Want me to work on your feet?

Reflexology is completely amazing. I mean, who doesn't like getting their feet rubbed? OK there might be some ticklish types out there, but the best way to deal with that is for the practitioner to apply just a bit more pressure.

The roots of reflexology can be traced back to ancient China, India, and Egypt, between 2000 and 3000 BC. In Egypt there are hieroglyphics that were discovered where physicians administered pressure point and tissue manipulations on the feet of pharos to cure them of their ills. In China and India there are old foot maps that show what part of the foot treated different areas of the body.

My first time working out of the classroom, I found a little knot in a woman's left foot in the kidney area. I pressed on it to make it release and my client lurched forward and reach to her left posterior side of her lower back. I was startled and asked what was wrong and if she was, all right. She told me that it was ok, but she felt a sudden pain in the area she was holding, (right buy her kidney) and said she had a kidney stone and was going in the next day to have it removed. I asked her if it was ok for me to try and apply a little pressure where I was on her foot she said 'ok' and I did, and she said she could feel it in the same spot. I became a true believer in reflexology. I showed her my foot map and she became a believer too.

I give reflexology to clients and use information that was accumulated from those ancient times to our current modern day living. There are many nerve endings in our feet. These nerve ending correlate with different parts of the human body. Reflexology is used to help the body to detoxify. I have used it to help ease stiff necks when clients inform me that doctors recommend no soft tissue manipulation around the neck or upper back. I have also seen head aches dissipate with the proper application of reflexology. And there are times when I have told clients of allergies, colds, and liver problems, that they knew they had, but I discovered by understanding what I could feel in the feet.

Reflexology most common in the feet, there are, however reflexology in the hands and ears. I also understand there are some practitioners that claim reflexology points in the whole body. I call it Shiatsu and acupressure. It might be the same thing, or maybe not, but I will be looking into it.