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Pressing
Thumbs, fingers, palm, elbow, knuckle
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Pressure is variable, go in and out slowly.
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Can either concentrate or disperse qi
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Image: like letting your hand sink into a pillow
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Pushing
palm, forearm, thumb
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Acts at the level of muscles and tendons
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Image: like ironing or planing
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Pinching
thumb-fingers-whole hand
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Lifts and separates muscles from each other and the bone
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Image: like sequentially opening locks in an irrigation ditch.
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Pace is even and not that fast
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Disperses local stagnation, helps break adhesions, relaxes spasm, also lifts/seperates
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image: like kneading dough
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Grasping
with three or five fingers
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slow even pace, squeeze and release
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image: like squeezing water from a wet towel
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Round Rubbing
palm, fingertip, thumb
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presssure is variable: can act at the level of skin, muscle bone, or tendon
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relaxes spasm, disperses stagnation
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image: spirals in a particular direction
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Pressure is variable an can affect to the bone level
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Breaks stagnation/strongly moves
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Image: like sandbag falling to earth
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Simple Rolling
back of hand, minor thenar eminence
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acts intitially at the level of the superficial muscles
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Paradoxically can penetrate deeper than it seems to go without aggravating inflamed tissues, separates adhesions, warms channels relieves spasms/pain
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Intention like rolling bread out with a rolling pin
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