Dr. David Allan Reflexology
                     Reflexology Defined
David Allan Wellness
Reflexology Defined
✩ Defining reflexology correctly, is vital for the 
reflexology profession. This will help educate the public 
and delineate guidelines as to what it can and cannot 
do. As a practitioner and educator in reflexology for 
close to 40 years, I will present my definition, and share 
a few other definitions defined by prominent 
reflexology agencies and associations.
1) REFLEXOLOGY 
DEFINED BY DAVID ALLAN
✩ Reflexology is a practice based on the principal that 
manual pressure with specific thumb and finger 
techniques applied to the hands and feet will create 
physiological, chemical and emotional changes 
throughout the body. In Reflexology, an overlay of the 
body image is positioned over both the hands and feet. 
Stimulation to hand and foot points reflexively affect 
corresponding body parts and can have positive health 
benefits.
✩ At face value we have appendages with five digits 
attached that are made for touching, feeling, standing 
and walking. Looking more closely at the hands and 
feet, an entire world emerges. There is a display of 
lines, colors, toe and finger shapes, skin texture and 
temperature, as well as sensations as pressure is 
applied. Healthy hands and feet should not be tender to 
firm pressure and when they are, it’s a warning sign 
that the health of the hands and feet or the overall 
body is compromised.
✩ From a holistic perspective, the body functions as a whole and 
is therefore affected by everything we do and say. 
Reflexologists not only see and evaluate the body through the 
body image on the hands and feet, their direct application of 
pressure to specific points reflexively affects the entire body.
✩ Reflexology is versatile and simple to use as a self-help 
modality. It is a wellness and therapeutic practice that brings 
relief to many ailments and provides important sensory 
stimulation at the point of application. It is non-invasive and 
provides nourishing pressure and joint movements to everyday 
“abused hands and feet”, relieving them of local pent-up 
stress and globally reducing stress levels throughout the body.
2) DEFINED BY THE 
REFLEXOLOGY ASSOCIATION 
OF AMERICA (RAA)
✩ Reflexology is the 
systematic, manual 
stimulation of the reflex 
maps located on the feet, 
hands and outer ears that 
resembles a shape of the 
human body. Visit RAA 
HERE.
3) DEFINED BY THE AMERICAN 
REFLEXOLOGY CERTIFICATION 
BOARD (ARCB)
✩ Reflexology is a holistic 
discipline using the hands to 
apply alternating and firm 
pressures to the feet, hands 
or ears to stimulate 
physiological changes in the 
body through reflexes and the 
nervous system. Visit ARCB 
HERE.
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