This prolonged stress causes our bodies to secrete hormones and enzymes continually, having immense negative effects on our health. These negative effects are mirrored in our feet long before the effects become apparent in the rest of our body. Such negative effects will show up on the feet as reflexes that are tender and painful in the course of a reflexology session. Understanding these reflexes allows a Reflexologist to detect problems early in their development, long before they lead to serious illness. With an awareness of what is happening in the body, a person can make choices and change habits to help alleviate the negative effects of stress in their lives.
Reflexology is powerful preventative health care.
In discovering problems in our feet long before they become serious in the rest of our body we are able to take more control over our own health and health care. While medical costs are covered by government health plans, we all have to pay the costs of this in higher taxes and higher user fees. It makes alot of sense to use preventative health care to help not only improve our own health, but decrease the rising costs of the medical system. As the old saying goes, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure . We all have stress in our lives.