| Prevention is Better Than Cure |
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| Written by Marion Gill | |
 Reflexology helps to maintain your own natural balance and immunity against those winter ailments. It gives you a stronger chance of avoiding those winter colds and influenza. If you do succumb to these reflexology can help you to fight back quicker. RESPIRATORY AILMENTS, ie colds, asthma, allergies. Reflexology will help break up congestion, relax the bronchial and chest muscles, facilitate deep breathing, stimulate energy and strengthen the immune system. Help regulate mucus levels in the body and produce hormones that are anti- inflammitants. INFLUENZA is characterised by fever, prostration, aches and pains and inflammation of the respiratory system. In a reflexology session the entire foot will be worked to sooth and relax the body. Emphasis will be placed on various reflexes to aid the recovery of the body. This will aid the regulation of body heat, aid the lymph in its process of destroying bacteria, fight inflammation, maintain mineral balance, help release toxins. Visualisation: Imagine standing under a cool waterfall, or playing under the sprinkler on a hot sunny day A LOWERED IMMUNE SYSTEM can affect many organs and systems in the body. It can affect adrenal activity, blood pressure and digestive system. The immune system deteriorates as the body ages and there is a higher percentage of chronic ailments. Lack of energy, poor diet that can be due to lack of interest, enthusiasm, money or loneliness can spoil ones enthusiasm for life. Aging is a natural process, part of nature’s plan, but we start to think of it as a disease itself. Disease is a disruption of the life process. Ageing, although a slowing down process, is not an indication that anything is wrong. Reflexology can aid in feeling better, relieving aches and pains and living a more fulfilling life. Many modern jobs involve a lot of sitting and working with the head. A steady routine of mental work at a desk day after day can take its toll on the immune system. Students, secretaries, accountants, lawyers and other professionals, whether engaged in routine assignments or ones that are highly original and creative, need to get out of their heads now and then. Reflexology is a gentle way to do that, similar to the more strenuous techniques of physical exercise. It allows you to indulge and get lost in the body for an hour or so. It improves circulation and can keep the body healthy so that fewer days are missed from work. |
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