Hi Laura I am a reciprient of reflexology and I also know how to do it. I feel reflexology has saved my ability to walk . I really does work! I seriously injured my back and neck ,thigh and head ,during a fall at work . I ended up with a huge lump on my thigh and head ,all on the left side and with several ruptured herniated and slipped and bulged discs. I was real bad off at first. Let me note that I am still handicapped ;but I walk and try to do my best raising my son . I started having my ex-boyfriend do reflexology on me . And it doesn't even take a few times to start working believe me. I felt it work the first time in using this method. But because of injury we had to avoid certain areas until I began to heal through my recommended therapy through the professionals. And let me tell you ,I know they thought that reflexology didn't work by the way the treated the idea until I fully explained that I could even feel my lungs opening up during the pressure points of the little toes. I firmly believe it helped with nerve damage too. Because now I'm single and haven't been able to afford to professionally pay for this procedure and I'm doing real bad during bad weather.
Thank you, Sue

Hi Laura!

I found an excellent reflexology reference at my local library and did it myself. It's one of the few massages that you can do by yourself effectively. Quite wonderful, in fact.

I just focused on the soles of my feet and did all the different methods of tapping, pounding and clapping. I felt energized!

You can also stimulate hair growth by quickly rubbing your fingernails against each other. Curl your fingers and slide back and forth, hitting the nails. It feels great and helps with stress.

Hi
I practise reflexology since 2000. I have learnt a lot from my work and from the people I treat. My quick and deep comment is that you may take reflexology (a sequence of micromassages on each single reflex point) as a support treatment to your own personal, physical, emotional, spiritual growth. It's your own self that decides what to take and what to reject from a reflexology treatment. Who looks for an holystic approach is already incline to do so, consciously and/or subconsciously. You are looking into a personal transformation, you need to improve a physical "dis-ease", you start reflexology, you will probably start looking into your life style (your diet, your exercise, your extreme emotions that cause evident physical disorders) and you will start working on your own personal issues seeing them from the outside and being more able to judge them. The reflexologist may not interfere in your choices and more than anything else MUST not interfere in medical prescriptions and cures.
Doing reflexology on yourself is fine. Having a professional doing it on you is different, it will allow you total relaxation and a space all for yourself, to feel deeply in touch with your body, with your feelings and to feel support in all of this.
Enjoy