Hi Guys - hope you're doing well. My name’s
Danielle Collins and today I'm going
to be showing you
a really nice energising sequence,
particularly for the eye area,
that you can do when you first wake up
in the morning.
So, making sure you've got nice clean hands
and we're just going to start off with
this part of our hands
and we're going to place it here, just onto the
edge of our eyebrows. So we're here and
we're slightly lifting
the edge of the eyebrow up. So we're just
doing that here,
resting the palms of the hands onto the head
and widening your eyes as much as possible.
So, focus on one point in front of you
and widen those eyes. Breathing deeply here -
in through the nose and out through the nose.
Take one more deep breath in and deep breath out.
Release for a moment, close the eyes, take
another inhale
and another exhale and then we'll take that again.
Heel of the hand comes onto the edge of
the eyebrow to very slightly raise it up.
Coming here, placing the hands onto the head,
focusing on a point in front of you,
making the eyes wide.
This is really strengthening the
muscle all the way around the eye to
really help smooth
any lines. It's lifting the outer edge
of the eyebrow and it's very good for
invigorating, refreshing
and waking up the eyes as well. So just
gently release, close the eyes again,
another deep breath in and another deep breath
out here. Good - and then just opening the
eyes, taking your index fingers - but if
you're a little bit heavy-handed,
use your ring finger, so work out which
feels best for you -
and we're just coming to the top of the eyebrow
and we're tapping all the way round here.
So it's a really super easy, super gentle
technique that you can just do as soon
as you wake up and really use your
breath. Remember there's
so many healing benefits to using deep
breathing, so
aim to breathe in for about a count of four
and breathe out for about a count of six.
It's one of the best things you can do
to start your day and then we're going
to go in the other direction.
So we're doing these light, quick taps.
Remember how thin the skin
around this area is - so we want to go
really, really gentle here,
using the breath still.
Let's do twice more.
And then just gently come into the
little acupressure point,
just in the inner corner of the eye, just
at the edge of the nose either side.
Now you can open or close your eyes here -
whichever you prefer -
and just taking a few deep breaths here.
This point is very renowned for helping
wake up tired eyes, it's very good to use
if you haven't had a good night's sleep,
it's amazing for helping the energy or the chi
or the prana around this area. So, if
you've got dark
circles or puffiness in the morning, the
tapping exercise we just did,
combined with this acupressure, is
perfect to do.
And then you're just gonna very gently
sweep under the eyes and just come to
the little point just here.
So sweeping out and lifting off,
sweeping out, lifting off. Now remember,
we're not dragging the skin. If you can see
here, how I'm just doing it to the point
where the skin isn't moving, we're still
doing a lot. We're still
helping boost that circulation, we're
still helping that lymphatic drainage.
We actually want to be gentle, we don't
want to be too
heavy-handed here. And then our final technique,
just to wake up the eyes this morning, is
two fingers and thumb and we're just going to
gently pinch onto the eyebrow. So we're
going top of the eyebrow, pinching
and moving all the way across, a really great
lifting technique for the eyebrow. We're stimulating
lots of lovely calming acupressure points
and it's also just so good if you've got
a lot of stress and tension build-up
from the night here. And let's just do
one more time, coming across -
and then I'd like you just to close your
eyes for a moment, just soften
and relax your face and then, in your
mind, I'd like you to just think
of one thing that you're most grateful for
in this moment. So just say it to
yourself now, say thank you for -
and then say the thing -
and then when you're ready, gently open
your eyes. And I hope you have a great day, feeling
much more energised now. Take care, bye bye.