Massage: Neck Facts, Risks, and Advice

Massage: Neck Facts, Risks, and Advice

This 10-minute qigong practice guides you through massaging the head, neck, and shoulders to relax the body and improve sleep. Techniques include pressing acupressure points, tapping, and gentle stretches to release tension and promote calm. The session ends with gratitude and breathing exercises to enhance relaxation.

Massage Head, Neck, Shoulders | 10-Minute Qigong to Relax and Sleep Well. | Transcript:

So, dear everyone, welcome back to uh Qigong meditation channel again. This morning we have um 10 minutes to practice Qigong massage our head, shoulders, and our neck, okay? To relax our body. But at [snorts] the same time to uh have a better resting and sleeping, okay? So, first of all, we can use our or our 10 fingers to massage our head, okay? Put on our head. So, you can uh massage look like you are pressing your head, your hair, okay? So, you uh press down front of your head, beside your head, and in the back of your head. Help you to circulate your blood, relax your brain. Breathe in. You can massage like this for a few minutes. Also, help your That's a wonderful. And then you can put your also your two

thumbs on your scalp on your head, okay? And then your two thumbs down here. uh press under your lip right here. There's a hole two side of your neck, your lip, okay? Over here. So, you press breathe in. You press and move circle maybe one to two times, two or three circle. And then you release it breathe out, okay? Breathe in. Breathe out. You press this uh acupressure point can help yourself to relax your head, sleep better, at the same time to make your brain relax, okay?

Breathe in. Out. You press and move circle three times, okay? Breathe in. You can do this 20 to 30 times every day. Will be very good for your head, your rest time. Out. In. Today's the weather outside is so nice. I am on the mountain. You hear the birds singing. And I relax myself. Breathe in. Out. In. One more time. Out. Wonderful. And then [snorts] you can massage your lip, your neck, okay? This is a right lip and this is a left lip, okay? So, you can massage up and down. And keep your neck relaxed and warm.

[snorts] That's a wonderful. You open your palms. Breathe in deep. Breathe out slow. Bring your mind back to the body. In the present moment. You can allow yourself to breathe in and out. Allow your whole body rest. Your neck, your head, your brain rest. Okay. And then you can put your hand uh on your lower abdomen. And then the right palm will be uh open and massage on the back of your left shoulder, okay? So, you can do like this. Tap. You can tap 10 or 20 times and then change to another side. Okay. Change to the left side. So, your neck can move to the left a little bit so have a space to tap on the right shoulder. That's a wonderful.

And [snorts] then you can put your continue on your right left palm on your lower abdomen. Make five fingers together. You can click to uh on the connection point between your left shoulders and your left chest, okay? Under your left shoulder's bone, okay? Connection point. Click 20 times and then you change to uh the other side. This one can relax your chest. But at the same time can keep your heart and your lungs healthy, okay? And the right side. It's a wonderful. And you can shake your all the arms, your fingers. And then you can massage both two arms together. Our left thumb will holding your hands like this way. Then [snorts] breathe in.

You look up and bend your head, your neck backward in this way. Breathe out. You bend your head, your neck down. Okay. Breathe in. Relax your neck. Your head. Out. Allow your neck to relax. Breathe out. Allow your head to release tensions. In. Out. One more time. In. That's a wonderful. Open your palms. Inhale deep. [snorts] Exhale slow. Bring your mind back to the body. In the present moment. And then you can put your right palm on your heart and left palm on your lower abdomen.

You may I allow yourself to close your eyes and embrace your own body with love gratitude. Allow yourself to relax. Feel your lower abdomen. Allow your head, your brain, your shoulders, your neck to be relaxed. Feel grateful to your internal organs. Recognize that you are alive. That's so wonderful, so grateful. Breathing in, recognize that I am alive. I'm alive in the here and now. Breathing out, you feel so happy, so grateful. You can offer to your cell a big smile.

Smile to your brain. Smile to your shoulders. Smile to your neck. And you allow yourself totally to rest. Feel grateful to your ancestors, ancestors in your body. Feel grateful to your mother earth in your body. Grateful to sunshine, space, the earth, the warmness, Feel connected to the earth. Feel connected to your own ancestors in yourself. And you smile to yourself and smile to them the same time. Breathing in, out, then to feel so lucky, so happy. Feel grateful to have everything. To have all conditions to practice, to breathe, to smile, to practice to cool every day. To have this body. To breathe in, you offer a big smile to yourself one more time.

Breathe out, let it go. Let go all tensions. Okay? So, dear friends, thank you so much for joining us today. Very short chi kung massage I had shoulders and your neck. So, you may do this every time you need to rest, okay? In the morning, in the evening, so that can help yourself to sleep better, but at the same time to relax your brain, your head, your shoulders, your neck, okay? After a long day of eating. Thank you so much and enjoy your day with a lot of joy and peace, okay?

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