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Reflexology
No one really knows how or why it works, but many rely on reflexology to recover and maintain their health.
Reflexology is the stimulation of specific points mostly on the feet, but also hands, or ears in order to affect the whole body and therefore various organs, glands or structures in the body. This enhances the body’s own natural healing processes for strength and balance.
Our feet carry enormous pressure through the day and could use some maintenance care through a reflexology session, or set of sessions depending on what is going on in the body. The feet can carry tension and often pain. Tender points alert to problem areas and are addressed within client’s pressure wishes. The whole foot is addressed to bolster the unison of the body systems, helping the immune system and encouraging a sense of vitality and wellness.
Only a small percentage of massage clients come in for pampering, relaxation massages. Most come in for medical complaints: back pain, muscle spasms, sports injuries, migraines, fibromyalgia, and rehabilitation after surgery, etc.
Many times Doctors will suggest massage for hypertension and high blood pressure. But some people choose reflexology or energywork in tandem with conventional medicine to support the body through critical care, when the body cannot handle a full massage.
Reflexology is easy to do over a lunch break, as it is only a 30-minute treatment, and doesn’t require disrobing. Reflexology often requires a commitment of several treatments, especially if there have been serious health issues. Ask for package deals!
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“ You can run like a racecar… “
… But you have to come in for pit stops.”
I have said this so many times in massage or energywork sessions that I wish I had a dollar for every time I have said it!
What I am referring to is that balance is usually thought of as a Zen concept; where you go into a blissed out state, and live there (in a yoga posture) no matter what traumatic events may happen. Now I have no problem with yoga, if that is your thing, but we all have our “thing”. I like and use yoga.
But balance may be more of a concept where balance is the righting effect of going 100% and then screeching to a stop to catch your breath, like a racecar coming in to get the fuel and tires to continue on at a crazy pace.
I usually see people when their world has come crashing down around their heads, and they are in pain, hyper-tense, not breathing, and needing some relief. Getting people and their bodies and their energy to a calm, relaxed state, and in less pain is the righting effect. Scheduling down time before getting wound back into that knot is also has a righting effect, knowing that there will be a “port in the storm”.
We all have stressful times, and times when we can’t stop yet, but there needs to be an end strategy in place. Taking time out for massage can be one strategy. What are the positive ways you deal with stress?
Karate? Walking? Listening or playing music? Involvement in community theatre? Writing? Getting more sleep? Lunch with “the girls/guys”? Veg’ing in front of the T.V./Computer/Game Console? Reading a good book? Decorating/painting your house? Art? Cleaning? Long, hot bath with candles? Playing with your kids or pets? Working in a garden? Volunteering? The list goes on and is individual for each of us, at any given time.
Given the intensity and length of stressful situations, we may all reach for unhealthy choices, or close off from overwhelm. I believe this is where addictions some in, sort of like a baby’s pacifier. Depending on the situation, these can take us over. Working back out of crisis situations can be a long or short journey but one that can be shaped by adapting with new habits and letting go of and replacing less beneficial habits. A mental re-framing and re-claiming of one’s life and relation to it, is the road back. Getting back your life, you come back up to speed with the rest of life around you. Now you are back to flirting with the whole racecar mentality. But now you have choices on how to spend your energy. …Take time for that “pit stop”.
Mandy : – )
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