Foot Reflexology Demo Round 10

So here we go for another round of the routine. First points are what? Solar plexus. Yes. Solar plexus and adrenal. So we're going at the diaphragm guideline and then three fingers on top for the pulse if you'd like. I've noticed there are plenty of feet that I cannot get my hand that far around. Um if you feel like an issue, go from the inside. Okay. There's always a hack. There's always always a nice way to do it. There are no rules. Yeah. Well, and that's the thing is like I'm teaching you a routine and a routine is technically meant to be followed, but like the the running joke is clients will not spontaneously combust if you deviate from the routine. Um, so we we just need to respect that like the only the only real goal of this whole format um is to make sure that you address every single reflex because again I was trained in a school of reflexology that um did not work every single reflex. Somebody came in with something on their health history form and so you addressed specific reflexes for that thing cutting others out which is not therapeutic. So, we're just trying to get you a little bit more well-rounded and may also not get you to the actual source. Right. Exactly. Just like with your, you know, knee person if you have a client who's constantly complaining of knee issues and then you go to the knee reflex and the knee reflex is not telling you anything, then the body is saying that the issue is not the knees. So, if you as a reflexologist were trained in press button, fix issue mentality and you're like, well, if I just keep pressing the knee reflex, you know, the knee will eventually start to relax, you know, then you're not listening. And that's what I want you to do first and foremost is listen. So, I also was noticed paying closer to attention to the 30 minute foot therapy and I noticed that the the whole zone horizontal zone two is eliminated. Um, so it depends on it depends on where I'm at and who I'm with. Um, I probably need to go back and edit that. What I'll do is I'll do the relaxation techniques in spine and then I'll do toes zone two, three, four, five, but I won't do the horizontal walk on three and four and I won't do the horizontal walk on five either, but I will do the vertical on two. Okay. Um, and that can always change depending like if I have a client who's coming in with a lot of lower body issues and I know I want to get around the ankle at some point, then I'll cut and customize based on what I feel is necessary and especially what the relaxation techniques are telling me first and foremost. Yeah. Because I mean I I didn't I didn't follow the absolute routine on that, but it just made me wonder. It's like what was the reasoning behind it? The client I had thankfully I didn't I specifically worked on that and turns out both sides like completely stuck on the shoulder like I my fingers just would not move. So I talked to her and just let her know you know what my feelings on that were. And the expression on her face kind of said bingo. Right. Right. Yeah. And that's the danger like first and foremost shame on them for only booking a half hour. Like I mean we really like reflexology should be an hour session, you know, from from my personal perspective. And I get that some people don't have the time or the finances in order to do that. And that's perfectly fine. Like meet the client where they're at. But if they if they can come in for an hour and that's that's something that they should really be doing for themselves, especially if they if they aren't doing other forms of self-care, then maybe that's that's the dialogue is look, we found all this stuff, but I really didn't have enough time to work on it with you today. Would you mind coming in for another session or you know scheduling an hour next time? Very good. Well, this happened to be a client that did half hour feet and half hour hands. So, she's she was a dancer and she was a dental um hygienist. So, there you go. And that's always that's always a really nice way to um to help clients, too. But like I had a client come in. I had a client come in the other day and we work specifically with feet because she has a history of foot surgery and foot trauma. So working on her feet, working on her feet. And then the last couple minutes she's like, "So I have this hand problem." And I asked her to describe the hand problem and she's like, "It's this and this and this." And I said, "Oh, I know exactly what that is." And I only need about five minutes to go through the relaxation techniques to get that bone to self adjust. Um, and so we did that for the last five minutes. But if if it's a new client, especially or you're exploring an extremity for the first time, like you want to give yourself the time to to play around a little bit. Yeah. I'm not always in a position that I can do that because of the spa that I work at. I'm confined within the rules and stuff, but it's been interesting finding stuff like on just feeling that they're super stiff and when I get to the hands instead of massage and doing a little blexology and find like, oh, there's a pop. Exactly. Hands are so easy. I love hands. Love, love, love them. I started doing what I call like reflexology sneak attacks. Like if I'm I'm working on somebody and they're like, "Oh, my neck or my shoulders." I'm like, "Let me just come down your arm. Your hands." Yeah. You know, usually your feet. Yeah. Yeah. I I'll hit something and they'll like snore. Yeah. Exactly. Or hitting the the solar plexus and all of a sudden there's all this twitching going on and just stay there and smile and like you said. Exactly. So here we're on the spinal reflexes walking up the spine three times. I had a client who um uh had a very watery constitution this week. Like a very very watery constitution. Um she was like one of those like gel things that you Yeah. Mhm. Um, and uh, so I knew she was going to be hyper sensitive and so I worked with her lighter than I normally would, like lighter than I normally would. And after the session, um, a lot of clients asked this, but specifically she asked, "So, why were you so gentle?" I said, "Do you know those spots that you didn't tell me about that you thought were really, really sensitive?" She's like, "How did you know they were sensitive?" like because there will always be at least one or two. Um, imagine if I had gone deeper. She's like, I probably would have come off the table. Like, yeah, you would have. Um, and that's because we're working with peripheral nerves that are naturally hyper sensitive. The feet are feeling organisms. They're supposed to propriocept our our um position in space. So, they have to be very sensitive. And if you've ever jammed a toe against something solid, you know how much it hurts. Imagine if we as body workers invade that space with excess pressure. Like the body will start to shut us out and start to shut down those um those nerves so that they don't necessarily respond the way that we know they should or that we want them to on big toe. Thank you, my dear. And there's some congestion around the jaw. So, we're going to hold that. And where you finding the jaw? Um, at the base of the distal failins of the big toe. So, at that inner fangial joint, right where the neck reflexes turn into the head. That's all dental space. Is your new book going to have more mapping than the basic? Um, no. Because the basic is pretty the basic is pretty intense with the with the map. Um, talks about all the reflexes and the online program really talks about all the reflexes too. Um, the new book is going to be more about the elements and how to consult and also exploring tongue eye pulse. I um I went to go see Bob and Renee over in uh over on Central and St. Pete at Traditions. Yeah. And um because I graduated their program. Yeah. Um and so every every year as the new students come in, they they ask the the more experienced students to come back and mentor them in clinic and shadow them. And so we uh while some of the other students were doing clinical rotations, I had a group of the newbies in um in the in the collective learning space doing tongue and pulses. just running tongues and pulses like stick out your tongue, mark it down, feel the pulse, mark it down. What does that mean? Okay, confirm with client. Yes, no, maybe so. Okay, switch. And it was just a really really fun exercise. Unfortunately, I can't do feet because they're not trained in that, but at least they have they have some assessment skills. We're going to need to go over that spot again because that's a little tricky. Tricky in what way? Tricky. Um, so it's slightly hollow, but it's also lit up. Like when my fingers go over it, it it stands out. Um, it's right at the bra line um on the back of the body. So, it's probably a vertebrae or a muscle in the erector spin group that's that's a little bit out of whack. Um, it's not really biting back or fighting. It's just kind of hyperactive. So, she could have had like some midback spasms um that the body just hasn't felt the need to release yet. Little things like that. Or possibly poor brait. Yeah, poor bro. Totally. Um, it's also very upper digestive territory too. Um, so there could be some like lymphatic upper digestive gunk, you know, that's still in the system, but overall, you know, nothing crazy, but just a spot that that stood out. Yeah. And again, there's another there's another this one's crunchy and tight um in the upper back on the right side. So, we're seeing markers for physical tension like she went to like she went to a um a boot camp class and it just her body wasn't having it. you know, that kind of stuff. There's just too much physical tension around the muscles and bones. So, we're addressing that. Just flushing it all out. Her hands will be fun tomorrow then. There you go. Yeah. Shake, shake, [Laughter] shake. Oh, goodness. So now we're in zone two. And the ball of her foot is also slightly calloused and extra padded. So there's a lot of tension in the chest in general, potential breathing congestion, like there's there's some stuff that needs to be flushed. So back to the lymphatic theory, back to the muscles, etc. Where is Mr. Scott? Um Scott is attending a um personal event this morning. Uh so he will be he might be in here later, but he he was not able to attend this morning. And we've got a point at the base of the lungs on the right side. So we're just going to hold that and there's a twitch on the spine as we do that. So, we know that the body is receiving the work, but the point itself Oh, and there's a twitch in the point. Okay, so the point is starting to respond, but it has not fully released yet. So, we're just holding until we feel that exhale of the point. Okay, there we go. Yeah, shoulder reflex is tight. That's not fun. I'm going to use two thumbs. I'm just going to circle around it. Fun. I've done that, too. And I've also found like controlling it. Yeah. Seems to occasion. Yeah, it's a very it's a very tricky like if you walk it directly, the tissue kind of tends to roll over the joint always. It's not a nice place to walk in general. Um it's a bad part of town. Um so we just, you know, adapt it to to make sure like like especially when we're on the ears and we're doing the relaxation for the ears and like when the ear continues to click and pop like we don't want to trigger that experience. It's the same thing with the shoulder reflex. Like we don't want to keep going over it just because it's crunchy. Like you don't want to keep pinching that knot in their shoulder just because there's a knot there. Hate it when therapists do that. I was going to say, but some people love to do that. They do. It's such a pet peeve of mine. Stop. Stop. We always want to go with tissue direction and make sure that the body is receiving the work. And that means not rolling over stuff that we're that we shouldn't be rolling over. liver reflex is just a little bit excessive. Um, which from a traditional Chinese medicine perspective, liver rules the wood element which is connected to the ligaments and the muscles. And so with a lot of her muscular reflexes being triggered and the liver reflex also being slightly overactive, just kind of pulling from that other knowledge base. There's there's a connection there. There's a spot right in the center of the liver reflex that we're just going to hold. It feels like the liver reflex needs to be um like soaked in water and then rung out and stretched and pulled apart like taffy. Like that's it just feels a little bit too dry, a little bit too compressed, a little bit too congested. Like we just need to to pump all that out. So then is there homework per se that a client could be given for that? Yeah, we'd want to look at um specifically things that are being ingested. So, dietarily, um, we'd want to clean the diet up, make sure that like with I've seen this profile on a couple different people with, um, with like hyper musculature, body not responding well, like they're hitting the proteins a little bit too hard. Um, and that's causing the body to congest. Um, it's not saying, you know, go 100% raw vegan, but it's saying, look, we need to clean you out a little bit as opposed to stack you up a little bit. It's like staying away from fatty meats and red meats and processed powders and like protein drinks and things like that. Like anything that would be a little bit more cloudy would be a good way to say it. Um as opposed to clean and clear. Okay. And you're noticing that I'm constantly switching hands throughout the routine. And that's to save my own thumbs just to make sure that I'm constantly uh using different joints and giving one hand a rest while the other is working. That's intentional. So going back to the liver representing the chicken or the egg, right? Exactly. Yep. It's and also um zone three in terms of career and actions, right? So somebody who's literally like hyperdriven go work is all I have work is all I need. You know that kind of like hyperaggressive liver stuff is also connected to that over consumption or I need to have every like not a speck of dust in the house. Everything needs the literal expression of hyperactivity. Yeah. I must control. Then we go back to the toes for a second time. doing okay, hun? You want a blanket? I'm good. Okay. Yeah. Even the third toe is the most congested toe. So when we think of vertical zones, each toe has a vertical zone attached to it. And when we find the toes, one toe specifically being more congested than the other, that's also a sign that the vertical zone of influence is active. So in this case, horizontal zone 3 and vertical zone 3 are the most congested zones. So that is more than likely your prime emotional aspect, right? We'd be focusing physically and mentally and emotionally on zone three. But this is only on the first foot. We need to see what what's happening elsewhere. I know. Truck annoying ones I've heard. Yeah. And it'll be so much better when the overpass is constructed and the trucks will be going over instead of stopping at the lights. I was telling Cindy, I've got a client every I see her every couple weeks. She's always complaining about one this one road that they are just paving for months and months or repaving rather like and you see the overpass here and it's just trucking along. Yeah. Yeah. It's like there is some money behind the power and money flies. Doing our Achilles effage. Such an underrated technique. So nice. What um what really interests a lot of clients back to that knee that's not the knee stuff is um as we work the heel specifically and the ankle I have a lot of clients who come in with plantto fasciitis and heel spurs and blah blah blah and so they'll get on the table and then we'll work that area and they'll say wait hold on it doesn't hurt when you touch it like yeah because you have a fake bone spur or a fake plantto fasciitis that's not actually damaged to the tissue that's not actively torn. Um, but what happens is when all of your weight is on that space and the fascia gets lit up, then the pain starts. But from a a structural perspective, there's no damage. It's just your levers and pulleys are out of alignment. Yeah. This particular one that didn't have knee that was going to have knee replacement has had knee replacement indicated that she had bones. Yeah. diagnosed by doctor because it's all zone 5. It's all sciatica that rotation of the ankle palpating the lateral malololis on the other side. There's a nice click of the calccanous that's happening and then over the top with a dorsal ankle pump. mail square. That's it, Alex. You have to go through the mail spot. So, now we're on the center. Yeah, exactly. We're on the cuboid notch on the lateral side. There's some stickiness with the meat for sure, but it's all coming. What? Sorry, I was going to say it goes back to the liver again too, right? Yeah, because of the because of the the connective tissue, but specifically because of the hamstring because that descending part of the cuboid notch is very very tight. Calves, quads, not so much. It's hamstrings. It's always an issue. It's always an issue, right? figure the feet to the side. We move on to zone five under surface of the heel. There's just stuff here. Hold a couple points. The heel is probably one of the trickiest places in in the routine cuz it's so thick and it's so dense. But then I I always find I always feel that there's like a minefield here. Like I never know what I'm going to to really experience. And like there's a point here that I know if we were to hit it at the wrong angle, too hard, too fast, it would explode like a landmine. Um, so it's you never know what you're going to get with the heel because it's so connected to that sciatic nerve root. Because the tissue is more denser, do you use a little bit more pressure than you do on the rest of the foot? Um, you can. Um, it really depends on what I feel. um if it feels like their body is defending against my pressure. No, her her body's letting the pressure happen really nicely. So, I'm able to use just a tad bit more pressure um here than on the other areas. Yeah. And even like as I'm pressing in through this zone, I can feel that that go all the way up her body. Like that line of support is just super active. We're done with the first with the first Thank you so much. Yeah, the amount of congestion in zone 3 is really palpable on both sides. The foot is heavy with it. I could literally just pump all day just to facilitate some of that fluid movement. Nope. Low back is gross. We would never tell a client that ever. But there is definitely grossness in the lower back. Yeah, for teaching purposes. You just need to So, I'm going to hold a point and then I'm going to squeeze it like a rag and pump some of that fluid out of the spine. Lynn Johnson from Scotland is glued to the screen. Hi, Lynn. How are you? Or she may have had on and walked off. But you only found that on on that side, correct? Only on that side. So that could mean multiple different things. That could mean, you know, one side has the tension, the other side has the pain. That could mean because it's technically a part of zone 3 that there's going to be more stomach stuff than liver stuff. We just don't know. Yeah. Wait and see what the rest of the foot says. Exactly. Which is why I don't like clients who ask for the playbyplay. Um Yeah. When a client comes in and they they say, "Oh, can you tell me what you find?" I always say, "I'll I will tell you what I found at the end of the session." Um because if we're going step by step, they're getting pieces of the story without getting the full picture kind of condensed in a way that they can handle. Um, and it also makes them really unable to relax. It's true. I start playing. I made a a watch party. A watch party. All I know how to do is do live videos. I have no idea how to do a watch party. I don't know how I just did it either. Oh, technology. It was meant to be. The universe made it. There we go. Okay. Okay. So, there's some congestion on the second toe. So, we're just going to walk the different sections of that toe just to see what's going on. No, it's just on the back. Really? Back of that toe. And am I correct in saying too that when a client comes in and says Z a YZ whatever hurts um and you're doing a reflexology session and you don't then the reflexes tell you that but you find some other couple of other things that are like the client just was like that's not true type of thing. Um I've always explained it as it well not always but to clients who are more prone to go to the doctor get the prescription and get cut is to say that that what you're complaining of maybe what you're feeling but what your body is telling me based on the reflexes is these are the more pressing issues that you're not paying attention to right so I'll say something similar but I'll say this is the source okay source Okay. Yeah. As an example, I've had multiple clients come in with cancer and they're like, "Sam, can you see the cancer?" Like, "Sometimes I can, sometimes I can't." Um, you know, there are other issues that the body thinks are more important, you know, like the fact that your spleen and lymphatic system are completely on fire. You know, it's it's nice when a client comes in thinking that they know what's wrong, you know, because they have a diagnosis. And that's that's lovely. And but that's not necessarily our role is to work with that diagnosis because we can't diagnose, prescribe, or treat. All we can do is give feedback based on what we see in the reflexes. So sometimes that means just telling them, hey, you know, I'm seeing a lot of dehydration in the tissues. Water might be something you know, you need to focus on. Or that means, you know, hey, diet's part of it. We need to get you into a dietitian. Hey, I'm seeing a lot of stuff in the knee. You're feeling a lot of pain in the knee. We might need to get you to an orthopedic just to get a scan and see what's going on in that space. Um, but really what what I tend to see is a collapse of the holistic care in clients where, you know, they come in with a particular issue that's been diagnosed. Thyroid is my absolute favorite. Um, and it's it's connected to so many other things that it becomes very confusing to the client to be like, is it this or is it this or is that playing on that? And you know, so we have an educational discussion. I find this is that's the most difficult part of all of this is quant education. They're just so into the doctor said it's kind like the doctor doesn't know everything. We've just been led to made to believe that that's the case. Well, our job is not to not to replace the doctor. Right now, doctor has doctor has a lot of very good qualities that need to be capitalized on. Um but when it comes to chronic care management, the studies are showing time and time again that you know traditional alipathic um and western medicine fails in in that perspective. So holistic practitioners need to step in and be like hey do you realize that your diet might be affecting your pain? Do you realize that your movement might be affecting your pain? the fact that you go from bed to desk at work to car to couch to bed like that might be why your back is hurting all the time. Um that kind of conversation can really move mountains for people that have never considered you know the alternative like why didn't my doctor talk to me about that? Like they probably did. They probably mentioned it in passing, probably under their breath. Um, but they probably did mention it at some point. You know, we just need to re-emphasize those those qualities. And there's a nice hollow spot right in the chest. So, we're going to hold that. At least you didn't say that was gross. No, not yet. We haven't made it through the whole [Laughter] zone. Yeah, that heart. You might as well get a new one. And that's why I don't like the playbyplay is because I've had clients like, "Ooh, what's that? It's the heart reflex. Oh my god, I'm dying." No, no, honey. It doesn't work like that. Which is why I think the mental emotional side is so important as well is because the body might not be saying something about the physical heart. It might be saying something about the metaphoric heart. You know, we need to we need to respect both sides of the situation. So this area is pushing back um like a rib that's out of alignment almost. And so what I'm going to do is I'm going to use a flat thumb, put it against that reflex, and then I'm going to fold the toes over to try to get that to self adjust. Someone wants to know what you can work on for a B12 deficiency. Get a B12 supplement. What if they're not holding it? because I'm I've had several people coming in for kesha saying that they're only holding it for short periods of time. Yeah. Um then we would look at nutritional options of things that help you absorb B12. As an example, beets and beet tops. the B top specifically um allow the body to absorb B12, but also taking taking a B12 supplement that is absorbable in a liquid format as opposed to a B12 complex that's in a hard pill. You know, working with the dietitian as well. What foods are are high in B12? Um especially my vegans um need to understand that there's a low B12 content in a lot of those foods and you can't get a lot of B12 just from eating pasta. Um, so that kind of stuff we need to we need to just educate clients on a little bit better. But there is no reflex that press this and you get a dose of B12 because B12 is a vitamin that needs to be acred by food. But there are signs that we can check for B12 deficiency. Like a lot of the times the anemia bump on the dorsal surface will be one of the things that I look for. The higher that is, the more deficient a client is. And that's often one of the big things with B12 deficiency that I see. So the anemia and the B12 kind of go together. They do. Yeah. But general deficiency. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Cuz if those two are deficient, then everything else is going to be also, right? And unless somebody's come in, you know, if they've if they've Googled that they have a B12 deficiency and they're like, "Oh my gosh, I have all these symptoms." Which could also be hypothyroid, could also be, you know, all these different things. could also either burn the candle at both ends. Yeah, it could be adrenal fatigue. It could be so many different things. Um, you know, we need to be just extra careful and say, "Hey, look, I know that this is what you found, but let's consider multiple options here. Sensitive a little bit." So, this is the stomach. So, stomach is obviously not too happy. Yeah. Which is which is exactly where she put her hand. And that's That's significant, which is something that we that we look for. Um, yeah, there's a spot here that we're just going to hold a little bit. When a client says a reflex is sensitive, that's not your permission to go harder. Um, that's actually your indication to to back off a little bit. Um, address the tissues as they would like to be addressed. Like the great example with um the more palpatory approach that I take is like having a conversation. You go into a room with somebody that you haven't met before and you don't immediately start talking politics, religion, and abortion laws. Like you just don't Yeah. Don't ramrod the conversation. Um, but at the same time, if you do find that somebody is very hyper sensitive to talking in general, maybe they're an introvert, maybe they really don't want to be there, you don't know, you know, their background or whatever, um, then then back off and approach with care and caution. And that's the same thing that we would do in a social situation. And it's the same thing that we would need to do in in a reflex situation is when we find pain, we back off and proceed with caution. But we're not backing off from a place of fear either. We're not stopping our work just because an area is sensitive. We're just meeting the tissues where they're at. You don't need to go feather light and tiptoe around a reflex either. Um, a lot of uh the questions that I get online is, you know, what is what if a reflex is sensitive? How do you work it? I'm like, you work it more gently. you know, it's not it's not super rocket science, but unless somebody is screaming in pain like, "Please don't touch that." Um, then I would still touch it. I would still work around it at least. Yeah. But that that stomach reflex is not okay. We got to work on that. And once you've worked around it, would you try and work on it again just Yeah. Just to flush it one more time and also to kind of get a feedback as to maybe you need to do one more round. Yep. Exactly. Um, so after I'm done with all the reflexes, I'll go back to that stomach, which is normally how I play it. But this is also one of the reasons why we don't give the playbyplay is on the right foot we could only see the liver and gallbladder part of the upper digestive equation the stomach is much worse. Yeah. Um and so if we were to say like hey we need to work on liver stuff. Hey, you know, maybe go for acupuncture, maybe, you know, get a blood test, see what's going on with liver enzymes, that kind of stuff. Um, the stomach is is in a much worse spot. So, it's a direct ingestion issue, not a filtration issue. And so, that's a lot easier to work on, but we would need to kind of put everything that we said on the right foot on the back burner in order to address this new conversation. One of my favorite stomach issue stories was I had a client come in um who oh we're triggering some back stuff. Just a little spasm. Just a little spasm. It happens all the time. Don't worry about it. Um and that's an So we'll share we'll talk about this and then I'll share the client's stomach story. um we can't control where the nerve impulses go and sometimes as we're working certain areas the body chooses to release tension from from unexpected places. Um the general rule is if a client has a spasm that's not going away and that's really erupting during the session, we stop, we reevaluate, we see what's going on with that area and we proceed with caution. Yeah. But also it can be really affirming to clients to be like, you know, because we're working with the nerves, you never know what's going to be exposed. And we kind of exposed a raw wire in in the back. More middle back. Lower back. Lower back. Lower back. Yeah. You did say she had a low a gross low back on the other. I I did I did say that at the very beginning. That's correct. Um Okay. So, stomach story. So I had a client come in um who was the husband of a wife that I see and um so came in had been struggling with the flu for like three three four weeks and uh was not getting better. Came in was completely ashen totally gray. Um and was like dude you're you look like the dead. And obviously I didn't actually say that but that was that was what was running through my head. And um so get to get to the session, check the lymphatic reflexes, check the spleen reflexes, check all of the reflexes associated with flu. Nothing nothing's wrong. Um I get to the stomach. The stomach is red. The stomach is hot. The stomach is raw. The stomach is overactive and it feels like it's about to explode. And I ask him, I'm like, "What are you eating? What are you drinking? like specifically from the time that you started feeling like crap to now, what did you start putting in your body? It's like, well, I went back to the gym cuz it's New Year's and I started taking this protein supplement that's kind of like a pre-workout energy drink and it's supposed to give you energy but also stimulate your metabolism. I'm like, so it's sugary. It's probably has some sort of stimulant in it. Yeah. And it's eroding your stomach lining. And I asked him a very specific question which um which he wasn't expecting. I said, "After the gym, are you hungry?" And he said, "What do you mean?" I said, "If it was if it was affecting the stomach the way that the the um drink was supposed to be, then it would stimulate your your metabolism and make you hungry. But if it was killing your digestive lining and the stomach viewed that substance as a threat, then it would shut down the stomach and the hunger response along with it. After you drink the drink, are you hungry? He said, "No, actually, I feel really full and I can't eat until the next morning, otherwise it really upsets my stomach." Like, yeah, cuz whatever is in that thing is going straight into the stomach, aggravating it, and causing your body to shut down that organ. So I said, "Quit it for a couple days, see how you feel, and then come back and see me if needed." And I get the email two weeks later. He's like, "I don't know what was in that thing, but that was absolutely crazy. It was like magic. I stopped drinking it and I felt better." That's how you know you're on the right track. And so when we find a stomach reflex that's that upset and should not be that upset, then we need to look at what's going into the stomach that might be aggravating the lining. But to your point, Le what you said before like the idea of cleaning like compulsive cleaning or control um it was also first of the year his zone three his career and actions that's also stimulated by workouts and exercise. Yeah, that fiery we would call that pitta center of the body. And uh so that's that's part of the equation is he was trying to light that fire too hot. Yeah. And control his body through zone three. Too much too fast. Too much too fast. Which is also likely why so many people quit their workouts. Right. So, first I'm going to not eat well. I'm not going to sleep well. I'm going to stress myself out for the holidays and the first of the year. I'm going to go the exact opposite direction super hard like my body's not used to when I'm in a total state of inflammation. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Zero chill. Yeah. And the hamstring is also really tight on this side. So, it's a bilateral hamstring physical kind of thing. We got to get a plate of nice roasted vegetables, put them on the floor, and then have her bend forward into a forward bend in order to eat the vegetables. And that'll be that'll be the perfect combination that bending the knees. I'm I'm all for cheating. Like I'm all for like especially if like especially if um if somebody feels impinging when they bend forward but the the knee bend allows them to to relax in such a way like ease into it. You know give yourself a little bit of push back. Like don't try to don't try to get out of the stretch but you know definitely give your body a little bit of assistance where it's needed. And sometimes bending that knee helps to engage the quadricep which will automatically open up the back of your Exactly. strain counter strain. Um and then also, you know, sometimes it's not about bending forward. Sometimes it's just about um or bending all the way forward. Sometimes it's about the 90° bend and having somebody put their hands on like a desk or a table and just walk back into a half bend. And that can also be really helpful um without the added weight of that forward fold. Pyramid pose is awesome for back. Pyramid pose is a beast. I have a lot of um IT band stuff and then that posture is just not okay. Must be something in the air because your grapes are really hot commodity today. Those grapes are beautiful you've got out there today. I'm so impressed. I saw those and I was like, the stem is green. They're singing. It's so good. And when we get when we talk about the urinary system this afternoon and why that's so important, we'll we'll really talk about, you know, things that are alive um being good for the kidneys as well. Okay. So, now that we're done with the actual reflexes, I'm going to go back to the stomach and I'm going to walk that one more time. How are the cherries? The cherries are beautiful. Um, I love I personally love cherries, but these are these are good. Like, they have a good hint of sour. nice, sweet. Um, and it was it was funny because when I when I pick out the food, I know what I'm going for, but then every once in a while there's something that that starts talking to me when I'm going through the grocery store. Pick me. Pick me. Exactly. And the cherries were one of those things this time around. And I was like, but the cherries the cherries don't really have a lot to do with the urinary system. Like I was running through my rolodex of like, yeah, they're a big source of antioxidants. Yeah, they're good for the blood. Like blah blah blah. And so I Googled cherries real fast. And I Googled cherries urinary tract and more recent studies have come out that cherries pull uric acid from the blood. Yes. People drink tart dairyart tart cherry juice. Say that three times. And so I was like, "Oh, okay." Also, the cherry juice has a little bit of topical analesic. Yeah. Pain relieving properties. I ate I mean I drank a lot of the cranberry juice and tart cherry juice. It does. It really helps with the bladder. Not so much when it's still when it gets bl And of course, One of the things that you'll notice with kidney stuff is if the lines are specifically like deep and dry, whether or not the hot towels and the cream touches it, which just further confirms that it is the Right. Yeah. Because if it was just the skin, it would respond to the superficial stuff. But if it's and we all know that the skin is just, you know, a reflection of what's in the inside, everything comes up from the inside out. Um, but just another way to to confirm or deny kind of what's what you're finding. And our last two points. This pulses on top. and the Dr. Okie dokie. And that is our routine. Yay. And so now you would tell the client, obviously not everything that we just heard, but what would you