Shealy SELF-HEALTH Day #6

Day #6 of the Relaxation Chapter is titled "Energy Balance."
The energy-balance technique is used, according to Dr. Shealy, by practitioners in the fields of energy medicine. (It was difficult to find any one definitive technique for energy balancing.  If you google the term you get many many different interpretations- over 6 million hits!  Apparently, Yoga is one way to obtain energy balancing.  I couldn't find this particular technique in the first few pages...but I honestly didn't look very hard. I decided just to continue with Dr. Shealy's method.)

This exercise is done in three steps.

Assume your relaxed position. Close your eyes. Take a deep breath slowly in and out.

Step 1) Place your LEFT hand with the little finger placed at the base of the skull in the center of the back of your neck. Place your RIGHT over the upper abdomen with the little finger lying over the navel. 

With your eyes closed take sixteen (16) deep, slow, complete breaths.  This should take approximately 4 minutes. Now reverse your hands.

Step 2) Place your RIGHT hand with the little finger placed at the base of the skull in the center of the back of your neck. Place your LEFT over the upper abdomen with the little finger lying over the navel.

With your eyes closed, again take sixteen (16) deep, slow, complete breaths.  This should take about another 4 minutes.

Step 3) Finally,  Place your LEFT hand base of the skull in the center of the back of your neck. Place your RIGHT over the center of your pubic bone below your navel.  Take sixteen (16) deep, slow, complete breaths in and out.

At the end take a deep breath, opening your eyes and stretching comfortably to feel all parts of your body awakening.