Be Your Own Testimony (Part 2) - Gene Keys Guide and Collective Walker Anja Krüger shares her Journey with Jin Shin

Jin Shin Jyutsu (JSJ) found me while I was living in the US in 2000.

I was working a fairly strenuous job as an IT trainer in a small Start Up, as well as living a busy social life when I developed symptoms of chronic fatigue.

After various attempts to find healing, I decided to participate in a meditation retreat. The facility offered optional treatments. I signed up for a healing session which was then cancelled for some reason.

The only available alternative was a JSJ session.

And there I was, lying on the treatment table, being gently held. I was able to relax for the first time in months and my body soaked up the healing flow of energy.  

I still remember quite vividly how the practitioner told me: 'When my husband and I notice that we are about to start a fight we take a pause and playfully hold each other's middle finger.'

This is how I learnt about the emotions that are associated with the fingers and how we can harmonise anger by holding the middle finger. 

My practitioner also pointed out energy location 15 (in the inguinal area) as a key to bringing laughter back into my life.

There was luck and maybe destiny involved when I was able to find a JSJ practitioner only a few minutes away from where I was living at the time. With regular treatments and self help, I soon felt much better. 

While still on my healing journey, I signed up for my first 5-day Jin Shin Jyutsu class. It gave me a taste of the width and breadth of wisdom that the art of JSJ is based on. I even got the chance to travel to the JSJ Inc headquarters in Scottsdale Arizona to receive treatments there.

By then, after a few months of re-energising the flow of life force energy in my body, I had recovered to a point that I was able to hike half way down the Grand Canyon.

JSJ gave me a sense of agency when it came to dealing with smaller and bigger symptoms, physical or emotional. Working with JSJ was also my way of harmonising the fear that came up when I decided to become self-employed.

Likewise, to this day, when I feel exhausted I lie down and hold my little toes (a simple hold to help regenerate our kidneys) or enjoy the whole kidney flow. I generally get up feeling refreshed after about 20 minutes.

JSJ accompanies me wherever I go. It also used to be a way to find new friends whenever I moved to a new city; I joined practice groups where three or more of us would meet for an evening to treat each other and exchange our experiences.

However, I never felt that it was my fate to become a JSJ practitioner. Instead, in 2018, I found a system, called the Gene Keys, that fascinates me as much as JSJ does.

Like JSJ, the Gene Keys can support us in finding harmony within ourselves, just using another channel to do so - namely, that of contemplation.

Like JSJ, the Gene Keys are based on ancient knowledge from the East. This wisdom is based on the 64 hexagrams from the I Ching.

Through contemplating our Profile - the 11 Gene Keys or hexagrams that most impact our life - we come to understand our gifts and unique challenges in this life.

To me, both JSJ and the Gene Keys offer different frameworks to help us live a life of harmony and purpose. And, they have both become travel companions that I would not want to miss.

Anja lives in Berlin, Germany.

She works online and in person offering Gene Keys courses and coaching to groups and individuals, including profile readings that support us to relax into our unique genius.

She also offers opportunities for Collective Walking. 

To find out more about her work see her website: outdoormystic.com

For related blogs see:

Be Your Own Testimony (Part 1)
The Art of Jin Shin & the TARA Approach
Introduction to the Healing Art of Jin Shin

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