The experience brought home to me the effectiveness of the focused and authoritative type of treatment she gives.
It is painful at times, but it is a therapeutic type of pain, something which you feel throughout the body. Instead of just lying there in a somnolent state I was aware of the effects the treatment was having. It was certainly stimulating, and as I have mentioned, therapeutically painful, but at the same time liberating.
I have always given robust treatments of this type, because it gives results. To me, the only criterion is to give the type of treatment which benefits my client.
This type of treatment is not brutality, but given with positive and understanding authority, always taking the type of client into account.
It is surprising that when clients experience this type of treatment, they never want to go back to the unauthoritative treatments they had received before.
Unfortunately I only know a few reflexologists, who work this way in the U.K. obviously there must be many others throughout the world.
It seems that there is a general fear of using proper, effective pressure when giving a treatment.
This is such a pity, and does a disservice to the therapist, reflexology and client.
Thank you to those of you who have brought this product. Since its inception, sales have been steadily increasing internationally. Apart from the U.K. France is also a big customer.
There has been some confusion as to why I stopped producing my original ART Reflex balm. There are two reasons; the first is that I was constantly being asked to bring out an organic and natural version, and secondly, due to the new cosmetic directives, the ART Reflex balm would have not been compliant to new regulations.
I took the decision to seek a different company who could produce an organic/natural product which would fully comply with the new directives.
Fortunately I was accepted by the top cosmetic company in the U.K. specialising in organic cosmetics. They assisted in the new formulation and carried out the required (and very expensive) testing procedures. As an example just one of the tests took three months to complete.
I also wanted the product to be in an Eco nontoxic and 100% recyclable container, and also one where the product was contained and protected in a vacuum environment.
It is really a wonderful product for reflexology and foot/hand care in general.
The cream is now fully certificated by the U.K. and E.U.
Naturally this product is more expensive than the former, but the best does cost more.
Because of its purity and quality it is being purchased by the NHS for use in their complimentary departments.
Town & Country magazine are running a feature on the product at end of this year.
A doctor, who prescribes an identical treatment for an identical illness in two individuals and expects an identical development, may be poorly classified as a social menace.
HOW CAN I TELL WHEN I HAVE SPENT ENOUGH TIME ON A REFLEX?
This question is one of the keys to successful reflexology; in fact it is the purpose of reflexology.
Is there a ‘rule of thumb’ (sorry) which we can use to tell us when the optimal amount of time has been spent working on a disturbed or perverted reflex?
Other reflex texture types may take longer and require a break of a few minutes before returning again, and so forth until a dispersal change is detected.
The key to knowing when the reflex has been optimally worked is sensing the dispersal of the congestion.
This is a very simplistic description of the process.
Going by the number of calls I have received lately, there still seems to be confusion regarding giving reflexology to someone who is undergoing chemotherapy.
I thought it would be prudent to give my views based on over forty years of reflexology practice on this subject. Many of these years were in a clinical environment. I am not just looking at its use during a chemotherapy programme, but in general cancer care.
Two of the concerns that have been expressed, seem to be that reflexology will help to spread the cancer, and reflexology will prevent the chemotherapy from doing its job.
Both of these in my opinion are unfounded. Why should reflexology spread cancer any more than the act of breathing or doing exercise? How can we know that some of our patients we treat may have cancer without them knowing it, many people do?
Reflexology will not in any way block the effects of chemotherapy that is for sure.
I have treated many hundreds of cancer patients, including two oncologists one of which while he was undergoing heavy chemotherapy.
With all this experience, my views are that reflexology in these cases, properly applied and ‘in tune’ with the patients’ needs, has almost miraculous results in easing the difficulties which people suffer at these times. It should be recognised as standard practice in cancer care.