10 Awesome Ways Reflexology Can Help Your Family

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1. Take control. You can manage how your family feels just like you manage your family’s budget and meals and so many things. 

2. Target those complaints. Tummy aches, owies, headaches—there’s a reflexology solution for everyday problems.

3. Create some face time with your family. Everyone’s busy these days and reflexology creates time to sit and talk.

4. Show you care. Hugs are great but reflexology lets that loving touch go on longer.

5. Create a special relationship. One woman is called Aunty Foot by her young niece who loves her reflexology time.

6. What’s wrong, honey? I don’t know. When it’s one of those times when no words describe what your loved one is feeling, reflexology can bridge the gap.  

7. Take care of yourself. Your family needs you. That little thing that’s bothering you (nagging headaches, bad menstrual pains etc.) needs some attention for you to be your best. 

8. Take the edge off. Life is more of a tension filled roller coaster ride for some of us. As told to Kevin by more than one reflexology client, my family is glad to have me come and see you to make me easier to live with. 

9. Special care for special ages. Whatever the age, reflexology offers solutions medicine doesn’t. Whether it’s teething and colic for infants, growing pains for the teenager or reassurance for the elderly, you and reflexology can be there. 

10. You’re not alone. You’re not helpless. When life takes a turn with a serious illness or family problem, reflexology offers an opportunity to reach out when there are no words to help.

Your heart attack prevention plan and reflexology

Men’s Health reported ideas for “Your heart attack prevention plan” in June 2008. Included was a tip to “Trade massages with her (your significant other).” “Regular massages may soothe a rapid heartbeat. Relaxation techniques reduce your body’s production of adrenaline, norepinephrine, and epinehprine, stress hormones that rev up your heart in the face of danger, days Atman P. Shah, M.D., an assistant professor of medince at UCLA. A 2007 British study found that people who received an hour of reflexology treatment (a type of foot or hand massage) had rates that averaged almost 8 bpm (beats per minute) than when they went without.”

This small paragraph started me thinking. As a professional reflexologist, I always like to see the encouragement of reflexology use. Planting the idea of such a specific use is great. And, there’s nothing like hands-on application from a loved one as shown by several studies. I would suggest, however, a wider consideration of reflexology techniques for two reasons: time and effort.  An hour is a long time to apply reflexology and I wonder how many casual users have the strength. Trading hour-long reflexology sessions adds up to a two-hour time span not always available with today’s busy life styles—especially considering there is also a learning curve in becoming familiar with those techniques.

What advice would I give? Use the hour-long for special times. Take responsibility for your own cardiac health by using reflexology path ideas. These ideas were tested and found to lower blood pressure as well as other beneits when paritcipants walked for 45 minutes three times a week. Reflexology path mats are available but you can create your own. Throw some rocks in a box or go out into a rocky portion of the garden.


And try some self help with hand reflexology. It is easy, convenient and can fit nicely in your day time wise. 


But please if you can-  give the gift of reflexology to each other as often as you can. It can help not only your heart but your relationship as well. 

The Reflexology Path kit released

The new Reflexology Path kit has it's roots in a lot of practices that are ancient in origin. But they are being rediscovered in both Asia and Europe. These ideas are just now coming to North America.

 

The Chinese tradition of tap shek (stone stepping) is now a part of the country’s fitness plan with

government funding for construction of reflexology paths in cities.

In China the elderly line up in long queues every morning and evening for their 15 minute walks

on reflexology path in parks for fitness.

In Germany, reflexology paths at schools or on family outings are used as a walking training

ground to help children develop healthfully.

“Walking the cobblestone road” (reflexology path) is a “national popular fitness method” and a

“fashionable fitness” activity in China.

German reflexology paths in barfussparks (barefoot parks) take walkers over terrains such as

logs, streams, pine cones, moss, mud and other elements found in nature.

Reflexology paired with walking, standing or exercising on a cobblestoned or bamboo surface

has been proven to be a safe, low impact activity that exercise-avoiding seniors (and others) will

gladly undergo.

Kevin Kunz

http://www.reflexology-research.com

http://www.dk.com/reflexology

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Reflexology Fantasy

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No this isn't about sex. It is about an old file I ran across. It was called "Reflexology Fantasy". So being in an adventurous mood I decided to open it up.

It turns out to be a mind map I drew awhile back. It is a type of "what if" mind map about reflexology. I was fantasying about reflexology's potential being finally realized by individuals, organizations, governments, businesses and so forth.

Such as:

• What if medicine suddenly realized the enormous potential of being able to not only address stress on a general level but to also be able to address stress in very specific ways with reflexology? 
• What if hospitals realized how much they could save in early releases and how much goodwill they could gain with patient satisfaction using reflexology routinely with patients? What if hospitals used it for staff stress?
• What if the government realized that with they could address the costly of the geriatric giants of memory loss, mobility, incontinence and dementia with reflexology? What if health care facilities like assisted living and nursing homes figured this out as well?
• What if businesses suddenly got wind of the cost saving through reflexology with reduced absenteeism and worker morale?
• What if schools focused on stimulation to the feet and hands to encourage neurological development to increase learning capabilities?
• What if artist, writers and other creative people used reflexology to help their creative side? 
• What if reflexology was consider a form of fitness and became a part of a nation fitness program? What if it was used to increased athletic performance?
  

I have a lot more "what if's" but the final one is simple. What if we opened our minds up to the importance of our feet and hands as sensory organs that can lift us up into new ways of living?

What what if's can you think of about reflexology?

Kevin Kunz

http://www.reflexology-research.com

http://www.dk.com/reflexology

Follow me on Twitter-http://twitter.com/footreflexology

Paperback edition of Complete Reflexology for Life is coming out in August- Order yours today.