Healing Yourself with Foot Reflexology

Everybody can easily 

Carter's 1983 book Body Reflexology; Healing at Your Fingertips, shows "the techniques  of body reflex massage fully and simply illustrated by diagrams and photographs ... to keep this method ... easy to learn."

"In this book," she wrote, "I will tell you how you can use your power through reflexology to heal yourself and others , and realize almost instant results, no matter who you are." Many people have learned reflexology with her book in much less than 200 hours of training.

200 hour of training are not

I have previously pointed out that Senate Bill 1171's 200-hour required training for reflexology is not needed to protect the public from harm because reflexology does not harm people.

I now want to present evidence that the 200-hour training is not needed because children and adults have learned reflexology and have done it effectively with much less training than 200 hours.

People are certified reflexologists after 

The National Center for Wellness and Health Promotion in Silver Spring, Maryland, offers a one day (7-hour), hands-on Reflexology workshop in Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and Raleigh, NC - in April, May, and June of 1998. People who take this workshop, for which the fee is $150.00, are certified in Level 1 Reflexology. The instructor is Elizabeth Austin, a Reike Master and Certified Reflexologist.

Each workshop, which is limited to 18 people, covers the following areas:

1. The History of Reflexology.

2. Reflexology Working Techniques: warm ups, thumb walking, finger walking, cool downs, and visualization.

3. Identification of Reflexes on the Feet.

4. How to Give a Complete Reflexology Session: set up, self-preparation, client preparation, concluding the session, and follow-up.

Many people have used Mildred Carter's older books to teach reflexology to Boy  Scouts, Campfire Girls, 4H Club members, and other  children.

These children easily learned how to "work  on the feet of their parents and each other, finding the tender reflexes and relating which gland in the body corresponds to each reflex."

We assume the children learned what they needed to know in an hour or less. Knowing the attention span of children, it is inconceivable that they would survive a 200-hour training. 

Kevin and Barbara Kunz have recently written the following two books for parents who want to treat children when they are ill and have injuries. This is more convincing evidence that a 200-hour training for reflexology is not needed.

1. The Parents' Guide to Reflexology. Helping Your Child Overcome Illness and Injury Through Reflexology.

2. Reflexology for Children. For Parents and Reflexologists Who Want to Treat Children.

Mildred Carter published the following letter from a minister:

Dear Mrs. Carter:

Reflexology is truly a miracle from God that we have had with us all the time.

We pray for you every day, and we thank God and we thank you for the miracle of reflexology. 

                                                                                 Rev. D. W.

She records her early interest as follows. "From the time when I was a small child,, I had a great desire to heal. If someone was in pain or ill, I felt I should be able to pass my hand over him or her and make all the pain and illness vanish. I couldn't understand why this ouldn't work.

"As a grown-up, I have almost been able to accomplish this desire. I have discovered that there is a force within us that can heal: we can reach out with our hands and send a healing radiation surging into the energy field of another person. Most of us, however, have not developed this power to its full capacity."