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Reflexology bliss

Today I went for my first-ever reflexology treatment.  Oh...my...god.  It is the most incredibly deeply relaxing treatment I may have ever had.  I'm sold! If you're not familiar with reflexology, here's my Coles Notes rudimentary version of what it's about:  all your nerves and stuff for different parts of your body are connected to particular points on your feet (and hands, earlobes and one or two places that escape my mind at the moment).  So to stimulate and treat these points has positive effects on all the rest of the stuff in your body.  Plus, because your feet are farthest away from your heart, and because gravity causes things to kind of "settle" down there that don't get circulated as well, it is a great way to "stir things up" and help to get all that stuff moving out of there and into the rest of the body which is better-equipped to process, treat and eliminate any such stuff that it shouldn't hang on to. My friend Wendy, an RN, decided to pursue this path after her retirement.  Like many people, "retirement" does not strictly mean lounging around all day long.  Most retired people I know find themselves with wonderfully full social lives, busier now than while they were working, and while they certainly do enjoy the extra flexibility and freedom with their time, they often approach retirement as an opportunity to start up a new career. And Wendy is going to be great at her new specialty.  She's in the process of getting her sixty treatments in before she can finish all the licensing procedures, so I had the great pleasure of having this treatment today free of charge.  I can't think of a better way to market a service like this, than to give it for free.  If you haven't tried it before, I'll bet my big toe you'll be converted after one visit (with Wendy, at least; I can't speak directly for anyone else!) I'm not even a person who is particularly comfortable with my feet.  I don't detest my feet, but I'm sure not overly comfortable exposing them to anyone else if I don't have to.  Especially in the winter, when typically my feet don't get nearly the attention and pampering they do during sandal season (which, even then, is scant).  Luckily I happened to have just had a pedicure last weekend, so Wendy was spared this time.  Not that I suppose unpedicured feet even bother someone who chooses to do this kind of work for a living.  God bless the folks who - unlike me - think nothing of touching someone else's feet.  The thought that comes to mind about any such work, especially if it were on a stranger that I didn't know, is quite simply "Ew". But I digress.  Back to the treatment.  Sheer and utter, deep and total relaxation.  Nevermind the other health benefits.  Wendy told me right at the beginning that it's a very calming, relaxing treatment and to feel free to just let myself go to sleep if I felt like it.  And though she's a dear friend who I hadn't seen in a while and was very much looking forward to chatting with her and catching up, after the first fifteen minutes or so I was definitely feeling myself drifting into rest, so I went with it and actually did fall completely asleep.  While my feet were being worked!  I wouldn't have thought it possible, but wow it really was the most wonderful way to relax. Bliss, bliss, bliss.  I'll definitely be back.

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