PRESS HERE › Neck & shoulders
If you spend your day at a screen, this is the tension most people complain about. These are the three points traditional Chinese practice points to for it, what each one sits against, and an honest look at what pressing them can do.
You will also see them written as Fengchi, Jianjing and Houxi — same points, different naming systems. They are worth knowing by both names so you can look them up elsewhere.
Base of the skull, in the hollow where the neck meets the head. Pressed with both thumbs angled upward and inward. This is the main one for the back of the neck and the base of the skull.
The spot people most often miss. If you feel nothing, you are probably on the muscle either side of the centre line rather than in the dip itself.
Top of the shoulder, on the muscle just in from the neck. Handled differently from the other two — this one is picked up and rolled gently between thumb and fingers rather than pressed straight down.
Needs a lighter touch than people expect. The shoulder muscle tightens under direct pressure.
On the outer edge of the hand, in the dip between the knuckle of the little finger and the wrist bone. Usually added once the neck points have been worked.
This one travels — it is used for tension that has moved down into the hands and forearms after a long typing day.
If the tension comes back every day and gets worse over the week, the issue is your setup, not your pressure points.
The three points above are free to read and always will be. What costs money is the sequence and the timing — how long to hold each one, in what order, paired with which gua sha area, on which day.