Reflexology and Balanced Nutrition: Powerful Tandem
You have deadlines, the baby is crying, your train is late, your head won´t be quiet with all those thoughts of what you need to do….. you start to feel stressed. Your heart starts to pump faster, your breathing becomes more rapid as more oxygen is supplied to the heart and muscles. Why? Because our body still relates stress to running away or fighting something hairy! All this extra energy created by the body has to come from somewhere. It comes from putting certain key functions on standby.
These are
- The digestive system
- The reproductive system
- The immune system
- The excretory system
Why? Because, the mind has to make a judgment call, it thinks, I am stressed, in survival mode, I can digest my dinner later, fight my minor bacterial infections later, go to the toilet later, have a baby later, after we have dealt with this crisis. This ingrained stress response was useful before but not so applicable now. Often when people want to make changes to their health and lifestyle, they start with food.
- Facts: If we make positive dietary changes but are reacting to stressors and do not know how to fully relax, then we are not fully benefiting from our changes. This is because the inherent stress response, is compromising the effectiveness of our digestive system, causing us not to absorb our food or excrete our waste fully.
- This is where reflexology is excellent. A perfect complement to our nutritional assessment.
It works directly on the 7,000 nerve endings in your feet to use specific pressure points to stimulate the body and calm the nervous system down, relieve stress and allow you to relax. It is fantastic for calming the mind, balancing hormones and allowing stress to fade away. It improves circulation, stimulates the lymphatic system to reduce bloating and excess fluid, reducing the body´s toxic load. and very importantly when considering nutrition and the digestive system, it helps us to absorb the nutrients from our food and allow us to excrete unwanted waste.