Foot Reading Video 1-23-18

hello everyone so we have another foot reading video for you today here from the Institute love love love the fact that everybody continues to send me pictures of their feet and ask for readings and some of you have let me create videos like this while some readings have gotten so extensive if you would like to book a formal appointment you can always do so via the website in the details below and we can Skype and chat about your feet and really decode what may be I can't really get into in these videos or just through email communications so that's always an option but for now let's jump into our next video and for those of you who I already see our jumping on the live video I definitely make sure to say hello in the chat and I will share my screen with you right quick okey-dokey so here we are we are in the foot reading video this is the second video of actually for January so excited to be doing two during this month because it's always awesome when everybody continues to kind of fuel the foot reading addiction that I have and how interesting it is and jump on with all the contents and all that jazz hey sandy sandy just jumped on Hulu so as a reminder if you're not in the conversation you are out of the loop and the conversation is happening on the Facebook group that is a wrap unintentionally but we are in the foot reading and reflexology online community Facebook group that's where all of these pictures are being posted talked about chair conversed upon and likewise discussed so videos like these are in response to the pictures that you guys are posting and giving me permission to do longer videos about because it's so interesting when we all get together as a group and pick out what we find valuable and what we would potentially share like in a professional setting with a client or friend remember member about what their body is trying to say just by analyzing the beat and it always helps to have somebody with a little bit more experience kind of guide you through the process so that's the intention of these videos and so first and foremost I'm gonna go over what I see then uh normally what I do is I go into what I would say and not say we're gonna save not say for the beginning and I'll I'll clarify that in the next slide but I'm really gonna tell you what markers that I found there are a lot in this video normally I limit it to the top three and that will not be the case as you will see I'm in rhyme right now not really sure what that's about feeling very very Limerick you so what to do about it which is a huge part of the foot reading process understanding that it's not just about what you see and decoding those markers but also how would you coach the client into wellness based off of the markers that you find in the feet super super important and very much part of the practice so don't skip that part because otherwise you're just ripping somebody a new one and you're not telling them how to go fix themselves which is not kind so we always want to make sure that we're balancing the kind of break down of the feet and reading the feet with suggestions that people can take away to make sure that they find value and the experience okay so context on the story this is where we get a little bit different and where I start to tell you about this pair of feats that we are about to analyze from multiple different angles first and foremost there's this idea that some of you have been struggling with in the group as well as some of my live and online students putting together the pieces is where from a foot reading perspective we start to take multiple markers and blend them into this idea of there's a bigger picture happening here which is point number two kind of what is that bigger picture so as opposed to maybe picking up your top three and saying oh well there's this there's that and the other and this is what to do about it sometimes there are so many markers presence that a story starts to form sometimes very chronologically which freaks clients out when you're able to really pinpoint a time frame to it all but there are some readings that start to take on that this bigger theme bigger picture of bigger lessons as opposed to just dissecting the individual markers present and it this pair of feet is different in that way so as opposed to some of the other more recent videos the foot reading challenge videos that we've been doing for the group where we've picked top three and those top three have been being decoded physically and mentally and emotionally and then we get the methods of balancing I'm going to run through all of the markers that I find significant and then give you like a big old send a synopsis at the end because there's just so much stuff that we need to cover and markers that are blending into themselves in terms of meaning and then there's irrelevant parts that we just need to cut out altogether and the finished product will be this encapsulated story based on the context of what we're finding within the extremities so it's it's just I'm making it sound super complicated and very grandiose at this point so I'm gonna shut up but this idea that some feet really do paint this picture that you can then really succinctly through practice and experience deliver a very fine-tuned singular message to the client and that's what I'm so grateful to have it kind of brought in this this video presentation time okay so here's our feet here are that I wanted to point out before we get started is these feet are on the worker feet side for those of you that have read Jane Chi Huns book let's read our feet Chris stormer definitely talks about that and the language of feet as well but this idea that these feet are wider broader and they are all about getting the job done that is when we see feet like this that have really pronounced bony structure definitely a lot of Earth in the Constitution for my students these feet are all about making sure that they are on tasks that they are achieving measurable results and that they are making everybody around them as happy as possible we are going to find that with this pair of feet specifically it is to a disadvantage and that's part of the story as well so first marker pull in the heart now that is a terrible way to start off a discussion with a client so I am using it for educational purposes not for practical purposes if this was a live client in front of me that would not be the first marker that I start off with please do not do that especially using the word heart people are gonna think that you're telling them that their heart is physically wrong that they are going to keel over and die and that is not the case especially with this person there are other markers that we do not see so it is not a physical part of the equation but what I'm talking about here is a metaphorical hole in the heart so this ditch this divot this tiny little hole that is literally in vertical zone too so in line with the second toe and horizontal zone too on the ball of the foot this tells us that since it's on the right side it's the equivalent of the past this is a past hole in the heart so they they kind of had a little chunk of their emotional state picked out by some stressor and that is still lingering within their physical tissues so they they got a little bit jarred emotionally and this hole is a product of that emotional jarring okay so marker number two is current emotional defensive this which we can see on the opposite but left side presenting the present moment still in tutu so in line with the second toe and on the ball of the foot that vertical zone 2 horizontal zone 2 but instead of a whole we have puffiness and callosum so when we see that puffiness callosum combo it's giving us the idea that there's a little bit of swelling there's overgrowth of tissue almost like in this case the body has created a shield or a little bit of a buffer around the emotional state currently so this these two markers together give us such an interesting story right off the bat that there was this point where emotionally they got dug into like a chunk got got bitten out and now they've compensated by just getting a little bit hardened emotionally and yes we could talk about this physically in terms of right shoulder being weak left shoulder being tight however as we see throughout the other markers that is not the flavor of the conversation and that is a really important he wants to understand when all the markers are stacking up in the physical column versus the mental emotional column and that just takes practice okay the marker number three I know some of you saw it I know some of you were looking at it and you thought that that would be the first marker that I would pick but I didn't especially some of you in the Facebook group totally nailed this marker so we can see chronic exhaustion and weakness of relationships a lot of you went in the very physical direction and those totally appropriate because this is vertical zone for horizontal zone four so in line with the forked toe and in the proximal arch this means that it's a pure lower digestive hip pelvis reproductive issue but not saying that all those things are effective but just that really really deep core space is part of that that situation and because it is for for I'm in a peg it as lower digestive because it is so central and when I see lining like this I've seen it before it's basically if you wanted to think of the lower GI as just being totally fatigued and exhausted but again following the story we think of vertical zone 4 as the influence of family and relationships and horizontal zone 4 as the center of family and relationships when we see a 4 4 marker like this in this spot it's all about this person's top 5 meaning the top 5 people that they spend the most time with and are the most emotionally invested within so when we see this serious infection of air in 4 for this to me talks about chronic exhaustion and weakness within relationships almost like a lack of support that's been going on for a pretty long time so not to not to make that sound very do being gloomy but the fact that this person's body is telling us in a very real way through the feet that they do not feel supported within their top 5 relationships and the people that they've surrounded themselves with are probably draining them more than they're contributing to them so that is a very real conversation that I have to have with a lot of my clientele this is by no means a rare marker it is so so common and yes and II just have done are the lines consider the infection of air yes so that is for my students specifically you'll hear me use that terminology infection which means an element has pervaded a particular reflex and this is definitely what we're seeing here is the lines concentrated in this area on both sides meaning the area has been infected by the elements of air representing weakness fatigue and overextension okay good call sandy so that is marker number 3 let's jump on to the next set of pictures for further markers okay here we have the lateral surfaces of the feet so if you're looking directly at the screen the picture on the right is the right foot the picture on the left is the left foot obviously but there is a little bit of lighting issue here so this is important to understand for my students this idea that lighting can sometimes play tricks but in this case there's no way to play tricks open the marker that we're seeing currently which some of you might have even pointed out just mentally in your head or some of you are probably like screaming and pointing at the screen like it's right there Sam it's right there I see it let me tell you first and foremost what I found okay marker number four is a biggie so the cuboid nudge on the left side is infected with air good call sandy again this theme that we are continuing to see running through weakness in the left leg and me along with exhaustion in relationships caused by trying to move forward now how did I get to that place so left side being the present moment and then when we have the cuboid notch which is in horizontal zone for territory it brings us back to that idea of family and relationships and then that vertical zone five so everything in line with the fifth toe or the little baby toe is vertical zone five and vertical zone five is the influence of sense of security and how somebody is moving forward so when we think of dryness and the family area but also in line with at the toe means that they were trying to take their relationships to the next level they were trying to make some strategic security moves and it just happens too weak in their relationships further which is not an ideal place to be just from an already not necessarily compromised by definitely fatigued relationship State trying to move forward and then feeling like it's just making things worse there's a lot of nourishing that needs to happen so that's going to be I'm giving it away but that's going to be a major theme in the areas of emphasis so when we also think of the physical implication of this reflex the key point not to represents the structures of the legs so definitely I would be on the lookout for symptoms of trick knee leg spasms weakness on the left side definitely muscular fatigue on the left leg side but again this idea that the thing here is just the exhaustion and the emotional side so that's really where I'm taking the session if I think this was like an actual session okay now let's go on to our last actual mark set of marker pictures and here we have like the the final three that we're going to be dissecting so first marker number five the big toes are leaning and I know that if Jane is watching this video I'm sure she's just in a complete fit because that's that's definitely the first thing you notice even more so on the left side which is interesting the big toe is leaning represent what what Jane would say bending over backwards for people is how she would interpret that I find that it represents both deviations in the head and neck space like the neck is physically bent out of shape but then also that the mental among the the thoughts and opinions face that representation internally at the toes is curved unnecessarily so they're constantly needing to kind of smith their words in order to make sure that they feel like they're not offending or that they're saying the right thing as opposed to just being a straight shooter and telling it like it is which is a precarious position so it's gotten them kind of mentally a little bit twisted or leaning out of alignment okay that was a little bit out of order so we'll talk about six and something together because they do go together so when we think about the right toe as being clouded we can see that discoloration of the nail there is a little bit of true fungus underneath that nail so you can see the darker spots but then there is a lot of density and callosum none fungus related underneath that ill as well when when I talk about nail fungus I personally like I'm not the kind of person that if this were to happen on my feet or applying speed I wouldn't recommend that they go laser it out or try to burn it out with chemicals because from a book reading perspective it doesn't mean that it doesn't mean a localized infection it's opportunistic it's a literal infection of the headspace so when we think of past mental clothing as the meaning of this nail discoloration it's the right side the nail of the toe specifically the big toe represents the screen of the mind so the fact that it's gotten darkened and clouded that's exactly what's been happening mentally for this person but we can tell that it has definitely cleared up on the left side which is a good sign but we are left on the left so we are left on the left side with current mental shutting through vocalization how did I pull that rabbit out of that hat so when we see that little shedding of skin so that is a release another air marker mind you so the theme continues with the air versus the deviation of the big toes and the cloudiness of the big toenail on the right side are both earth markers so when we think of the shedding of skin on the left side it's a release of tissue wherever that shutting occurs and here it's on more of the next space of the big toe so it's almost as if this person has taken that mental congestion and really started to shed it through talking about what they're thinking maybe they've done some journaling some extensive maybe counseling or just you know meeting a friend for lunch which is another method of balancing that we're going to get into and talking about what's been going on between their ears so all of that could be possible but there's definitely been a release of that mental tension and I do believe it's from like physically talking about it okay so just to recap putting it all together these are our seven McDowell's marker number one hole in the heart not the physical heart that the emotional heart passed so there was a past issue marker number two current emotional defensive this because of the past emotional chunk that was taken out of this person they have compensated in a way that is defensive in nature using the council marker number three chronic exhaustion and weakness relationships this is a biggie because it gives us a huge foundational crack within their horizontal zone for both physically and mentally and emotionally so family and relationships through this marker is definitely the core focus of the reading marker number four the cuboid notch on the left side is infected with air weakness in the left leg and knee along with exhaustion and relationships caused by trying to move forward are all possibilities so when we think of marker number four as just backing up marker number three in terms of meaning you can see how they're starting into overlap and we're starting to build the story here marker number five both big toes are leaning and that gives us the idea that since the family relationship structure has been unsupportive the thoughts and opinions have worked accordingly but I there has also been mental clouding associated and occur released through vocalization so there's this continuation of the process there's underpinning it stress with the top five which is causing maybe some emotional fluctuations that chronic exhaustion is definitely being felt physically and then it's starting to affect the mental space and we're now at the point where it's like what do we do about it now so we're gonna talk about how we do it what we do about a noun so putting it all together let's decode the meanings so physically there's a theme of weakness and fatigue affecting the body due to the emotional state ie how you feel internally is how you feel physically this is a really common kind of synopsis that I give to a lot of my clients when we see multiple err markers there's this trend of exhaustion fatigue over extension so there's a theme of weakness and fatigue that's affecting the body due to the emotional state we're already noticing so many of these markers are talking about the subtle internal state as opposed to the gross physical state so when we think about the body as responding to the person internally that what's happening here the body would be fine if the nervous system was able to sort itself out but that needs to take priority as opposed to you know trying to find a physical solution for an ultimately internally routed problem so internally family and relationships seem to be at the core of the stressors at hand more recently the attempts to move Ford have only made the lack of support clearer this is where we would really get into the coaching aspect of these feet so the family in relationship dynamic as the core kind of infection of airspace within these feet are definitely what I would call marker number one if I wanted to kind of reshift it into top three but more recently it's important to to give clarity to the client that they've tried to make some moves they've tried to shuffle around the pieces in the board and they've just been met with more resistance and more draining of their energy as opposed to regaining of their energy so this whole process is starting to become clearer and clearer that they need support that they're not getting and this is where the methods of balancing really starts to come in so methods of balancing to balance air we need earth so stability a predictable routine and nourishment three nourishing meals every day at the same time is a good start then begin to expand that routine into scheduling regular meetings with people that build you up and are gize you and give you the support you need once that structure roots itself in your life you will feel everything begin to shift isn't that just like such a nice concise little method of balancing right there so that's what I aim to give to clients I aim to really crack the code on the complicated markers not give them too much psychobabble and just really tell them exactly what I'm seeing exactly what it means and to give them a take away to say this is where you need to focus this is where your attention needs to be this is how you can move the needle of your life to make sure that you're feeling fulfilled as opposed to especially in this case running on empty okay so I'm interested to hear what you all think of that little synopsis so make sure to comment in the comment section below and that will be that but there are there's one less line that we need to talk about and that is what didn't make the cut so this is what I sliced out of the presentation for those of you in the foot reading and reflexology online community you know that these two pictures were part of that set as well but I totally omitted them yes I did because here's the deal although these two pictures do have markers on them they support horizontal zone 5 and horizontal zone 4 instability and speak more about the lower body weakness that we already validated ultimately healing the internal state is more important in this case so we can see on the right foots that there's that strong tendon that's popped up we can see the arch is strong but we can even see that dorsal bump up indicating some lack of nutrition and then a lot of waving around the heel area horizontal zone 5 indicating that sciatic nerve instability so much that we could have picked out of here but it's irrelevant we the story itself as I was looking at these feet evolved in a direction that was not necessarily physical although the physical body has definitely been affected it's not part of what I would personally want to harp on with this clients when we think of the nervous system as both the bridge between the physical and the internal state this person's internal state is directly affecting their physical state the physical state isn't affecting the internal state so as far as the reading goes these pictures didn't really make the cut because they told the stuff we already knew and they spoke more physically about what was happening when the root cause of the issue is internal and we need to really drive home the need for support with this client as opposed to saying you know oh just a couple around of physical therapy do some yoga I'll be fine you know we we really want to make sure that the point is heard and that the excess fat or information is trimmed Hooten Andy just jumped on hello back excellent but unfortunately you came in at the end of the presentation because that's it that is all that we have for today I hope that you have enjoyed this book reading video it's already been about 30 minutes holy crap I can really talk so make sure to subscribe love love love my subscribers we just hit a thousand thank you thank you thank you for all of your support everybody's loving the book 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