Stirred up? Here’s One Way to Clear Your Head

Do you sometimes find yourself ending the day with everything inside you swirling?

The innovative energy of 2025 includes a lot of surprises and we don’t want the shocks and concerns to traumatize the body. 

For women, the first place emotions go is the breasts. If the qi gets stuck there, it can create problems for breast health, and the qi blockages can also spread to the uterus and ovaries.

The qigong breast massage is an exercise one can do to help discharge all the energy stirred up by the day.

The technique is simple:

• Rub your hands together to warm up your palms – your heart energy is in your palms.

• Place the center of each palm on the corresponding nipple (skin to skin is best).

• Move your hands in a circular motion, 36 times inwards, down and around. Then reverse direction for 36 circles.

• Get even more benefit by doing 3 sets.

• When you are finished gently lift and hold the breasts in place while taking 3 deep breaths.

You might find that practicing this massage really helps clear the head. It’s like getting a weight off the chest!

You will get the best benefit with this exercise if you concentrate on the warm feeling in your hands. The feeling is the most important.

Honestly, I find it hard to concentrate on the feeling while I’m also counting.

I’ve recorded a special chanting meditation for qigong massage so that the chanting is doing the counting, freeing you to focus on the feeling.

In this recording I chant “Ong Ma Lee Bae Mae Hong.” My teacher Master Chunyi Lin has referred to this chant as the short form of the Grand Compassion sutra. It connects our hearts to the compassion of the universe. I chant it in sets of 36. There are 6 sets of 36, so you could do a full three rounds (both directions) of the breast massage.

This chanting also works with most of the other qigong massage points recommended in the fabulous book Head to Toe Healing: Your Body’s Repair Manual. 

Does the world end if you don’t count exactly to 36? Not at all. Because it is an auspicious number, however, I created this way to effortlessly practice sets of 36 while concentrating on the healing vibration.

Wishing you ease, presence, healing, and joy,

emily