While doing CobraBalance to relieve pain or heal an injury, touching different pressure points with your hands can help direct energy along meridians of the body.* The stimulus of touch and concentration can help reconnect the flow of chi between the contact points. Simultaneously, it will engage the sensory nerves in the touched areas, enhancing body awareness. Increased activity in the synapses of the brain makes a more direct, conscious connection between the brain and the repair site. For those of you who have used a biofeedback machine on an injured muscle, this is a similar experience. Awareness of the repair site via touch makes the healing process become more conscious, allowing you to take control of functions that would be otherwise relegated to the autonomic nervous system.
*Reiki practitioner Eileen Lindbuchler has helped me identify the points of contact to use during specific CobraBalance exercises and poses. The best way to learn how to use these pressure points is to attend a CobraBalance class.
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