Reflexology For The Spirit

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Juice Cleanse Tips

  1.  Begin your cleanse by spending a few days eating fresh fruit, salads, sprouts, nuts, and seeds and avoid all processed foods.  Maintain a raw food diet for about three days before you  actually focus on the juice part of the cleanse.
  2. Make sure the water you drink is the cleanest  you can find.  A big decision here is whether you prefer ultrapurified water or spring water.   This choice is a personal one.  I’m happy with either one.  When I’m doing a cleanse, I prefer ultrapurified water.    When I am at home and just drinking water on a daily basis, I prefer spring water.  I like spring water because I live in the Hudson Valley of New York State  where I have access to superior water.  I know what spring the  water comes from, even.  In some cases I’ve actually visited a spring and personally seen it.  I never drink water shipped in from another continent, country, state, or even another part of New York State.  That being said, I would probably make different decisions about the water I drink if I lived in another part of the country.  Certainly, if I lived in a foreign country, I would do different things.
  3. When having a cleanse, be sure to rest several times during the day.    Include some guided meditations that you’ve chosen especially for this cleanse occasion.
  4. Set aside time for reflexology sessions and chakra healing sessions.  Begin each day with a Reiki therapy session if you can.
  5. End your cleanse by eating easy-to-digest water, plump fruits and leafy green salads.  Avoid processed foods for as long as you possibly can.  This is crucial to the success of a cleanse.

Reflexologists, now is a good time of the year to conduct a cleanse as a group with several of your fellow practitioners and client partners.  Include a nutritionist in the group to help supervise the cleanse.

ENJOY!

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Spa Treatments for Your Reflexology Practice

 

Angel 1Everyone needs pampering.  Never miss an opportunity to lavish attention and special healing on your clients.  Birthdays, anniversaries, the arrival of Spring.  This blog post begins  a  series of articles  offering  ways to pamper and heal your client partners.

These spa treatments will  not only offer attention, healing, and variety to your practice.  They can also  bring in new clients if you market gift certificates as well.

They will also offer a new service to your clients.

Spa treatments have four elements:

1.  ENVIRONMENT – It’s important to change the healing space environment in some way so that clients will feel like they are in a different energy environment.  This can be as simple as adding a small arrangement of fresh flowers or a ceremonial throw for your healing table or chair.  Or, it can be as elaborate as painting the walls, adding special furniture and  accents.

2.  WATER – is a  basic element in spa treatments.  This is easier than you might think.  A foot bath is all that’s necessary.  If that doesn’t   resonate with you, a couple of small towels, wrung out with scented water and heated in the microwave for a couple of moments can offer warmth and caring to a special client partner’s feet.   A cup of tea at the end of the session or a glass of sparkling mineral water is always popular.

3.  MUSIC – Coordinate the music with the theme with the session focus with the essential oils.

4.  ESSENTIAL OILS –  Select oils which support the session.

When you decide to expand your healing services to include spa treatments, you’re going to need several things:

1.  You  need a plan.  Depending upon your situation, you can offer spa treatments one week a month and transform the whole place or a short period of time.  Another option is to have a periodic spa day at your healing space.  A final option is to offer a menu of spa sessions which can be incorporated into your day at your client partner’s request.

2.  Design each spa session with a focused theme.

3.  After each of these sessions, remember to add a few extra minutes for your client partner to return to “now”.

Thank you for reading this blog/book.  The next several  posts will feature spa reflexology sessions incorporating Reiki therapy, music, essential oils, water treatments.  Each one will be different.  Hopefully  these suggestions will inspire you to create your own unique spa sessions.

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Artwork provided by Jennette Nearhood.

 

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Water, Water – What are we to do?

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It’s really hard to find clean water.  Our water is so filled with toxins that our bodies have become toxic waste dumps.

So, what are we to do?  We need it to live.

There are 2 issues here, really.  The 1st issue is getting clean, pure water.   The 2nd issue is using it:

drinking,

bathing,

nourishing our planet.

So, what are we to do?  We need it to live.

Getting clean water can challenging.

For starters, filter it.  The filter you choose depends on your budget and your water issues.  Filters come in several different varieties:

pitchers/carafes

faucet-mount systems

under-the-sink systems.

To learn about your water toxin issues,  use your local county water quality report and advice from local water quality experts.

In the past, I used an under-the-sink  system and was very pleased with it.

Now I buy my drinking water.  Water in the Hudson River Valley is so special.  The product I choose is New York Springs USA water, a natural spring water sourced in the Catskill Mountain area of New York State.

If New York Springs USA is not available, I reach for Mountain Valley Spring Water which comes from the Hot Springs National Park in Arkansas.

It just so happens that these 2 waters are spring fed.

If I’m working or traveling or shopping out of the area and need to drink a bottled water, I’ll go for  an ultra purified brand I know and recognize over a spring fed water which I am unfamiliar with.

When in New York City, I drink water offered to me at the restaurant table.  Make no mistake about it.  New York City water is the best available anywhere.  I know this.  I live and work in the area.  New York City water comes from the Ashokan Reservoir, an extremely well protected and guarded body of water.   Catskill Mountain residents love, honor, and are proud of their water.  Nothing but the best is good enough for us.

Although we can’t list things like the vitamins or calories found in water, it’s important for our overall health to keep  hydrated.

Water offers a natural detox as it cleans toxins out of the body which collect in the urinary tract.  Drink enough water often enough to urinate every 2 hours.

Hydration fights fatigue..something we all battle.  There are many tired people wandering around right this minute who are not really fatigued.  They are thirsty.  At the 1st sign of fatigue, drink water and then give yourself a few minutes for your body to react to the needed hydration.

Water helps the body break food into nutrients as it travels through the digestive system.

Sufficient hydration prevents kidney stones.

Water helps strengthen the adrenal glands.

I offer a glass of New York Springs USA to each of my client partners at the end of the reflexology or Reiki therapy session.

As a reflexologist, please encourage your client partners to keep hydrated.  Help them choose the best water for their health and lifestyle needs.  They will feel better.

Mountain Valley Spring Water

http://www.newyorksprings.com

Hot Springs National Park

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Seven Important Things Water Does For Us: Drink Up! Drink 5+ Glasses of Water Each Day. Do You Do This Now? Most People Think They Do, But In Reality, They Don’t.

Water does so much for us.
Water flushes toxins from the body.
Water keeps our core body temperature balanced.
Water dilutes chemical concentrations in the body.
Water reduces fatigue.
Water chases away the wrinkles. Well hydrated people have fewer wrinkles than underhydrated people.
Water is the single most important nutrient for our bodies.
Water helps our digestive system function better, transporting nutrient throughout the body.
So, you ask, how can I drink enough water?
Begin with a glass of water when you wake up. Drink this glass of water in addition to your morning juice, coffee, tea, milk, etc.
Drink a glass of water about every two hours throughout the day.
Drink a glass of water about 30 minutes before each meal.
Drink a glass of water 2 hours after dinner.
Water comes in many forms: filtered, spring, etc. Waters have different flavors. A favorite water of mine is a nnatural spring water labeled: New York Springs, USA. It’s bottled at the Vly Mountain Spring Source by New York Spring Water, Inc., in Halcott Center, NY 12430.
Water is one inexpensive way to help you as you go down the path to wellness and longevity. That’s an added bonus because many wellness promoting products and regimens are very expensive.
Enjoy!
Peace and food for all.
Thurman Greco
Woodstock, NY