Qigong For Arthritis | Ease Hand Pain

This Qigong routine is designed to relieve arthritis pain and stiffness by activating the entire energy system of the hands. We move step-by-step through tapping, acupoint activation, gentle massage, and Qi energizing to open circulation, warm the joints, and bring life back into your fingers and palms.

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Welcome. If you're new here, My name is Sally, And welcome back, If you've been here before. My channel is all about quick Qigong practices that you can do in 10 to 15 minutes to release stress, Boost your energy, And help heal your body. Today we are doing a practice called Hand to the Heart Qi Gong. This is a massage that you do on your hands to activate the energy in your palms to begin to use your qi to move it through the hands. It's also really good for arthritis, If you have hands that hurt when you move. It's also great for people who use their hands in their practice, In their daily life, In their career. If you write a lot, Play instruments, Instruments, Do massage. These are all things that actually use energy from the muscles in our hands and sometimes it can get a little tired. So hand to the heart qigong is a great way that you can activate your palms every day so that they don't get stagnant, They don't get stuck, That the energy is moving through your hands, Your palms, Your fingers, All generating energy through the body and out the palms. The first thing I want you to do is take your hands together and just start rubbing them. So as you begin to rub your hands vigorously together, You'll begin to feel some heat within the palms. You'll actually feel that friction and the hands will start to get warm. And then once the hands, You start to feel them heating up, Just separate them a little bit. And you'll feel a tingling kind of in between the palms of your hands. You'll feel a little bit of a force. And if you don't, Don't worry about it. The more that you do, The more you'll start to feel it. But I just want you to understand what you're looking for in regards to the chi that is between your palms. As you have this energy in between the palms, Just begin to separate the palms a tiny little bit, Like something is pushing them away from each other. You'll begin to feel this unseen magnetic force in the palms. I can feel a little tension. As I push and I release. As I'm making my ball just a little bit bigger, I like to call these chi balls. Chi balls. So as you make your chi ball, You're just growing this energy between the palms. I like to use this technique for manifestation. So I'll build up this big ball of chi and then I will imagine filling it with some sort of creation that I want to see happen in my life and building it and building it and filling it. And then as I've kind of got that essence held within the ball, I will kind of take it in, Swallow it and bring it down into my dantian and feel right as if I've manifested that creation that I want to experience in my life. That just gives you a little bit of some experience of what it feels like to have chi moving through the palms of your hands. The best way again to do it, Generate that heat in the palms, Generating the heat, Separate the palms. Feel the energy. Just pretend that the energy is there. Pretend you're playing with it. Some sort of physical matter that you can't see. And the more that you do it, The more you'll start to feel it, And then the more that you feel it, You start to believe and understand the subtle energy and what's happening with the chi that's outside of your body, That's outside of you that you can't see, That energy that's coming up from the earth and down from the heaven, Combining that energy with yours. Everything with Qigong is a lot about subtle energy. So you want to understand what it is, Feel what it is. When you get goosebumps that run up your body for no reason, Something is tingling you, That's subtle energy. These just little things that you want to start practicing and feeling so that when you are doing your Qigong you connect with that energy and you will feel a physical energy move through your body even though It's subtle, And some might say nothing's there. With hand-to-heart Qigong, There's four sections that you're going to do. There's a tapping that you're going to be doing with your palms. There is an acupoint that you're going to be pushing on acupoint. There is a massage, Be massaging the palms. And then there's kind of a shaking off of the palms. And you're just trying to generate more energy, More frequency, More flow into the Qigong. Fingers, Your extremities, The palms, All of this energy that's moving through your hands. So to begin, You're just going to start by having your hands together. Tapping each other here on the sides. And you'll do these taps like. 24 to 36 times. Just waking up the energy. Now flip the hands over. You're going to tap on the outside. Tapping the palms. Now you're gonna come in wrist on wrist. Tapping the wrist. I like to move it around a little bit so I'm getting all of the wrist and moving into all the energy of the wrist as I tap it. Flip, Tap. Waking up the energy in the breath. Now you do something called, I think it's called a tiger claw. So the hands come. You're just like you're just Tiger Chop, Tiger Claw, Something like that. Whacking your hands in like this. Other way. Now a, It's like a webbing of your fingers, Webbing the fingers together. I like to switch the clasps, So one finger's on top, Which the weird one feels on top. I move back. I'm just trying to get that feeling of my fingers. Then finger taps. So you're tapping the fingers. Just at the tips, Fingertip tops. You can kind of spread your hands, See if you can still tap those tips. Waking up the hands, Now the nails. Kind of just. Moving the nails on top of each other, Waking up the tips of the nails and the fingertips. Then you're going to tap the backs of the outside of the hands all the way from the fingers. To the wrist. Hitting the back of the hands with the back of the palm. Flip, Other side. Waking up the energy in the fingers. And then just big claps, All full hand claps. And then clasp your fingers and do a big stretch in front. For the acupressure points, You're going to be starting with pericardium eight. It's right here in the palm of your hand. And what you're gonna be doing on each one of these acupoints is you're going to be using the tip of your thumb, And you're gonna be doing a clockwise circle in for five turns, Like you're digging into the acupoint with a clockwise turn. When you get to the center that you think of the acupoint, You're gonna do a five counterclockwise circles out, Like you're pulling energy into the acupoint, And then pulling energy out of the acupoint. And then when you get to the top, You just pop the energy out. So again, If we're doing pericardium eight, So I'm gonna do five circles. Clockwise in, I get to the bottom, I make a little press, I do five circles counterclockwise out, And then I pop the energy. The next acupoint is lung 10. It's right here in this kind of fatty pad of your palm. So again, We're gonna do five circles clockwise into the acupoint, And then five circles out of the acupoint, And then pop the energy. The next point is large intestine four. It's right in this kind of crook between your thumb and your pointer finger where those bones come together. So you're going to put your thumb in there. Five circles clockwise going down and then five circles counterclockwise coming up and a pop. The last point is your heart eight. The heart eight runs along at the outside of the pinky here, The long of this, The long. Along this heart line. And it's at the very end of the heart line. You'll kind of feel a little divot right here in the bones of the hand. And you're just going to do five. Clockwise circles in deep into that heart, And then five counter clockwise circles out and pop. So the other hand again, Pericardium eight right in the center, Five clockwise circles in. Five, Back out, And pop. Lower lung 10. Five, Moving in. Five, Moving out and pop. Large intestine, Four. Five. Lockwise. Five, Counterclockwise, And pop. And the heart again right here at the end of the heart line on the palm. Five clockwise circles and then five out and pop. Pop your hands together, Stretch them out, And come back. Now's the massage part. So you're going to start at the center of your palm, At the base where your wrist is, And you're just going to massage your thumb deep towards each finger. So all the way up. To the middle. To the ring. Into the pinky and then again towards the thumb, The pointer, Middle, Ring. Pinky and one more time. So you're doing a three times total Then you flip the hand over, You're gonna start on the pinky, And right along where these bones are that your hands are on the pinky bone, You're gonna go up from the bone, Sorry, You're gonna go up from the finger towards the wrist on the outside of the bone, Then on the top of the bone, And then on the inside of the bone. And now into the ring finger, Outside of the bone, Middle of the bone. Other side of the bone. Middle finger, Outside, Top, Outside, Pointer. Outside, Top. Outside thumb outside, Top, Outside, And the other side. So down. . . Pinky. Three, Up the ring, 3, Middle, 3, Up the pointer, And up. Up the thumb. Now you're going to do the shimmy on your fingers so you're just going to kind of shimmy the sides of your fingers then shimmy the top and the bottom of the finger and then when you get to the fingernail you're going to flick. So you get to your pointer, You kind of shimmy the sides, Shimmy top and bottom, And flip. Middle finger shimmy up the side. Shimmy the top and bottom and flick. Ring finger, Shimmy up the sides, Shimmy up the top and bottom, Flick. Pinky, Top and bottom, Flick. Other hand, So I'll start with the thumb. Shimming up and flick, Going up the sides of the fingers, Really rubbing, Activating the fingers, Top and bottom of the fingers, And flick, Middle finger. Top and bottom, Flick. Ring finger. Top and bottom, Flick and pinky. Shimmying up. Shimming up and down and clap. And stretch. The next is kind of like an energy shake of the energy. So you're going to start with a clap, Kind of rub, And you're just going to wash your hands like you're splashing water off of your hands. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Clap your hands, Rub them together. Put one palm up, One palm down, And do 10 squeezes. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Flip. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Clap. Rub together. This is called a Qigong wave. Just waving, Feeling that energy in your palms. And then bring the hands forward and you're kind of like just Shaking, Pushing. And then now you just start to bring the hands down. Feeling the energy tingling through the palms. And you can get that similar feeling. To the energy of that qi ball that we set up earlier. And you can feel an energy moving through your fingers. I can feel a tingling through my fingers. I can feel like my hands are alive. My hands are awake. My hands have energy flowing through them. There isn't stagnancy or tightness or stiffness. There's actually energy flowing through my palms. So again, This. Practice is really great if you have arthritis, You have joint issues in your fingers. Again, You use your hands on the job, Like contractors who are constantly using their hands with power tools, With hammers, Things like that, Things that are putting a lot of tension and pressure in your palms. So the hand-to-heart Qigong is a great way to activate the energy, To flow it into the palms and wake the palms up. It's just, It's a really great way Qigong set that you can do to Enhance the flow of energy all the way out through your fingertips. So I hope you liked that practice. If you did, Please comment or like, Share, And subscribe so that you will be notified as I put out new content. Thank you.