The physical act of applying specific pressures using thumb, finger and hand techniques, performed without oils, lotions or creams result in stress reduction causing a physiological change in the body.
Both patient and reflexologist must be positioned comfortably to ensure maximum relaxation. Usually, a reclining position is preferred by the patient. A reflexologist will usually work on the bare feet, but if this is not possible, the treatment can be given on the hands.
Beginning with the right foot, all reflex points on both feet are always stimulated as the body is considered to be a whole unit, the pressure applied varying with each person.
Reflexology will never make any condition more acute. Foot reflexolgy helps nature to normalize body functions. A Foot Reflexology series relaxes the stress that can affect your health. It is a safe effective way to Better Health.
India, China, Egypt, etc., practiced reflexology thousands of years ago.
When we put on shoes we lost direct contact with the earth and were no longer grounded to it. We lost the natural exchange between the body's electrical currents and those of the earth.
In 1913 reflexology was brought to the Western world. Dr. Wm. Fitzgerald, an M.D. in Connecticut, was using "Zone Therapy" to deaden pain in some parts of the body. (similair to acupuncture)
Edwin Bowers, M.D., of New York, and George Starr White, M.D. used reflexology but the medical world did not accept it then.
Nervous people pace back and forth; rub hands
together; bite their nails and some even handle worry beads and or rocks.
Unknowingly they are relieving tensions by working the reflexes.
Disease is created by stress. Stress is removed with reflexology,
aiding optimal health.
