Foot Reflex Points
.... a few more points of importance before we start exploring our feet for the Reflex Points.
- Reflexology is a holistic approach to health. This means, a reflexologist would always treat the body as a whole, not in separate little pieces of flesh, organs or other body parts.
We may concentrate on certain parts of the body, but we always end up treating the entire body!
- Reflexology can be used as a diagnostic tool, however, NEVER at any time diagnose a disease, illness or any problems!
A reflexologist is not a diagnostician.
All you do is, ascertain a certain point is painful and that point relates to a certain part of the body. That is all, don't conclude or diagnose anything else.
- As we have discussed before, the foot is an important indicator for many different functions and systems of the body and of health. However, don't assume you touch a reflex point, which may also be an acupuncture point, that you are doing Chinese Medicine.
Whatever healing modality you may touch on with reflexology is just coincidental.
Healing modalities may seem similar, but can be valued only on their totality of understanding.
And the last point,
NEVER use any kind of pressure tool to work on the feet.
Only use your hands, fingers and specifically your thumb.
FOOT REFLEX ZONES & POINTS
To find the reflex points,
we divide our body in 10 vertical lines, which we call Zones.
These 10 Zones, which can be imagined as lines, are running equal with the 10 toes of our feet, and also our hands.
Having mentally put these 10 Zones on to our body structure, gives us an immediate idea where to find our body parts in our feet.
Obviously, the organs which are on the right side of the body will be on the right foot.
To get an even clearer picture, we will now separate the feet horizontally at 3 distinct places.
- The Shoulder Girdle, which will separate the head, neck vertebras, throat area from the chest area.
- The Diaphragm, or lower ribcage line, which will separate the chest from the abdomen.
- The Pelvic floor, which separates the abdomen from the Pelvic Organs.
This Pelvic floor line seen from the top of the foot is located just above the ankle.
Important:
There are no Direct Reflex points
above the ankle.
But we still use
this area for "Indirect Reflexes".
Now look at a foot again, and recognise that the foot looks like a Sitting Person.
The Big Toe, representing the Head, and the Heel representing the Pelvic.
Now you should have a general idea, where to find everything
in your feet, even without referring to a chart.
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