What To Do When You're Stressed

This is a fantastic tip from Touch For Health to help you when you're stressed, angry, anxious or disturb. Attempt holding your frontal eminences. These are bumps on your forehead that a heap of humans hold instinctively when they're disturb.

For those of you who don't do this naturally, let me help 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 - regarding 3cms (1. 25 inches) above the middle of each eyebrow.

While you hold these points think regarding the stressful event. It can be something that has already happened, something that is regarding to happen, or something you fear can never happen! Gradually you better find that the stress lessens.

You can use it for small things, but you can likewise use it for more traumatic events too. Whether or not the thoughts/images are too overpowering initially, imagine you're watching it on a TV - you can always switch it off Whether or not becomes too stressful - you're the one in charge. You can watch it in black and white if that feels easier too. Use it to defuse anything that you feel anxious, stressed, angry or fearful regarding.

You can want to do it various times covering different aspects of the problem. You can 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 more than likely begin to feel calmer - you can even find that you begin to feel a small bored thinking regarding this scenario that previously stressed or angered you such a lot.

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 often churns when you're anxious or angry), and the bladder meridian (trips to the loo/bathroom are often necessary when we're apprehensive).

I recently explained this self-help 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 now and again fearful of the sport he loved.

This is what he wrote to me later:

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

The following 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 a heap of serious single-tracking and downhilling! ! ! I never thought I'd be doing that again - ever! Thank you such a lot! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! It was brilliant! ! ! ! ! ! ! "

It can be hard to believe that something this simple could be efficacious at removing anxiety and stress, but try it and see.