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The Amazing Benefits of Reflexology

Reflexology has been used since ancient times, in Egypt, India, China and even among the American Indians. It was introduced to the West by Dr William Fitzgerald who developed “Zone Theory” in which areas on the feet, hands and head were linked to other areas and organs of the body within the same zone.

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From 1913 to about 1920 three Medical Physicians: Dr. William H. Fitzgerald, Dr. Edwin F. Bowers and Dr.George Starr White were developing the foundations of Zone Theory.

Dr. Joseph Riley became interested in the subject and tried it on a great number of his patients contributing its development and whilst Dr. Fitzgerald created the Zone Therapy body chart we still use today, Riley created a Face map of body reflexes.

The face was always included, however in the 1930’s Eunice Ingham, who further developed Zone Theory into what we know as Reflexology was passionate about the feet. Therefore she focused on this aspect of Reflexology.

What’s involved?

You usually will take a brief consultation, the treatment starts with a simple cleansing and preparation of the face. The therapist then gently stimulates a series of points on the client’s face using special Reflexology techniques with a healing intent. The quality of touch is very important, and this combines with the techniques to make the client feel really looked after. The Reflexology sequence is accompanied by a unique face massage that incorporates the most effective natural facelifting techniques. Continue reading

The Science of Eye Gazing: What Happens When You Stare Into Someone’s Eyes

Couples will sometimes look to find ways of creating intimacy. A study conducted this year may point the way to a remarkable finding: all you have to do is stare into your partners eyes.

The research, published in Neuroimage, found that prolonged eye contact actually synchronizes brain activity between two people.close-eye-contact

The scientists conducting the study had the intent of examining what happens in the brain during face-to-face eye contact, such as the attention given to a conversation participant in the work or school-related world.

They matched up 96 strangers and had them hold eye contact for extended periods of time while MRIs scanned the subjects’ brains for activity.

What they found was that blinking became synchronized and that a portion of the brain known as the right inferior front gyrus lit up with activity in both people. According to the authors, this finding suggested that mutually-held eye contact bound people into a “singular connected system.”

“Based on the enhancement of behavioral and neural synchronization during mutual gaze, we now know that shared attention is hard to establish without eye contact,” Norihiro Sadato, senior study author, told Psych Central.

This research has implications not only for our work lives, but also for our love lives. It’s often been said that people can fall in love when gazing into another’s eyes.

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This was reinforced by a story found in the Modern Love column by Mandy Len Catron. The author replicated an experiment by psychologist Arthur Aron, which went something like this: Continue reading

4 Tips For Empaths To Feel Secure In Their Relationships

It’s true that loneliness affects some more than others. However, to traditional medicine, it is not always clear why some are more susceptible than others.

Whatever the case, it is clear that some people desire romantic relationships yet continue to stay single. It could be that some of them are empaths who have the tendency to feel overwhelmed and fatigued in their close relationships to others.

Empathetic people are a unique subset of humans. Those who can easily intuit and even take on the energetic themes of others can very easily become overloaded and exhausted when encountering the intimacy of a close relationship.

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They can feel taken over when not given the personal time to decompress, which is why they may both want close relationships while at the same time fear for their own safety.

Obviously, traditional coupling will not work for many empaths who feel this way. In order to succeed in love, empathetic people must assert their need for personal space much more than is common.

While with a mate it is not as extreme as the necessary physical space in public situations or with strangers, there may be times when the partner is confused by the feeling that intimacy is desired but the need for space must be granted. Continue reading

The Energetic Difference Between Extroverts And Introverts

Extroverts and introverts don’t exactly see eye to eye all the time. There are major psychological differences between the two types of behavior and there are often some serious misinterpretations of the other. First, let’s talk about how the two are different at a biological level.

introvert-extravertIt all comes down to dopamine. Dopamine is the brain’s reward hormone and it responds more actively in an extrovert’s brain to things like sex, social status, and money than it does to an introvert’s brain.

At least according to Scott Barry Kaufman, a psychologist. This perfectly explains why extroverts love being around people and doing new things.

“[Extroverts] get more energized by those things in their environment,” Kaufman said. “Introverts, on the other hand, just don’t get as energized. Their dopamine system is not as active when they see these kinds of things in the environment.”

So does that mean introverts don’t enjoy socialization at all? Not necessarily. Introverts tend to need more time to rebuild their energy levels before being social again. They’re still social people. Continue reading

The Science of Vibration: How Different Frequencies Affect Our Brain Waves

The brain and consciousness are inextricably linked, meaning that shifts in one of these aspects of the self produce corresponding shifts in the other. This is in large part because consciousness is not restricted to existing only in physical form and is in fact a non-local field of energy which means that the brain is simply an organ which interfaces the mind with physical reality.

To draw an analogy, it is a translator of physical sensation and other experiential phenomenon from the body to the mind and from mind to the body. The brain allows the mind to control and move through the body, but the mind exists as an energetic field independently of the brain, which is why scientists have never been able to pinpoint consciousness to any specific part of the brain or to the brain itself—because it does not arise from the brain.

Metaphorically speaking, the brain is simply a tool that the non-local mind uses to interface with and experience physical reality.

With the brain being the primary organ through which consciousness experiences reality, its health and functioning affects our experience of consciousness in a significant way.

If our brain is undernourished, nutrient deficient, stressed out or in experiencing disharmonic brainwave patterns, our experience of consciousness in physical form (reality) will be diminished, which means that we’ll tend to experience more fear, anxiety, depression, stress, frustration, mental cloudiness and so on with a noticeable diminishment of higher, intuitive-transpersonal mental functioning, in other words, a shutting down of our higher intuitive abilities and spiritual awareness.

On the other hand, if our brain is nourished and relaxed with the two hemispheres operating in sync and harmony, our experience of reality will be exponentially improved (If you are interested, you can learn more about how consciousness interacts with reality here: the six phases of higher consciousness).

The Effects of Brainwave Patterns on Consciousness and the Experience of Reality

Robins-Key-Subliminal-Audio-Binaural-BeatsThe brain operates largely through electrical signals sent between approximately 100 billion neurons (nerve cells) spread out across different regions. Continue reading

These Water Powered Technologies Will Make You Question The Need For Gas

Everyday the world becomes aware of technologies that have the potential to halt the unnecessary damage we continue to create using fossil fuels, and water powered technology seems to be one of them.

Below are three examples of technologies showing that we have the potential do really do things differently here on the planet. It’s time to live in a way that resonates with the collective, rather than continually using outdated methods to drive our machinery.

STANLEY MEYER’S WATER FUEL CELL

Stanely Allen Meyer is  one who supposedly invented a water powered car and it received very little attention when it came to making the news available to the masses.

Today, it’s a fairly well known story due to the mass awareness that has been created around the story. Stan’s invention was picked up very briefly by a local news station in Ohio. You can view his patent HERE, it also describes the whole process. You can view the entire collective of his documents here

It was even covered by mainstream media back in the day:

A Brazilian Man Shows Us Why We Don’t Need Gas Stations

A motorcycle able to travel up to 500 kilometres (310 miles) on a litre of water was announced by creator Ricardo Azevedo in Sao Paulo, last month. It’s called the “T Power H20,” and the design includes a combination of water and a single, external car battery that’s used to produce electricity, and spark the process that separates the hydrogen from the water molecule. As a result, the necessary energy to power the bike is created. Continue reading