Adrenal Exhaustion
When the going gets Tough
Living in Nature, there is a season for planting and storing, hunting and gathering, tending our sprouts, all leading to the Harvest. And it can get tough.
When I helped out at a Hemp farm, there was a week or two of 24/7 picking, trimming and hanging the hemp to dry. The consequence of stopping was that they would lose more of the harvest to mold. A hurricane had made it’s way up to NC and they were trying to salvage what they could from the heavy rains. It was a tough time, a hard time, to watch so much effort be lost.
I felt bad for their loss, but when the sun was shining again, they still had the best harvest they had produced. And it still stung, what could have been.
When the going gets tough, and hard. Do this to give yourself the strength and spirit to keep going.
Rub each acupressure for 10 seconds (more is better!) first on the left side and then on the right.
LI-11 and LU-5: Pool at the Bend and Cubit Marsh. Where water pools, becomes a place of rest and resources, and a marsh is the most fertile and nourishing place on Earth, for plants, not humans.
Humans feed on power and greed, and the rest battle for survival. Plants feed on carbon dioxide and fertile soil. They clean our nurturing environment, which has been abused from the lack of feminine values.
LI-11 is a ghost point, which are used to treat mental illness, and this one is for “losing grip completely,” medically defined as psychosis. I call it using the power of the mind to create a new reality when this reality feels hopeless! It is also the best point on the body (arguably) for letting go of the shit in your life. Which medicine defined as constipation.
LU-5 “descends rebellious Qi” aka energy, and activates the energy of Revolutionary. This is the yin, or feminine partner of Metal Element, and she is wise enough to know that fighting and war is only useful if your survival is threatened. All other times you use your feminine influence. This point gives the strength to be adamant about your feminine values.
“I said nobody left behind unless our survival depends on it.“
KI 1 and LV-3: Gushing Spring and Great Surge. The force of Old Faithful, and the strength of a blade of grass pushing through concrete, all wrapped up in one energy. Touching anyone, including yourself, never increases the energy of greed and control. All healing increases the greater good in you. All organs and all cells. Every person, animal and plant. Our home. Taken care of. Let’s apply some force and strength in that direction.
KI-1 has been called the courage point. It is the sedation point of Kidney, a Water Element organ, and calms raging water, like dangerously high blood pressure, or when you are feeling like raging waters, which is the most destructive energy on this planet.
LV-3 is the source point, the source of the energy of planning an exciting future, and eliminating waste that offers nothing to your vision. The Liver eliminates anything hurtful to our health, and the spirit of Liver eliminates anything hurtful to your life and vision. Including discouragement.
When you are no longer afraid of being hurt, you relax, no need to rage if you aren’t in danger, and now you can plan the future.
HT-3 and TH-10: Lesser Sea and Celestial Well. The love of self that avoid comparing, and instead, reaching into your spirit for Love. I am not the biggest, but I am great. I contain the energy of our Creator, often called God in this culture, so I am in love with me and the people I care for and care for me.
HT-3 is the Water point on the Heart channel. This point is considered very calming, almost like you know in your heart that you are a gift of God. And nobody will rain on your parade. Water energy carefully teaches Fire where to burn without putting it out. Discouragement is a hard and cold use of water energy, and this point softens your fire and teaches it gently where to burn. Not around discouragement or criticism. Find the people who care for you and care for them.
TH-10 is the Earth point and Sedation point of Triple Heater meridian. It has been called the serene tranquility point. Earth energy is nurturing and nourishing. Sedation is calming, never oppressing or depressing. It lightens the heaviness of discouragement, and relieves all types of pain, physically and emotionally!
Nobody will rain on your parade.
ST-36 and BL-40: Leg Three Miles and Middle of the Crook. When you feel like you can’t keep going, but you have three more miles. Middle of the Crook is where you find perfect balance, perfect equilibrium, and together they give you the strength to find your center, your heart center.
ST-36 is arguably the most used point of all, because it strengthens the function of Earth and Stomach, Pancreas, and Spleen. It delivers nourishment to all of your parts with greater speed and efficiency, which on the level of body means glucose and oxygen to every cell. All the tiniest parts of you. Nobody Left Behind. Everyone fed and encouraged to be a part of the whole. Nobody made to feel useless, even Appendixes and Toe Nails. I have yet to find a use for ear hair, but my Earth energy seems to keep feeding them, so I keep looking.
BL-40 is the Earth point of Bladder meridian in the Water Element. The Bladder channel runs right alongside your spine and up over your head to the inner corner of your eye. This point gives flexibility and strength to your spine and mind. To find your perfect balance and your perfect partnership.
There is strength in partnership and loyalty. Start with you, your masculine and feminine, which eastern medicine says we need in balance to heal and thrive.
In this culture, even women use feminine references to insult a man. Serious imbalance! We could heal our culture by femming UP! If you’re not too scared to be feminine (caretaking, nurturing, encouraging and the strength to stand up for those values)! If you are, go back to the courage point and spend more time.
KI24-27: Celestial Graveyard, Spirit Storehouse, Lively Center, and Shu Mansion. To wake the dead, gather the reserves, wake up the heart center, and energize the wealth of Shu, aka movement or transport.
What has died in you? Innocence? Dreams? Ideals? Wake them up, and reach into your spirit to liven you heart and get it moving.
KI 24 is a very powerful point to resurrect your spirit. KI-25 nourishes your spirit.
KI -26 unbinds the chest and livens the heart. KI-27 dispels weariness and gives strength and movement to your spirit.
Massage these points to combat whatever caused your adrenal exhaustion and weariness, or better yet, give yourself more care through the tough times and stay strong.
And consider True Stress Resilience to assist your recovery or to endure hard times. Or Bupleurum Formula if you are very sensitive and feel like existing on this planet is overwhelming!

LI-4 Union Valley: Sometimes the union requires a valley. If a hurtful person will not stop hurting, the only way to find peace is walking away, letting go. Making space. This point is the Source point of Large Intestine, the part of you that lets go of the stinkiest parts of you. Perhaps the most used point in Acupressure, or tied with ST-36 for number one. There is not a greater importance in healing, than letting go of anything that doesn’t serve you, that hurts you. It has been referred to as the Opium point, for the incredible pain relief it offers. Physically and emotionally. I once relieved an acute back pain with about 1 minute of massaging this point. It also detoxifies your body and mind.
BL-40 Middle of the Crook: No, not crook like a hurtful man. Crook like where we bend, where things turn. This point relaxes the back, just like bending your knees activates your quadriceps and relieves back pain if you are standing or lying too long. It helps if your blood is boiling, or if you are losing blood. It benefits all skin conditions. If your skin is thin, or irritated, you can’t keep out the exterior. You cannot hold boundaries in a healthy way, from hurtfulness like parasites and opportunistic infections. In this culture, you need thick skin. It is the Earth point on Bladder meridian (energy channel), which means it brings nourishment, minerals and richness to Water. Most often, the Earth just cradles Water in Her arms, allowing her to gently pool, or flow toward other water. This point gives strength of the energy that created the Grand Canyon.
GB-20 Wind Pool: This point helps you see more clearly and use good judgment. Think of wind blowing really hard in your face and eyes, can’t see straight or focus on anything, irritating your eyes, you duck for cover. In life we might call that overwhelm. This point calms the wind, or overwhelm in your life, and replaces it with the calm after the storm. It also opens your sinuses so you can smell what is sour, putrid, or rancid in your environment, clears your brain so you can think straight, and improves hearing so it may benefit a man who knows he is right and will not listen to another perspective. You can try, but they think this energy stuff is quackery. Quack quack. I’ll listen to 3000 years of sensitive healers, AKA Eastern Medicine, before I listen to the 3rd leading cause of death in America, Western Medicine. AKA Pharmaceutical Medicine.
SI-3 Back Ravine: This point is used to strengthen the spine. The Grand Canyon is a big Ravine. It’s beauty and grandiosity were forged by Water. The most sensitive element, with sheer determination to achieve it’s desired outcome. More Water. Acutely, this point works well for experiencing gut wrenching hurtfulness that is so hurtful it results in loss of consciousness. Eastern medicine sometimes pokes really hard to “bleed” a point in emergencies. I’d just pinch it or push my fingernail into it to cause a bit of pain. If someone I cared for was unconscious.
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