programs out there is one program here that joan taylor is doing called tapping that in fact you see on a weekly basis i don't know if you're going to touch into any that program  energy medicine all right the energy medicine area is is getting to be much bigger than it ever was before as as in acupuncture and acupressure we actually even use acupuncture on our horses before we go to shows yes we bring an acupuncturist in and they demonstrating some of the areas of the hand that you can use dealing with parts of the body so i'm going to ask you a bunch of questions how did you get started while you're a resident all right i've lived in  years and you've had how many kids go to the school five five and they all graduated there you get it thank you so and you you've been into this program now for how many years about twenty for four years now so the pennsylvania yeah the pittsburgh chapter of the pennsylvania hypnotism society right and that's good believe me that's what shows i think a lot of people would be interested and would probably have a lot of people lining up to see if that could be done physical health and his ability to function luckily he graduated from peter's township with a standing ovation in two thousand and two but to get there are i spent two and a half years ten hours a day patterning him and i had three hundred volunteers come into my house on a regular basis one family and we would move his head back and forth then get his whole body to move in  balance with children with down syndrome often don't know how to move appropriately into that across patterning which is essential to our balance he would move forward with both hands and one lady talk about opportunities to change your life she said i'm going to go take a reflexology class and it would really help brennan so why don't you come and learn how not to do it and so i did it and my husband and i used it as date night and we went to community college and we learned massage and reflexology and all kinds of present day situations that could help my son bran and he loved it and i took one hundred twenty hours of just a lot of work on your hands and your feet and then i started into a business and i worked out of my home and i could work on people speak and their hands and pretty much say you know i think i know what's the matter with you i've had people come who had colon cancer prostate cancer lung problems problems with headaches and managed to tell them what mo dowdy they needed to use or where they should go to get help and oftentimes refle any of these contemporary medicine types was put it that way they're all alternative or complimentary they were accepted by my clients and they sent more clients and then eventually i started to do programs at the library and programs at the rec center which i now offer and if you learn how to do these i'm teaching my grandchildren who live next door some of these finer points and the oldest one madison divine will come over to have me do her feet and she always likes to barter or she'll do something like teach me how to use the computer so i can see her feet and she'll go away very happy and emma comes over to my cold is seven and he wanted our hypnosis but he doesn't want to give up any of his best habits but whatever that's all for the one that's done because we don't have a graphic here ok it's ok there are and put your hand out there and i'll show you some of the basics now this is a map and you can see the map there's different areas that are lighting up corresponding to organs and muscles everything in your body one thing that everyone should be interested in what they call the great eliminator and between your thumb and your first finger there's an indentation which is actually a part of our lymph system so when you start to get a headache or not you know if you are with people that are i clogged that you can use a lot of pressure and work done here actually i'm going to share a little of so i have a better angle it's you and what you do is you have to use two to ten pounds of pressure pass over a point that is you feel those little salty things in your hands and well those are an indication you have a little bit of a blockage there do you ever get headaches ok well this is a area right here if you just are sitting doing nothing in particular and you work into that area sometimes to find some test or spot and if you go deep enough enough that you've got me that you will release the toxins in that part of your body and unbelievably your thumb is your brain and if you work the back to the from you feel that tenderness and it's also stress release but it's also if you ever get sinus issues in so the thumb is very important right here is this part of your thumb and you feel some tenderness do you ever get post nasal drip some stuff in the morning i like that a lot of people do because we live in an area that is polluted like all industrial cities even though we have a little industry anymore i don't know if let's turn your hand over this area right here to the point where those little nodules go away what they are then enough to get some are lotion here what they are is acid lactic acid in york acid the don't come out of your body in the normal fashion but they are and everybody can go into any mode you want to make friends real fast learn how to do weave socks on with your hand i have two nephews that are medical doctors ones  t guy and the other one is a cardiologist and we get together and i only say lo we come tell me what's the matter with me nobody bothers the doctor they all want to know what's up so each part of your body as you see on area that people need to know if you don't have your garbage can emptied at least one or two times a day that your shoulder right there that all of that talks and builds up and comes up through the sinuses respiratory so that's really why we have sick because we don't keep our body regulated and balanced but the side of the hand is relating to the body if you can hold that one off  shows you if you are carrying our body in half the left foot is where your digestive system basically is it's also where our paying prius's so it's helpful for people with diabetes the right side has your liver you of course have two longs into kidneys and i've worked on people that had kidney stones that have actually released a lot of them i've had people who were heading for the hospital because i couldn't pass their urine and i got a foot chart and saved themselves a trip to the hospital there's just so many wonderful things you can learn in just a few short hours i teach a class of four hours to learn how to do reflexology and learn all the basics and yet the moment practice i've gone into hospitals and worked on people who were ready to pass and one fellow we actually his wife and i actually worked with different therapies to get him out of the hospital which is a good place to be is out of the hospital so the more you learn about it the more excited you are because it's wired it works it's free it has so many issues when people don't know what's the matter with them and they go to a reflexologist and there are very few of us unfortunately then you can thousands of dollars worth of tests and the doctor said well they're constipated and i already knew that it's how you keep your body drinking lots of water staying away from sugar you know getting exercise but rather overdo it and oftentimes they get kidney stones because they use up so much energy and the kidneys get bounced a lot and that's what happened so that's one thing for them to think  about a recent dr oz show he talks about the when you use the restroom and was talked about many things like that actually but whatever you use the restroom when you're washing your hands you should wash for twenty seconds minimum i've noticed that ever since said basically you've been working on is there a time element involved in this process or is it sort of just go until you feel good or basically you work on hands i do them possibly five minutes for each hand but if there's an area that seems congested in the congested is part of those little acidy things you see you know now if you were doing this to yourself you could sit for any length of time and if it's it hard nobody wants to deal with something that hard so they leave them alone and that's just what you shouldn't do i've had ladies have had breast cancer and this is the lymph system on top of the hand and if you worked on each little area and you find anything that's painful then you have got to do take steps to clean up your lymph system and detoxifying the liver and you talk to find the body but this fails then i'm sure and the people they neglect themselves like get over stress they spend too much time worrying about nonsense if you stop and think about it if today you have a problem guess what in a month from now you'll see what the problem was would you like me to work on your other little crunchy right at this point that i'm sure of her older and most people hold their tension in their shoulders and just working that yourself you can take your own hand and go like this and you're going to get to the front of the shoulder you take your finger and just sort of grip it ok and when you do that then you can take your hand and rub in there and see if you've got any spots that need to be know all the way through the body even even the hair and the eyes i mean oh but an interesting now if anybody has any problems with anything face neck eyes ears throat if you've got it to think this is interesting and nobody believes it but it does work you come across the band between the fingers and the the entire body and you just dig in years ago my husband and i were out in boulder colorado and i didn't get many vacations with having five kids so we were in a mud place where you get mud all over you and then you go home and feel wonderful well i left  going to any hospital so i worked my hands for half an hour in the pain went away but it took a lot of intense feeling to just keep pressing and pressing but it does work so it's a daily operation you would do to yourself more weekly my husband wants to get on my good side he does my feet we don't take time for our bodies were too busy with really a wake up call i did my brother in law and i did his feet and he wouldn't let me touch him after i said to my sister your husband is ill he had a heart attack about a month later and because i told her that he had some issues i got my nine one one cigarette yet a heart attack in the hospital and since then he's been a really good guy and cross thirty five times and he's place they were just so relaxed they didn't want to do anything but leave like any other athlete alleviated a lot of pain that they had to work out and the difference between acupressure and acupuncture is this is finger pressure whereas acupuncture is the needle and they both people don't understand that you have the power to use active pressure like this is your spine and if you work from the tylenol or something just trying to be really sure self you'd be far better off in the long run because every add to comes on t v about which product you would like to choose to kill yourself quick or it's just rather strange i'm going to assume that you're not a big medicine taker not an iota mins of mineral drinks there's just too many complications with most of the things i don't know why anybody would so it's better to learn how to do your hands and feet and enjoy life make friends this is wonderful my friend you can go to the hospital visiting a sick person massage their hands or their feet i'm starting to worry about my boyfriend one minute he's supportive the next minute everything is my fault he says a couple of beers get him in a good mood his idea of a couple of beers usually turns out to be a lot more than just one or two and that's when i start to worry after he's had too many beers he gets really angry and i become the target i hate to say it but he reminds me too much of my last boyfriend i think any good man out there and best friend is a social worker she told me to try al anon family groups so i could understand my feelings better i didn't want to go because i didn't want to get into another argument with my boyfriend but i'm glad i went i'm starting to understand that i didn't cause his anger i didn't cause his drinking it's a great relief to hear new perspective for my problems are you troubled by someone's drinking you might be surprised what you can learn in an alan and family group meeting from people just like you call one eight for alan on a visit alan on family groups  dad wait to see the bike we got project hearing loss happens gradually with age making it easy to ignore yet most older americans aren't getting their hearing tested when you're finished with your food or beverage cartons toss it in the recycling because every card is recycled turned into useful paper products step she has is to cross crawl if you did this for ten to twenty seconds at a time and you can get up here and do it with him but our bod need to cross over if we just are linear it doesn't work nearly as well so one way other than the crisscross go ahead and do that for maybe ten ten you need to know that that's an important fun thing to do either you're walking and moving or you're doing this on a regular basis it helps my son tremendously football players professional players in warm up d that's because they want their brain to be working well because they make a lot of money football so i think you do not want to do sonot even suggest that you never do the hands over jumping jack actually deplete your body and keep you from having your crossover now if you're sitting in class and you're starting to doze off which i know you never do the the best way to keep  balanced and that's what life is all about balancing our bodies take your hands and put them back to back crisscross them over your body love the cost and if you're comfortable pull up to your chest now if you can do this without anybody noticing more power to you but if you can't do this you can cross over your ankles to your knees some part of your body so that you're not standing feeling out of balance and you can drop them and take deep breaths breathing is such an essential part of our life and we breathe so shallowly when you're a little kid you breathe very deeply and as an adult you probably don't even know you're breathing so it's important to take a minute or two every day and just for e faith might get rid of all the talks and i live system has no particular way of moving unless we deep breathe and we do some of the energy medicine to get it done right and there's a few really cute ones here but space doesn't allow us i will read to you if anybody wishes to come to a class i have i can tell you all about it the weighing posture where you spend ninety seconds you have to sit in a chair across your leg over you and deep breathe donna even says it takes care of everything now become poll we can do if anyone gets a headache or there are tense because something happened they weren't expecting to take your fingers flat against your forehead and you just pull back to get to your temples and this has a way of clearing you know naturally if you have a headache where do you put your hands problems on the temples or on the face on the bridges and anyplace on the face does bring you a sense of relief so if you pulling back she goes all the way up into the hairline is is a by the way the da means book that we have here today is energy medicine for women all right this is something that some around for might be interested in going to part the library might time thank you very much feras hopefully you'll go home and do all that deep breathing that's crossing ok the next part is going back a little bit demonstrating and if you look at these slides you will find areas that you can manipulate in fact affect their different areas of the body i never realize that to be honest with you and so how does the feet help us absolutely wonderful told depending on circumstances things that i have discovered in people as a reflexologist for twenty five years i am never permitted to diagnose anybody but i can tell them that possibly they should go get something checked and many many times it's come out to be the right answer if you see the chart you'll know that our body is right down the middle we have our left side starting with the shoulders which is the top of the foot all the way done you can release the shoulder paying help the neck pain and on the left side you're going to find the digestive area i don't know which numbers they are on the chart by heart but i have found people with serious issues with the digestive constipation is a very large problem with many many people but the interesting things that i have found have not been easily detected i have a relative who came and he wasn't feeling good and his wife was wondering what was the matter with and so while i was doing his feet i said john how how is your prostate doing for really great three weeks later he had prostate surgery i've worked on people that i had this one great big heavy guy who was a construction worker and when i worked on him i said what's  colon oh i work on i why i can never go to the bathroom and he had colon cancer now the best i can do is let him know that there's an issue here that should be addressed you can work with people with bronchitis everything that the body has to offer you can find on the feet the kidney meridian the kidneys the chinese believe are the source of all our stress and if we learn how to drink a lot of water keep our body clean our lymph system clean that the kidneys will function properly if we get ourselves all stressed up and don't take care of ourselves we do too much running a lot of athletes get kidney stones because they're on their feet all the time their kidneys are bouncing truck drivers have the same problem that you can find the kidneys very simply by going up the middle of the the foot and if you find little salty acid things that don't feel normal a lot of people are painful my father knaus won't let me touch the feet anymore but anyone who has an issue you might get some diagnosed tick medicine real cheap getting your feet done as opposed to paying for thousands of dollars the tests and then people say i don't know what's the matter  you when you're talking about these they're like little salt sized nodules they're not even that big but you can feel them you know that they're unusual they shouldn't be there your skin sinks in words injured and that works for acupressure that works for working on the body anything that you do that working towards finding balance everything we've talked about today  as you mentioned earlier the orientals have been in fact working on it for thousands of years and that includes acupuncture acupressure to western medicine this is now an accepted practice is forty years ago they still look down their nose and they want to descend to the hospital should jump with something or writing an x ray or something but now it seems like more and more doctors are in fact getting the certifications to try other things than traditional western medicine it's interesting because in fact one i happen to have a cardiologist that i attend he is one of these individuals and right and he goes through this process and it's interesting to see because they said you expect  doctor to go in and just give you a script for something in this and going your way but whenever you actually take some time and do some of the things that you've done here today they're able to tell i guess through their training the seriousness of the problem problem you know and how long term problem and i mean it was said it's like a road map not only to your past but to your do your future that's an inner and i process you do programs at the rec center you mention i do and what do you have coming up well i'm going to be teaching energy medicine in april and teaching reflexology these are one our classes they're fifteen dollars which is nothing more than an introductory to how you can learn how to better help yourself i also teach reiki scuse me which is another form of healing they're all complimentary medicines they all work and i tell people if you learn how to use just some very basics and the rec center is a fabulous place to learn and inexpensive takes an hour of your time most of them on sunday fifteen in a classroom but you know that's not an issue because i run them every month and it's pretty constant so what more does someone start if they want to get interested in this i would say the feet are the most easily understood but some map of your body it tells you what's going on in your body and one session you can learn if you've got any issues that need to be addressed i've worked on my nephew who's a medical doctor and as he was graduating from med school he asked me to work on him and i said the only thing i could find wrong with them it's hard to say ok go ahead reflex for me so well i said we're coming to the end of the show and i'd like to thank you very much and i also like to thank samantha cassie and ted for assisting us here today they certainly didn't realize they were going to be involved in this and they came in school today but we do appreciate their assistance to any people want to call you contact your heart of the do that well my home phone number nine four one eight seven to two is where i will be except they'll be on vacation for three weeks coming up but you can contact me through the the rec center ecu over there knows me well and is very kind about keeping me updated and i thank you for having me come today well it's like i said it's one of the things this program is used for is to try to get things out there the most people don't learn and we certainly don't seem to teach this in i mean i never learned this in our our health classes era peters and so i mean that's something that i think that certainly as time has come i've seen it work successfully like i said not just on people but also on animals and it and for joining us if there are to questions once again you can go ahead and in fact contact the rec center to find out about the programs that they have going on and in fact if you want to contact mr rich you'll be able