{"id":70,"date":"2013-05-24T20:04:34","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T20:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reflexologiemarine.com\/en\/?p=70"},"modified":"2014-10-10T21:28:40","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T01:28:40","slug":"la-reflexologie-une-image-vaut-mille-mots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.reflexologiemarine.com\/en\/la-reflexologie-une-image-vaut-mille-mots\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflexology: a picture is worth \u0003a thousand words"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is thanks to Hanne Marquard<\/strong>*, a well-known German reflexologist, her 50 years of experience in this field, and to this pictogram (beside) that, as of 2006, my comprehension of Reflexology took a new dimension, bringing more vibrance, resonance and meaning into my practice.
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Since then, when someone comes in for a reflexology treatment, I have become more conscientious of the fact that not only I am holding the person\u2019s feet\/heel in the palms of my hands but also in actuality, holding the person\u2019s being \u2013 their essence. Imagine holding the person \u2013 the being and not just their feet. Is it not what the pictogram reveals?<\/p>\n

\"Illustration-pied-debout\"<\/p>\n

Hanne Marquardt has allowed me to comprehend Reflexology in a rather unique manner. Here is the uniqueness.<\/p>\n

When the pictogram is swiveled 90 degrees, a second form takes shape within the pictogram. Do you see it opposite the text ?<\/p>\n

\"Illustration-pied-couche\"<\/p>\n

This relationship of the foot \u2013 and that of a sitting person is based on the idea that the foot is a micro system of a macro system, called the body of a person and on the similarity in shape.\u00a0 In her amazing and very enriching book called Reflexotherapy of the feet, Hanne Marquardt writes: \u201cthe term reflexotherapy is commonly used to describe a reflection of the whole in its parts\u201d. <\/em><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s take another and maybe more familiar example: Auriculotherapy. This method, according to Paul Nogier, is based on the similarity in shape of an embryo and the outer ear.<\/p>\n

\"Bebe-Oreille\"<\/p>\n

Do you recognize the similarities in the outlines formed in these two drawings ?<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s look a little closer at the above pictogram; we are discovering a similarity in shape between a sitting person and a foot. Seen in its upright position, It is an outline of a person in a sitting position within the outline of the shape of the foot that gets revealed.\u00a0 And in its horizontal position, it is the anatomical shape of the foot that appears. Incredible, is it not ?<\/p>\n

Please take time to play and get familiar with this pictogram: a vision of a sitting person revealed in an upright foot which when turned 90 degrees horizontally reveals the shape of a foot.<\/p>\n

As this concept becomes clearer, one can recognize the many similarities in shape that unfolds.\u00a0 Let\u2019s view them together.<\/p>\n