As practitioners of life cultivation, we frequently use a technique called foot massage to keep our body healthy. The technical name for foot massage is reflexology. We seldom used the big word, because everyone knows what foot massage is. The massage of the foot, right?
We usually do foot massages ourselves in the evening. It is relatively easy to do on our own. It is also easy to do it on another person. Try it and you will like it.
First of all, we try to massage the bottom of our feet. When you search the Internet, you will find images that indicate sensitive acupoints on the bottom of our feet. We will use our hands to massage the acupoints, and hence we will maintain the health of the related organs. It is that simple.
As practitioners of life cultivation, we do not try to locate and remember the sensitive acupoints. We find it unnecessary. The area is very small, we will cover the whole area in a very short time.
We just go ahead and massage our feet on a regular basis. Perhaps twice a week. However, for older people who find that their blood has difficulty flowing towards their lower parts of the body, they may massage their feet more frequently.
We usually use our thumbs to massage the reflection areas under our feet. However, we may have sore thumbs after a while, especially if we just started the process.
We have several remedies if that happens. We may get a piece of small scraping tool to help us. Instead of using our thumbs, we use the tool. Believe me, it is not very pleasant to use the tool. We encourage you to use your thumbs instead. You will get used to it after a while.
Bear in mind that some reflection areas are located deeper, so you may have to apply more force to reach the areas. The reflection area that relates to the kidneys is such an area.
In that case, you may want to buy a foot-massage mat. You will step on the massage pad repeatedly for fifteen minutes to an hour per session. However, the use of a massage mat is not precise. You will have to do it for a longer time to get the same effect. We still prefer to use our thumbs.
You may also go to a professional technician to do a foot massage on you. Watch and learn how he does it. As practitioners of life cultivation, most of us do not engage a professional to do foot massage if we can do it ourselves.
As practitioners of life cultivation, we were taught early that the reflection area is more painful when we massage it if the corresponding organ is more damaged.
Therefore, when we massage our feet, we apply more force on the reflection areas that are painful, and for a longer period of time. That act will stimulate the corresponding organ and it will be healed faster. Of course, you may shy away from doing it. Who wants to bring pain to ourselves, right?
There are two special reflex areas that we pay special attention to.
We always massage our big toe in order to reach the corresponding area of our body which is our head. Do you think it helps with your headache? Who cares? Give it a try. You may find yourself lucky. What if you also massage the other toes?
We also always massage the center of our foot (the depression area) with great force. This is related to our kidneys. You have to apply great force in order to get to the area because the reflex area is deep inside.
Here is our proprietary code. Massage the center of the foot with both hands with great force. It will prevent our kidneys from overheating virtual fire. Meaning, if you have chronic inflammation, this action will help.
In the process, we depress the point eighty-one times. Then we repeat the process with the other feet. Do not give up if you feel pain. Just think about if as putting out a fire
If you are an avid learner, go and study the reflexology chart and figure out which organ you want to do maintenance and repair. Good luck to you
When we massage the underside of our feet, we may feel pain. That is because the reflex areas contain uric acid crystals. The force of massage will liquefy the crystals so that it will be expelled from our body with urination. Therefore, it is advisable to drink water before foot massage to help with the urination.
In general, foot massage will help blood circulation of the internal organs inside our body. It helps with the maintenance and repair of the organs. If you couple this with other techniques that are explained elsewhere, it will speed up the repair of damaged organs, if any.
When you are a beginner, do not try to learn and remember the reflex areas. Just massage each area of the underside of your feet in turn. Whenever you run into an area with more pain, just massage it with more force or for a longer period of time.
If you are curious and have time on your hand, you may try to massage the upper side of your feet. However, it is generally not necessary to do so. It yields no additional benefits.
There is another technique called foot bath which is usually done in tandem with foot massage if you visit a professional technician. When you do it at home, it is a separate technique. We will talk about foot baths in another article.
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