Acupressure or Do-in, pronounced 'dough-in', this ancient form of Chinese massage claims to prevent disease rather than cure it.

A series of exercises is taught which strengthen and maintain the meridians or energy channels of the body that affect all the major organs.

Acupressure or Do-in have been used in the Far East for thousands of years to treat disease, but this poorly understood science has only gained wider acceptance in the West in recent times.

Chinese medicine emphasizes personal responsibility for one's health, unlike much of Western medicine.

This software is designed to put the relief of common and usually minor discomforts and symptoms into your own hands.

There are three reasons for practicing Do-in:

- To become aware of your own energy, for self treatment and for giving a good shiatsu therapy.

- Unfortunately a therapist often gets very little massage himself.

- Practitioners certainly have a right to exercise their profession, and in many cases their help is essential.

Acupressure, when well used, can easily relieve from occasional pain or strain, thereby avoiding that one has to disturb a medical officer for a triviality.

In many instances of life one is alone to decide what intuitive steps to undertake: at work, in trafic, in sport.

The same basic self-responsibility should govern our relation with health. Acupressure is one of the ways to go in that direction.

75% of illness is said to be stress-related.

This can be anything from general headache, neck and shoulder tension, cold, respiratory problems etc.

Reducing stress is the best preventive measure one can take.

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