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Mindfully caring about our ears

User Profile: amiablePeace77
amiablePeace77 June 26th, 2018

LOVE YOUR EARS

Hello mindfulness community. I hope you all had a good start of the week. laugh

Today I like to describe a kind of ear massage, often we care about our face, legs etc. but not a lot about our feet and our ears. Ayurveda medicine (focusing on the mind-body connection) recognizes thousands of touch points around the body to stimulate healing, also on our ears which for most of us are easily accessible.

So, if you can and like to try, do as follows or alterate where needed for you (you can cream your ears before starting but its not a requirement). You can do one ear at a time or both ears simultaneously.

Fan your fingers out into the hair beneath the ears, with the thumbs resting on the outer ear. Begin lightly stroking both ears simultaneously with the thumbs. Work from the lobe of each ear upward to the tip. The pads of the fingers may gently massage the scalp at the same time. Continue this until you have covered the ear from lobe to tip three times.

Gently pull your lobes a few times, then continue gently pulling and massaging the outer part of your whole ear.

Gently push your top and bottom together to close the ear and open it. Do this 3 times.

Gently push the back of your ear to the front to close it and open it again. Again 3 times.

To finish cover both ears with your hands and stroke down your neck.

I am exited to hear how it felt for you,

enlightenedHow you experienced the connection with your ears,

enlightenedDid you feel self-love?

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User Profile: amarifey
amarifey June 26th, 2018

That was wonderful.

Thank you so much for sharing! heart

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User Profile: amiablePeace77
amiablePeace77 OP June 26th, 2018

@amarifey

Thanks, I hope you can enjoy it occasionally - I guess your ears would love it wink

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User Profile: SaimaK
SaimaK June 26th, 2018

@amiablePeace77 Hi Peace! heart How are you doing today? I hope you are having a wonderful day so far! laugh I love these self-care exercises that you always post, and appreciate it immensely! heart

enlightenedHow you experienced the connection with your ears?
It was so amazing and relaxing!!! I felt so calm and at ease afterwards. I cannot even explain it. laugh

enlightenedDid you feel self-love?
I'm not sure if I felt self-love, but if I did, it was extravagant! heart

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User Profile: amiablePeace77
amiablePeace77 OP June 28th, 2018

@SaimaKfind when taking care

Hi SaimaKlaugh, sure this was a kind of different massage but it's good to hear that you enjoyed it. I find that by taking care of our body (parts) we can learn to appreciate them more.

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User Profile: AffyAvo
AffyAvo June 26th, 2018

Just the thought of this sounds really painful. Doing many of these things would cause my skin irritation to split open, weep and bleed frown

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User Profile: amiablePeace77
amiablePeace77 OP June 27th, 2018

@AffyAvo

Skin conditions can be very painful and sometimes even limiting what we can do, so we got to be careful and clearly you are. I hope that some other exercises which I might post in future will be helpful to you, I definitively do not want you to suffer.

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User Profile: goldentown96
goldentown96 June 28th, 2018

@amiablePeace77

Thank you for sharing this! Please share more mindful massage techniques - It is so good for stress and health in general.

I want to share something important - Please take care of your ears! I used to play in a band class when I went to college. I didn't protect my ears and I now am suffering from tinnitus. It is important to wear hearing protection anytime you are exposed to loud sound.

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User Profile: amiablePeace77
amiablePeace77 OP June 28th, 2018

@goldentown96

hey town. thanks, it means a lot to me if posts about massage are helpful, not each massage is for everybody but I will try to get as much diversity as possible.

I am very glad that you mentioned tinnitus and protection of ears - this is so important!

User Profile: amiablePeace77
amiablePeace77 OP June 29th, 2018

@goldentown96

tinnitus is terrible and can be very difficult to deal with. I hope that it got better for you, mine got and most of it disappeared with time.

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User Profile: goldentown96
goldentown96 July 3rd, 2018

@amiablePeace77

I'm happy to hear that! For me unfortunately, it didn't.

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User Profile: amiablePeace77
amiablePeace77 OP July 3rd, 2018

@goldentown96

sorry to hear that, i hope you found ways to manage it. if you like to talk about it you can message me smiley

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User Profile: goldentown96
goldentown96 July 5th, 2018

@amiablePeace77

Thank you. smiley

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