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INSIDESTORY is aregular LIFT - OUT massage can be used as a wallchart or com- piled as a barefoot doctor’s manual.” “buttons* under the skin. Note the sensation when each reflex button Is pressed. The relative sensitivity should be recorded on the Reflex Recorder supplied. A sensitivity scale of one (midly sensitive) through to five (very painful) can be used. Each assessment should be dated so that the response to treatment con be measured. Proceed with the assessment massage by maintaining on even thumb pressure while feeling for ond stimulating the various reflex buttons. After working through the soles of the feet, proceed to those reflex areas found on the heel and around the ankle. Diagram 2 shows the location of the reflex buttons found on the inside and outside of the feet and heels Reflexology Is practical body feedback. By a tender response to pressure on a reflex button your body is telling you INSIDESTORY is aregular LIFT - OUT Refiexclagy is a heaith developing and malntaining technique that involves No expense, no special equipment and no drugs or surgery. Its regular use develops a high level of health awareness through increased body feedback, natural and prompt tellef from acute and chranic pain and renewed vigour and enthusiasrn for Ilfe. Reflexology is a parallel science to acupuncture which uses no needles. Both sciences attribute their beneficial results to stimulation and direction of healing energies throughout the body along meridian channels (energy pathways in the body). The refiex polnts are energy Junctions that relay and reinforce healing energy atong the meridian lines, directing this energy toward the organs, glands and nervous system, Good health involves four basic principles: Nerve supply (inervatian) blood and lymph integrity. circulation and rest. ANY rograrn of health ‘ that there Is a trouble spot. The refiex development A maintenance must RE a cll on recorder enables you to note your g power and 4 a a imac address Itself to these four principies. directs this health restoring power to — DOdY’s requests fer priority treatment _as The nerves are the central affected body parts. the degree of tenderness in the reflex communication system of tne body, corresponds to the urgency of the receiving input stimuli and carrying ASSESSING HEALTH STATUS request for treatment. Instructions constantly to the glands, WITH REFLEXOLOGY. A few simple points to remember. organs, muscies and brain. Without The biood supply and the nervous * The palm of the right hand is sufficient supply of nerve eneigy to system connect the various organs positive and stimulates body energy. tissue we do not have the power for and glands of the body. having a strengthening effect. proper assimilation of foed or Vital energies are carried vio these * The palm of the left hand is ellmination of toxins and wastes. pathways and a_ blockage in any negative and has a soothing, sedating Reflexology fs a technique that can pathway decreases the supply of life- effect. be used to tap into and send healing giving energy available to * The use of doth palms will give you impulses along the nervous pathways interconnected zones. the combined effect of both energies to corresponding areas of the body by A tender spot in any body refiex * The back of the hands have the applying pressure to specific Reflex point Indicates a blockage inthe opposite electrical energy to the buttons". If ts a harmonizing and energy pathway. The degree of paims. energy balancing technique. ; sensitivity corresponds to the degree Thus the back of the right hond is The blood carries blochemical of malfuction in the particular area of negative. and the back of the left is nutrients, Including oxygen, to the cells the boay. positive. ond removes toxins, bacteria . carbon Here |s where reflexology is usefull * When eressing reflex points to aries and wastes, — asa diagnostic tool. By recording the stop pain try touse the left hand. If you test eer a aa blood, sensitivity of the various reflex points a cre seeking to stimulote underactive pia, a ee, te ust aie clear pattern of health priorities will be areas of the body use the , ne 4 hag an Promotes revealed. strengthening effect of the right polm YMPNANC MCT, . For this assessment we recommend *~ During pregnancy the tongue One of the sensations associated using the foot reflexes. reflexes should not be used as there is wth reflex massage therapy Is Please refer to diagram 1. a possibility that the relaxing effect on relaxation. Note how the refiex points in the feet the reproductive organs may bring Relaxation and rest are fhe most reflect the arrangement of the body about miscarriage. overlooked principles of health, organs. Alterations in the metabolism of the Sitting comfortably in a chair. begin body during rest promote the by massaging the feet with the thumbs. restoration of damaged tissue and the Start with the big toe which contains the efficient removal of toxins. feflex buttons connected to _ the Durlng rest, blood elrculatlon and pitultary and pineal glands. Using nerve supply to affected body parts steady are unlmpeded by demands made by thumb pressure feel for the refiex competing physical activities. button. The sensation of "hitting the Rest {fs essential for regenerating button" Is experlenced variously as a ond revitallsing the body andmind. point of pleasant tingling sensation Reflexology has been shown to through to a point of concentrated pain. llberate endorphins, chemical Press and roll the thumb as if you were transmitters in the brain that suppress trylng to break up lumpy sugar. Do not palin and have acalming effect tub the skin, but feel for the reflex Nexus New Times continued page 26 can be used as a wallchart or com- piled as a barefoot doctor’s manual.” body Nexus New Times