This natural therapy is used by qualified holistic therapist in clinics all over the world and has become very popular.
It is based on each person’s body being connected through their nervous system.
The therapist or practitioner can detect illnesses that are already causing a problem or detect an imbalance.
The practitioner will use his or her thumb to perform a light but firm massage on their client’s feet.
It has been said the way the imbalance is detected is the skin alters when touched and it feels like there are grains of salt just under the tissue.
Other names that reflexology is known by are zone therapy or reflex zone therapy the outcome of the healing and feeling relaxed is the same means whichever words are used.
The Egyptians were the nation that developed hand and foot reflexology and this has now spread to other people such as the Chinese and Greeks.
The natives of America in the south and north use this method to heal their own people.
Note: Therapist thinks of your feet as a map. Your large toe is the head and the balls of the feet are your shoulders. The narrow part of the foot is the waist.