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08/30/2026

Week 12: Pressure Point and Neuromuscular Routines

Tuesday, September 1 at 8:00 PM ET

(See the zoom link in the comments)

What the research on pressure points does and does not show

I want to show you how I read the research on pressure points, because the honest version is more useful than the enthusiastic one.

The strongest case: the wrist point.

PC6, on the inner forearm just below the wrist, has been reviewed by Cochrane four times since 2004.

That is unusual. Very few complementary techniques get that kind of sustained attention.

The current review finds that stimulating it, by needle or by pressure, may reduce postoperative nausea and vomiting compared with sham, and likely lowers the need for rescue medication.

Worth knowing: those trials were run in surgical settings, and the stimulation methods included needles and pressure bands. Not a massage device.

The honest case: pressure and the low back.

A meta-analysis of randomized trials found acupressure produced better outcomes than usual care.

Then the same authors downgraded their own confidence on formal assessment and called for better designed trials.

I include both halves when I teach this, because the second half is what makes the first half worth believing.

***Anyone who only tells you the good number is selling something.

The mechanical case: percussive massage.

Five minutes on the calf raised ankle range of motion by 5.4 degrees, an 18 percent gain, with no drop in maximum strength.

Mobility without trading away force. That one is clean.

The movement case: QiGong.

Seven randomized trials in healthy adults, pooled: one to three months of practice was associated with lower reported anxiety and perceived stress against wait list controls.

The authors flag the small number of trials as a genuine limit.

So: some of this is well supported, some is promising, and some is traditional practice that people find useful. I will tell you which is which as we go.

Week 12: Pressure Point and Neuromuscular Routines

Tuesday, September 1 at 8:00 PM ET

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81354336349

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Remember... Nobody gets out of life alive, so let's enjoy the ride.

08/27/2026

Every wish you had a quick routine to help manage common aches & pains. That's what we'll cover in Week 12.

I'll go over 6 easy to learn, but very powerful pressure point routines for challenges we all face. Plus a few QiGong techniques that you'll immediately feel the difference.

Go to https://www.himassager.com/classes for the link.

08/26/2026

Next Tuesday, September 1st we'll cover 6 POWERFUL, easy routines you can do that address many areas: headaches, trouble falling asleep, lower back pain, stress & more. Learn more about the free class at https://www.himassager.com/classes

08/25/2026

Tonight at 8:00 PM ET.

One thought before we start, because it is the part of this class that matters most in a household.

Stress is contagious. One person walks in wound up, and within twenty minutes everybody is wound up. Nobody decided that, it just transmits.

The useful part is that it runs in the other direction too. A settled nervous system in the room is a settling influence on everyone in it.

Most couples under stress talk about the stress, which usually winds up both of them.

Years of that and you become two people who mostly discuss problems.

The alternative is a ritual that settles the body before anybody says a word about the day.

We will build exactly that tonight, in nine minutes, using the three steps you already know.

What to have ready:
- Your hi® system, if you have it nearby.
- A chair you can sit back in, or somewhere to lie down.
- A glass of water.
- Your partner, if they are around. Optional, and the whole class works solo.

So, join the free, live class this Tuesday at 8 PM (EST) August 25th!

Go to https://www.himassager.com/classes for the zoom link.

08/24/2026

Here's a preview of some of the techniques in Tuesday Nights class @ 8 PM (EST) (August 25).

There's a link on how to attend in the comments.

08/23/2026

10 Minutes is all it takes to completely RESET your day.

The class is free, Tuesday at 8 PM (EST). Just follow the link at https://www.himassager.com/classes

08/22/2026

Here is a piece of Tuesday's class you can use today. No device needed.
The Desk Reset
1. Find HT7. It is the small hollow at the wrist crease, on the little finger side. Press with your opposite thumb for twenty seconds. Then the other hand.
2. Find PC6. Three finger widths up from the wrist crease, in the center of the inner forearm, between the two tendons. Twenty seconds each side.
3. One long exhale. Inhale normally, then let it out slowly, taking about twice as long going out as coming in.
Under two minutes. Works in dress clothes, in a meeting, in the car before you walk into the house.
Why hands? They take up an outsized share of the brain's sensory map. A small amount of input from the hands produces a large signal. That is why hand work does more per minute than almost anywhere else on the body, and it is why we are building the class around it.
Try it once between now and Tuesday. Notice where you were on a scale of nought to ten before, and where you land after. That number is the point.
So, join the free, live class this Tuesday at 8 PM (EST) August 25th!
(Link in the comments)

08/21/2026

Three pieces of research sit underneath Tuesday's class.

They are worth knowing even if you never make it to a single session.

One. The exhale is the lever.
A randomized controlled study at Stanford compared several breathing patterns against mindfulness meditation, five minutes a day for a month. The pattern that came out ahead was cyclic sighing: a long inhale, a second short sip of air at the top, then a slow extended exhale. It produced greater improvement in mood and a larger drop in respiratory rate than meditation did.

Five minutes. That is the whole intervention.

Two. Whose hand it is changes the effect.
Sixteen married women faced the threat of a mild shock inside an fMRI scanner. Holding their husband's hand broadly reduced threat related brain activation. A stranger's hand helped, but less. And the higher the reported quality of the marriage, the larger the effect.

Touch is not generic. Who is doing it matters, and so does the state of the relationship it comes from.

Three. Speed matters more than pressure.
There is a separate class of nerve fibers in the skin of the forearm that responds best to slow, light stroking, roughly an inch per second. That is the same speed people consistently rate as the most pleasant.

Which means most of us do it wrong. When we are stressed, we massage fast and hard. That is precisely the wrong instinct.

On Tuesday we put all three to work in one sequence.

So, join the free, live class this Tuesday at 8 PM (EST) August 25th! See the link to the zoom class in the comments.

08/20/2026

You cannot think your way out of a tense body.

By the time you notice stress, your body already made its move.

Jaw set.

Shoulders up.

Breath gone shallow and high.

Then the brain reads all of that as evidence something is wrong, and goes looking for what the threat must be.

**That is the loop.**

Arguing with the thought while the body is still braced is arguing with a smoke alarm while the toast is burning.

So we start with the body.

Here is the two minute version you can use today 👇

Two Pressure Points:

1. HT7, the small hollow at the wrist crease on the little finger side. Twenty seconds each hand.

2. PC6, three finger widths up the inner forearm, between the tendons.

-- Twenty seconds each side.

3. One long exhale, about twice as long going out as coming in.

That is it. Works in dress clothes.

Nobody notices.

Tuesday we build the full ten minute version, plus the nine minute couples version.

Free, live, replay for everyone.

Link in bio.

Built for two.

Just as good on your own.

08/19/2026

Most stress advice starts in the wrong place.

It tells you to reframe the situation, or to think about it differently, or to remember that this too shall pass.

All reasonable.

All nearly useless in the moment, and here is why.

By the time you consciously notice stress, your body has already moved.

The jaw is set.

The shoulders are up.

The breath has gone shallow and high in the chest.

Your brain then reads that bodily state as evidence that something is genuinely wrong, and goes hunting for the threat.

That loop runs whether or not your reasoning is sound.

Trying to argue your way out of it while the body is still braced is like arguing with a smoke alarm while the toast is burning.

So we teach it in the other order.

Body first, because it is faster and because it does not require you to already be in a good mood. Mind second, because by then it can actually land.

Three things that make the body part work:

-- The exhale is the lever.

A Stanford randomized controlled trial compared several breathing patterns against mindfulness meditation, five minutes a day for a month.

The pattern that came out ahead emphasized a long, extended exhale.

--Hands do more per minute than almost anywhere else.

They occupy an outsized share of the brain's sensory map, so a small input produces a large signal.

They are also the only place you can work on in a meeting without anyone noticing. Whose hand it is matters.

In one well known study, women facing the threat of a mild shock showed reduced threat related brain activation when holding their husband's hand.

A stranger's hand helped less. The higher the reported marital quality, the larger the effect.

--That last finding is the one I keep coming back to.

We spend a lot of energy trying to manage stress alone, when the most effective regulator available to most people is sitting in the next room.

I am teaching the full ten minute protocol Tuesday, August 25 at 8:00 PM ET.

Free, live, replay for everyone who registers.

*Link in the comments.

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