Cooling Down With Reflexology!

How to stay cool by playing with your feet!!!

To learn more about reflexology, visit https://solefulyin.com/reflexology

thanks for pressing play! See you in August after my vacay!

Episode Transcript

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Hey, hey, Yinning at Life Gang. It's Kimberly Roberts of the
Soulfully in Brand. I'm here to dish out all things
about traditional Chinese medicine, yin yoga, reflexology.
And of course, I'm here to disrupt your mind.
So thanks so much for pressing play on today's episode.
Let's do this. I'm irritated, I'm frustrated,

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I'm even feeling a little bit angry and this heat and humidity
is driving me a neness. This is what I'm talking about
today on the Internet Life podcast.
This heat and humidity and how reflexology is really a game

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changer in helping you deal withit and more than just the
physical heat. So if you missed last week's
episode, I dove in deep about how to stay cool with yin yoga.
So today I want to, you know, bring the conversation a little
bit deeper by talking about how reflexology, and if you're not

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aware of what reflexology is, it's a modality that works
primarily through the feet. It's also done through the
hands. It's even done through the ears.
And the idea is that there are reflexes in the feet.
There's actually over 72,000 reflexes in our feet, believe it
or not, and they all link up to something in our body.

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And by applying specific pressure techniques on these
reflexes, we basically improve the function of the related
area. We also improve function overall
in the body. And we just feel a whole lot

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better. And everything just works so
much better. So how can reflexology really
help you keep cool? Well, physically, it helps you
keep cool because it helps to regulate body temperature.
It's always about just bringing the body back into balance so
you know, if you're feeling overheated physically, if you're

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feeling really tired or fatigued, or if you're just
feeling like kind of sluggish because the humidity is just
kind of like really setting in and it's just driving you
bananas. Reflexology will help you with
that. But what's even cooler, and this
is where people tend to not understand the power of

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reflexology, is that it can alsohelp you keep cool emotionally,
mentally. Now, how does it do that?
Well, because reflexology works on everything.
It works on the emotional level as well.
So it calms you down. And typically when I see a lot
of patients, especially if they're telling me that they

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feel really angry or they feel irritated, then I work a lot on
the liver reflex point. And why?
Because in Chinese medicine, ourliver is like the master emotion
that regulates all of our emotions.
But primarily it's big role is around anger, frustration, and

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irritation. So by stimulating that reflex
point along with a few other tidbits of points that I press
on, I can really help somebody calm down.
Now here's the cool thing. You can do this on yourself too.
Like when you learn where the points are, then you can start
to do this on yourself. You can do this on your partner,

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your kids, your friends, whoever.
You can make a party of it, a feat playing party of it.
This is why on the Soulful Yin app, I have included reflexology
practices. I've also included acupressure
practices as well. And this is all to help you come
into balance and to learn how totake care of yourself anytime,

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anywhere, 365 days of the year, 24/7.
If you wake up in the middle of the night and you know you're
overheated, great. Well, you can learn some points
to calm down the hot flashes if that's what's causing the
overheating. Or you can just play with your
liver reflex point and a bunch of other points and just, you
know, calm down that way. But the point is, is that people

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think that reflexology is reallyhard to do on yourself, and it's
not. It's actually really easy.
The challenging part is just knowing which points to press
and stimulate. And that's where I come in.
And This is why I love to share this information on my app
because I really, truly believe that everybody has the tools

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within themselves to heal. They just sometimes need a
little extra tools and a little extra help.
So with reflexology, being able to calm you down physically and
emotionally, it can also help with other emotions that might
be coming up that could have been stored inside the body,

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kind of just sitting there brewing but not really doing
anything. Things like sadness, grief,
worry, fear, shame, guilt, like all of this can be stored in the
body. And of course, this is where we
store our emotions as in our body and in our organs.

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And by stimulating different organs, the reflex points on the
feet, you can literally start tohelp your body release emotions.
And if you've been following along with this podcast from the
beginning, you know that I'm allabout the emotional release,

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whether that's through yin yoga,whether that's through
reflexology, acupressure, breathwork, meditation, maybe it's a
combination of all of that. But my jam is really to bring
you back into balance and to help you release emotions.
Because if you look at the word emotions and you break it down,
it's like E MO Shun. Well, here's the thing.

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That means something's in motion.
Emotions. Emotions are meant to move
through us. We often feel a lot of shame or
a lot of guilt around feeling certain emotions.
Like, you know, I shouldn't be sad this long or I shouldn't be
this frustrated or I shouldn't be this scared or this worried.

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Like what's wrong with me? There's nothing wrong with you.
There's absolutely nothing wrongwith you.
We as human beings are meant to experience a broad spectrum of
emotions or meant to feel them, but we're meant to process them
and we're meant to the release them.
We're not meant to build a housein them.

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And this is what I try to keep emphasizing on the Soulful Yin
app. It's your place where you can
pause in stillness, whether that's in a yin yoga practice,
whether that's in reflexology oracupressure, breath work or
meditation. And you can start to process

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your emotions and let them go because when emotions stay in
the body, they can potentially create dis ease as in like more,
you know, more emotional disruptions and brewings and
disturbances. But it can also start to create
disease, like actual disease in the body.

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And if you are a fan of traditional Chinese medicine
like I am, you know that in traditional Chinese medicine, or
I call it TCM, the root of everydisease in the body comes from
some sort of emotional disturbance, imbalance that's

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not being resolved and that justkeeps coming back and back.
And The thing is, the body is always communicating with you
and it's always trying to tell you different signs, clues,
indicators that, hey, you need to address this.
And if we're just running aroundon autopilot day-to-day, just

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moving through this thing calledlife without taking time to
pause, then guess what? We don't even know how we feel.
I sometimes will ask some of my patients when they're on my
massage table, how do you feel? And they're like, or how have
you been feeling recently? And they'll tell me like,
physically how they're, oh, I'm tired, I'm not sleeping.

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Well, you know, maybe sometimes somebody might say, yeah, I'm
irritated, I'm frustrated. But a lot of the times,
especially with the emotional stuff, they won't.
They just don't. They're like, I don't know.
I'm like, how do you not know? I don't know how I feel.
Well, you're telling me how you feel physically, but how do you

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feel emotionally? I don't know.
Well, to me, that is a massive indicator to pause because the
pause is so powerful. That is what creates awareness,
and the moment that we have awareness of how we're feeling
is the moment that we have the opportunity to shift.

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And I say this all the time in my classes.
You cannot change what you're not aware of.
If you're literally living with a light bulb over your head on
the off position, you got to turn it on.
And you know what, again, I wantto reiterate that it's OK if you
feel guilty or you feel grief orsadness or worry or anger.

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These are emotions we're meant to feel.
The emotions just don't keep building your foundation of the
beautiful thing called life on it.
That's all. And with reflexology, because it
really targets the nervous system, OK, because we're

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working through the nerves in the body and all the nerves in
the body feed into the central nervous system.
And because we're working at that level more than the
musculoskeletal level, this is what allows your nervous system
to shift from sympathetic, so flight or fright into

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parasympathetic rest and digest or rest and repair.
When we're in that state, that rest and digesting, this is
where healing takes place. It does not take place in flight
or fright. Flight or fright is literally
survival mode. And we spend way too much time

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there. So whether you play with your
own feet or whether someone elsedoes it, whether you come to see
me for a treatment, if you're inOttawa, whether you find a
reflexology therapist wherever you live, just know that
hopefully their primary goal, especially if you're seeing a
therapist, is to help them shiftyou into parasympathetic state.

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You can totally do it on your own, but there's a little bit
more awareness of how you're feeling and what you're sensing
versus when you're just lying ona massage table and someone else
is doing the work right. But I don't want to dissuade you
from exploring reflexology on yourself because if you're not,
you're truly missing out here. Major FOMO if you're not playing

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with your own feet. And it also starts to give you
indicators of what might be out of balance, especially if you
start feeling the same things over and over again on the same
point that you keep pressing. You'd be like, huh, I'm always
angry, I'm always irritated, I'malways pissed off.

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And every time I, you know, stimulate the liver reflex
point, like, I feel even worse. Like I get even more irritated.
I get even more pissed off. And then the point starts to
feel more tender and sensitive. And sometimes it even feels a
little bit painful. Well, to me, that's a pretty
good indicator to realize that, you know what, something's got

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to shift. And when you process your
emotions, we always have this sort of drama around it.
Like it's going to take so long.Like I'm going to be like this,
like for like weeks and weeks. Well, to be honest with you,
when you get really deliberate about tuning in and noticing how

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you feel, guess what? It doesn't last as long as you
think. Sometimes it's literally like a
couple of minutes. I've even shifted in less than a
minute because I know now that it doesn't take as long as we
always think. That's just our ego mind that's
trying to create all the drama around it of like, Oh yeah,

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let's just stay in this comfortable zone because this is
what we know. And we're used to feeling angry
and irritated and frustrated. We don't know what it's like to
feel joy and happiness and peace.
So let's stay over in the angry zone.
But where does that serve us? It doesn't serve us at all.

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And it certainly doesn't serve the people around you.
And it certainly doesn't, you know, serve the collective, the
universe, the world as a whole. So bottom line, reflexology,
yes, it'll help improve functionof organs and systems in your
body, but it's also going to help you get into a deep

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parasympathetic state where you're going to heal.
And in that state, you can startto shift into becoming the
extraordinary person that you'remeant to be and also living an
extraordinary life that you're meant to live.
So thank you so much for pressing play on today's

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episode. I'm going to see you in about a
month. I'm taking a little bit of time
off here in July just to have a little bit of vacation, but I
will see you back in August. So have an awesome day and make
sure you play with those feet.