Healing Yourself with Foot Reflexology

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Summary: Enough with the anecdotes!
Review: This book is somewhat infuriating. It offers the promise of showing you ways of relieving tension through foot reflexology, but the layout of the book makes it impossible to apply any of the information. Let's say you have some lower back pain? Might there be a reflex you could rub to find some relief? Sure! Could you find it in this book? Maybe. The sections are far too spread out, and there are far too many cutesy little anecdotes in which the author describes her personal success as a reflexologist.

A better way to design the book would be the following: show a specific reflex's location on the foot in a clear diagram. Then describe HOW to stimulate the reflex, and WHY? With the current layout, you're forced to flip back and forth between sections and chapters. If I'm giving someone a foot massage, I should be able to keep the book on one page and identify the reflex that I'm rubbing, and, without turning the page, see a diagram detailing HOW to rub it.

Very poor design. But if you don't actually intend to use the information in the book, and just want a manual that'll sit on your shelf, this is the book for you!

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Summary: Healing Yourself with Foot Reflexology
Review: This is a fantastic book! Within a few days after I obtained the book I was able to use the information in it to help a friend overcome severe shoulder pain and poor circulation by massaging the reflexes in her feet. The information in the book was detailed enough to allow me to find her reflex points, massage away crystal deposits at the exact location described in the book and provide relief, even though I had never done anything like this before. It's hard to believe that something this simple could be so effective. I also like the fact that the book adequately emphasizes the point that reflexology is never intended to replace your doctor. As the book states, reflexology is merely a "scientific technique of applying pressure to reflexes that have a definite effect on the normal functioning of all parts of the body." It helps to speed up the natural healing processes in the body. I think everyone could benefit from having a copy of this book at home because the principles of reflexology are practical, they work, they are simple and it doesn't cost anything to put in into practice.