Acupressure Points for Deep Sleep

Having trouble sleeping? Try these techniques from the East:

• Between your eyebrows, there is a small depression on the level of your brows, right above the nose. Apply gentle pressure to that point for a minute.
  
  
• Between your first and second toes, on top of the foot, there is a depression. Press that area for a few minutes until you feel a dull ache.
  
  
• Imagine that your foot has three sections, beginning at the tips of your toes and ending at the back of your heel. Find the distance one-third back from the tips of your toes and press on the sole of your foot for a few minutes.
  
  
• Massage both of your ears for a minute.
  
  

Contributor: Steve Given, LAc, clinical faculty member at Bastyr Center for Natural Health.
Date: 2003

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