What Reflexology Points to Work for Dizziness or Vertigo

hello and welcome adam thomas from balancing touch reflexology so good to see you and thanks for joining me today today we are going to explore all the reflexes that would help benefit if you are having dizziness or even vertigo spinning that sort of thing so let's go take a look at all those reflexes [Music] so not too long ago i was having a little bit of dizziness you know when i laid down the room would spin and i was like oh this is weird i've you know never really had this before um and so i wanted to kind of learn all the points on my feet that would help with vertigo right but you know dizziness and you know vertigo and stuff can have some you know real medical issues there could be something seriously you know wrong going on and your body's trying to let you know so please of course go get it checked out if it persists you know it could be high blood pressure could be even menopausal issues um you know but there could be some serious medical issues there um but i think what uh you know what i was having from was a lot of like mental stress and you know i was having lots of neck tension and other things like that so surprisingly enough when i look this uh condition up those can be some of the causes right so today i want to share with you like i said um all the points and i want to just you know tell them all to you right now so you don't have to you know write everything down and and stuff as you go through the video and it takes forever because this is going to be a longer video there's lots of points to cover so um we start with the head we move into the ears we're going to be doing the neck right and eustachian tubes sinuses um we're going to be working on the k1 point or the solar plexus diaphragm area we're going to be doing the liver and the spine okay with most focus on the cervical spine okay so all those are related to dizziness and these points will hopefully help you so in the timeline below uh i'll put up a little um table of contents and so you can kind of skip through each section if you're not familiar with how to work that and so hopefully that will help you get through the video a little bit easier because it's gonna be a long one so let's go and um i'm gonna work on my own feet and i'll show you um all the points that i just said uh from start to finish and how i'd work them so let's go take a look at that okay so head reflex okay pad of the big toe one hand supports the other one's gonna work okay and then you're gonna flip so the way that i like to do this is take my thumb start at the very bottom of the pad here on the medial side and block your thumb up all the way to the top okay then you're going to do a little switch so now the other hand is going to be like a backboard this one comes across the top now starting from the lateral side of the big top of the big pad of the toe and you walk across the top okay and then you move this line in a little bit and you go like that and then you go like this okay and you move it in move it down move it in move it down move it in so essentially you're drawing little lines all the way across like this all the way across okay so you're not stopping and meeting like this you're actually one line goes all the way through and the other one comes all the way through move that one down move that one down okay so you're actually at the end of it you're creating and you have covered the entire pad from different angles right so that's one way of doing it another way is you can just do work the entire pad of the toe by doing maybe a i'll call this a dot to dot sort of technique right so that works but you want to just make sure that the pad is covered really well because there's so much that's going on in the head that you don't want to miss anything okay so that is how you work the big toe if you have a tool like this that might work for you you can use it any way that you feel fit so for this one it's got a bit of a knobby thing on it so i could just roll that over all the pad of the big toe or i can push directly straight in has this textured bit here so i can work across that way and then you can go the other way right so that's an example of that if you have another one so this one's a little bit different i use this as an extension of my finger so i hold it kind of like that and you can just do same same sort of thing the point is is to work every little area that's in your big toe and because you're working on yourself you can feel where there might be sensitivity like i feel a little bit of sensitivity up here so i'm going to work that a little bit extra as i'm working the entire head reflex okay so that's the head so the neck is found on the stem of the big toe on the plantar surface here bottom of the foot around the sides back of the toe here and to the medial side again so it's a complete circle all the way around okay now there's many different ways that you can work this one of them would just be to move around like this and feel for sensitive areas all the way around the foot okay another way so when i do this with clients i have a little bit of a method that i do i'll share that with you so it's like this so thumb starting here going across the planter surface here and then where i left off on the inside i'm going to go back the other way with my thumb then i'm going to go on the side and work around the back and then work around the side again with my finger and then i'm going to come around that way and go that way again so it kind of looks like this thumb thumb finger finger okay so i'll show that to you so thumb thumb finger and sometimes your toes get in the way so i just do a little flip around so i can walk straight all the way around there and then walk all the way around this way okay so that's how i do that and i do that many times and because i'm working on myself i can spend a little bit more time where there's some sore areas right if you want to use a tool you can go step by step pushing little dots all the way along the side and back inside again and then come over to the front but personally i like my thumb and my fingers to work so you can just do a little random finger circular motions all the way around till you get the neck feeling pretty good so that's the neck stem of the big toe sinuses next okay sinuses are the pads of the toes okay one two three four uh no real rules with this just work the pads of the toes really well um so as you can see here i'm kind of just using a free-for-all technique where i'm just kind of pinching and rolling the toes around okay when i work with the client i use my one hand as a nice support here and then i come down the pad and i just give a nice little hookup at the bottom and this feels great um as i'm working on myself as well okay so i'd work all there work all the pads really well if you want to use a tool um you can do that so you can roll all the way and it's a small area so i slip right off that's why it's good to have a nice solid uh you know sort of backdrop to work against so it's really good that way and you can work and yeah actually i prefer to use this tool because i can feel how sensitive these toe pads are um i'm gonna push straight in on the sinuses here as well so it's directly straight in in the center of the pad of each toe okay and this feels really nice and i just like to hold a little bit i can give a tiny bit of a swirl as well and yeah they're very sensitive okay so again when you're working on yourself this is totally fine to do with a client just be very cautious if you're gonna be using um a tool because it's so easy to go deep and hurt right so that's sinuses um along with the sinuses uh i like to work the eustachian tubes okay new station tubes are found on each side of the four toes okay so i like to walk my index finger down one side and then i like to walk my index finger down the other side a little bit hard to see there but you can kind of get what i'm doing hopefully okay and then you walk down this side this side this side and the pinky so i find it really good to keep my hands open like this so if i'm holding the toes i use my middle finger and thumb to hold the toe right like i have there right and that frees up my index fingers to work and then i just walk down one side and walk down the other okay and then one side down the other hopefully that makes sense good and you work that all the way on either side again searching for any sensitive parts and if you find some work it a little bit extra so that's the estation tubes sinuses eustachian tubes reflex to the eyes and ears these toes are more eyes and these toes are more ears but if you look at the head they cross over right so the ears go to the middle and then the eyes come across and then they they go to the opposite side of the head so there so i see these eyes and ears as one reflex okay so you might be focused more on the eyes um but you're also benefiting the ears as well if you're focusing more on the ears you're also benefiting the eyes as well but i see these as almost one reflex even though they are two separate ones um so yeah let's get into it so there's three methods that i use to work the eyes and ears one of them is kind of like unscrewing the light bulb so i start right at the bottom of the stem of the your second toe and what you're going to be doing is twisting all the way around like this and moving up as you go so to really slow it down i turn so i clamp down i turn around the bone moving the flesh and then i move let go move up slightly and do the same process move up turn turn turn move up turn turn turn move up turn turn turn and then once you speed it up a little bit looks more like this looks like you're almost unscrewing a light bulb okay so when you get onto the toe here on a smaller area it looks like this okay and i go all the way to just below the nail bed okay all the way and then you can use this is easier for me to use this hand but you can't see it when i do that so i'll use my left hand um get right in there turn turn turn turn turn there you go there turn turn turn turn turn okay so this is the first method which is unscrewing the light bulb okay the next one is going to be i call this the pinky and you're going to take your pinky put it right in between and you are going to push down okay so you're pushing straight down into um the webbing of each toe okay so you're gonna go there and push down you might find that it kind of puts a little bit of stress on your finger right and that's okay uh the reason why we use it is so that you don't apply too much pressure but if you're working on yourself you can do a bit more of a you know kind of this method where you can use your whole hand and push down and then if you can get it in there between your pinky and your fourth toe and push straight down so yeah can you see that there so i'll just show it again one two three four and you can see that i do a little bit of a wiggle there and that's just because it feels good if you want to use a tool you can but be very very careful again it's recommended when you're working on yourself this is fine but when you're working with a client i do not recommend it unless you're so used to working with tools that's fine um same method here so what you're really doing here is getting it in there in between the toes and pushing straight down towards the heel okay to stimulate right in between there good and then we do the third one which is called the push down okay and the way that this looks is you work right along the top of the ball of the foot here and pushing down towards your heel okay so my pressure is pushing straight down this way and you can work one all the way across one way and then you can work across the other way as well so this is very similar to the shoulder reflex except the shoulder reflex the pressure is going the opposite way but this one's really down straight down this way and what this is targeting is actually your shoulders um neck area pushing straight down um into that because there's you know when there's lots of eye tension and stuff your neck is involved as well and also any type of hearing sort of clogged congestion um also it's related to neck issue and and stuff like that so pushing straight down this way you're working the reflex to you know sort of the neck shoulders tension area as well okay um if you want to use a tool same thing just push straight down this way good again stopping for any type of ouchy parts sensitive parts and working them just giving them a little bit of extra care there you go eyes and ears you have the light bulb light bulb the pinky okay and you have uh the push down so diaphragm is one of our landmarks if you pull your toes back you can see this line that runs across here okay and so that's the diaphragm one way to work it is to try and open it up by pulling down this way so i'm using my thumb thumbs to pull it down i move out a little bit and pull down pull down pull down and i like to do a little bit of a stretch here as well i might want to do one side at a time um this can kind of irritate some people's skin especially if they have really dry skin so just be a little bit cautious that way you can do little dots like this which might actually feel better but yeah you just want to work all the way across the diaphragm line here and i put special attention on pulling it down trying to leave more space for the lung area to expand okay so you can work your tool if you have one all the way across this way searching for any type of tension good so that is the diaphragm line solar plexus or um i prefer to call this the kidney one point okay um because in our bodies if you think about it our solar plexus is found right at the bottom of where our sternum is right so if that follows true this is half of our body then the solar plexus is actually here on our foot if we transfer it so over here is in chinese medicine this is known as the bubbling spring or the kidney one point okay and as reflexologists we've called it the solar plexus point so regardless what you call it it's a very very powerful point um most the most nerves in your feet are actually found in this point so by stimulating it it helps with circulation it helps with relaxation in your body so to work it is quite simple you just find it and it's a nice size usually and it your thumb fits right in perfectly just like that so you can use kind of two thumbs i prefer to use one and then one over top so stack it and i just push pressure straight in to the foot just like that and it's really good to hold it for um about 20 seconds or so or even longer just really give it some nice um time to relax good and if you want you can use the tool to push straight in as well okay and you can kind of do a little bit of a search to help open that area up there you go and to work it you can just use your thumb and push it in straight like that for about 20 seconds or so you can just hold it there and i'm applying a good amount of pressure as well this is really good because it just feels nice and it helps the foot relax so that's how you work the kidney one point or reflexology we call it solar plexus cervical spine which is where the nose is here the little sticky-outy part there across from where than your nail bed is right you have your nail bed and then straight across there is the spine top of the spine because in your face right directly behind your nose is the top of the spine where the the axis is where your head turns okay so that's why we start there and then we're going to come down to the seventh cervical which is the kind of bunion bump or the biggest part of the knuckle right there okay so i like to work with my thumb walk down to there and walk back up again okay so what we're going to do with this one is just work this whole area really really well okay work around this way work around this way okay and just work the cervical spine really really good so this is basically c1 down to c7 okay so that little bump on the back your neck that's where that c7 is so you're working this whole area really really well okay i tend to like to use this tool for this because you can roll it around like this and it feels quite good use your other hand to support nicely and just work around that way okay that's working the cervical spine so there you go those are all the points that i would work for any type of dizziness vertigo things like that let me know if there's some points that i left out um i would love to hear uh what you work hope you liked the video hope it was helpful stay tuned for some more until next time this is adam from balancing touch remember to keep those feet happy bye-bye if you like this video you can give it a thumbs up and if you found it useful feel free to share it with anybody who might be interested make sure that you have subscribed to this channel if you haven't already and make sure that you hit or 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