I.  Head

A.  Crown Point (Fig. 4.1)

This is located in the center of the crown; in the fontanelle area of an infant’s skull there may still be a slight depression. The crown point is the junction of one hundred channels through which the energy of the body passes. Massage this area with both your middle fingers. This will relieve dizziness and headaches, which result from too much energy in the head. It also relieves high blood pres­sure and stimulates the nervous system.

B.  Bring Chi Energy to the Hands and Face.

Inhale, contract the sexual organ, buttocks, and middle of the anus. Rub the hands, clench the teeth, and put the tongue to the roof of the mouth. When the face, head, and hands are hot, breathe nor­mally and begin to massage.

C.  Knock the Head (Fig. 4.2)

Hit the head with the knuckles of the hand, knocking all around the head. Knocking the head lightly can help to clear your head, elimi­nate stubbornness and make your thinking sharper. Many of our students use this knocking of the head to release the pressures that they have from today’s life of fast, advanced technology and the feeling of always having to keep up. This is especially true of those graduate students who feel a great deal of pressure and stress in keeping up with their studies. Each year students com­mit suicide because the pressures and stress accumulate too much in their heads, making them unable to think clearly: they start to feel everything in their society as too much pressure, which leads to worry, fear, sadness, and many, mixed emotions. The simple knocking of the head can release pressure and stress that accu­mulate there.

D.  Hold your Breath to increase Chi flow.

Holding your breath will increase the Chi flow to the face. The head has many channels that join in the skull, especially in the crown point.

E.  Scalp (Fig. 4.3)

Prepare your hands, head and scalp by warming up. Using both hands like a comb, press hard and move slowly, massage the scalp, going straight back from the hairline to the base of the skull. As you do this, mentally direct your energy from the back of the skull to your feet. Repeat 6-9 times. Massage more in any places in which you feel pain, until the pain goes away.

F.  Crest (Fig. 4.4)

Using your thumbs, massage the crest (the edge) at the base of the skull until you feel no pain there. (Fig. 4.5) This will help you reduce headaches and eye aches and will increase vision. This place in Tao tradition is called the Pool of Wind which tends to collect the “evil wind”, the major cause of all the pain in the senses.

F.  Crest (Fig. 4.4)

Using your thumbs, massage the crest (the edge) at the base of the skull until you feel no pain there. (Fig. 4.5) This will help you reduce headaches and eye aches and will increase vision. This place in Tao tradition is called the Pool of Wind which tends to collect the “evil wind”, the major cause of all the pain in the senses.

Forehead (Fig. 4.7)

Using alternate hands, wipe your forehead from one side to the other 6 to 9 times.

Corresponding organs to head and face

Mid-Forehead

Use the second joint of alternate index fingers to massage the middle of the forehead, from the center to the temple. (Fig. 4.12)

Temples

Use your index fingers to massage the temples in a circular mo­tion, first clockwise, then counterclockwise. Massage the forehead and the temples; use the knuckle rub from the middle of the fore­head all the way to the temples ten to twenty times. (Fig. 4.13) These exercises will reduce headaches in the front and in the temples. Find the painful point and massage it until the pain is gone.

Mouth

Depression makes the corners of the mouth drop. Looking cheer­ful, delightful, more attractive and happy are dependent so much on the eyes and the corners of the mouth. When the muscles of the mouth are loose because of stress, depression, or sadness, the corners of the mouth drop and the energy system is depressed and in low key. No one likes to look at a sad face or a depressed face; it makes other people feel sad and depressed, too.

The flow of energy in the body and the expression of the face are the main attractive powers of a person. Massaging the mouth muscles up will help to lift the corners of the mouth. The Inner Smile and lifting up the corners of the mouth are very important to building up attractive energy.

Beautify the Mouth Massage

Using the thumb and the index finger of the right hand, touch both corners of the mouth and feel the Chi from the thumb and index finger pass to the corners of the mouth. Slowly press and push up about one inch, release and start again at the corners, pressing up ten to twenty times each day. (Fig. 4.14)