If you are too tired or sore to massage your neck and shoulders, try this simple hand reflexology zone technique. Pinch the area between your fingers, then thumb walk down the edge of your thumb to the palm for about two minutes, and repeat on the other hand. This exercise helps relieve neck and shoulder tension, can be done several times a day, has no known contraindications, and also benefits overall tension, ulcers, whiplash, headaches, and fainting.
Instructions
Pinch the area between the fingers, then thumb walk down the edge of the thumb to the palm. Continue for about two minutes. Repeat on the other hand.
This exercise:
- Aims to relieve neck and shoulder tension
- Can be done several times a day
- Has no known contraindications; and
- Is also beneficial for general overall tension, ulcers, whiplash, headache and fainting.
—Excerpted from the book Healing Self-Massage: Over 100 simple techniques for re-energizing body and mind, by Kristine Kaoverii Weber