April / May 2006

Since 1976, The G-Jo Institute has shared this powerful "self-health" technique with millions of people. But this safe, easy healing method has been widely used in the East for thousands of years. G-Jo (pronounced "GEE-joh") Acupressure is remarkably effective. It brings relief in seconds -- relief that lasts for hours but has no negative side-effects! And, when used at the first sign of suffering, G-Jo Acupressure even stimulates your body's own healing system! G-Jo is the simplest form of acupressure.

By Michael Blate

Of the more than 1200 known acupuncture points, nearly 200 of them qualify as G-Jo points. These are the most easily-found and broadly effective points which lend themselves to fingertip triggering and massage-like stimulation. This basic program teaches you how to find and use six of your vital G-Jo points. These principles may then be applied to all other G-Jo acupressure points.

As soon as a health problem or symptom occurs, reach for the right G-Jo point. Go through the three-step process and “test” your target symptom. It should be relieved. If not, try another of the points. Each G-Jo point relieves many symptoms and health problems. Repeat the process until you get relief. (There is usually at least one of these basic six points that will bring relief and often stimulate healing.) If the symptom returns, simply re-trigger the best (most effective) point again. You should get increasing spans of “relief time” between any necessary restimulation of the best G-Jo point(s).

G-Jo literally works in seconds. When you find and trigger the right G-Jo control point for your health problem, you’ll feel instant relief. This is how you know you’ve found the best point.

Step one - find a G-Jo point.
First, look at the illustration of the point. Then take the tip of your thumb - or if you have a long thumbnail, use your bent index finger knuckle (even the eraser tip of a pencil) - and deeply probe that area on your own body. You are looking for a tender “ouch point” - it will feel like a toothache or pinched nerve when you contact it. If you don’t feel the twinge, you haven’t found the G-Jo point - keep probing.

Step two - trigger the G-Jo point.
Stimulate the point deeply - deeply enough to be painful (up to 20lbs. of pressure) - with your fingertip or bent index finger knuckle. Do this for up to 30 seconds, using a digging or goading kind of massage. Don’t be too gentle with yourself - it must be painful as you trigger the point. But you won’t injure yourself, and the pain should cease as soon as you stop triggering the point.

Step three
Simply do the exact technique on the opposite side of your body. Probe deeply until you contact the sensitive “ouch point”, then trigger that spot for up to half a minute. But remember: G-Jo point are very tiny - only about the size of a pin-head. They are easy to miss, so you must probe for - then stimulate - only the most tender, sensitive spot.

Several things often occur when a good G-Jo point is triggered. First, you may feel a flush of warmth - even perspiration - in several areas of your body. Forehead, shoulders and arms are common regions for this to occur. You may also feel slightly light-headed or even drowsy after triggering a good point. And, of course, you should feel an immediate and deep sense of relief.

G-Jo is safe and natural - even for children. But there are several people who should generally avoid G-Jo (except in emergency situations): pregnant women, especially those beyond the third month of pregnancy; chronic heart patients, especially those who use pacemaker-type devices; people who take regular medication for such serious illnesses as diabetes, etc. Except for emergencies, when the following rules don’t apply, you should:

wait about four hours after taking drugs, medications, alcohol or other intoxicants before using G-Jo.
wait about 30 minutes after taking a hot bath, eating a full meal or doing hard physical activity before applying G-Jo;
avoid any G-Jo point lying beneath a scar, mole, wart, varicose vein, etc, use another G-Jo point, instead...
stop using G-Jo if your target symptom(s) keep returning; it may mean your health problem is chronic (then see your doctor) or that you are using the wrong G-Jo point.

Each G-Jo acupoint has many uses. For example, G-Jo Acupoint Number 5, one of the acupoints illustrated on the G-Jo Acupressure Basic Chart, has at least 29 different healing uses. It is useful in self-treating LOWER BACK PAIN, HEMORRHOIDS and KNEE PROBLEMS. This is also a powerful healing acupoint for various LEG PROBLEMS, too. And it can be helpful with discomfort and other symptoms that occur with PAIN ALMOST ANY PLACE IN THE BODY - in other words, it is an important general PAIN RELIEF CENTER.

Instructions for finding G-Jo Acupoint Number 5:

If you haven’t already found G-Jo Acupoint Number 5 on yourself, here’s how you do it. Start by looking at the illustration on the G-Jo Basic Chart. Now reach down behind the bony bulge of your OUTER ankle (the lateral malleolus) ...
Press DEEPLY in the soft hollow between that OUTER ankle bone and the achilles tendon (the hamstring tendon running up the back of the foot and lower leg) ...
Probe around that hollow area, feeling for the tender “ouch point” - remember, press deeply until you feel the “ouch”.
Now “trigger” - massage deeply in a digging, goading way - for a few seconds. Do this until you feel a little warmth some place in your body - that warmth or other response is called an “acupressure reaction” .
Finally, find and trigger the identical spot on the opposite lower leg - remember, it’s between the OUTER ankle bone and the hamstring tendon.

If you had the kind of lower back pain that G-Jo Acupoint Number 5 is useful in relieving, you should have gone from pain to relief in just a few seconds!

But if this didn’t work quite so well for your kind of lower back pain, there are 23 other G-Jo Acupoints just for pain in the lower back! At least one of them is almost guaranteed to work the wonders of healing for you.

One of the most powerful G-Jo acupoints is G-Jo Number 13 and the three uses listed for G-Jo Acupoint Number 13: HEADACHE, CONGESTION and TIRED FEET.

But actually, this broad-acting acupoint has more than four dozen different health benefits! For example, two additional uses include healing PROBLEMS OF THE HAND and PROBLEMS INSIDE THE MOUTH. G-Jo Acupoint Number 13 is very useful for treating some headaches, but it’s far from the only G-Jo acupoint for them. For instance, there are nearly 20 G-Jo Acupressure points for the 60 or more kinds of headaches people can suffer.

As soon as you notice any problem that G-Jo Acupoint Number 13 can treat, do this:

Place your hand so the palm is facing downward, toward the floor.

With the tip of your opposite thumb (or the bent knuckle of the opposing pointer finger, if you have a long thumbnail), press DEEPLY in the fleshy area on the back of your hand between your thumb and pointer finger - use the TIP, not the pad, of the thumb for more specific pressure.
Feel for the tender “ouch point” as you press and probe ...
Once you find the tender spot, trigger it for a few seconds in the G-Jo way - a digging, goading, slightly painful kind of massage.
Repeat the same process on the other hand - probe, find, trigger ...and in seconds, sigh in relief!

If you have trouble finding this G-Jo acupoint, please review the illustration on the G-Jo Basic Chart. It’s one of the easiest of all G-Jo Acupoints to locate - and one of the most powerful, too!

Tip: A good G-Jo Acupressure point usually hurts a little when you find and trigger it properly. If you DON'T feel the “ouch” (usually like a toothache or pinched nerve when you find and deeply massage the point), it may mean one of several things:

You’re not pressing and massaging deeply enough ...
You’re not on the actual G-Jo Acupoint, only near it ...
Or this might not be the best G-Jo Acupoint for your problem - try another acupoint, instead!

A good G-Jo Acupoint triggered properly, usually brings immediate relief. But you may not notice any difference after finding and triggering even the best G-Jo Acupoint for a problem you only occasionally experience. That’s because G-Jo works best when you are actually suffering from the problem AT THE TIME YOU TRIGGER the acupoint.?In other words, use G-Jo Acupressure SYMPTOMATICALLY. Use it as soon as you notice a health problem arise or return.

How can I learn G-Jo completely?
Complete information on these and the rest of the nearly 200 G-Jo points may be found in The Master of G-Jo Acupressure Home-Study Certification Program. Each of your many G-Jo points is illustrated and described, along with their hundreds of self-health uses in The Master of G-Jo Acupressure Home-Study Certification Program. This and many other self-health publications and home-study programs may be purchased from:

The G-Jo Institute
Post Office Box 1460,
Columbus, NC 28722
www.g-jo.com

office@g-jo.co

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