Magic in Your Own Fingertips

Two palms facing up witih a glowing light coming from the center

Have you ever known someone you just can’t get enough of? Someone that’s wise, and funny, and inspiring. For me, that’s Vilma Ginzberg.

I’ve worked with Vilma for over 13 years. She is a retired psychologist, an exceptional writer, and a poet laureate. I relay that information because even though she’s almost 97 years old, Vilma can still express her thoughts and have conversations consistently full of information and insights.

I am inspired every time I see her, and genuinely hope to be like her as I mature into her age.

She’s generous, too. In the beginning of one of my books, “Easy Self-Help Acupressure for Grown-Ups”, she wrote,

“Using Deborah Myers Daily Clean Your House Flow routine is better than being a couch potato. This routine, done daily like brushing your teeth, is easy and rewarding.”

When I recently saw Vilma, we discussed my work with schools and students of all ages, plus workplace wellness programs. I commented that I love helping others discover how to balance their energy daily so they get from where they are to where they want to be.

As I continued doing the energy flows with her, Vilma said that she felt the energy flowing, and it felt like magic. Then she elaborated,

“You know. We carry this magic in our back pockets all the time. Often, we just sit on it instead of pulling it out and making use of it.”

Vilma had hit the nail on the head!

We both started laughing because, as you may know, one of my favorite comments is that we walk around with our fingers 24/7. We just need to pull them out of our pockets and make use of our fingertips to touch energy balance points and help our bodies find physical, mental, and emotional balance and harmony.

Vilma and Deborah with fun Christmas hats

Vilma wanted me to show you our holiday picture. I brought the headbands along because I wanted to see that girl smile!

Yes, Sit on Your Hands!

Vilma and I also talked about how one of the Daily Clean Your House Flow® steps is sitting on your hands. That energy balance point is all about vitality and helps your body discover alignment.

When that point is in balance, we are genuinely pulling the magic out of our back pockets and connecting with all the possibilities that are ready to happen. We just have to give those possibilities a chance to show up.

Then there’s the pose that is sitting on one hand and holding the other hand on the opposite shoulder. That pose helps the body release blocked energy and move the energy throughout the body, allowing the meridians and channels to flow easily and effortlessly.

That is when the organs and body systems can fulfill their tasks, and your body experiences balance, rhythm, strength, health, comfort, stability, and happiness.

Can you see that when you help your body be prepared for whatever you want it to do, it WILL respond by taking you forward?

A Special Gift from Vilma

Here is the poem that Vilma wrote for me after the very first time she came for an in-person acupressure session.

healing hands

for Deborah Myers

© Vilma Ginzberg 09-22-2010

you invite me to your table

padded curved and angled

to accommodate my bone-outlined

flesh-defined body of exhaustion

I spread myself atop it

my yesterdays of try-to’s

planked across its ridges

unfinished have-to’s

making stiffened bridges

of old intent preserved in rock of habit

I hardly feel your first fingers

your touch puff-wing light   butterfly-soft

don’t you need something more jack-hammer-fisted I wonder

slow as morning light washes over doubt

melts layers of thought-armor

polishes the rusted jadedness

softly  subtly  slowly they come

subtle awakenings

stirrings of flesh    and feeling

worlds entire fall apart while other worlds congeal

universes faint away

give birth to new constellations

you move soundlessly around this altar to life

where I am both sacrificial lamb      and sacrament

soon I am as a sauce spilled on shapeless sheets

our mutual though silent rejoicing fills the empty spaces

outside the nearby window finches feed

gratefully on your thistle-seed

and some small uncaged bird in me

chirps again

Let’s pull your MAGIC out of your back pockets so you can achieve whatever you want to have happen in 2024!

Yes, I do in-person session at my home in Santa Rosa, CA, but I also help people to learn how to do self-help acupressure themselves.

Check my online calendar to see what might work best for you. Go to Deborah’s Calendar!

 

 

A GREAT OPPORTUNITY

Start your year off with a gift to yourself

Do Anything Better workshop promo with determined lady

Is there something you want to achieve or exceed at this year? In your business, personal, or school life?

Let’s get you on the right path to manifest your dreams at my new Do Anything Better workshop!

At this 3-session class, you’ll discover easy self-help acupressure techniques. This experience will open the door to better performance, balanced emotions, and overall life improvement by learning how to manage your body’s energy.

Event Details & Registration! 

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Balance, Bliss, and Energy

Align your energy and fly through your days with ease.

Learn how to:

  • Stay calm amid daily challenges
  • Be ready to embrace seasonal changes
  • Align intention and action with your purpose
  • Let your energy move and flow

Webinar Value: $597
Regular rate: $247
Early-bird rate: $147 (until August 20)

Register for Balance, Bliss, and Energy

 

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Break the Stress Habit Week 3

Mindfulness begins with your body. Energy flows bring attention to your body and free your mind from chatter—or at least slow down the side conversations.

Learn 3 energy flows to interrupt your stress habit:

  1. Amp up Focus
  2. Deeper Sleep
  3. Joyful relationships

Stress is a storyline you can rewrite for a happier life.

Included in your registration:

  • Handouts
  • Workshop Recordings

Register for the workshop and break your stress habit.

Three Wednesdays: April 28, May 5, May 12
6:30-7:30 pm PDT

$197.00 is a small investment in your wellbeing.

Register now at http://bit.ly/StressHabit

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Break the Stress Habit Week 2

Mindfulness begins with your body. Energy flows bring attention to your body and free your mind from chatter—or at least slow down the side conversations.

Learn 3 energy flows to interrupt your stress habit:

  1. Amp up Focus
  2. Deeper Sleep
  3. Joyful relationships

Stress is a storyline you can rewrite for a happier life.

Included in your registration:

  • Handouts
  • Workshop Recordings

Register for the workshop and break your stress habit.

Three Wednesdays: April 28, May 5, May 12
6:30-7:30 pm PDT

$197.00 is a small investment in your wellbeing.

Register now at http://bit.ly/StressHabit

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Break the Stress Habit

Mindfulness begins with your body. Energy flows bring attention to your body and free your mind from chatter—or at least slow down the side conversations.

Learn 3 energy flows to interrupt your stress habit:

  1. Amp up Focus
  2. Deeper Sleep
  3. Joyful relationships

Stress is a storyline you can rewrite for a happier life.

Included in your registration:

  • Handouts
  • Workshop Recordings

Register for the workshop and break your stress habit.

Three Wednesdays: April 28, May 5, May 12
6:30-7:30 pm PDT

$197.00 is a small investment in your wellbeing.

Register now at http://bit.ly/StressHabit

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How to Reduce Stress and Have Your Joy

Did you know that stress can steal your joy? Let’s change that picture!!

Happy multi-generational family in the snow

Joy is such a glorious experience. It’s a feeling that can bring you to a place of gratitude for what you have and allow you to experience a sense of wonder and delight in the possibilities.

I’m all about joy, especially during the holidays. The spirit of the season and the colors, lights, and sparkle make me smile. I love holiday magic!

Stress takes away the magic

weary mom with toddlers running in the background

Then here comes stress, that thing that lives on the other side of the proverbial coin. And, right now, the stress level is exceptionally high because of the holidays, the pandemic, travel plans affected, civil unrest, decision fatigue, interrupted sleep patterns, loss of vitality, too much computer time, the list goes on and on.

Stress can take away your juice, affect the quality of your life, and cause you to lose your appreciation of life. In that realm, how on earth can we have great expectations and be positive?? So, it’s no wonder that stress can affect your ability to communicate your feelings and thus influence your relationships. If it’s tough to be positive, it will show up in how you are with anyone, whether in person or virtual, on Zoom, or on the phone.

So, maybe that’s why it can be so tricky during the holidays to be with your loved ones, especially if you’re amid a stressful period. Sad to say, most of us are experiencing high levels of stress. Much of that is because we’re in a “not knowing state of being.” Humans want to know and need to know what’s around the corner. Most of us don’t want to admit that we don’t know! And yet we need to express ourselves.

You can choose to live a reactive or a proactive life

Are you in a place of wanting and maybe even needing to express some of your hidden emotions?? You are not alone!! Did you know that when you communicate your feelings, you will more easily let go of any stress you’re carrying? And that you can even help prevent burnout??

The trick is to recognize you’re feeling something and then acknowledge that you reacted to whatever was going on, whether it was a physical, mental, or emotional reaction. THAT is an awareness that allows you to be on a path of changing how you’re feeling. And then the stress can deconstruct and transform and help you strip away what doesn’t matter.

Changing the patterns of stress

  1. Look at what is “wrong,” what is stressful, and what you want to change. You’re capable of making it through these times. Look at what you’ve already been through in all parts of your life, what you changed to make it to where you are, and then KNOW that you can do it again.
  2. Change up negative self-talk. Once you’ve noticed that you’re doing it, you’ll recognize that you’re uncomfortable with it. THAT is the moment you can address the talk and change it up.
  3. When you’re in that better place of positive self-talk, those around you will notice it too. You will see evidence that you can more easily express your feelings and not hold things in. So, speak and be true to yourself! Be positive, and it will be easier to have gratitude live within you. And you’ll smile more often!
  4. Recognize that change is just that. And if you’re questioning your ability to change old ways, acknowledge that “you just don’t know how to do the “new thing” yet. You just don’t know yet how to do it differently from how you’ve done it before!! In that moment of realization, you are on the road to change.
  5. Get support. We rarely recognize how important it is to bring another voice into the picture. Ask for “a listening ear.” Maybe it’s a friend or a colleague who will be your sounding board as you unload. That process lets go of the mind chatter so you can get on the other side of “the voices inside.”
  6. Get some movement happening. Exercise, walk, garden, whatever you do will trigger a positive feeling, feel emotionally stronger, and lower stress.
  7. Create a daily practice that is super simple to accomplish. When it becomes a routine that you and your body discover is supportive and healing, you will FEEL stronger, healthier, more vital, and more prepared for whatever comes along.

Discover that rituals help your day begin with optimism and continue with joy

Woman with her face covered in tiny hearts

Have hope and faith that the changes you want in your body and life can happen! Embrace the possibility and relax with the process.
Balance emotions and habits, and you will discover how easy it is to be positive, be joyful, be proactive, and take control of your own well-being.

YOU are worth it!

Are you ready for a daily practice that is easy to accomplish??

  1. Do the Daily Clean Your House Flow, a nine-step self-help acupressure flow that is super easy to do and takes less than ten minutes to complete. As a nine-year-old so succinctly told me, “It is the Daily Flow, so of course I do it every day! And I do it more than that!”
  2. Keep your breath open. Feel the expansiveness of the inhale and the letting go during the exhale. Go to my website, click on the purple button “Learn the Daily Flow,” and you’ll get some energy tips that will expand your breath. Plan on doing them off and on throughout the day. There is no such thing as too much self-help!!
  3. Give yourself lots of love! The first step of the Daily Flow is giving yourself a hug. It opens up breath, shows your body you are taking care of it, and it connects with heart health.
  4. Throughout the day, manage your feelings so stress doesn’t have room to hang out.
    A super simple energy movement that allows you to express yourself.
    Right hand—cup sternum directly below the collarbone
    Left hand—hold your fingers on your tummy

 

By the way, I’m taking singing lessons, and I cup my sternum and hold my tummy a lot! It opens up my breath, softens my throat and vocal cords, drops my jaw, opens up my face muscles, and projects my voice. If I may say so myself—it’s astonishing how far I have come with my singing! Mostly when I had lost my singing voice after surgery.

Read more about letting go of negativity and stress:

https://www.verywellmind.com/how-to-let-go-of-negativity-and-stress-3145006

And see what Psychology Today says about stress and joy:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anxiety-zen/201804/springing-more-joy-and-less-stress-30-day-guide

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Hope, Faith & Energy Workshop Series

Let go of all your challenges. It’s time to celebrate the holidays with fun and joy!

Change is natural. Yet you may find that you need help to make the changes you want in your body, life, or the world. You may feel it’s taking too much hard work to get that change to happen.

You can learn to embrace change and relax with the process!

In this workshop, we’ll combine acupressure and neural science discoveries. You’ll practice partnering with your body to shift your response to change and stay in balance. And you will enjoy the holidays a lot more!

Balance emotions and habits, and you will discover how easy it is to be positive

Amid all that is going on in our world, it is super important to turn down the stress and anxiety meter and find joy and positivity.

 

COVID-19 and Change

Have you been noticing the emotional rollercoasters as you continue to be in various stages of lock-down??

If you have kids in your life, you will most likely notice that they are experiencing the same difficulties. All of us have experienced an interruption of everyday routines during this year. Our social interactions have shifted from in-person to on-screen. Human beings need physical contact to thrive, yet we fear the peril that may come with touch.

What if you could recognize and acknowledge the surrounding changes in a way that takes you out of reaction and into positive action?

 

Does any of the following impact you?

  • Feeling stressed and anxious
  • Feeling a loss of breath
  • Experiencing decision fatigue
  • Feeling tired, unproductive, overwhelmed
  • State of mind, fear, apathy, apprehension, confusion
  • Hard to find joy and feel happy
  • Your recovery from a challenging personal event
  • Too much time in front of the computer and a loss of in-person interaction

 

You Can Feel Better if You Know How to Balance Your Body

  • Experience your body as an energy system—be in touch with your body and discover breath, ease, calm, and vitality. You’ll even notice when your body is giving you a message so you can DO something about it.
  • Manage feelings and emotions—recognize them and re-pattern them so you can more easily have positive, smoother experiences instead of stumbling blocks
  • Boost the immune, endocrine, and adrenal systems—prepare your body to become healthier, more robust. You will be better prepared to handle potential exposure to viruses and bacteria

 

Stay Calm and Carry On

If creating a sense of calm and curiosity appeal to you, this three-part workshop series is right for you.

We will cover:

  • Creative ways to appreciate yourself
  • Cognitive Behavioral Theory
  • Using Easy Self-Help Acupressure to keep in balance

 

Take Control of What You Can

Ready to take responsibility for your well-being? Give yourself a gift of Hope, Faith & Energy, and enjoy the holidays. Set yourself up to begin the new year.

 

Hope, Faith & Energy Workshop

I’m excited about my upcoming workshop to prepare for the holidays. And I’d love YOU to be there! I want this to be a fantastic season for you and your family! And I want to share how you can more easily get that to happen.

 

Register for the workshop using this link. And, if you can’t attend the live class, you’ll be able to access the recording.

 

You are worth it!!
Your investment in your improved health:
Only $97.00 for all 3 class meetings!!

The meetings will take place via Zoom on the following Tuesday evenings from 6:00 to 7:00 pm

 

November 24th
December 1st
December 8th

 

You will receive an email with instructions for joining the workshop after you register. You can take part via computer, mobile devices, or phone.

 

Ready to take responsibility for your well-being? Give yourself a gift of Hope, Faith & Energy, and enjoy the holidays.

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Keep Your Breath Moving!

Breathe the air today

The fire season is here. The holidays are on their way. This has been one crazy year and I bet you have been holding your breath.
 
It’s time to get your breath back!

 

You know those phrases we have a tendency to use after a crisis?
“It took my breath away.” 
“Waiting with bated breath.” 
“Waiting for the next shoe to drop.”
Those phrases describe our bodies without enough breath. And, our bodies have a memory of “not having enough breath.” After the traumatic experiences of the last year, it is easy to recognize that we need to revitalize our respiratory systems. With full breath, you will boost your immune systems, be more alert, and prepared for whatever comes your way.
$47 will secure your spot in the  90-minute workshop on October 6 at 6:30 pm PDT. What a deal!
Register now to secure your spot. https://bit.ly/DMWoct6
After you register, you will receive an email with the details for joining the workshop.
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Stay Fit and Healthy

women at yoga class

Stay fit and healthy while you are at home. Searching for an outstanding fitness class? Here are my recommendations:

BikerBarre Fit

BikerBarre Fit is located in Santa Rosa and offers virtual classes accessible anywhere you live. It is your one-stop-shop for strength, flexibility, and fun fitness. Someday soon, I’ll be back there in-person. Until that happens, I love their live stream classes. Check it out!  And my daughter Nicole is an instructor.

https://www.bikerbarrefit.com

Blue Door Yoga

Blue Door Yoga in Penngrove is an impressive yoga studio. The studio focuses on health, flexibility, and spirit and specializes in creating safe classes for all levels of yogis. They are offering a variety of online yoga classes. Be sure to check them out no matter where you live! My daughter, Nicole, is likewise an instructor at Blue Door!

https://ilovebluedoor.com

Enjoying Mother Nature

Being in the outdoors can feed your soul. Whether you wander, hike, bike, ride horseback, garden, stroll in the sand at the beach, climb a mountain, or sit and listen to the birds singing, allow yourself time to soak up the environment. It’s one of the best ways to discover breath, be in joy, and relax. Mother Nature will assist you to have a perfect meditation.

BreatheEnergy Tips for Getting & Staying Calm

Breath is the key! When we have full expansive inhales, our breath feeds us. And those inhales allow us to have full purging exhales.

So much of what has been going on the last four-plus months can affect our breathing. Stress causes us to hold our breath, to wait with bated breath, expecting the next shoe to drop. When our bodies are dealing with stress, anxiety, frustration, sadness, or fear your nervous systems can be on edge and fired up. Heightened arousal = burnout, irritability, fatigue.

Super easy energy tips for ease and calm:

  1. Hold fingertips on opposite upper arms and feel your breath (first step in the Daily Flow)
  2. Hold right fingers on right base of skull and left fingers on outside of right wrist
  3. Hold left fingers on left base of skull and right fingers on outside of left wrist
  4. Cup right hand at sternum below collarbone and hold left fingers on tummy.
  5. Hold right fingers on outside of right knee and left fingers on outside of left knee

Check out my Deborah Myers Wellness Facebook Page for videos of some energy tips while I give you a tour of my garden.

See the animated video of the Daily Clean Your House Flow, an Easy Self-Help Acupressure Flow that both kids and adults love and practice to create a foundation for health and wellbeing. Go to DeborahMyersWellness.com/covid19. It’s available to watch and use at no charge.

vegetables

Creation from your garden’s bounty or from the farmer’s market

Grilled Summer Vegetables

You’ll need a good-sized grill pan coated with a bit of olive oil.

Coat chunks of onions, zucchini, green beans, garlic, peppers, and whatever else you have with oil. (I enjoy using large slices so everything stays firm).

Season with salt, pepper, and any seasoning that complements the other dishes you’re serving. Then place them into the hot grill pan.

In a separate pan, have a single layer of mushrooms and dry grill (they’ll stay firm and are easy to mix with other veggies).

When veggies have finished cooking and still firm, dump into a large bowl, incorporate sizable chunks of fresh tomatoes and basil. I also add basil salt that I made from last year’s crop.

Stay fit and healthy

It is easy to do. Mind, body, spirit in harmony.

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Master Class: Energy Balance of Your Mind, Body, and Spirit

An Intensive Six-Month Guided Study Program with Deborah Myers

 

You will come away from this program with a deeper understanding of how energy pathways function. You will develop a practice of listening to your energy. Become adept at balancing the flow of energy. Learn why Jin Shin Jyutsu and acupressure work and how to make positive changes in your body. Improve emotional wellbeing, mental health, and uplift your spirit.

 

Are you ready to be a partner with your body? Let the adventure begin!

 

Jennifer Cody, Executive Coach and former Director of Program Management at Medtronic, describes the results of her journey:

 

“How can this Jin Shin Jyutsu be working? I couldn’t explain it, but I could FEEL it, so I signed up for Deborah’s Wellness Workshop to learn more about this mysterious technique and the magic way it was impacting my well-being. Now I have the magic recipe for creating balance in my life right at my fingertips. It is a simple and easy way to make an enormous difference in your well-being. Deborah’s self-help care program helps you regain control of the life you want.”

 

Calendar of Classes

The program takes place two Wednesday evenings a month for 90 minutes. 18 hours of live instruction over the six months via Zoom. You can join from anywhere in the world. Your investment is $737.00. Save $260 off the regular price of $997 when you act now.

 

What We’ll Study

We will explore hands-on techniques, based upon the basic principles of Jin Shin Jyutsu and related modalities.

1.     Decrease stress and tension-related discomfort

2.     Increase vitality and personal performance

3.     Recover from trauma

4.     Increase self-esteem

5.     Relieve pain

Learn how energy pathways can open to relieve allergies, fatigue, arthritis, insomnia, headaches, menopausal and PMS symptoms, fibromyalgia, and other discomforts.

Health care providers will master techniques to complement modalities they already offer clients.

What’s Included

For the first time, I’m combining my Level One and Level Two courses with fresh material. By adding in a lot of fresh information, and blending in coaching, this intensive will positively change your life. You will experience progressive changes over the course of the six-month program. Your body will understand the magic recipe for creating balance right at your fingertips!

And you can do all of this right from home or anywhere you have a quiet place and internet connection. Between classes, you’ll study, experience the transformations taking place, and integrate this life-changing practice. Your body will crave healing. You’ll want more of it every day—relishing the effects. Many students report they practice multiple times daily. There is no such thing as too much self-care.

Save these Dates

Mark your calendars: two Wednesday evenings a month for 1-1/2 hours. The first two sessions are Wednesday, July 8th and July 22nd. You’ll get the full schedule upon registration.

Your investment in this program that will bring you comfort, health, and joy for the rest of your life is only $737.00. The Energy Balancing Care Guide manual is included.

If you’ve taken my workshops in the past, this is an outstanding way to review.  If you’re new to my programs, let’s get started!

I’m thrilled to be offering this to you! And I hope you will join me!

An approved provider by the California Board of Registered Nursing (Provider Number CEP12833).

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