Do-in massage is a massage technique which consists of pressure on the various points of the body with the fingertips to make the energy flow . Let's find out better.

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Do-in massage technique

To its origins, which can be placed around the 6th century. BC, the Do-in massage was a fusion between a religious and therapeutic aspect, in the sense that the diagnosis, prevention and treatment merged with the concept of bodily purification through the elevation of the spirit. When the principles of yoga and Buddhism spread in China in the first century AD, the Do-in technique lost its therapeutic aspect to preserve only the religious aspect, accentuated by a combination of fasting and purifying meditation.

The Do-in method was introduced in the West around the eighteenth century, but in Italy it arrived only at the end of the 1970s and in these same years the medical aspect of the technique was also revalued.

The method is rather simple and consists in applying pressure to the various points of the body with the fingertips, especially the thumb, for a time of about 5 seconds. The pressure is aimed at perceiving the painful point without insisting, only identifying it through the sensation of annoyance. The pressure coincides with the exhalation and the relaxation of the pressure with inspiration.

The seat

Do-in massage should be done daily, preferably after waking up, for about 45 minutes and never more than an hour. The environment must be bright, airy and quiet, starting from the upper limbs and gradually descending to the head, face, neck, neck, shoulders, chest, up to the lower limbs.

Benefits and contraindications of Do-in massage

For the success of Do-in self-massage it is essential to know the exercises to do but, above all, to know how to listen to your body during the performance and concentrate on each area treated trying to imagine the energy that flows .

It has no particular contraindications, the important thing is that at the end of each treatment, take a short break before facing the commitments of the day.

Curiosity

To understand how Do-in works, one must have a minimal knowledge of the body in an energetic key : the vertebral column is the line of contact between heaven and earth; the energy comes from the sky penetrates through the hands and external meridians ( Yang ), passes to the back, to the legs and to the feet.

The energy that comes from the earth instead passes through the internal meridians ( Yin ), flows from the feet to the legs, to the arms and to the hands.