Finding Joy and Ease Amid Our Topsy-Turvy World
Topsy Turvy
It is not unusual to discover new crisis announcements every day during these troubled times. Dire proclamations provoke deep unease and may put you in a state of hyper-vigilance. And repeated disturbing news may create a sense of anxiety that takes your breath away. What happens if you burden yourself with anxiousness and dread? The trick is to acknowledge the sentiments that come up for you and help your body let go of harmful reactions.
I want to give you some of my favorite self-help acupressure tips to do that!
These easy-to-do acupressure movements will:
- expand breath
- let go of anxiety
- reduce stress reactions
- help you sleep even with so much on your mind
- and boost your immune system.
Energetic Balance
Your body prefers to be in energetic balance. You need to help your body experience balance and harmony. You are training your body what it feels like to be in balance. When you do, your physical, mental, and emotional bodies will take better care of you.
Help Your Body
A daily practice of easy self-care acupressure helps your body. A balanced immune system can fend off anxiety and stress despite what is happening in the world.
Hold your fingertips on the following acupressure points with a light and gentle touch for several good breaths:
- Open up your breath. Give yourself a hug by holding your fingertips anywhere on your elbows or upper arms. You’re holding energy points that connect with lung and diaphragm breath. This will expand your breath. You will experience a full inhale followed by a purging exhale.
- Bring on better sleep! Hold your fingertips on the base of your skull and you will connect with a “sleep center.” Follow with jumper cables—cup and hold each thumb and finger with a light touch.
- Boost your immune system and it will better be able to take care of you!
- Right hand—cup right shoulder with fingertips where neck and shoulder come together.
- Left hand—hold fingers at left chest immediately below the collarbone.
- Switch hands.
Prepare your body for difficult times
Make the Daily Clean Your Houseflow your go-to daily practice for balancing your energy. A daily practice makes your system more receptive to nurturing. Many of my clients start and end every day doing the Daily Clean Your House Flow—a 9-step self-help acupressure flow that provides your body with a firm foundation. The flow supports all the organs and systems of the body. You are preparing your systems for performing at optimum levels—bringing stability, strength and vitality to your entire body.
You can find the Daily Clean Your House Flow on my website, deborahmyerswellness.com. Click on the purple button “Learn the Daily Flow” and you’ll get a PDF of the 9 steps, and more energy tips.
I encourage you to view the animated video of the Daily Clean Your House Flow. I created it for kids, and adults love it as much as any kid. Watch it in its entirety on my website at deborahmyerswellness.com/covid19at no charge. I want anyone who is searching for a way to let go of stress and anxiety to enjoy free access during this distressing, unnerving time. Do your body a favor and check out the video. You’ll see why kids, parents, and teachers love this 6-½ minute video for helping to create a more carefree and happier body.
Spending time every day taking care of YOU assists your body to get to that place of balance and harmony. Your body will know you are taking care of it. A daily practice might include self-help acupressure, meditation, exercise, walking, enjoying Mother Nature, gardening, singing, dancing, resting when you need to, reading, writing. The list of what could be part of your daily practice is up to you. Choose the activities that help your body feel better and more vital, including what brings a smile to your face.
My desire for you is to experience joy and ease!
Lower Your Stress Meter Fast!
Lower Your Stress Meter Fast!
Stress takes away breath, disrupts sleep, amplifies emotions, causes body pain, and dampens immune response. Add in fatigue from living in close quarters, and explosions may ensue!
Discover easy-to-learn and remember ways to get ahead of anxiety and stress.
Register for this 3-week workshop series and leave all of that behind.
We will meet 3 times
Wednesday evenings on June 10, 17 and 24
6:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Live Zoom meetings with handouts.
Registration will close on June 8.
Click to Register
Meetings will take place via Zoom. You will receive an email with instructions for joining the webinars after you register. You can join via computer, mobile devices, or phone.
We will record the sessions and make them available to those who register. We encourage you to attend the live event and take part in the Q&A.
More Information
We will cover how to easily and effortlessly create balance and harmony and improve your sense of wellness and health:
- Experience your body as an energy system. Being in touch with your body will become second nature. And you’ll discover your breath, ease, calm, and vitality.
- Boost the immune, endocrine, and adrenal systems. Help your body become healthier and more robust.
- You will be better prepared to handle potential exposure to viruses and bacteria. AND gain knowledge of how to improve your sleep!
- Manage pain and recover from trauma
- Energy tips to promote healing, relieve pain, and let go of symptoms. Whether from flu, respiratory conditions, injuries, post-surgery, chronic conditions, or emotional distress.
- Manage feelings and emotions: recognize them and re-pattern them so you can effortlessly have positive, smoother experiences instead of stumbling blocks.
You will gain tools to last a lifetime and your investment in your improved health is only $77.00 for all 3 class meetings.
Lower Your Stress Meter Fast!
Lower Your Stress Meter Fast!
Stress takes away breath, disrupts sleep, amplifies emotions, causes body pain, and dampens immune response. Add in fatigue from living in close quarters, and explosions may ensue!
Discover easy-to-learn and remember ways to get ahead of anxiety and stress.
Register for this 3-week workshop series and leave all of that behind.
We will meet 3 times
Wednesday evenings on June 10, 17 and 24
6:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Live Zoom meetings with handouts.
Registration will close on June 8.
Click to Register
Meetings will take place via Zoom. You will receive an email with instructions for joining the webinars after you register. You can join via computer, mobile devices, or phone.
We will record the sessions and make them available to those who register. We encourage you to attend the live event and take part in the Q&A.
More Information
We will cover how to easily and effortlessly create balance and harmony and improve your sense of wellness and health:
- Experience your body as an energy system. Being in touch with your body will become second nature. And you’ll discover your breath, ease, calm, and vitality.
- Boost the immune, endocrine, and adrenal systems. Help your body become healthier and more robust.
- You will be better prepared to handle potential exposure to viruses and bacteria. AND gain knowledge of how to improve your sleep!
- Manage pain and recover from trauma
- Energy tips to promote healing, relieve pain, and let go of symptoms. Whether from flu, respiratory conditions, injuries, post-surgery, chronic conditions, or emotional distress.
- Manage feelings and emotions: recognize them and re-pattern them so you can effortlessly have positive, smoother experiences instead of stumbling blocks.
You will gain tools to last a lifetime and your investment in your improved health is only $77.00 for all 3 class meetings.
Lower Your Stress Meter Fast!
Lower Your Stress Meter Fast!
Stress takes away breath, disrupts sleep, amplifies emotions, causes body pain, and dampens immune response. Add in fatigue from living in close quarters, and explosions may ensue!
Discover easy-to-learn and remember ways to get ahead of anxiety and stress.
Register for this 3-week workshop series and leave all of that behind.
We will meet 3 times
Wednesday evenings on June 10, 17 and 24
6:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Live Zoom meetings with handouts.
Registration will close on June 8.
Click to Register
Meetings will take place via Zoom. You will receive an email with instructions for joining the webinars after you register. You can join via computer, mobile devices, or phone.
We will record the sessions and make them available to those who register. We encourage you to attend the live event and take part in the Q&A.
More Information
We will cover how to easily and effortlessly create balance and harmony and improve your sense of wellness and health:
- Experience your body as an energy system. Being in touch with your body will become second nature. And you’ll discover your breath, ease, calm, and vitality.
- Boost the immune, endocrine, and adrenal systems. Help your body become healthier and more robust.
- You will be better prepared to handle potential exposure to viruses and bacteria. AND gain knowledge of how to improve your sleep!
- Manage pain and recover from trauma
- Energy tips to promote healing, relieve pain, and let go of symptoms. Whether from flu, respiratory conditions, injuries, post-surgery, chronic conditions, or emotional distress.
- Manage feelings and emotions: recognize them and re-pattern them so you can effortlessly have positive, smoother experiences instead of stumbling blocks.
You will gain tools to last a lifetime and your investment in your improved health is only $77.00 for all 3 class meetings.
Easy Stress-Busting Tips for Your Kids and You!
In this free webinar, you will learn how to use self-help acupressure to get ahead of anxiety and stress. You will experience how to find your breath, ways to relieve stress, what to do to get better sleep, and boost your immune system.
Twenty-Twenty Vision Workshop
Picture yourself on the winning track:
- Increase productivity and focus
- Gain momentum
- Remove obstacles
- Attract more of what you want in life
- Reduce anxiety and stress
- Enjoy balance and harmony
Deborah Myers, founder and director of Deborah Myers Wellness, will teach you how to help integrate your thoughts, energy, and emotions. Get on the path of success. Plan and complete projects with less stress. Learn how to let your body heal so YOU can improve your energy level and well-being. Learn time-honored self-help techniques (Jin Shin Jyutsu and acupressure) designed to help you reduce stress, relieve pain, promote healing, and improve your sense of wellness, health, and prosperity.
And all of the energy tips and techniques will help your kids as much as they help you!!
Twenty-Twenty Vision Workshop
Wednesday: February 26 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Tuition: $69.00
Includes your choice of one of my books — Easy Self-Help Acupressure for Grown-ups or Easy Self-Help Acupressure for Kids and Parents
Location: coLAB, 427 Mendocino, Santa Rosa, California 95401
Registration: Call 707.546.5692 to reserve your space. Mail registration form with payment to 2816 Hidden Acres Road, Santa Rosa, CA 95404.
Or register online at http://bit.ly/DMW2020
Contact Deborah Myers: 707.546.5692 or deborah@deborahmyerswellness.com
2020 Wellness Workshop 2020 Vision
The Lights and Color of the Holidays
The holidays are here in all of their glory!
How are YOU doing with this time of the year? Do you enjoy the season with all that is going on? Do you need an extra boost to make it through the day? Read on! I have some energy tips for you! AND this will work for ALL ages, young and old!
Mrs. Claus
I love Christmas — the energy and joy of the season bring a smile to my face. Walk into my house, and you see a tree laden with hundreds of lights and ornaments. Stockings on the mantle. Hundreds of Santas and happy elves populate my house. There’s a reason that a four-year-old was walking into my home with his mother for his session, and he looked at the tree and then at me and said, “Are you Mrs. Santa Claus, too?”
Deck the Halls with Lights and Love
I love the color and the lights just as much as I do the Christmas theme. There’s something about those lights that are so important this time of the year when the days are short, and there is more darkness than light in our twenty-four-hour days.
Our Bodies Crave Light during this winter-time holiday season
Our bodies are so hungry for more exposure to light and vitality. Here are several super easy ways to give you and your body that extra boost. And when you share this with the kids in your life, they will remind YOU what to do!
5 Steps to Give Yourself an Energy Boost
- To bring extra breath — hug yourself, gently touching the upper arms
- Create alignment, posture correction, and vitality — sit on your hands (hold your sit bones)
- Enjoy breath, ease, and calm —
Right hand — cup your sternum directly below your collarbone
Left hand — hold your fingers on your tummy below your navel. - To manage feelings — Jumper Cable — gently cup each thumb and finger and balance ALL of your emotions. Get rid of worry, fear, anger, sadness, and trying too hard.
- To let go of confusion and bring in clarity
Right hand — cup base of skull
Left hand — cup forehead
Best Wishes
So, with that, I give you my joy of Christmas and lights and color! And I wish for you and yours a magnificent holiday season and a super new year of fulfilled dreams and lots of magical moments that surprise you daily!
All my best to you,
Deborah
Are You Getting Triggered?
Are You Getting Triggered? Are you searching for joy??
It has been a crazy roller coaster ride the last couple of weeks— for everyone. Lots of questions and emotions are jumping around inside of all of us. No matter who we wanted to win the election and how we feel about the results. Now on top of that, we have the holidays when lots of old family issues can get fired up.
You may be experiencing topsy-turvy emotions
You might be feeling:
- Anxious
- Distress
- Sadness
- Uneasiness
- Grief
- Worry
- Unhappiness
- Fear
- Frustration
- Anger
These emotions can trigger feelings of overwhelm for your body. Your body responds to feeling out of balance and ungrounded by creating symptoms.
What are your symptoms?
Have you been noticing shortness of breath, head pressure, loss of equilibrium, erratic sleep? How about increased sensitivity to others’ comments and opinions or close to tears? Or maybe you’re having indigestion, sadness, overall tiredness or just feeling on edge?
Your body is trying to get your attention!
If any of those symptoms are present, your body is trying to get your attention. It wants to be grounded, centered, and in a place of easiness. Are you ready to feel all that AND have your body bubble up with joy and happiness? It is possible even in the midst of whatever is creating your topsy-turvy roller coaster ride. The stuff that is triggering your upset may not go away, but your body can be a lot happier!
Easy Ways to Create Calm
Here are some easy self-help acupressure points to:
- Open breath
- Create calm
- Relieve anxiety
- Let go of fear
- Increase your vitality
See how easy it can be to help your body create new patterns.
- Hold upper arms by folding your arms across the chest
- Shift your fingers so you’re holding the outside edges of your shoulder blades (like giving yourself a great big hug)
- Hold your thumbs and index fingers
- With right hand, cup the sternum just below the collarboneAnd hold left fingers in a vertical pattern on your tummy
- With left hand, cup forehead so fingers are on the right side
And with right hand, cup back of head with fingers on left base of skull
Wishing you lots of ease and comfort! And a magnificent Thanksgiving!!
With gratitude for YOU being a part of my life!
Letting Go of Fear
Deborah Myers standing on the zip line platform
Deborah Myers rappeling from the zip line platform
Does your child experience anxiety or fear?
Do you notice how it affects their ability to be present and that it can actually create worry about the future? Frequent bouts of anxiety, worry, fear, trepidation (no matter what word is used) create a pattern that the body gets used to. THAT means the body is caught up in a state of “being in stress” which in turn creates a tendency to take the breath away and a tendency to be stuck in the emotions and the feelings.
No matter the age, these feelings are not imagined. They are THERE and can affect what we’re willing to do and/or how easily we step into the activity. We can be talking about going to school, meeting new people, studying, taking tests, playing sports, trying anything new.
An Adrenalin Rush
I love to fly through the air on zip lines. It’s an adrenalin rush for sure. But more than that, for me it is the experience of loving the feeling of freedom and joy. Several weeks ago, my kids joined me for a night time zip line for my birthday. Loved that anticipation! And I was ready. I go myself energetically centered and grounded. (I do my energy balancing before I step into the harness.)
There are usually eight people in the group, so it’s not unusual to not know everyone who you go up on the platform with. I noticed right away that a young woman in our group was in a state of worry. Even during the initial practice, she was second guessing her decision to do the zip line. By the second platform she was in a major state of fear — she had discovered an intense fear of heights that surprised her and took her breath away. By the way, when that happens, there is no going back. You have to finish the next six zip lines (there are a total of seven plus two sky bridges and a rappel). I offered some self-help acupressure tips, but by that point, she needed assistance. I taught her husband and on each of the platforms we did energy balancing (held acupressure points) before she zipped to the next platform. Long and short of it, she made it to the end, though the hardest was the very last one where you need to rappel yourself to the ground.
Perception is Your Truth
The reason for the story? The stressful experience someone is going through can be that kind of intense or it can be something that appears relatively easy to another person. My belief is that each and every “stressful experience” has a reason for showing up that way. So it needs to be addressed with “let’s change this up and make it different.” We can do that by learning and doing simple energy balancing movements that can re-pattern the body.
First Aid for Fear
Here is what did I do for that young woman on the zip line:
I did the following. And, YOU can do the same thing for your child if he or she is experiencing stress, worry, anxiety or fear. Hold each point with light, gentle touch and hold for several breaths.
- Hold your fingers at upper back near middle of shoulder blade
(Keep that hand there while the other hand moves) - At the same time, with other hand, hold same side upper arm above elbow
- Move that hand to elbow, then to thumb
- Then move to base of ribcage.
This simple movement gives the body a chance to open up lungs and diaphragm and open up breath.
And you can do this in the midst of the “anxious moment” or as prevention! The body wants to be in flow, not be stuck in “I’m not okay with this way of being”. We just need to show it how to get there and stay there!
Let me know how it works for you!
Getting Centered and Feeling Better
Have you ever noticed that when you feel “out-of-sorts” you might just need to take a break from what you’re doing? Sometimes if you switch up where you are, you can quickly change your perspective too. For me, I often just need to walk outside and literally smell the roses. Yes, I’m “smelling the different air” and in reality I’m putting myself in a different environment that allows my brain and my senses to make different connections and create a new way of being in that instant. And when I’m really in a stuck place, getting dirty in the garden is more often than not the perfect solution for me!
Kids have the very same need as we do to make a quick shift from blah to better. Emotions and feelings and that sensation of “I don’t know why I feel this way, but I do” can often be so all-encompassing that they can literally take over and cause a “no rational thought can even happen in this space.” When that happens to a child, you can make a big difference by helping them create new habits and patterns.
When you notice that your child and/or student is really having a rough time, create a diversion which can help them get unstuck and experience a different way of being. Be supportive of what your child is experiencing and validate what is being felt. You just might help create the moment when they realize they can be in control of their own energy and the way they feel — a true moment of empowerment.
Hit the Reset Button
Some possible diversions that can trigger a reset are:
- Come up with a favorite outside activity, like “want to go ride your bike?”
- Or “Let’s go for walk. I could really use a break.”
- “Will you help me_______?” (choose something you know your child loves to do)
- And one of my absolute favorite suggestions is to do the Daily Clean Your House Flow or at the very least the Jumper Cables, which is the last step of the Daily Flow.
When we bring a daily practice of energy balancing into our lives, the body “knows what it feels like.” It will more easily go to that place of being in balance and being centered as soon as you start doing some of the energy poses.
Case in point – I was having a rough day last weekend. Old feelings of loss came up when I was spending time with an old friend who knew my husband and me when we were in college. I could tell that I had “lost my center” so I went down to the garden and spent some quiet time doing some energy work. Within a few minutes, I could feel my breath expand and I could feel myself becoming okay with where I am now. I got back in touch with “being in the moment.”
It doesn’t matter how old we are or what we’ve experienced, sometimes we just need to change up the pattern and give ourselves a reset.
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