FIX YOUR FEET BALLS
note: you can use hand balls and
tennis balls for the following exercises. If you don't
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FIX
YOUR FEET BALLS instruction sheet If you are among the
millions who complain about their sore, tired, aching,
painful feet then read on!
High arches, fallen arches, pronation, corns, bunions,
callouses, and most anything else that can go wrong
with the feet can be positively affected by a simple
(non-surgical!) procedure. If your feet hurt I can guarantee
you need to use this inexpensive self-maintenance tool.
In all the years and thousands of feet I've worked on,
I have never met anyone who can'‘t benefit from these.
You can fix your feet!
My how-to instructions for the Fix Your Feet Balls explains
the exact procedures which will enable you to understand
your feet and how to bring them back to normal. If you
don't lose these balls, they should last indefinitely.
Fix Your Feet Balls (in combination with tennis balls)
are the perfect tools for working on your feet. There
are 26 bones, 33 joints, and an unspecified number of
hinges in each foot and if you can find any pain while
standing on either tennis balls, or these Fix Your Feet
Balls, then you can be sure that those 26 bones, 33
joints, and unspecified number of hinges are in a disorganized
state. And if your feet are disorganized then you can
be sure that the rest of your body is too. Look at the
Leaning Tower of Pisa for illustration; poor foundation
and everything above goes awry. Soreness (and downright
excruciating pain) in the soft tissue is indicative
of stressed and compromised musculature and thus inevitably
as a result, skeletal disorganization.
How did your feet get so messed up you might ask? I'll tell you.
#1: Shoes which are not the shape of the healthy foot.
Feet are not narrower at the front as most shoes are.
Cram your foot into one and over time your foot will
become shaped similarly. Think about the interesting
cultural tradition of binding the feet in China and
then look at the more subtle, but similar in effect,
tradition of women wearing high heeled shoes in our
culture and the disastrous repercussions. No natural
foot is shaped anything like most of the shoes people
wear, with recognizable results.
#2: Heels (anything over ½" high) which lift the back
of the foot up and put too much pressure on all three
arches: the transverse arch ( across the balls of the
foot), the medial arch (inside), and the lateral (outside)
arch. This pressure compresses the bones of the foot
and inhibits the arches from working the way they were
designed to work, as springs.
#3: Arch supports which inhibit the medial arch from
dropping down to work as the spring it is designed to
be. When the foot steps onto the ground it is meant
to spread width-wise and also to lengthen (like a spring).
Shoes which do not allow this spreading and lengthening
destroy the natural functioning of the wonderful foot
and cause all kinds of problems, not all of which are
localized in the foot. People who feel they need arch
supports and orthotics have extremely disorganized feet
and using said "crutches" are only setting the distortions
deeper into the disorganized structure of the foot,
as well as everything above it. This of course leads
to plenty of future problems for the complications resulting.
Great for the manufacturers of these products and the
administering physicians but not so good for you.
#4: Walking on hard, flat surfaces. We humans love to
make everything around us simple and easy; trying to
make it so no effort is required, and this we call progress
and civilization. So things do get easier (no need to
lift the garage door up, the automatic opener does it
for you, saves you time so you can go to the gym and
lift weights) and we, as a culture get more spoiled
and weak in many ways. Anyway, walking on flat surfaces
doesn't require the 26 bones of the foot to move much;
uneven surfaces (take a hike someday) actually massage
the joints and hinges of the feet, mobilize the ankles,
and cause differentiating movement to occur through
all the calf muscles.
#5: Walking with the feet turned out (like a duck).
This is very common and wreaks havoc with the ways the
arches, hinges, and joints of the foot are designed
to work as the foot lands and pushes off the ground
during organized walking. This practice also destroys
ankle function and creates a dense, painful calf, due
to the fact that the ankle joint and the calf muscles
are not required to move at all when walking this way.
The good news is this: normalizing your feet through
the use of tennis balls and Fix Your Feet Balls is the
first, and most likely last, step to putting an end
to callouses, corns, bunions, plantar fasciaitis, pain
in your feet in general, etc. All of this occurs as
a result of disorganization. Feet abnormalities stem
from disorganization, and if you can fix that, you fix
it all.
*As you work out the pain and soreness in your feet
with these balls you will be allowing the 3 arches (medial,
lateral, transverse), the 26 bones, the 33 joints, and
the unspecified number of hinges to reestablish themselves
back to normal, individually, and in relation to each
other.
High arches will eventually drop into normal, and flat
feet, when the tension holding them down is released,
will be able to rise into normalcy. *(This requires
some exercising of the inner arches by stepping your
feet apart medium-wide with your knees bent and your
feet turned out. Begin to push your knees apart while
lifting your medial, inner, arches. Do not lift your
heels or the balls of your big toes off the floor. Practice
walking on the balls of your feet.)
No matter what anyone tries to sell you, never use hard
balls like golf balls or wooden tools to work on your
feet. It's too easy to mistake uncovering and dissolving
pain with inflicting pain. It's not hard to bruise your
feet and that will only set you back. *On that note,
I never recommend using wooden implements in general
for self-massage, for the same reason. You can be very
efficient, with more appropriate tools, without the
risk.
If your foundation (your feet) is not organized then
nothing above them has any chance to function properly.
And by the way, as you release and organize your feet,
they will get bigger. This is a good thing! If you find
your shoes beginning to feel as though they belong to
someone else and feel too tight, this means you are
doing a great job. Discontinue wearing those shoes,
throw them out or give them away. Your feet will reshape
themselves to the old mold if you let them. Don't! Cut
loose and move forward. Stand on your own two new feet!
OK already, so how do I use them?
This is done in one of two ways.
1) Stand with one ball (tennis or handball) under each
foot. *Use only one ball under one foot if it is just
too intense. If this is the case then you have got a
project ahead of you but one worth undertaking!
Slowly shift your weight from foot to foot, each time
changing the position of the ball a little bit. Take
a nice slow breath and exhale for each pressure on the
ball. Gradually work your way around the entire bottom
of your foot. Each time you step onto the ball it will
be in a different place, and little by little, you will
"clear" the area. Clear means no pain. Rolling the balls
around the bottoms of your feet does nothing we are
interested in. It may feel like a little massage but
it will do nothing to structurally reorganize the foot,
which is what I want you to do.
Each session, I recommend using tennis balls to start
out with, and then alternating with Fix Your Feet Balls.
Replace your tennis balls as they begin to get soft.
*Put 3 of your softer tennis balls in a sock and tie
the top off tight. Use this tool to work on your hips
and sacral area. See the complete instructions on the
Flextasy website.
2) Use this method if it is too intense to stand on
the balls at all, or if you just want to get at the
feet from a different angle. Sit on a stool, or low
step of the stairs, and put one ball under each foot.
(Hopefully you can use the Fix Your Feet Balls for this,
but I have had clients who have had to start this way
with soft, worn-out tennis balls. Yikes!) Lean forward
and rest your forearms on your legs near your knees.
Lean as much pressure onto the balls as you comfortably,
uncomfortably can. SLOWLY begin moving the balls around
the bottoms of your feet. SLOWLY, cover the whole bottom,
all the while looking for pain and trying to lovingly
dissolve it. Don't miss any spots. In case you haven't
noticed, SLOWLY, is the key word for this process.
Remember, the good part about this, and all of the tools
I recommend, is that YOU are in charge. Take it easy
and figure it out. It's just you and your pain. Work
it out at your own pace, but work it out!
If you have any questions about any of this, don't hesitate
to email me at blue@evolutionhealth.com.
Good Luck, and Stay Loose!
Blue Dunn MT/HHP EVOLUTION HEALTH and FITNESS
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