Step 1:

Begin by pinching from tips and bottoms of each finger and thumb of both your right hand and left hand. The pressure applied to your fingers should be firm, but not painful. A few seconds for each finger tip will do. Pinch them again, but this time squeezing from side to side.

Step 2:

Vigorously rub back and forth from the base to the tip of each linger & thumb.

Step 3:

Grasp each finger & thumb at its base and pull firmly. Allow your grip to loosen slightly, graduating it from the base to the finger tip until your finger slips out of your grasp completely.

Step 4:

Using your thumb and forefinger firmly grasp the webbed area between your thumb & forefinger of your other hand. Keeping a firm hold, pull at the skin gently until the fleshy web snaps away from your grasp. Repeat this process for the webbed-between areas on all your fingers.

Step 5:

Rest the palm of your hand inside the fingers of your free hand. Use your thumb to massage the back of your hand. Slowly work on the knuckles and in between knuckle area first. Continue thumb’ massaging each area on the back of the hand.

Step 6:

At the end of your session press your thumb deeply in the center of your palm. Take a few deep breaths. This would help to relax, clear your mind, and focus on your healing intentions.

A global outbreak of bird flu is still a concern. A pandemic starts when three conditions are met: a new influenza virus subtype emerges; it infects humans, causing serious illness , and it spreads easily and sustainably among humans. Bird flu (the H5N1 virus) amply meets the first two conditions. It’s a new virus for humans and it has infected more than 100 people, killing over half of them. No one will have immunity should an H5N1-like pandemic virus emerge.

Fortunately, the virus has not yet shown efficient, sustained human-to-human transmission. The risk remains that it could acquire this ability as long as chances for human infections occur. These chances will persist as long as the virus circulates in birds, which could endure for years to come. The more human infections occur, the more opportunities the virus has to improve its ability to transmit among humans and develop into a pandemic strain.

Further concerns include: domestic ducks excrete highly pathogenic viruses without showing illness, which complicates control efforts; today’s virus is more lethal when tested on mice and ferrets; it appears to have expanded its host range, infecting and killing mammalian species that were once resistant; and the behavior of the virus in its natural reservoir, wild waterfowl, may be changing.