Healing from the Inside Out

Healing from the Inside Out

How far are you willing to go to achieve peace? In a world consumed by constant stimulus, technological advancement, endless interconnection, and instant access to information, perhaps we have mistaken convenience for fulfillment, replacing stillness and tranquility with perpetual distraction.

A Revolution in Energy Work

In this generation, a revolution centered on finding stillness amid the everyday grind of life has emerged. Ice baths, meditation, morning exercise, and energy work have become popular buzzwords across social media and the business world as society begins to recognize that the stillness previous generations once took for granted may have been the very source of the serenity, we are now all chasing. What was summed up previously to be as a collection of old wives’ tales, pseudoscience, or fringe wellness has now gained serious traction due to the rise in the desire to practice mindfulness and wellness. The Art of Healing stated that over the span of about ten years, global interest in alternative healing has increased 9 times, or increased 837%!

Through people like Deborah Myers, acupressurist and Jin Shin Jyutsu practitioner of thirty years, she has improved my life, thousands of kids, and adults. Whether in private sessions, workshops, or everyday life, she is passionate about teaching people how to better understand and care for their bodies. On the night I met her, she told me of a time when a young girl obtained peace after dealing with some emotions from the aftermath of being temporarily separated from her family amidst a natural disaster.

The Young Girl on the Beach

During a visit to the Bahamas, Myers spent an afternoon on the beach with a young girl she had met earlier in the day after asking her mother where the restroom was located. Unbeknownst to Myers, this girl was experiencing some anxiety because during a hurricane, she was temporarily separated from her family. Although the girl appeared cheerful, Myers was able to see beneath her playful demeanor and see some inner turmoil. To release this, she suggested the girl cross her arms in a prayer-like position. Afterwards, the two passed the time building sandcastles along the shoreline as waves rolled gently onto the sand. Later, the girl’s mother remarked that her daughter seemed noticeably calmer and more at ease. Encounters like this reflect the foundation of Myers’ work, which seeks to address stress and overstimulation through techniques she calls “The Daily Flow.”

Energy Work to Calm Your Mind

Myers, a Jin Shin Jyutsu practitioner, has spent years teaching acupressure to everyone from grade school children to adults in their nineties. When I first met her, I expected someone to prepare for a television interview to be focused or even a little nervous. Instead, she carried herself with a calm disposition that immediately stood out to me.

Before meeting Myers, I doubted the effects of “Energy work” and saw self-care as secondary to the demands of my everyday life. But after she began lightly touching a couple’s acupoints, my breath softened, and the once insuppressibly chatter in my mind began to quiet in a way I had never been able to get it to quiet before.

In experiences like mine, people will use energy to calm their minds, regulate themselves, sleep better, among a plethora of other things. “Energy work” is an umbrella term for alternative medicine that believes energy can manifest in the body and cause discomfort and dysregulation.

The Origins of Acupressure

The practice of acupressure dates to ancient China and is based on a belief like that of acupuncture: that the body contains acupoints which, when stimulated through touch rather than needles, can relieve stress and enhance overall well-being. Practices such as massage therapy, reiki, acupuncture, and Jin Shin Jyutsu all share this belief and aim to promote healing and balance within individuals.

The Origins of Jin Shin Jyutsu

Conceived in Japan, Jin Shin Jyutsu was first created by a man named Jiro Murai. Murai, born in 1886, was told that his stomach condition was terminal. In a last-ditch effort to save himself, he revived Jin Shin Jyutsu and began teaching it thirty years later, where a woman named Mary Iino would learn from him.

After learning these techniques, she left Japan in 1953 and came to America, got married, changed her name to Burmeister and taught her methods there.

Flash forward to the seventies, Deborah Myers was in college when she learned what was coined at the time as “energy healing” and was deeply intrigued. In contrast to simply taking a pill, or ignoring it, the power was merely at her fingertips to relieve herself of stress and obtain peace. In 1995, she got her certificate in acupressure and Jin Shin Jyutsu and using her knowledge, she has changed the lives of many.

After being introduced to energy healing in the 1970’s, this would spark a thirty-plus year long career for Myers, where she has introduced her acupressure guide to thousands of children, produced an abundance of workshops to train people to self-actualize and alchemize their emotions, as well as physical or cognitive pain. Besides her Daily Flow, she also implements teaching acupressure through many other facets. A newer way would be offering CEU’s for practicing nurses in California. CEU stands for Continuing Education Units, allowing nurses to stay current in their field.

Bettering Your Life with Jin Shin Jyutsu

In those thirty years, she volunteered at many schools, teaching students an acupressure routine known as the Daily Flow. Combating the focus, stress and attention span issues many students in this generation face. For her altruistic efforts to teach children how to understand their bodies and calm themselves through her unique method, “Daily Flow,” she was awarded the Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award. While wanting to help not just children understand themselves, she also gives nurses a fun curriculum to help them understand their bodies better and obtain their CEU’s.

Through teaching children, teens, and adults’ alike acupressure, Myers and all energy workers are not implementing the idea that no one ever must see a doctor again but teaching individuals that we are enlightened beings that can understand what our pain is, how we can treat it and release it. The pain isn’t the body hating itself but communicating with us. What energy work is meant to do is empower the individual that they have the power to heal themselves and others.

A New Way of Teaming with Modern Science

Whether it be Massage Therapy, Reiki, Qui, they don’t serve the purpose of rejecting modern science but accompanying it through helping people become more in tune and at peace within themselves. Shifting the common, old narrative that the acknowledgement of a person’s pain is weak, and it must be something they must suppress, ignore, and treat through solely pharmaceuticals, traditional therapy, and diagnosis.

The body is a complex organism that science is still working to fully understand. Practitioners of energy work believe the body communicates through physical and emotional signals that deserve attention rather than dismissal. Through her volunteer work, workshops, school courses, workplace wellness programs, and private sessions, Deborah Myers has dedicated her life to teaching anyone willing to listen to how to find greater peace within themselves. Instead of constantly striving, hustling, and hurting, people can learn to help their bodies relax, flow, and thrive.

Learn more: https://deborahmyerswellness.com/