Lauren Slade is a world renowned speaker and lecturer on the topic of Reflexology.

This video is an excerpt of an interview that Lauren did for Layers of Health. In this short clip, Lauren explains how Reflexology works. Enjoy!

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President Obama said in his speech last year "Americans have faced the reality of recession - older people putting off retirement, younger people foregoing college, employees being laid off while entrepreneurs close down businesses."

This current economic crisis is the catalyst for many people through all ages and demographics to come to a crossroads in their careers. This is what I call a window of opportunity has just opened for you. A chance to change your life by becoming an entrepreneur (business owner) in a growing industry. Did you know going into business offers a feeling of independence and personal freedom, a sense of accomplishment that's just not possible for most employees.

I've stated several times in my postings - "Reflexology is Recession-Proof". People are more stressed than ever. And, stress is the cause of at least 75% of doctor's visits according to JAMA. For those of you who are our students at the Universal College of Reflexology you know that Reflexology is the best stress reliever we know.

The market needs stress relief now. Imagine starting your own Professional Reflexology business and at the same time meeting the needs of a very demanding marketplace!

Reflexology is becoming more and more popular to North Americans, but the concept of Reflexology has been a part of humanity forever and used in ancient times as a cure and prevention to physical ailments.

The first evidence of Reflexology came from the tombs of Egyptians some 4,500 years ago. Also, ancient China was home to the practice of Reflexology at that same time. Even now archeologists are finding evidence in ancient Mayan pyramids of Reflexology practice during their times well over 5,000 years ago.

Of course at this point in history it is believed that shoes were not yet invented. So humans naturally walked barefoot over whatever contours the earth presented. Some say by walking barefoot these ancient dwellers of our planet were healthier as their feet received "free" reflexology from Mother Earth!

He was a frail elderly gentleman out for a free breakfast of sausage and pancakes at one of the many locations offering this morning treat as a celebration of Edmonton's Klondike Days festival held annually in July. He was probably quite unaware of the life threatening event that was about to occur.

Also attending that pancake breakfast was me, Lauren Slade, newly arrived from England and eagerly anticipating the great Canadian outdoor experience. The event was being held in a car park on top of a mall in South Edmonton. I joined a long line up to collect my coffee...

Nearly 100 million Boomers desire wellness, aggressively disregarding authority and conformity.

Boomers do not wish to "grow old gracefully" rather they are seeking ways to hold on to their youth through Reflexology and other forms of complementary medicine.

A new study shows that Baby Boomers Look To Alternative Medicine In Record Numbers. Journal of Health and Social Behavior.

Many boomers demand Reflexology and alternative medicine options because of their frustration with the limitations of mainstream medicine. The most telling evidence of Americans' dissatisfaction with traditional health care is the more than $27 billion they spend annually on alternative and complementary medicine, according to government estimates.

Reflexology is based on the principle that by massaging one area of the body, you stimulate a reaction, or "reflex" in another, corresponding part of the body. It generally involves applying finger pressure to the feet or hands.

A 1990 study showed that working on specific reflex points on the soles or palms brings an improvement in the circulation in corresponding parts of the body, along with a reduction in tension (American Health: Fitness of Body and Mind, April 1990; 9 (3): 22).

"To be blunt, if my wife and I didn't think it was helping him, we wouldn't have continued with it," says Dan Polley. He's talking about Mikey, the Polleys' 2½-year-old in the next room, who was diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia when he was 6 months old. Chemotherapy, radiation, and a bone marrow transplant have been crucial elements of Mikey's treatment. But the "it" his father speaks of is nothing like these aggressive, costly, and heavily researched exemplars of western care—it is a kind of touch therapy, from the camp of alternative medicine. Gentle and benign, "healing touch" is intended to rebalance the energy field that its practitioners believe surrounds the body and flows through it along defined pathways, affecting health when disrupted. Several times a week, therapist Lynne Morrison spends 20 minutes unblocking and smoothing Mikey's energy field, which energy healers like Morrison say they can feel and correct.

Before a recent session, Mikey was grouchy, drawing up his legs and issuing periodic yowls. His stomach hurt, said his father. But as the little boy nestled in his father's arms and Morrison moved her hands around his body, lightly resting them here and then there, his tenseness loosened and he quieted for a few minutes at a time. The Polleys believe that the therapy not only calms their son but is aiding his return to health.

The setting for the unorthodox therapy—an academic medical center—would have been startling just five or 10 years ago. Morrison is on the staff of Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago, a hard-nosed, tough-cases, research-oriented emblem of western medicine. It perennially ranks among America's premier hospitals and is the principal pediatric teaching hospital for Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine.

Reflexology has taken a great leap into the 21st century by utilizing the largest computer software in the world - known as the EPFX. It works in harmony with your body's electrical system collecting data with extreme precision and processing it into a user friendly computer screen. Utilizing the principle of biofeedback (using a thermometer to discover your body's temperature is the simplest form of biofeedback that most people know and understand.)

The computer system used is the 21st century version of discovering how the body is functioning in real time. In a four minute equivalent of an electrical handshake, the EPFX scans the body for over 10,000 frequencies, each associated with a different compound, much as anti-virus software would do for a computer.

BANGALORE: Of the many things that I had visualized I would do in Singapore and especially in Sentosa, putting my feet in a pool of Turkish spa fish was definitely not one.

For pedicure fanatics, who’ve done to death the routine of feet cleansing at various parlours, this experience of Fish Reflexology is a must. Though it sounds bizarre, it was extremely effective. Here’s how its works: You are led to a warm pool of water into which you submerge your feet and in a minute, Turkish spa fish swarm towards your feet and proceed to nibble at areas of dead skin!

Yes, definitely intimidating for the first few minutes as it feel a wee bit itchy as well as the ticklish sensation can be overpowering, but after awhile the fish nibbling actually begins to feel like fun. After about fifteen minutes, you are guided to another pool, with larger fish.