Foot Rub

Now would be a good time for a foot rub! Ahhhhh….

An assignment: take a family member or friend aside while everyone else naps or watches football, and have them probe your feet strategically according to the above chart. Have them move slowly, in millimeter increments. You will discover certain points are tender.

“It’s all in your head.” For centuries, since the philosopher and scientist René Descartes (1596-1650) said I think, therefore I am, the western world has looked at the body at a mechanical instrument, with the mind operating as its control tower. Modern biology is beginning to upend that idea with the advent of neuroscience and a more sophisticated observation of the body.

How beautiful are the feet. The ancient Chinese viewed every organ in the body as a kind of “brain”: the heart, lungs, liver, hands, feet, and so on, each have their own “computer,” as we might call it today. Each organ is the body in microcosm. The feet are an exact map of the body; the discipline called “reflexology” studies and applies this map to healing.  

If my head is not the control tower I thought it was, are there are new possibilities for helping my body to heal, energize, and resist disease?

Embodied Lord, help me to understand how to heal. Amen. 

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Happy Thanksgiving!