Gates of Consciousness...all right, Gall Bladder 20...

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I just like the Chinese names...they seem important to me, so...

I've tried doing both sides at once -- I can try/do to balance the sides that

way, so I try that at least once a day (using my thumbs, as hard as I feel

necessary for 30 sec. - 1 m.). But more useful for me has been one side then the

other, using the opposing hands; the leverage is more direct. This also about

the same timing.

The others most useful for me, though, have been the Heavenly Pillars (B10)

-- anxiety and stress have always been migraine triggers, as well as being the

more pathological of my personality traits -- I've kind of always operated in

fight-or-flight, normal = panic mode. So these get as much attention as GB20

for me, and frequently they have a more intense reaction.

I go through those four points, spending a couple of minutes at least twice

and usually about four times a day on them. Apart from them, I deal with the

" fires " -- wherever it seems most important. Joining the Valley (LI4), Jaw

Chariot (St6), Three Mile Point (St36) as well as shoulders, arm points around

the

elboes and wrists, are the ones the get visited daily now. They get varying

amounts of attention and pressure, usually about equivalent, but only once a day

usually.

And while I said at the beginning of this I'd be gentler this time around, in

practice that's varied. Some days just seem to require more than gentle

pressure, and I've been quite forceful occasionally. Demands of the day, I

suppose.

BTW, tinnitus operates right next door to the primitive brain's

fight-or-flight center, and there's a theory that it in fact tinnitus sufferers

are always

in panic mode because of bleed-over (as well as just wanting to get the hell

away from that infernal sound....) It's certainly seemed sound to me, and those

who know me.

Mark