HEAD & FACE TENSION

A gentle reset for screen-heavy, brow-tight moments.

Use a short screen break, gentle brow-bone contact at BL2, and optional GB20 pressure at the base of the skull to create a few quieter minutes for your eyes, brow, and head. This is a comfort practice — not a treatment for headaches, migraine, dry eye, or vision problems.

Try 90 Seconds Explore the 5-Minute Practice

Guided self-care with safety and location checks before the timer.

A quick pause or a longer moment

90 sec

90-Second Screen & Brow Reset

Step away from the screen, use gentle contact at the inner brow-bone points, then look into the distance for a short visual break.

Explore routine

5 min

5-Minute Head & Face Ease

A slower sequence combining gentle BL2 brow contact, surface pressure at GB20, and a longer screen-free pause.

Explore routine

Before you begin

PointWell offers general self-care and educational guidance and is not a substitute for diagnosis, treatment, or emergency medical care.

Mild, familiar head, brow, or screen-related tension.

Seek urgent medical care for a sudden severe headache, a headache after head injury, or headache with confusion, fainting, seizures, weakness, numbness, trouble speaking, stiff neck with fever, double vision, or major vision changes.

Choose eye care for sudden vision loss or change, new double vision, severe eye pain, eye injury, new flashes or many floaters, or concerning halos.

Stay on the brow bone. Use light, comfortable contact only. Never press the eyeball, eyelid, or push inward into the eye socket.

Stay at the surface of the soft hollow below the skull. Do not dig deeply under the skull or into the neck.

Traditional Use

BL2 (Cuanzhu) and GB20 (Fengchi) have long been used in East Asian medicine in head, eye-region, and neck-related contexts. Traditional use is not proof of modern efficacy.

Modern Evidence

Manual acupressure and self-massage have been studied for head and neck discomfort, but evidence is limited and often involves multi-point programs. Screen-break evidence belongs to the behavioral component, not BL2 efficacy. BL2 independent effects on vision, dry eye, or eye disease are not established.

Evidence Labels

Limited / indirect manual evidence

Limited / supportive self-care evidence

Established supportive behavior; separate from acupressure

What this routine is — and isn’t

PointWell uses these techniques for everyday comfort and short screen breaks. It does not diagnose or treat migraine, chronic headache, dry eye, glaucoma, myopia, or other eye conditions.