receive Jin Shin Jyutsu. There are no defined contraindications for
Jin Shin Jyutsu, as the Gentle Hands On is noninvasive.

For a FREE report on instant self-help for anxiety using Jin Shin Jyutsu, go to www.patagallagher.com. If you’re ready to experience the profound relief that comes from a complete JSJ session or series, call 314-550-2112.

 

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What Do My Feelings Have To Do With My Health and
What Do You Mean I'm Not Breathing Correctly???

 

In Jin Shin Jyutsu, as trained Practitioners, we are taught to "read" the body, "listen" to the pulses to determine the nature of the person's disharmony. It is an esoteric gathering of information which then allows Practitioners to decide which JSJ flow or sequence of flows to perform. Sometimes the core issue hides or is burdened by another 'cloak'. People tell me what is going on with their body, but then I listen to their body which often tells a very different story. THE BODY NEVER LIES, it cannot, it does not know deceit, a human construct. People make up or leave out key pieces of information out of FEAR of judgement by the Practitioner, but we are trained never to judge, only to BE present with the person receiving JSJ.

We gently place our hands on any of the 26 specific points on the body called THE SAFETY ENERGY LOCKS, OR "THE LITTLE GODS". By specific placement of the hands, we flip the switches to 'brighten the light' or 'turn up the harmony of the body's music'. This hand placement brings the person back into alignment by igniting the body's own innate ability to heal itself.

Jin Shin Jyutsu teaches that all disharmony is caused by one or more of the 'ATTITUDES': Worry, Fear, Anger, Sadness & Pretense - with Fear being the real Mothership of all Attitudes.

95% of my clients come to me because of a physical challenge. So people come to have physical ailments alleviated and what is REVEALED is the ATTITUDE behind that dis-ease. Low and behold, what happens is that the client's ATTITUDE changes, which in turn, restores a deep level of harmony on all 3 levels. Body, Mind & Spirit.

So as we examine the ATTITUDES, we might think of WORRY as PRAYER/MEDITATION in REVERSE. SADNESS (the most dangerous of all the ATTITUDES) is FEAR that we might not get what we want. ANGER is FEAR that others won't make us HAPPY. PRETENSE is FEAR that we are not really who we think we are (a watermelon does not try to be an apple). These are all interchangeable, but you can get a feel for how this works.

To harmonize the ATTITUDES, hold your fingers:
THUMB=WORRY
INDEX=FEAR
MIDDLE=ANGER
RING=SADNESS
LITTLE=PRETENSE
Hold each finger until you get a nice strong pulse & yes you may hold other people's fingers.

The first thing that strikes me about nearly all of the people that I work with is that they do not know how to breathe correctly. Another "SECRET" is breathing correctly. Proper breathing provides good health, joy, good posture & overall harmony. So to breathe correctly, think about how babies and puppies breathe. They fill their abdomen, not their chest. They breathe in all life and possibility and exhale completely all that is no longer needed. It really is that simple.

If you questions about JIN SHIN JYUTSU email me at patgalla@sbcglobal.net or visit my website at www.patagallagher.com
 

 

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WORRY IS PAYMENT ON A DEBT NEVER OWED!

 

How many times have you worried about something that never came true? Statistics say that nearly 90 percent of the time the problems we worry about never come to pass. JIN SHIN JYUTSU TO THE RESCUE! With this Powerful Healing Art, the attitude of ‘worry’ effects stomach and spleen energy and can cause significant health problems. How can you stop worrying; thinking about the past and projecting into the future and start living in the present moment so you don’t deplete your energy sources? BREATHE!

Escaping From Mental Bondage
By holding the specific Safety Energy Lock spheres of energy, you can successfully release blocked passageways that effect respiration, digestion, mental health, addictions, cravings, acne and other problems that can result in dis-ease. By harmonizing the energy patterns that correspond to worry in Jin Shin Jyutsu, we are able to “BE” in the world, but not carry its weight. In this way, we can clear abdominal distress, breathing and congestion, clarify our thinking, speech, and harmonize both physical and mental challenges. Jin Shin Jyutsu is the gentle art of relaxation and harmonizing energy that can dissipate worry from the cell tissues of the body. A 7000 Yr Old Healing Art involving gentle application of hands on the body, it rallies the body’s own healing mechanisms. Similar to acupuncture and acupressure massage, Jin Shin Jyutsu is non-invasive, working over clothing without the use of needles.
Jin Shin Jyutsu Does

Jin Shin is used to stimulate the movement of stagnant “Chi” through Safety Energy Locks, similar to meridians or trigger points. Energy Flows moving through the body are affected by lifestyle stress, attitudes, genetics, environment, illness and trauma.

For A Treatment
If you would like to know more about Jin Shin Jyutsu and how it works, please call for an appointment. A session lasts about an hour and is done by placing the hands over clothing on specific energy spots. Because it is so gentle, it does not have any contra-indications and can be done on anyone, even prior to or immediately after surgery. It balances the life energy by working on the cause of the disease as well as the actual disease that has been manifested. Jin Shin Jyutsu is very beneficial for auto-immune diseases, strokes, cardiovascular problems, and depression, sleep disorders, arthritis, allergies and other health concerns. For more info visit my website:
www.patagallagher.com