Instructions - for jet lag prevention (accupressure)

 

A friend gave me this advice, 

which he and his wife tested out to good results, for a 14 hour international flight.

He said:

Someone who is both an MD and a Chinese Medicine doctor gave me the following instructions for jet lag prevention.  For the first time traveling to and from Taiwan last year, we had nearly no jet lag.  ...  I only massage each point for about 2-5 minutes each time.  

Here it is:

Yes, this is the acupressure diagram for the treatment of jet lag!  This diagram shows the circadian rhythm of the meridian circulation in the body according to Chinese medicine, which shifts in two-hour intervals, one for each 時辰. Each point depicted is known as the 本穴 or "phase point" of each meridian, which embodies the intrinsic elemental qualities of that meridian and should most directly activate the circulation in that meridian alone, without simultaneously activating other meridians. Stimulating these points in sequence while time passes through the various 時辰 intervals can help adjust the body's circadian rhythm to reflect a different circadian rhythm that is currently present in another time zone.

In order to give rise to a new circadian rhythm that matches the time zone at one's destination, when you get on the airplane, you would need to calculate what time it is at the destination, and find the corresponding 時辰 on that wheel chart. Then, using a finger, knuckle or something pointier like a toothpick, you would begin to massage the representative phase point on the corresponding meridian for a few minutes. 

I used a knuckle or the back end of a pen.  

You only have to do one point for each time slot (you don't have to hit all the points on each diagram, just pick one convenient one), which was what I did on the airplane and a bit more after arrival.

Every two hours, you would then progress along the clock and massage the phase point on the next meridian, and so on two hours later with the next meridian, continuing every two hours at the new destination until the jet lag has ceased.

If Daylight Savings Time is in effect, it is better to go by the non-DST time rather than using the DST time.

Here is a good website for showing precise locations for each acupoint:

3-5am

經渠 Lung-8 

https://www.mastertungacupuncture.org/acupuncture/traditional/points/lu8

5-7am

商陽 Large intestine-1 

https://www.mastertungacupuncture.org/acupuncture/traditional/points/li1

7-9am

足三里 Stomach-36

https://www.mastertungacupuncture.org/acupuncture/traditional/points/st36

9-11am

太白 Spleen-3

https://www.mastertungacupuncture.org/acupuncture/traditional/points/sp3

11am-1pm

少府 Heart-8

https://www.mastertungacupuncture.org/acupuncture/traditional/points/ht8

1pm-3pm

陽谷 Small intestine-5

https://www.mastertungacupuncture.org/acupuncture/traditional/points/si5

3pm-5pm

足通谷 Bladder-66

https://www.mastertungacupuncture.org/acupuncture/traditional/points/bl66

5pm-7pm

陰谷 Kidney-10

https://www.mastertungacupuncture.org/acupuncture/traditional/points/ki10 

7pm-9pm

勞宮 Pericardium-8

https://www.mastertungacupuncture.org/acupuncture/traditional/points/pc8

9pm-11pm

支溝 Triple heater-6

https://www.mastertungacupuncture.org/acupuncture/traditional/points/th6

11pm-1am

足臨泣 Gallbladder-41

https://www.mastertungacupuncture.org/acupuncture/traditional/points/gb41

1am-3am

大敦 Liver-1

https://www.mastertungacupuncture.org/acupuncture/traditional/points/lr1

gorilla proverbs

 "zen" is transliteration of jhāna.

Zen, and partial zen (along with sati) should be maintained all the time, 24/7, all postures, all activities.

The following proverbs are easy to memorize, and help you to optimize physical health and exercise as a means to juice your zen,

make it an enjoyable and sustainable spiritual practice,

as opposed to a dry mind only Dhamma practice that can be painful and lead to many physical (and mental) health problems. 

1. zen first, question later.

2. eat for need, not for greed

3. gorilla gātha: fast, slow - high, low - check zen, stay zen, always zen

4. keep the heat: head neck hands feet

5. finish diminish; finish the mission of exploitation

6. assess to progress, with ample sample

7. measure for pleasure

8. ramp, not amp

9. no pain, to gain

10. don't wag the dog

🔗📝recipes

 

https://qigor.blogspot.com/2019/07/gorilla-hummus-protocol.html

https://qigor.blogspot.com/2020/11/healthiest-and-fastest-oatmeal-recipes.html

https://qigor.blogspot.com/2020/11/pressure-cooker-dry-pasta-in-10-min-no.html

https://qigor.blogspot.com/2020/10/healthy-vegan-veggie-burger-and-fries.html

8 pieces of gorilla, eightfold gorilla path

1. Buddha takes a stand

 

2. March of the Arahants

3. Full Lotus Turtle

4. Swimming Dragon

5. 🐙 Subtle medusa rules heaven and earth

6. 🐯 mountainside archer surrounded by tigers

7. Dragon Ascends

8. 🦍🎵 Gorilla jazz improv

After you've mastered your solo, individual exercises,

you're ready to use your vocabulary of exercises and combine them in spontaneous, unexpected ways to create new masterpieces.

full lotus, padmasana posture

 

gym rings, about 75$ for good pair, spend 5 to 10 min. a day on this, great for beginners, advanced

 I've been doing this everyday for a few years now, I've told friends about how great they are, but nothing beats seeing it in video to convince you to try it.

Great for meditators and sedentary modern people.

I've been doing many of the exercises shown in this video, that I learned from others or improvised myself, it's great to see others see the health benefits discovered independently.

People do things that work, improve health, etc. 

This person just made a video a couple of days ago, they're probably paid to promote a certain brand of rings.

I don't know what my rings are, I just picked one up on amazon with high volume of purchases with good ratings.

fun full lotus moves: finger toe spacers, and slapping palms to bubbling wells

 

(more detail to follow another day)

Both of these moves done starting from full lotus sit.

if you can't do full lotus, this also works from an easy partial  half lotus kind of position, so long as you have good access to your feet with your hands.

1. finger toe spacers: interlace your fingers with your toes.

For most people, this will have the effect of toe spacers 

left hand 5 finger to 5 toes of right foot.

right hand 5 fingers to 5 toes of left foot.

If anything hurts, it shows poor circulation of blood, qi, etc.

Doing this move acts as accupressure and will help dissolve blockages, pain, and discomfort over time.

1b. rotate feet and hands about ankles and wrists

with your interlaced hands and feet still attached to each other, you can make circular motions

2. slapping palms to bubbling wells, HARD.

the centers of your palms on the hands, and the equivalent spots on your feet (bubbling wells),

are major centers of energy. 

Slapping hands to feet very hard, helps to dissolve blockages.

How do you know it's working?  Over days and weeks, You may feel itchiness, on other parts of your arms and legs, or dark spots on your skin forming from lymph fluid carrying away particles that were stuck in your lymphatic system. 

When qi is flowing better in not just your hands, feet, but whole body, you will be able to tell the difference if you pay attention.

How many times should you slap yourself? 

I always go with the buffet sampler approach. I do 48 reps and then my body tells me if I need to do more. 

It's just like 4 jhāna progression. If your body feels pain, it's part of the process of your body transforming from stiff and blocked into soft and smooth energy flow. When it's getting soft, body gives you large physical sukha as inducement to tell you not to stop yet.

When transformation is complete, just like fourth jhana you get neutral sensations.

I literally slapped the shit out of myself this morning doing move #2 slapping my feet with palms

 

I slapped my feet about 48 times, and then I had to go excrete feces. After doing move #2, I had to go to use the bathroom #2. 

Remember the PV=nRT formula from chemistry and science class?

Jhanic force and the physical hand slap go where the "P" is in the formula.

I've also had to excrete feces after soaking my hands or feet a few minutes in hot water.

Science and jhanic force. It's real, it works, it's universal. 

What is the PV nRT law?

In such a case, all gases obey an equation of state known as the ideal gas law: PV = nRT, where n is the number of moles of the gas and R is the universal (or perfect) gas constant, 8.31446261815324 joules per kelvin per mole.

split squats for sitting meditators with tight hips

 

I discovered a great exercise to stretch all the muscles in upper leg and hip.

(and even the lower legs, calf muscles on both legs depending on careful foot placement)

split squats, but doing many reps to emphasize stretches rather than trying to dip low (knees almost to ground) to burn your thigh muscles for muscle growth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EswpoF3TxkU

Like Jade Wushu champ doing at beginning of video.

Body builders doing split squats to get bigger leg muscles squat lower and slower.

Jade is mostly flexing to dynamically stretch and work towards doing full splits as in Chinese wushu training.

I find the best for deep hip and upper leg stretch (for sitting meditators looking to gain pliability) is somewhere between those two extremes.

The entire video of Jade above, 10min, is really good to stretch all around the leg.

I do something similar with my crab side shuffle stretch.

Ps: gorilla warfare

There's an important lesson here on guerrilla warfare (meditators looking to add to their bag of tricks to improve pliability and flexibility).

Split squats have been around forever.

I dismissed the exercise, thinking it's just for muscle heads trying to get big muscular legs and toned butt.

And I dismissed the wushu martial artists version in Jade's video, because that crowd, like gymnasts and contortionists, practice extreme and dangerous methods to gain super flexibility.

But all these years I missed out the fact, had I not experimented with it sooner is if you tune the exercise just right, it's great for stretching many parts of the leg and thigh quickly, in one exercise (whereas normally you need 4 or 5 exercises to stretch all parts of the leg).

So the lesson as always, it's NWBH.

It's not what you do, but how you do it that determines if something is useful, safe, or dangerous.

DWTD🐕: taiji and internal arts body movement

 Ideally should move with the whole body.

What happens in practice, beginners learn by looking at what the hands and arms are doing, 

and imitate that first,  

and then dragging the rest of the body along with the hands.

Tail wagging the Dog.

It takes years, even decades for energy channels to open up, 

for one's whole body sensitivity to reach the point where one can directly can clearly see 

what body parts is leading what, and whether the whole body moves together in perfect unison.

For beginner and intermediates, if you're going to err better for the hands and arms to lag the torso and legs (tail moved by dog, lags the dog).