RE: Hot Feet...
Hi Paul,
Again, with respect, I find your comments to be a little dismissive of the skills of qualified reflexologists.
Personally, I spent 1 year, perfoming 40 case study treatmentsand hours and hours of studying to qualify. Since then my knowledge and skill has grown and grown.
To suggest that anyone who "had a go" would get the same results is wrong and frankly misleading.
I use my knowledge of Reflexology to detect areas of imbalance. We work on the principle of balancing out entire body systems. Without a good knowledge of A&P how would we be able to acheive balance and a reduction in symptoms. If a client comes to me suffering from IBS, for example, I would look to work the entire digestive system, the nervous system, the adrenal glands etc. Without knowing how these systems work together treatment would not be anywhere near as effective.
Reflexology is based on the "western" principlethatpressure applied to thevastnumber of nerve endings in the feet sends signals to the brain via the nervous system and back to the corresponding area. Many of us are also reintoducing the meridian system into Reflexology ~ working to rebalance using either direct or partner meridians in the feet. It is theacupressure that directly affects the energies (qi) in the body.
I am a also a practioner of auricular acupuncture ~ this works in a very similar way to reflexology and again has nothing to do with energy transferance between practioner and client. The key is the stimulation of the nervous system and meridians in the body.
meridianmoon x
RE: Hot Feet...
Hi Meridianmoon
I was not belittling your achievements merely stating that if someone was to sit down and work methodically through someone's feet for an hour or two then things would happen as that is the nature of reflexology, it would as you say not be fine tuned but things would happen without the understanding of how it happens.
RE: Hot Feet...
To me hot feet is a sensation of being grounded rather than not being grounded. It shows energy flowing through the meridians and that there are no blockages preventing the energy from reaching the feet.
Ive always had cold feet all my life as a healer and reader I found it usually related to an issue I had cold feet about. Then not so long ago I started to get hot feet every night so I meditated on it..... I found I was accepting situations and no longer having cold feet about them. Look in to changes in your life that you no longer fear
Does anyone feel this too?
Often when i'm giving Reiki, or just sitting or lying in bed at night with my hands on myself, the soles of my feet get really hot.
My hands can get quite hot at times but no where as hot as my feet.
I would be interested to hear if anyone else experiences this.
There are different reasons for such feeling:
1. Temperature [external] changes (this is clear)
2. Exercises (this is clear)
3. High blood pressure (check your BP before and when you have hots)
4. Infection (for example cellulitis can manifest hands are hot, swollen, painful, or red)
5. Inflammatory conditions (RA for example, here consider if it is symmetrical -both hands, both feet or just one. This can be helpful in diferenciation)
6. Peripheral neuropathy very common manifest the way you
7. Also sometimes fibromyalgia manifest this way too
8. Erethromilalgia
9. Nutrition. Neurology. Kidney. Liver. Toxins. Shoes. Vascular probs... CMT disease, everything what might cause neuropathy...Etc... can write long long long post.
Even history play role .
So, just keep an eye on this and monitor and then you can have more understanding what and why...