Emotional Stress Release Points – The Power of the Frontal Eminance: A Report from a Psychological Relief Volunteer in Sichuan

Xu Yun (Wuhan)

You may remember that an earthquake shoke the earth of Sichuan on May 12, 2008.

In that earthquake, many people lost their homes. It was also that earthquake that made me realize the importance of psychological work in China.

At the end of May, I went to Chengdu, Sichuan, to work as a psychological relief volunteer.

At the West China Hospital in Chengdu, I met a young girl who was in shock and had not been able too fall asleep for two days and one night. She was very weak. Her ribs and coccyx were broken. She had lost her parents. The doctors and mental workers at the hospital said there was not much they could do about her shock state.

Because I had attended some kinesiology courses, I know that the “Emotional Stress Release Points (ESR)” were good for that. (They are the two Frontal
Eminances between the hairline and the eyebrows, also known as “Positive Points” in Brain Gym – see graphics). Thus, I used the fingers of my two hands
to light touch her ESR. Ten minutes later, the little girl fell asleep!

Useful skills are often very simple.

* To read another report on using Touch for Health to help earthquake victims, click here.

* This report is extracted from the website of The China Network of Registered Touch for Health Instructors