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What To Do When You're Stressed

By: Godfrey Philander Click author's name for more of his/her articles

This is a wonderful tip from Touch For Health to support you when you're stressed, angry, anxious or upset. Try holding your frontal eminences. These are bumps on your forehead that galore persons hold instinctively when they're upset.

For those of you who don't do this of course, let me support you locate them. Feel up from the middle of your eyebrows going towards your hairline. Your forehead comes outwards before it curves back in towards the hairline. Hold your forehead at the points where it’s furthest out - when it comes to 3cms (1. 25 inches) above the middle of every eyebrow.

While you hold these points think when it comes to the stressful event. It may be something that has already happened, something that is when it comes to to take place, or something you fear may never take place! Gradually you ought to find that the stress lessens.

You may use it for small things, but you may likewise use it for more traumatic events too. Whether or not the thoughts/images are too overwhelming initially, imagine you’re looking at it on a TV - you may at all times switch it off Whether or not becomes too stressful - you're the one in charge. You may watch it in black and white whether or not that feels posing no difficulty too. Use it to defuse anything that you feel anxious, stressed, angry or fearful when it comes to.

You may want to do it various times covering different aspects of the problem. You may do them one after the other, or at different times, whichever feels best for you.

As you hold the points and think about/imagine the event, you will probably begin to feel calmer - you may even find that you begin to feel a small bored thinking when it comes to this scenario that previously stressed or angered you so much.

Why does it work?

These queer points on the forehead, known as frontal eminences, are reflex points with connections to the central meridian (involved with the brain), the stomach meridian (and your stomach oftentimes churns when you're anxious or angry), and the bladder meridian (trips to the loo/bathroom are oftentimes essential when we're apprehensive).

Not long ago i explained this self-support technique to a business colleague - a keen mountain biker who'd had a serious bike accident at 30 miles an hour and had broken his skull and collar bone. His bones had mended, but he was now at times fearful of the sport he loved.

This is what he wrote to me later:

"I don't acknowledge how to thank you sufficient for the technique you described to me over the phone the other day, it helped me enormously! "

The next week he sent me this message:

"Your tip worked once again last night - went out (in the pitch black with my Light&Motion 'daylighter' light) and did galore serious single-tracking and downhilling! ! ! I never thought I'd be doing that again - ever! Thank you so much! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! It was brilliant! ! ! ! ! ! ! "

It may be hard to believe that something this simple could be effective in removing anxiety and stress, but try it and see.