Incredible Foot Massage

This foot massage is one of the easiest and most beneficial ways to reduce tension and rejuvenate. Just imagine the abuse that your feet go through in a single day. All the weight of your body on the soles of your feet.

The feet have many pressure points and with merely applying light pressure in certain areas you can make a whole person’s body feel better, reduce pain and improve entire body circulation.

Here is a simple massage that anyone can give another person and it can all be done in 15 minutes. The person receiving this foot massage will be grateful for what you can do to enhance this person’s feeling of wellbeing.

The key to this foot massage and any massage is applying proper pressure evenly over the foot with slow deliberate strokes.

1) Use a foot bath tub that is large enough to fit a person’s feet into comfortably. Fill the tub with hot/warm water that is tolerable for the person, but hot enough to enhance circulation. Keep at least 2 towels around to catch water from the tub and to have available to dry feet off at end of session.

2) Course Epsom salts are suggested and can enhance the foot massage. Have person place feet into water and pour the Epsom salts generously into the water, over the feet and into your hands. Rub the course Epsom salts all over each foot. Repeat putting the course salts in your hand and rubbing the entire foot. If available, add an appropriate essential oil into the foot bath water. Lavender, Valor and Thieves are a few favorites for on the feet.

3) Take one foot and grasp with both hands. Knead the foot while giving long strokes along entire foot from the heel to the toes. This promotes blood flow and circulation in the foot. Continue these sweeping motions on the foot for at least a minute.

4) Start with the toes and gently rub each toe, slowly and entirely. Gently tug on each toe and twist very lightly one direction and then the other. Do each toe one at a time.

5) Take the foot and make a fist with your hand. Work you fist in a circular motion into the saddle of the foot. This is a sensitive area and a generous amount of time should be spent here.

6) With your thumb. Find the soft tissue that is between each toe that runs about 3 inches into the foot between the toes and bones that support the toes. Run your thumb up this 3 inch area, slowly and one at a time between each toe segment. Apply a firm, steady pressure with this stroke.

7) Use your thumbs in the saddle of the feet in slow circular motions. This is where the intuitive touch comes in. Try to feel where the pressure is required more in some areas and less in other areas. Pay attention to the body language of the person receiving the foot massage. Work the entire sole of the foot this way. The heels, the saddle and into the pad of the foot near the toes.

8) Cradle the foot at the heel with one hand and squeeze the heel at this area while using long glide movements along entire foot, giving a firm pressure and a light kneading motion as you perform this stroke.

9) Repeat the Epsom salts and maybe warm the water up if the person feels the water getting cooler. Repeat the same strokes on this foot.

10) To give an even better massage. Work this person’s hands, neck and shoulder area while the person’s feet are soaking in the Epsom salts.

11) Dry the person’s feet off so they don’t have to bend and do this themselves. Allow the person to sit there for awhile with feet out of the foot bath tub and have them drink an entire glass of fresh cold water.

This is just one example of a foot massage. Water and Epsom salts are not necessary, but it does help in relieving tension and increasing the circulation in the feet and lower legs. There are so many nerve endings in the feet, this is a great time to learn some basics of reflexology that provides positive results to the entire body. The feeling from a foot massage is incredible.

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