G-Jo Acupressure: Safer, Faster, and More Effective Than Most Drugs or Surgery

Centuries ago, even ordinary families had something most people lack today: ways to relieve suffering and heal themselves without doctors, drugs, or surgery. Instead, when they fell ill, they used nature’s medicines: herbs, food, and other such remedies. Perhaps surprisingly, there are actually many simple self-health techniques that take only minutes to learn and moments to apply yet can bring dependable relief from most common aches and ailments.

One of the safest and most effective of these is called G-Jo Acupressure—a kind of acupuncture, but without the needles. Here tiny spots, or acupoints, on the body are triggered in a deep, goading massage for a few seconds when a person is suffering from headache, back pain, or another common complaint. In most cases, relief follows instantly. Though ancient, G-Jo (pronounced GEE-joh) is so powerful and effective that people have continued using this safe, reliable technique in spite of modern (and often dangerous) drugs and surgery.

There are nearly two hundred G?Jo Acupressure points on the body. When you notice a pain or discomfort—say, a headache—simply reach for the appropriate G?Jo acupoint, trigger it in the special G-Jo way for a few seconds, then find and trigger the same point on the opposite side of the body. By the time you’ve finished, the headache should be gone. If it isn’t, just reach for the next headache control point—there are more than twenty of them—and repeat the process. Nearly always, at least one of them will bring immediate relief.

Try it for yourself right now. To actually relieve that headache, begin by finding G?Jo acupoint number thirteen. Place your right hand so that the palm faces the floor. Now put your fingers out straight, side by side, and squeeze your thumb tightly against your index or pointer finger. You should see a small, fleshy mound pop up on the back of the right hand between the thumb and index finger.

Next, place the tip—not the pad or fleshy part—of the left thumb (or if you have a long thumb nail, the bent knuckle of the left index finger or even the eraser tip of a pencil) on top of that mound. Keeping the left thumb tip in place, relax the right hand and begin pressing deeply in the webbed or fleshy area that is formed between the thumb and pointer finger. Press around deeply until you feel a tender “ouch” point. This will feel like a toothache or pinched nerve when you contact it.

The more the acupoint hurts, the better it is likely to be for your headache (or other health problem since this broad-acting G-Jo point has many healing uses). Once you locate the spot, do step two of this very easy three?step process: trigger the point deeply, in a digging or goading kind of fingertip massage. Make it hurt a little. Do this for fifteen or twenty seconds on the right hand. Then stop and do step three: duplicate the find?and?trigger technique on the back of the left hand for another fifteen or twenty seconds. That’s all it takes. By now, your headache should be gone.

G-Jo Acupressure works the same way for hundreds of other health problems and disorders. However, there are usually one or two best points that not only bring prompt relief, but actually stimulate the body’s own self?healing mechanisms as well. Compare this to most conventional medicines, which may mask or block pain but do little to heal and restore health.

G-Jo is used symptomatically (not preventively), that is, only when symptoms manifest themselves or are suffered as a result of injury. The same good points are then triggered again as soon as the target symptom returns. The goal is to gain increasing spans of relief time, time between the return of symptoms and necessary restimulation of the best acupressure points.

Normally, you’d only need to trigger a good acupoint several times a day in the beginning, then less as time passed. In an emergency—say, to control the pain and bleeding from a cut or similar injury—you might have to stimulate the same G-Jo acupoint as often as two or three dozen times the first day or two, but, again, less as the healing process continued.

There are several types of acupressure, but G?Jo is the most easily learned form. Once you master the procedure, all you need is knowledge of where these two hundred control points are located and each of their many uses. This is what the G-Jo Institute teaches. Some acupoints are found on the hands or arms, others on the feet, legs, or body. And each G-Jo acupoint can have dozens of uses. G-Jo point number thirteen, for example, can relieve or heal some fifty health problems. Best of all, once you possess this knowledge, it is yours for life. Then you and your loved ones have become essentially health self-reliant.

Along with G-Jo point number thirteen, there are at least five other basic acupoints that everyone should know. These control large portions of the body. While not always the best G?Jo points for a specific symptom, one or another of them can usually bring quick relief from most minor or emergency—though not necessarily chronic—symptoms we are likely to encounter in our lives. Three of these points are found on the hands and arms, three on the feet and legs.

Basic training in this simple yet powerful healing method is free and takes only minutes to accomplish. But even mastering G-Jo Acupressure is remarkably fast, easy, and inexpensive. Remember, this method has been successfully used by ordinary families for many generations and for nearly every common health problem, so simplicity and ease of use are its key.

Of course, self-help can have its limits. Before using G-Jo—or any other self-health technique—first check with your doctor or other health care professional if you are a pregnant woman, especially beyond your third month of pregnancy; a chronic heart patient, especially one who wears a pacemaker or similar energy?regulating device; or if you take regular or daily medication for serious health problems.

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