Introduction to the Healing Art of Jin Shin

Excerpt below from Jin Shin Healing Touch by Tina Stümpfig © 2020 Findhorn Press, pp. 13 - 15. Printed with permission from the publisher Inner Traditions International.


What is Jin Shin Jyutsu?

Jin Shin Jyutsu - colloquially also simply referred to as “Jin Shin” - is an ancient source of knowledge about the harmonization of life energy. Hundreds of years ago it is said to have been spread all over the world and to have been transmitted orally from generation to generation until eventually it was forgotten and used only intuitively, if at all.

 Jiro Murai from Japan rediscovered and researched this gentle art of self-healing at the beginning of the 20th century, following his own recovery from a very serious illness. He transcribed his knowledge and passed it on to his students Kato Sensei and Mary Burmeister. As a result, this art was given a Japanese name: Jin Shin Jyutsu, which translates as the "Creator’s art through the compassionate person".

• Jin: knowing, compassionate person
• Shin: creator

• Jyutsu: art

Mary Burmeister introduced the art of Jin Shin Jyutsu to the Western world and hence made it accessible to us once again.
 
Jin Shin Jyutsu is a gentle healing art that you can use on yourself and of course also on other humans as well as animals. By placing your hands on certain points on the body, life energy is harmonized and restored to a vibrant flow. As self-healing capacities are mobilized, body, mind and soul become geared towards healing and complaints and symptoms are alleviated or completely eliminated.
 
You can use Jin Shin Jyutsu in parallel to all other therapies, even if you are receiving medical treatment. Jin Shin Jyutsu treatments can, for example, reduce the side effects of medication and reinforce and speed up recovery following surgery. Jin Shin Jyutsu is not a miracle cure, but  an art to harmonize life energy in the body . Yet, miracles can happen, especially so, if you deeply engage and trust yourself.
 
Health, vitality and well-being depend on the free and even distribution of life energy in the body. When life energy flows harmoniously, humans beings are healthy. When there are blockages in the energy pathways that bring life into the body, these become manifest relatively quickly through disharmony, malaise and the first symptoms of disease. If energy remains imbalanced, these symptoms become reinforced, more severe or chronic, and may even lead to new symptoms.
 
Jin Shin Jyutsu works with 26 so-called safety energy locks, which lie on each side of the body and are arranged symmetrically to the spine. These are points on the body where energy is available in a highly concentrated form and where, simply by holding these points, blockages can be easily released. By placing your hands on certain safety energy locks, depending on the subject or symptom at hand, you regain a sense of harmony, spiritually, mentally and physically, releasing blockages, dissolving symptoms, and gradually – sometimes even quite suddenly – you are filled with new life force, vitality, joy, serenity and trust.


The Application of Jin Shin Jyutsu  

Photo by Antonika Chanel from Unsplash
 
Place your fingertips, fingers or palms on the points indicated until life energy begins to flow freely again. With a little practice, you can feel this. It is noticeable as a slight tingling, pulsating or flowing - hence the term "flows". Nevertheless, everyone may experience this in a slightly different way.

You need do nothing other than hold these points. You do not remove anything and you do not add anything. Your hands simply serve, so to speak, as jumper cables, so that life energy can flow strongly and consistently again, while empty energy batteries can recharge themselves. At first, you will probably not sense this flow or pulsation as yet. In our everyday life we are not used to paying attention to such subtle energies, so it may take a while for you to attune to these.
 
Until then, simply keep to the following basic rules:

• Maintain each hold for 3 - 5 minutes, then move on to the next one.
• If you only do one hold, feel free to maintain it for 15 - 20 minutes.
• For a longer flow, such as the main central flow with its seven steps, take about 30 minutes for the entire sequence, which comes to about 4 minutes for each hold.
• Only hold points as long as it feels enjoyable and comfortable.
• When it gets tiring, switch to another hold or take a break.
• If some points are difficult to reach, just hold other points, as there are always different options.
• And if you have problems reaching the energy locks on your feet: the substitute for all energy locks on the feet is SEL 15 in the groin!

 
Incidentally, you can treat yourself as often and as long as feels good.
 
When you treat others, roughly keep to the following times:

• Adults: not more than one hour at a time
• Children: infants no more than 20 minutes, older children no more than 40 minutes at a time          
• Babies: just a few minutes
• Elderly or very sick people: not more than half an hour at at time
• Animals: 10 - 30 minutes (animals usually show you when they have had enough by turning away or simply walking off)

 
What matters, is that all this is effortless and - even if it sounds a bit strange - that you hold no intention. Of course, if you are sick, you naturally want to change this, but change can most easily happen if, as said, your hands simply act as jumper cables without your thoughts and expectations getting in the way of the energy flow.


To find out more about the book Jin Shin Healing Touch - click here - or get a copy at the Under the Leaves book shop on Forres High street, if you're based in Moray.

For related blogs see:

Brief Instructions for Harmonizing Jin Shin Points
The Art of Jin Shin & the TARA Approach
Welcome to our 'Oasis of Calm' - Some Suggestions & Guidelines
Pay from the heart and our Jin Shin sessions

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