Medicine Cabinet: Ear Massage for Soothing Emotional Intensity.

Ear Massage👂🏾 gives that juicy sensation of deep relaxation as feel good hormones are stimulated to flood the bloodstream. The ears have soooo many nerve endings, especially the ear lobes.

Add this to your stress relief toolbox!

(For more details see this video LIVE on instagram)

Some benefits include:

🔸️Soothing nerve sensations that resonate through the whole body

🔸️A feeling of happiness from transmitting positive endorphins

🔸️Enhanced immune system from stimulating the senses

🔸️Improved skin quality from stimulated skin

🔸️Increased blood flow to brain, increasing focus and clarity.

🔸️Relaxing sensations from the therapeutic touch of massage

🪴Use this as a daily preventative medicine but also DURING intense emotional charges as it will physiologically calm you. GREAT FOR CHILDREN!

Take an intentional breath, relax the face and shoulders.

• Use index finger and thumb to rub circles along the outer edge of the ear and ear lobe.

• Gently pull and release the ear away from the head, letting the ear slide through your fingers until it is released.

• Pinch and release around the edge of your ear lobe, then work up and down outer edge of ear.

• Use the pads of fingers to gently stroke around the front and outer edge of the ear. Move to the back of the ear, stroking from the top and down to where the ear joins the jaw.

• Place the palm on the whole ear, slightly push inward and move the palm up and down to fold and unfold the whole ear cartilage.

• Breathe and notice how you feel.
  
  ❓️Which is your favorite technique? Right now, mine is the pinching the ear lobe. I feel it wakes me up and stimates my brain.
  
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  I'm sharing this medicine in honor of Baba #MutuluShakur finally being released after 35 years of imprisonment as a political prisoner. He contributed greatly to health consciousness in the black community. Specifically training men and women on an a simple acupuncture protocol using points in the ear to help with symptoms of drug withdrawal and acute trauma - during a time when toxic drugs were (strategically and maliciously) dropped into our communities; tearing families apart. This was an epidemic we are still healing from today. This massage routine was inspired by the great work of this front line warrior Mutulu Shakur and my personal Elder Baba Kokayi. Thank You.

Enjoy this Medicine.