Reflexology Blog – Spiritual/Emotional System
THIS SYSTEM IS COMPOSED OF THE MIND, HEART, EYES, SOUL, CHAKRAS, AND ENERGETIC LAYERS SURROUNDING THE PHYSICAL BODY, AND THE ENTIRE ENDOCRINE SYSTEM
As the journey goes, recognizing one’s spirituality varies from person to person. The differences aren’t important. What’s important is we understand the value of our spiritual well being relative to the overall health of the whole body.
Try to understand and respect the spiritual differences in each client partner. Spiritually, everyone is different with no wrongs or rights. Make every effort to support the client’s spiritual beliefs to help the client achieve good spiritual health.
THE QUESTION ARISES: WHAT IS THAT?
We can’t address the question without understanding the cultural, religious, and ethnic differences in our client partners. These should always be respected and acknowledged when appropriate.
With a client partner from a different culture, please try to learn more about cultural behaviors and communication styles within that culture.
GOOD SPIRITUAL HEALTH INCLUDES A CONNECTEDNESS WITH ONE’S INNER SELF AND WITH OTHERS. It can include a life with meaning and purpose. It can include faith, hope, peacefulness, love, forgiveness, and worship.
For many, the most elusive word is forgiveness. Many health care providers offer forgiveness prayers for their clients. Some healers feel healing is impossible without forgiveness. Your job is to assist your client partner to achieve and maintain spiritual balance and health.
Reflexing the nervous system can be a very spiritual experience for your client partner. For many, it facilitates a communication flow between the brain and the divine.
RECOGNIZE WHEN A CLIENT IS WORKING THROUGH LOSS AND GRIEF. Your sessions can assist and support the client in this journey.
The endocrine system is the foundation of the Spiritual/Emotional System. This is the primary system that Reflexology for the Spirit addresses.
The Endocrine system and the chakras are very closely aligned and influence one another.
Balanced chakras are a necessary component of good spiritual and emotional health. That’s what Reiki therapy does best. Have you learned Reiki therapy yet? It’s easy to learn. It’s fast, incorporated easily into a Reflexology for the Spirit session and brings homeostasis. As your client reaches and maintains homeostasis, the spirit becomes healthy, too. Once the chakras are balanced and the spirit begins to achieve good health it will become the driving force in the journey to homeostasis. You can assist your client partner on this journey without Reiki therapy but it’s easier with it.
The question arises: What is Reiki therapy? At its lowest common denominator, Reiki therapy is the laying on of hands. The practitioner calls in the Reiki energy (universal life force) and offers a light touch to a clothed body as healing is offered.
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Who Shouldn’t Receive a Session and Why (Contraindications) – Part 2
Advanced Osteoporosis
Use a very light touch and a very short session (begin with 10 minutes) taking care not to fracture bones. Please note: persons suffering from mild osteoporosis or osteopenia greatly benefit from Reflexology for the Spirit. The red flag starts flying when a new client approaches you with advanced osteoporosis. By then, it’s too late for your services without permission from the physician.
Extensive Athlete’s Foot, Etc.
Whenever there’s a rash, an open sore, athlete’s foot, etc., offer hand reflexology instead of working the feet. If you are uncomfortable offering hand reflexology, use gloves.
Advanced Diabetes
Clients with mild diabetes respond well to Reflexology for the Spirit offered to both hands and feet. Offer gentle pressure when working the pancreas. Offer lighter pressure in general for diabetics because their skin may be thinner than usual and bruise easily. also, reduce sessions to 30 minutes or less for new clients.
Heavily Medicated Clients
Persons taking a lot of medicine may have a buildup of toxins. Because Reflexology for the Spirit offers a natural detoxing action you need to take care not to overload the person. Offer a light touch and shorter session.
When you encounter people who shouldn’t receive Reflexology for the Spirit, consider offering Reiki therapy.
There are no known contraindications for Reiki therapy.
It’s easy to learn.
People enjoy it.
It’s easy to combine Reiki therapy and Reflexology for the Spirit.
The list seems almost endless. Remember this: few people with conditions on the above list will ever approach a reflexologist. For whatever reason, they just go elsewhere for their therapy. So don’t get discouraged. You won’t see them.
As always, this post is coming to you from my post in scenic Woodstock, NY.
Our next post will focus on who SHOULD receive reflexology.
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Thurman Greco
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Reflexology for the Spirit is an Attitude, Part 2
Although there are stories about people receiving one Reflexology for the Spirit session and going away a changed person, this outcome is the exception to the rule. Generally speaking, several (or many) sessions are needed before the client partner undergoes the changes necessary to bring about healing from the soul out. reflexology, spiritual or regular, is a process, not a pill.
It’s not the place of a reflexologist to provide therapy to a person who has not tried to resolve his/her health issues by visiting a qualified healthcare professional. Reflexologists are not trained to provide services to clients who have not yet received a diagnosis from the primary medical care professional.
Diagnosis is important for the healing process. A person cannot heal without having a name for a disease or condition.
People with issues, who don’t get a diagnosis, never really know what their problem is. Also, their peers never give the person or the condition/disease the credibility it deserves. So, the first step to wellness is a diagnosis.
When a person under the care of a physician comes for regular (or sporadic) sessions s/he needs to continue with whatever meds and/or therapy which has been prescribed by the MD.
This is especially true if your client suffers with cancer, diabetes, heart disease, etc.
Reflexology for the Spirit practitioners work with the diagnosis provided by the health care professional while recognizing, honoring, and offering healing to the soul which is manifesting issues in the sole.
Thanks again for reading this blog. The next post will discuss colon cleanses and liver cleanses.
This post comes to you from my healing space in scenic downtown Woodstock, NY.
Peace and food for all.
Thurman Greco
Swollen Ankles and Feet can be Troublesome to Your Client Partners
Focus warm ups on the swollen areas in addition to your regular warm ups. Schedule appointments later in the day when edema sufferers seem to have the most problems.
Try to get your client partner to consult a medical professional. Often, people don’t realize these issues can be symptoms of systemic problems needing medical attention. You’ll offer relief and solace to the spirit and you are going to reduce swelling but
a physician needs to give a diagnosis.
The underlying cause of edema needs to be addressed.
SYSTEMS TO WORK: warm ups to the swollen areas, urinary system, immune system, nervous system, digestive system with emphasis on the liver, circulatory system, and the solar plexus.
ESSENTIAL OILS: tangerine, geranium, German chamomile, wintergreen, peppermint, lavender, grapefruit, helichrysum.
Thanks again for reading the blog. Our next post is the final one in this portion of the book/blog. It will focus on Thickened Nails and Skin. After the post on the Thickened Nails and Skin, we’ll be shifting gears to focus on other factors important to a Reflexology for the Spirit practitioner.
This post is coming to you from my healing space in Woodstock, NY.
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Thurman Greco
When You Consider the Pace and Demands of Life in the 21st Century, it’s no Wonder that Stress is a Huge Factor and Issue in our Health Care Dilemma
The causes are overwhelming and include lifestyle situations, medications, time management, relationship issues, which produce biological responses, any or all of which can contribute to making a person somewhat, or even very, ill. Many people live with stressed adrenal glands.
Prolonged stressful situations can have effects lasting an entire lifetime. In some cases, children growing up in stressful or abusive situations maintain a stress alert throughout adulthood so they never seem unstressed. This can contribute to disease even decades later.
Stress weakens the immune system and, because of this, becomes a factor in diseases such as angina, anorexia, anxiety disorders, autoimmune disease, cancer, cardiovascular disease, colds, depression, Type II Diabetes, digestive diseases, fibromyalgia, headaches, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, immune suppression, insomnia, irritable bowel syndrome, menstrual irregularities, PMS, rheumatoid arthritis, sinusitis, ulcerative colitis, ulcers.
“Flare ups” because of an event or problem can trigger outbreaks of acne, arthritis, asthma, heartburn, Multiple Sclerosis.
It’s important for your client partners to develop positive coping habits to manage stress. These include yoga, meditation, tai chi, regular Reflexology for the Spirit sessions.
A healthy diet is essential for stress management. People suffering from the effects of stress should restrict or eliminate caffeine, alcohol, and refined carbohydrates. Meals should be eaten in a relaxed atmosphere.
Reflexology for the Spirit facilitates homeostasis. It can also be used to calm the adrenal glands. This is essential when dealing with stress.
SYSTEMS TO WORK: thyroid, parathyroid, and pituitary reflexes as well as the lung, kidney, spinal reflexes and the solar plexus. Include extra warm ups and warm downs.
ESSENTIAL OILS: lavender, Roman chamomile, blue tansy, cedarwood, marjoram, rose, sandalwood, and frankincense.
Thanks for reading this blog. We are approaching the end of this section. There are three posts remaining: Sweaty Feet, Swollen Ankles, and Thickened Nails. After those posts, we’ll explore some spiritual and non-spiritual treatments for different medical issues.
As always, this post is coming to you from my healing space in Woodstock, NY.
Peace and food for all.
Thurman Greco
When You Work Hammertoes, You May See a Real Change in the Person Extending Beyond the Feet.
Regular sessions can offer relief for persons suffering with hammertoes. This spiritual affliction is caused when a person is in a long tern situation where independent thought is being stifled. The person creates a protective shell with the curling toes. Hammertoes are sometimes seen with bunions. When you observe hammertoes, please work them early in the session.
When a person comes to you with hammertoes, you have a situation with the person’s feet and, indeed, life, that is probably not going to be cleared up in a week. It may take several weeks (at least) or months before any permanent change occurs. Your regular sessions during this time will offer the needed encouragement and support so that change will occur.
AREAS TO WORK: Work the toes so they are encouraged, and allowed to straighten. This translates to working the neck areas, the brain, the sinuses, and doing a lot of warm ups and warm downs focusing on the toes and the neck ridge. This carries an extra importance because hammertoes can sometimes be caused by a chronic lack of oxygen. Include the nervous system, skeletal system, muscular system, lymphatics, digestive system, liver and solar plexus.
ESSENTIAL OILS: Idaho balsam fir, douglas fir, cypress, vetiver, Frankincense, lavender, geranium, palo santo, myrrh, patchouli, pine, rosewood, sage, or white fir.
The next post will focus on heel spurs.
The list of spiritual afflictions which respond to Reflexology for the Spirit sessions is very, very long. If you want to see a particular issue highlighted in this section of the blog, please contact me and I’ll add that one to the list.
When we complete the section of the book covering how to work spiritual afflictions, we’ll go on to cover a variety of subjects dealing with all aspects of your practice as a Reflexology for the Spirit practitioner.
Thank you for reading this blog post. It is being written in my healing space in Woodstock, NY.
Peace and food for all.
Thurman Greco
Ankle Break or Sprain and Reflexology for the Spirit
Our feet move us forward in life. And, of course, the part of the body which allows this to happen is the ankle. An ankle break or sprain is a spiritual event as far as the Reflexology for the Spirit practitioner is concerned. When a person breaks or sprains an ankle, the spiritual self is calling for a “time out”.
The person is having difficulties moving forward in life with either a special event or with life in general.
When working the feet of a person with a sprained or broken ankle, always include Reiki therapy, essential oils and gently use Reflexology for the Spirit skills to work the part of the foot which is visible outside the cast. The body part inside the cast is stressed because the muscles are not being allowed to move. If the person is in a soft cast or boot, do not remove it without the physician’s permission. This is a good time to offer Reiki therapy.
ESSENTIAL OILS FOR SPRAINS: pine, basil, Idaho balsam fir, wintergreen, spruce, cypress, peppermint.
ESSENTIAL OILS FOR BROKEN BONES: thyme, helichrysum, wintergreen, peppermint, spruce, Idaho balsam fir, pine.
In the next post, we’ll cover anxiety.
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Thurman Greco
