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Hello, thanks for joining your body, Advocate podcast, I am Ruth Cummings, your host. And I’m always talking about your body’s side of the story. And today in episode 44, I want totalk about five ways to heal the head and different parts of the head, and some different ways to think about it. Five ways to heal thehead. Let’s take a deep breath to relax. Ready?

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Now, here’s your host master of encouragement and Body Mind life, coach Ruth Cummings. So the head has so many ways that it can hurt and I work on so many different parts. So I wanted to talk about five of them. So just a general headache. Okay, a headache that goes around like this. Then I want to talk about jaw pain,

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I pain, sinus, pain and occiput pain right here. Octopus were the Skull comes together with the head. So when you having pain in any area like this, it’s the band that goes across. It’s like wearing a headband except it’s just below where you were a headband. Like right here, anywhere around the eyes, all the way around above the ears to the backside ofthe occiput here.

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So where the skull and theneck meat, there’s some muscles that right there that can get really, really tight. This area is like Seeing the world clearly, if you’re seeing your world with rose-colored glasses, you’re not really seeing what you should be saying. You’re not really seeing what’s right in front of you. Maybe you’re an abusive relationship. You just you just can’t get out of it. Maybe you’re in a job that youdon’t like and you just won’t look at that.

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That reality when youcontinue. Not to look at the reality in your world but you you know it’s there instinctively It starts tohappen is you you actually with your body start to squint and kind of turn your head to, to, I would say Ebert your gaze. So you’re kind of go like this literally do thing that I had people on my massage table. Looking away from me

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when we talk about something that’s hard totalk about and they’re having this headache, that goes all the way around. Sometimes it’s right here by the temples. Sometimes, it’s around their eyes. Sometimes, it’s by the occiput. So if you have some eye pain and it goes around like this, that’s what I’d like to consume for you. To consider is what’s going on inyour world where you might be averting, your gaze you might be looking through rose-colored glasses. Oh everything’s so great.

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Everything is just hunky-dory when it’s really not and it’s just too much to handle at that time. When your body starts to feel like it has enough support Art then your headaches will get worse because it recognizes that you have a way to get out of that situation so I can get more depth in another podcast today, I want to continue around the head so if you have that area, you can massage that consider rose-colored glasses and what you’re not really looking at clearly.

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So another one I want to talk about is job pain. Job paint. Are you re clenching or your teeth off? Is this anervous nervous habit that you have at night or during the day? I know my husband when he gets mad atme, you can hear that his teeth clenched. And there’s other times whenhe’s mad at other people in traffic or it just TV or other things that he’s listening to the kids making interesting decisions. You can hear his dog and then

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like this area get really, really tense. That type of pain in here. Can go up into your head and can cause neck pain. Also can cause, of course, all types of painting your job. So one of the things that you can do for this is to massage, I have areally pretty good. Massage job. Massage video down in my blog if you need that and I will link to it in this podcast but you can massage your jaw you can pull. If you do it really, really

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slowly. You could actually take like three minutes to pull All the way down like that. And that’s a really nice way. Not only to, to relax your jaw. Let’s relax, the other headache. We were just talking about that goes around like this, if you’re doing jaw clenching as a stress maneuver as a tick as something, you’re responding to, maybe you could replace it with something different. If you recognize that you do it,

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then you’re like, oh, Ijust did that. Try to do something different, maybe stretch or take a breath, or change your action, to that response, and see if you can change that habit and then maybe relax your jaw for life. We can go into that more and another time as well, if you have some eye pain like it’s just around your eyes eyes, you know, we really abused them. We’re reading in thedark, we’re reading these little screens were

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taking all this blue light from stuff that we’re looking at. They really don’t get very much attention and so if you’re having I pain and sometimes it won’t go away. I like to show people to massage with your thumbs. Now I don’t have any nails but massage the inside of this area and there’s amassage I’ll link that below to do that. So you kind of Go in all the way across on the inside and then do the same thing with the upper fingers

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down here. And youdon’t have to use much pains pressure, you can use a little bit of pressure, make sure that you’re not hurting yourself and don’t press your eye too much into your head but that can really help. Another thing I find that helps the eye pain is to find a coordinating spot on the occiput. So where this area is back here, you can sometimes press up into the skull and you can find

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a tender spot sometimes that’s It will correspond with not seeing clearly or dehydration. But another thing that it does is it goes straight through and this is from the, inmy opinion, the not seeing clearly it’ll go from the left eye to the right occiput. Right pile of blocks good but sometimes it goes to the same. What I suggest you do is go in there. Find press up, find alittle sore spot and then find a corresponding sore spot right here.

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Inside. So mine is right here andthen I’mgoing to find one right here and I’m going to put pressure on those together and then I kind of teeter-totter. So Itake the pressure off this point and put it on this point. Take it off this point. But on this point like that, but I’mstill holding like warmth on the point up here. I’m just not pressing into it. So that’s one way to try to get rid of eye pain and at the same time, it can get rid of like

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that, that headache that you get after Not being not having enough water. If you don’t drink most ofthe day, and then youget that headache, that can that can alleviate that, that’s one of the ways. And so, another one that Iwould like to show is if you have sinus pain. So it’s in here like also inyour eyes, you can do that also. But – stuff, if you can go a long, The Ridge of the nose, and then the, this cheekbone here,

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so you just press into it and down like this. And don’t use too much pressure at first, then you can see that you can use pressure and kind of Oppression. And press out all the way to right here by your ear. And then I go back in and I show some of these later in earlier, Okay, that’s where you would press like that.

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There’s another way you can do. Sinus issues, is by tapping on your hand on one of the bones. So if you take it like this and you press in and then you Hammer with that middle finger on right here about kind of depends onthe person, but I do it right here, you can feel it moving stuff on the inside. So if you have, if you need to blow your nose and it just will not come out, I just feel so stuck.

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This is one ofthe things you can do, and I’m not sure if you can hear that, I’llget closer but it actually makes like a knocking noise. Sounds like someone’s knocking at the door. So that’s one ofthe ways also to deal with sinus pain in here. And the last one I’ve already brought up, but it’s on the occiput. So again, if you put your fingers up here like this and then lean into that,

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you’ll go right up under the occiput and that really helps with dehydration. If you’re dehydrated or other problems with your eyes like this, sometimes alack of sleep. If you put your fingers up like this, into this area, it can help relax that and really help your head cam. Calm down. Andthe last ones a bonus is to pull on your ears. Now I put my fingers inside my ears like this,

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I show a massage and ear massage video and that’s a really nice one to this one. I’m just going to show you have any like if you have plugging in your ears you feel like there’s alot of wax. You have some ear drainage you have any type of infection in your ear? One thing you can do is you just take your fingers like this and you go And so the thumbs right above right below. Imean, and you’re going to pull down so slightly.

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It’s as if the best way, I like to say it is like, it’s, you’re holding a chip that you don’t want to break. So you’re not crushing it, but you just want tohold it. So you could you can grab it from afriend or even lighter. Would be holding a butterfly, so it’s really light. So I’m going to put this in here like this and then my thumb is on the Onthe bottom. And I’m just going to pull straight down. Now, when I close my eyes, it feels like I’m coming all the way down,

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but it would look like this if I do it on myself. And I breathe through it. And I’m using very light pressure but when you’re pulling constantly Ilike that it feels so nice. You can feel it moving all theway down your ear canal. It’s very, very nice. I used to get alot of ear infections alot of strip through the law, the law of stroke group and this really feels like it’s still healing that I had to eventually get my tonsils taken out.

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So painful As an adult. It’s hard as an adult way easier as akid and so pulling like that. Okay, so there’s another one. There’s so many things on the head, right? Youknow, we got the ears, the nose, and the mouth, and the eyes, everything is going on, so there’s a lot ofplaces to hurt. So there’s five quick ways to help you stop hurting in your head. Have a great day guys

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