Reflexology: Introduction to Hand Reflexology

throughout our lifetime our hands do so many things for us but have you ever stopped to think that your hands could also be a way of helping the health of your entire body to be much better hello I'm Bill Flo director of the American Academy of reflexology in Los Angeles California and we're going to take a brief look at hand reflexology and how it might be able to help you help your entire body to feel better let's take a look at Elizabeth's hand hands and hand reflexology is something like a picture of the human body having been taken and superimposed on the hands the fingers help bring relief to the head and neck the big Knuckles at the base of the fingers and thumbs helped bring relief to the chest area lungs shoulders Etc the soft palm area of the hand helps to bring relief for the upper abdominal area of the body and then the heel of the hand helps to bring relief for the lower abdominal pelvic reflexes and where our spine is in the midline of the body where the hands come together that's where the spinal reflexes are so let's work a little bit on Elizabeth's hand if she were to have headaches we'd work on this part of the thumb with a nurturing touch not too hard not too soft notice that this technique is is totally different from acupressure and from massage therapy so reflexology because of the maps and because of the unique te touch techniques is a totally different discipline and science than re than massage or or acupressure now if we had neck issues somebody would work on their lower half of their thumb and fingers or you could work on it yourself for self-help a lot of people in the world of the world and the United States have lower spinal issues and this this is where do we work on the hands for relief of lower spinal issues if somebody had constipation diarrhea collidus a lot of discomforts of that type one of course we always want to look at prevention but on this heal of the hand and heal of the foot this is a wonderful area for bringing relief maybe working here for 5 or 10 minutes at a time gently but staying with it over a period of time for Relief so I'm Bill Flo founder director of the American Academy of reflexology and we hand it to you for using your hands for Better Health throughout your body