Foot Massage Techniques

Foot massage, or reflexology, is a spectacular, thing. And although I just used these terms interchangeably, they are not the same thing. Just as a quadrilateral can be a rectangle but a rectangle can't be a square, foot massage can mean reflexology but reflexology is not necessarily foot massage. Most population don't know it, but the feet are very sensitive. They consist of the same nerves as your genitals and are as sensitive as your lips and fingertips. That's why population who aren't used to foot massages often squirm- it's a lot of stimulation to a place that isn't used to being stimulated. But that sensitivity is also the suspect why massaging your feet can feel so great, too. After a day and a lifetime on your feet, it's nice to kick back and let them be prodded and kneaded. It can assuredly help ease the tension that builds up down there (in your feet, that is).

Massaging the foot can mean just doing any kind of tissue manipulation down there, but the aim of reflexology is to stimulate other points or systems on the body through the foot. In reflexology, which originates from Chinese medicine, it is view that unavoidable areas of the foot are associated with unavoidable areas of the body- for instance, the town of the foot represents the kidneys, while the big toe represents the head. This "map of the body" on the foot from toes to heel roughly corresponds to the human body from head to toe.

And what are the health benefits of reflexology? If you subscribe to the law that the body's ills can be treated through the feet, then it should be possible to treat any whole of conditions through reflexology/foot massage. In increasing to normal stress and fatigue, foot massage can very often ease headaches, help with digestive problems, enhance sleep, and even growth reproductive health.

But you don't have to believe all this to benefit from a getting a treatment, and I can vouch for that. While the year I lived in Shanghai, I would get massages sometimes several times a week because they were so cheap (less than for an hour massage!). I became well acquainted with the post-massage feeling of well being. Ordinarily it felt like some sort of weight had been taken off. Even though I squirmed and laughed my way through my first foot massage, I learned to let go and treatments have subsequently have become very pleasurable as well as stress relieving.