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Zusatztext " The Art of Jin Shin is very well done with heavy paper and full color photos throughout. Each process shown is accompanied by a photo of someone performing the hold and this is very helpful to understanding the written instructions." — New Spirit Journal Informationen zum Autor Alexis Brink Klappentext "Jin Shin Jyutsu: Healing at Your Fingertips is a complete self-help guide to the practice of the ancient Japanese healing art that balances body, mind and spirit by using our hands. Illustrated throughout and written by a trained Jin Shin Jyutsu practitioner with 25 years of experience, the book will appeal to the growing market of people turning to holistic treatments that complement Western medicine for pain and common afflictions such as anxiety, stress, and insomnia"-- Leseprobe The Art of Jin Shin Chapter 1 The Jin Shin Effect Katie, a bright and studious sixteen-year-old, had been on antidepressants for three years when she came to see me. She faithfully kept her therapy appointments and meditated to reduce her anxiety. Still, her depression was so acute that she frequently needed to skip school or leave class in the middle of the day, felled by bouts of uncontrollable crying. Nothing seemed to be able to dispel the dark cloud of misery that enveloped her. When she lay down on my table, I immediately noticed that her feet were completely pigeon-toed. More alarmingly, her entire body, especially her head, was rolling off to the right. It’s not unusual for older clients to present with asymmetry, yet hers was the most extreme resting body position I had seen in someone so young. Given that she had no known postural issues, I asked her about prior trauma. Katie couldn’t remember anything in particular. I made a mental note to schedule an intake with her mother after our session. Even without knowing her history, it was immediately apparent that I would need to start working my way through a descending sequence to move the energy down and out of her head. Slipping my right hand under her neck—a specific area known to clear mental and emotional blocks—I’d felt a large lump: the mass of knotted muscle and congested energy that was pulling her head to the right. I maintained a gentle hold on the area until I felt Katie’s quiet, uneven pulse become more lively and even. I moved my left hand to an area above her eyebrow to clear the mind. Keeping my right hand where it was, I placed my left on her tailbone, to jump-start her body’s source energy and harmonize the blood essence. Holding on to the outside of her anklebone allowed her to ground herself physically and emotionally, and areas on the base of the ribs harmonized the digestive process and facilitated Katie’s ability to process her emotions. Finally, releasing an energy blockage on an area beneath her clavicle strengthened and cleared her exhalations, allowing Katie to continue to move sluggish energy out of the body on her own. We saw an immediate change on the table after that first session; her body aligned itself perfectly, and Katie began to feel better right away. During the intake, her mother told me a very illuminating story: When Katie was two and a half, she had fallen out of a shopping cart and hit the left side of her head. She still had a scar on her face in the spot where she’d needed stitches. Mystery solved. The injury was located directly on the path where the gallbladder energy moves—a pathway any Jin Shin practitioner can address to treat a client with depression. Given the location of the trauma, it was no surprise that she was getting trapped inside her thoughts, or “stuck in her head.” Due to the severity of her symptoms, I saw Katie twice more that wee...
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Alexis Brink (LMT), president of Jin Shin Institute, is a practitioner of the Art of Jin Shin since 1991 and has maintained a private practice in NYC. She has taught self-help classes and workshops world-wide as well as to physicians and nurses in the medical establishment. She has also introduced Jin Shin in the public school system in NY. Today, The Jin Shin Institute under Alexis’s guidance is offering a comprehensive curriculum to a new generation of practitioners and teachers. She has written two textbooks and offers webinars for different levels from the novice to practitioners. It is the mission of the Institute as well as Alexis’s personal mission to open up the Art to the world. Alexis is the author of The Art of Jin Shin and Healing at Your Fingertips.
