How Does Foot Zoning Work?

The idea that the body can be accessed through reflex points on the feet has been around for thousands of years. Paintings from China show treatments being administered to the feet, and ancient Egyptian pictographs dating back to 3000 BC depict treatments similar to Foot Zone Therapy being used to heal. These pictographs are featured alongside other medical disciplines of that time such as dentistry, pharmacology, midwifery, circumcision, and embalming. However, because the worldwide development of accessing reflex points on the feet happened uniformly, one culture cannot be given exclusive credit for its evolution.

The tradition of healing through the feet is rooted in the belief that there are complex signal systems which lie therein. These signal systems—thought to be found in the hands, ears, and feet—are connected to every part of the human anatomy. Extensive research has proven that accessing the systems of the body (the nervous, lymphatic, skeletal, circulatory, endocrine, reproductive, digestive, respiratory, and muscular systems, as well as the emotional and spiritual bodies) through the correlating mapped reflex points can be very accurate . With this mapping, a trained and certified Foot Zone Therapy practitioner is able to help put the body into a state of balance.

From the beginning, our bodies were created to heal themselves. When we cut our skin it creates new cells to make a scar and mend, when we break our bones they produce new cells to become whole. Exercise tears our muscles and the muscle tissue responds producing even stronger and bigger muscle fibers. Because we are constantly exposed to pollution in our air, chemicals in our water and on our food, and toxins in cleaning and beauty products, the smooth process of healing begins to be disrupted as we age and our bodies are thrown out of balance.

Foot Zone Therapy helps the body to relax into a more balanced state so that it may heal itself. This is done by bringing the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual bodies into harmony. As the body is assisted into this state by a certified Foot Zone Therapy practitioner, it is able to more efficiently heal and restore at a cellular level.

As people become disillusioned with modern medicine and the possible side effects with drug-based methods of healing, they seek other ways to access their bodies to get the healing results they desire. In recent years interest in hands-on healing techniques has increased tremendously. People today are rediscovering that nature has always provided us with the means to heal ourselves and maintain good health and balance. Our bodies know how to heal and have been programmed to do so from the beginning. Foot Zoning balances and points our bodies in the right direction to allow this natural process to take place.

This explanation was modified from wedofeet.net