When we experience trauma, our body responds in a defensive way.  In trying to protect us, the hypothalamus and triple warmer meridian often lock onto outdated defensive strategies and tend to rigidify the habit.  Here are some exercises to help you release the defensive hold your body has on past traumas.  (You can also use these techniques any time you feel overwhelmed.)  It is helpful to repeat these exercises so that you retrain your body to tolerate increasing levels of stress before invoking the fight-or-fight response.  This resiliency of the body to stress will help your general level of health as well.
Start by selecting a memory or a current situation that is painful to you or has an emotional grip on you. 
(1) Place the fingers of both hands on your forehead and stretch the skin toward the outside of your face.
Bring your fingers back to the bumps on your forehead about one inch directly above your eyes.
Put your thumbs on your temples next to the outside of the eye, breathe deeply.
Hold with a light pressure for 3 to 5 minutes.
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(2) Using the same points, cross your hands, one on top of the other, stretch the skin toward the outside of your face.
Place your thumbs and fingers on the opposite side of the face over the eyes and on the temples.
Crossing your hands helps the energies cross over the sides of your body.  Breathe deeply.
Hold with a light pressure for 3 to 5 minutes.
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(3) Lay one hand on your forehead and the other hand on the back of your head.  This creates a polarity to create an energetic link between the front and back parts of the brain and brings energy to the hypothalamus and sedates the kidney meridian fear points.
Source: Energy Medicine by Donna Eden.
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