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Language of the Feet by Chris Stormer
Publisher: Hodder Arnold ISBN: 13978 0340 939598 Price: $29.95
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“The language of the feet is a popular guide to understanding how the feet reflect health and spiritual well-being. It explains how the structure of the foot can be used to ‘read’ the individual’s health and develop complimentary healthcare approaches accordingly”.
The book “includes advice on professional development drawn from the authors experience and suggestions for maximising health and happiness”.
The author is the founder of the Reflexology Institute of South Africa, and is an international on this and other foot/life related subjects.
This book is an updated version of her original book which was published in 1995. The new book has been expanded considerably, up from 141 pages in the first book to 205 pages in the new.
It still contains the cutesy frog like “cartoon” feet diagrams but thankfully fewer of them than there were in the first book. Originally the “contents” took up one page, with titles like “the angle of the feet, shape of the feet, size of the feet, temperature of the feet and information on all the toes, etc.
The new book has four and a half pages of contents. Most of the chapters start with a toe, though there is one on the arches and the heart. Each chapter is then subdivided into sub-contents, up to 25 at a time. They look at all aspects of the body from a physical, emotional and spiritual perspective. For example “the toes and the toe necks reflect the head and neck revealing the impact of thoughts that are etherical by nature”. The balls of the feet show how emotions kept close to the chest fill the surrounding air with each breath. The upper halves of the insteps exhibit how the passion of doing things, stems from the belly. The lower half of the instep imitates the fluidity of communications that flow through the lower gut. The heels reveal how the earth stabilizes, revitalizes and motivates the mind, body, and spirit through the pelvic region.
The book is so packed full of information it’s difficult to know where to start to take it all in. I think the best way of dealing with it, is to use the book as a point of reference, so that if you know someone with a strange looking third toe or a green solar plexus, then by just looking those things up, you can find out what the foot and the person is trying to tell you.
My one major criticism of the book is that it doesn’t have a good foot chart, (Chris, you can’t reproduce a colour foot chart in black and white and expect it to reproduce properly, it doesn’t work).
However, in saying that Chris Stormer is like Louise Hay of the feet. Not everyone is going to agree with what is written, and even if you do, how do you integrate the information into your practice. Your client may be very flattered to know that his longer second toe could reveal his as yet undiscovered leadership qualities, due to him having great vision and a tremendous capacity to feel. However he may not want to hear that his little toes look insignificant because he feels unimportant in the greater scheme of things, that he’s constantly putting himself down and that family pressure is stunting his growth both physically and metaphysically.
I know people who have used the first book with great success and I am sure the second one will be used just as successfully, and it does give very useful insights into how we humans tick which the body reflects through the “sole”.
Graeme Murray
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