Nick HowarthFounder, BBHC · Founder - BBHC Health Coaching

Stress Acupressure Technique

19 Sept 2025 · 2 min

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In this instructional video, Marina from Best Body Health Coach demonstrates a straightforward acupressure technique designed to reduce stress and promote better sleep before bedtime. While lying down, she guides viewers to locate a series of pressure points starting an inch outward and downward from the belly button, then moving upward toward points just beneath the ribs on each side of the abdomen. For each point, she advises inserting a finger, gently rocking to locate tenderness, and holding pressure for 30 seconds up to two minutes depending on sensitivity. The routine is repeated on the opposite side, with the final points positioned under the ribs. Marina emphasizes that the pressure should be enough to feel sensitive but not painful, and that the practice often leads to relaxation of the abdominal area, sometimes causing the practitioner to fall asleep and wake refreshed. The video serves as a step‑by‑step guide for a low‑effort, self‑administered stress‑relief method to improve nighttime rest.

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Hi, this is Marina from Best Body Health Coach, and today I'm going to show you a very easy and simple acupressure technique that will help you relieve your stress before you go to bed at night. So what you're going to do is, while you're lying down, you're going to find your belly button and then go an inch out and an inch down. And then you're going to stick your finger in there and find the point. Sometimes it will be tender. You can just rock it backwards and forwards to find the point, and you hold it for 30 seconds. You know, it doesn't have to be very sore for you. It's just got to, you know, be sensitive. If it's not, fine, you move up A little bit, push down, and then rock it back and forth a little bit to find the area that's tender. Hold it for 30 seconds, or if it's sore, then hold it for longer so that it's not sore anymore. And then move up another bit and find it. You'll see certain areas are not tender or not sore. You can just move on from them and continue. The last point will be By your ribs, just under your ribs, and you will stick your finger in there and hold it for 30 seconds or 1 minute or 2 minutes depending on how tender it is. Then you move to the other side, an inch this way, an inch down, put your finger in and hold it, and then move up, put your finger in and hold it. Move up, push your finger in and hold it. And the last one will be by your ribs, just under your ribs. Push it in and hold it. So you'll spend, you know, 30 seconds to 1 or 2 minutes on an area depending on how, you know, how tender it is. And you will see it relaxes this whole area and Sometimes you fall asleep while doing it and you wake up the next morning. So, it's a very simple and easy way to handle stress before you go to bed to help you sleep better.