Reflexology for weight loss is great at helping anyone reach their weight loss goals.
If someone is already looking at their diet and making changes, as well as finding active things to do to help lose weight, then regular reflexology sessions (do it yourself reflexology or from a Professional Reflexologist) will definitely help the process.
Since reflexology helps to restore balance among the bodies main systems, as well as regularly stimulating the glands including the thyroid, the digestive system and nervous system.. all the parts of the body!
Reflexology does not cure anything and unfortunately cannot be used in a medical way or to lose weight simply through the act of reflexology.
Nutritionists can be a lot of help too, a Nutritionists job is to help a person find out what the best and worst foods are for them Maybe also find a Fitness Coach? They can be anyone eg dance teacher, soccer coach, school sports teacher, a friend that already works out regularly etc.
Ways reflexology helps for weight loss
1) Reflexology may create a more balanced, motivated and energised individual who then feels able to focus on a healthy lifestyle of diet and exercise. Many people who are overweight can often become depressed and lethargic, and reflexology can often create a healthier mind, allowing you to focus on the physical.
2) Reflexology can energize your key endocrine glands, which will promote balanced hormone secretion and appropriate appetite. Your endocrine glands are also responsible for your response to stress, so applying pressure to the reflex points for your thyroid, pituitary gland, and your adrenals will help balance your emotional and physiological stress. The less stress you have, the better chance you have to stay on your diet.
3) By stimulating your stomach and pancreas reflex points could allow your body to absorb more nutrients from the food you eat, so even though you are eating less food, you are getting the maximum nutritional value possible from what you are eating.
4) Reflexology can also work your gall bladder, and because your gall bladder stores bile, the digestive liquid continually secreted by your liver, the bile emulsifies fats in partly digested food, which is conducive to weight loss.
5) For reflexology weight loss, a reflexologist should also concentrate on the pressure points that correspond to your spleen and digestive organs. Stimulation of the spleen reduces hunger.
6) Metabolism is essentially the speed at which your body’s motor is running. To lose weight, you must try to increase your metabolism through exercise and diet. Reflexology can also boost the body’s metabolism - metabolism is the body’s process of converting food into energy (movement and heat). It takes place in your muscles and organs, as the result of what we commonly refer to as “burning calories”. If weight management is caused by physical imbalances, e.g. the thyroid, a reflexologist may work the endocrine system, specifically the thyroid gland to increase metabolism.
7) Overweight individuals often have circulatory problems – reflexology aims to promote blood flow so this will aid poor circulation and energy levels.
8) It would also be useful to stimulate the pineal gland to suppress an overactive appetite, the kidneys for proper elimination, and the liver, the colon, and the small intestine for detoxifying. Reflexology could also encourage you to drink more water which will also help with your detox and elimination.
9) Lastly, and one of the most important uses of reflexology for weight loss, is that it will promote a sense of well-being, reduce tension and stress and create a more relaxed and energised, happier individual who is then more able to take on the challenge of weight loss.
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