Image: A handwritten note reads “Our favorites tell us something about ourselves…”
I love reading and answering people’s questions about acupuncture and healing, but every now and then I like to turn the tables and ask YOU a question.
So here’s today’s question…
Do you have a favorite acupuncture point? If you don’t know the point name, a physical description is fine (i.e., the point at the top of the head). What do you love about it?
I'll go first. My favorite point to needle on other people is Du 20, the point at the top of the head, aka Bai Hui or One Hundred Meetings. All of the body's yang channels converge at this point, and I usually needle it first, to help a person relax into their body before I start placing more needles. My favorite points to have needled on me are Kidney 3 (behind the inner ankle bone) and Gallbladder 40 (in the depression below the outer ankle bone). Both points feel very grounding and fortifying to me, and I love to massage them on myself at the end of the day.
My favorite point is the top of the head. This point makes me feel relaxed and calm. It is my entry point into the relaxing session I am about to embark upon. It gives me the same relaxing feeling that I receive when I walk into the clinic. It's like my body remembers and knows that this is my comfort place.
I'm still experimenting with them and learning I think. I've been learning acupressure points - and learning that a couple I had tried and thought "did nothing", I actually had the point wrong. I've been massaging Kidney 3 before bed but I'm going to try adding GB40. And I didn't know about DU20!
Right now I'm wondering what points are most supportive to release old, stored, stuck emotions and support that release.
I'll go first. My favorite point to needle on other people is Du 20, the point at the top of the head, aka Bai Hui or One Hundred Meetings. All of the body's yang channels converge at this point, and I usually needle it first, to help a person relax into their body before I start placing more needles. My favorite points to have needled on me are Kidney 3 (behind the inner ankle bone) and Gallbladder 40 (in the depression below the outer ankle bone). Both points feel very grounding and fortifying to me, and I love to massage them on myself at the end of the day.
My favorite point, as you know, is in the middle of my forehead between the eyebrows.
My favorite point is the top of the head. This point makes me feel relaxed and calm. It is my entry point into the relaxing session I am about to embark upon. It gives me the same relaxing feeling that I receive when I walk into the clinic. It's like my body remembers and knows that this is my comfort place.
I love pericardium six! Relaxing, turning inwards.
I'm still experimenting with them and learning I think. I've been learning acupressure points - and learning that a couple I had tried and thought "did nothing", I actually had the point wrong. I've been massaging Kidney 3 before bed but I'm going to try adding GB40. And I didn't know about DU20!
Right now I'm wondering what points are most supportive to release old, stored, stuck emotions and support that release.