JIN SHIN JYUTSU®
Jin Shin Jyutsu, “The Art of the Creator through Compassionate Man,” is Innate Wisdom simplifying the complexities of life. Jin Shin Jyutsu is an ancient art that harmonizes body, mind, emotions and soul. Over 4,000 years old, it was widely known before the birth of Buddha and recorded in the Bible. In Japan, Jin Shin Jyutsu was part of its oral tradition until 721 A.D. when it was incorporated into the Japanese Kojiki (Record of Ancient Things), the first written record of Japan’s oral traditions.
Virtually lost by the 20th Century, Jiro Murai, a Japanese philosopher, rediscovered the healing art of Jin Shin Jyutsu in the early 1900’s through his study of the Kojiki. The ancient Japanese mystics and healers hid it in the Kojiki to preserve it. Master Murai’s rediscovery also involved 50 years of personal experimentation.
As a first-generation Japanese-America born in Seattle, Mary Burmeister traveled to Japan in the late 1940’s to learn Japanese. Shortly after arriving, Mary met Jiro Murai.
He offered her the opportunity to bring Jin Shin Jyutsu to America. Mary studied with Jiro for five years in Japan and another seven years after she returned to America through correspondence. Mary began accepting clients and students in the mid-1960’s. Her first book of four, Jin Shin Jyutsu Is was published in January 1980.
Jin Shin Jyutsu is an Art of Living. Through the understanding of one’s self, we are able to step into the flow of life, maintaining our health and happiness on a daily basis. Jin Shin Jyutsu is a simple but powerful Art. It does not involve message, manipulation of bones or muscles, or the use of drugs of substances. It is a helpful adjunct to Western medicine and for those dealing with stress, chronic dis-ease and more recent health disharmonies.
Jin Shin Jyutsu works with the energy flows of the body that feed life into our cells and the light or energy that flows from the fingertips of the Jin Shin Jyutsu practitioner. It focuses on twenty-six points along these energy pathways found within the body called “safety energy locks.” Energy can become stuck or blocked at these points due to the stress and tensions of life. These blockages lead to symptoms and discomforts.
Jin Shin enables us to eliminate the tension and stress from daily living by gently holding various energy locks upon the body (over clothing), thus enabling deeper relaxation and restoration of the body’s natural energy flows. In turn, this enables the harmonizing of body, mind, emotions, and soul as the blockages melt away.
The Source (Heaven) is within us. We can unlock (unblock) its healing power and return to our natural (Divine) state of Harmony through awareness and understanding of one’s self. At our fingertips is a sublime and natural power ever flowing through the Universe, through the Breath, and through every cell of our body and being. It is the very Life that sustains us.