Question:
Hi there
I was just wondering if any reflexologists have clients who keep asking "what reflex point is that"? especially when a particular reflex feels tender to them.
Most of the time (and usually only when they ask), I explain which area I am working on but then one question leads to so many and whilst I am confident in telling them, I feel that they may not benefit from the treatment as not only do they end up talking too much but they seem to worry!!
I do reassure them but I was just wondering if there is another way round this by reassuring them.
Can anyone shed any light?
Thanks
Alka
I used to have this problem, but now I have changed my approach to the clients slightly by not answering their questions directly - I just mention that I am not allowed to diagnose and that the point I have tweeked may well indicate that they have been a bit 'stressed/low/over-active' which has made the point sensitive. I also have music playing quietly in the background, and switch off the bright over-head light, so that they are encouraged to relax. If I am in the least bit suspicious about any points, as I was with a woman who had a very evident problem with left ovary, I asked if she experienced any mid-cycle pain (she did) andwhen she had last had a check up with her GP. She hadn't been checked in a couple of years. I gently suggested that she might want to just check that everything was OK the next time she saw him. It was, as I suspected, a cyst - the size of a walnut, but was easily dealt with via key-hole surgery.
I think reassurance is the key. I can see when a point is sensitive through their face, so generally ask them the questions first!!
I was just wondering if any reflexologists have clients who keep asking "what reflex point is that"? especially when a particular reflex feels tender to them.
Most of the time (and usually only when they ask), I explain which area I am working on but then one question leads to so many and whilst I am confident in telling them, I feel that they may not benefit from the treatment as not only do they end up talking too much but they seem to worry!!
I do reassure them but I was just wondering if there is another way round this by reassuring them.
Can anyone shed any light?
Thanks
Alka
Answers:
I used to have this problem, but now I have changed my approach to the clients slightly by not answering their questions directly - I just mention that I am not allowed to diagnose and that the point I have tweeked may well indicate that they have been a bit 'stressed/low/over-active' which has made the point sensitive. I also have music playing quietly in the background, and switch off the bright over-head light, so that they are encouraged to relax. If I am in the least bit suspicious about any points, as I was with a woman who had a very evident problem with left ovary, I asked if she experienced any mid-cycle pain (she did) andwhen she had last had a check up with her GP. She hadn't been checked in a couple of years. I gently suggested that she might want to just check that everything was OK the next time she saw him. It was, as I suspected, a cyst - the size of a walnut, but was easily dealt with via key-hole surgery.
I think reassurance is the key. I can see when a point is sensitive through their face, so generally ask them the questions first!!
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