Western Reflexology is based on the Nervous System and how it has connections to every part of the entire body. The extremities, namely the Feet, Hands, Face, and Ears, can be analyzed and manipulated to create balance in other areas of the body. A good starting point for visualizing this is by using Electrical wiring as a metaphor.
You may have seen a Reflexology Chart or Map.
And you may have seen a Fuse box labeled on a diagram, in your car perhaps.
Looking at the diagrams on paper only goes so far though. Without seeing the real thing, touching the switches, and making physical changes, you're not going to gain any understanding of what's happening- either good or bad.
In your house, you have a Fuse box, which should have every major area of the house labeled. If the "Oven" fuse is blown, you know there is a problem with the Oven, but if the Air Conditioner fuse is blown, you're probably going to ignore the Oven when you're trying to fix the problem. Resetting the A/C fuse won't necessarily fix whatever malfunction is in the cooling system, but it's an indicator of where you should put your fixing/maintenance resources.
Likewise, if you have a sore spot on your foot, hand, face or ear, it can lead you to where your body is in need of some kind of repair or balance. A Reflexologist is trained to look for many types of "Markers" beyond simple sore spots. For example, inflamed areas, redness, moisture, dryness, cracking, warts, callouses, and coldness would all have meaning when trying to figure out what's going on in the body. That's where the basic fuse box with its On/Off switches is an oversimplified example.
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| Top Outside Inflammation Source |
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| Dorsal Lateral Inflammation Source |
The human body is a wondrously complex organism and the extremities are just reflecting that complexity. A better visual would be a city's Power Grid.
Having a huge, color coded display would allow an Electrical Engineer to have a much greater understanding of the interdependent dynamics of the electricity as it functions, or dysfunctions, in real time, in the grid. A Reflexologist looking at the feet can understand how the interdependent systems of the body are functioning now, or how they changed over time.
The electrical engineer might be able to "Read" a blown transformer from the "Screen" that reflects the state of the entire system.
The Reflexologist might be able to "Read" a highly stressed Heart from the "Screen" of the Foot.
Reflexology is a "Holistic" technique, which means that the goal during the session is to create balance in the entire body, instead of just trying to focus on one organ, like the heart, in isolation. In our blown transformer example, the engineer sent to fix it would need to look at many variables. Was there something broken structurally? Was there an outside stressor like Lightning? Were there tree branches slowly growing into and getting tangled around the wiring? Did a homeless guy build a fire in a garbage can that got out of control?
If the engineer just goes in and takes out the bad part and replaces it, without understanding the bigger picture, it's probably not going to actually be fixed- much less functioning optimally.
Reflexology will aim to create balance and relaxation in the whole body, to take pressure off of the broken/inflamed/malfunctioning area, so that everything can work at the highest possible level.
Big Picture Healing.
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