How to Do the Soft Ball Foot Treatment | MELT Method

[Music] let's try the softball foot treatment remember you'll always begin by looking down at your feet and lining them up side by side we're going to do a body scan assessed and an autopilot assess so remember to do these assessments you can't use the common sense of touch or vision so allow your arms to rest at your side and close your eyes take a nice focused breath into your body give yourself permission to sense what you feel and notice the floor under your feet notice if it feels like you've got more weight under your right foot or your left foot without moving notice if you're feeling any region of your foot on either side perhaps you're feeling your left heel or the ball of your right foot just notice if anything's calling itself out to you then scan up your legs notice if you're squeezing the muscles in your thighs or your butt cheeks or if you're locking out your knees to remain standing if you're feeling any of these things this is a sign that your autopilot is functioning inefficiently you're working awfully hard right now imagine how hard you work when you move draw your awareness back down to your feet even though you know you've set your feet up side by side you might feel like one foot is stepping in front of the other that's also autopilot in efficiency finally let's challenge our autopilot to reacquire a signal from head to toe I want you to take a focus breath and lift all ten toes off the ground now your body is gonna have to rebalance holding yourself here just stay here for five to ten seconds what we're gonna do is challenge our autopilot to create frequency or vibration from head to toe take a nice focused breath and on an exhale drop all ten toes to the ground and notice if your body drifts forward open up your eyes if you notice your body drift forward that's a simple sign that your autopilot is having a hard time reacquiring its connection to your center of gravity to point out how much you use vision to keep yourself stable keep your eyes open and lift all ten toes with me again take a nice focus breath here and on an exhale drop all ten toes if you notice that you don't drift it all you're now recognizing how much vision keeps us balanced and stable only your vision is not going to get better as you age so let's heighten your body sense so you naturally have better balance so I'm going to have you start again under your right foot you're going to place the ball at position point number one and you're going to create gentle compression by shifting your body weight left to right just give your body time to adapt to the compression you're creating remember if you edge body weight over the ball and you feel pain that's your cue to ease back pressure not step harder once you find a spot that you can comfortably compress the ball weight there and let's help your autopilot reacquire its connection to your center of gravity by moving your joints around your pelvis so remember your joints are like satellites and your autopilot functions like a GPS system so the more you move your joints around that pelvis of yours the more you're helping your autopilot reacquire its connection to your center of gravity come on back up take a focus breath now let's try position point pressing take your left foot and step backward bring the ball underneath position point number two and create gentle compression over the ball take a focus breath and then decompress find the knuckle that coincides with your second toe same thing create straight down compression to mobilize the joint and then decompress try to find your third knuckle and same thing create compression and then decompress try to find the knuckle that coincides with your fourth knuckle and listen your foot does not go straight across like Fred Flinstones foot it curves a little bit so bring the ball back a little bit more you shouldn't see the ball under your toes and then decompress and go to your pinky knuckle you have to bring the ball even further back not knuckle is further back than you think as you create that gentle compression take a focus breath and then decompress now let's try to find position point 3a that's that lower number three if you want cheat the ball so that you see it the first time and then let the ball disappear and create gentle compression take a focus breath and then decompress go to 3b that upper number three and create compression notice if this area is tender this point relates right to your neck and can be a very tender spot for a lot of us decompress go to position point number four on the outside arch of your foot halfway between your pinkie toe and your heel and create compression and then decompress and see if you can find position point number five just in front of your heel and take a focused breath let's repeat position point pressing again go to position point number one create straight down compression take a focus breath and decompress and then at your own pace go under each knuckle across the forefoot now this time as you go underneath the knuckles I want you to look down at the top of your foot when connective tissue has good hydration the knuckles will rise up in the foot pad as you create the compression so if you look down at your foot and you don't see knuckles lifting up you now know you have a little bit of connective tissue dehydration living in your body and this could be altering your balance and stability try to find position point number three a and create that gentle compression and then decompress go to the upper number three B and create compression and take a focus breath decompress go to position point number four on the outside arch of your foot halfway between your pinky toe and your heel and take a focus breath and then decompress and find position point number five once you create the compression on position point number five decompress 50% of your body weight so you've got even balance between your left and right leg and let's try gliding remember gliding is that small local compression technique we want to keep the pressure consistent it's not the depth of pressure it's the consistency that creates that fluid exchange slowly work the ball all the way to the back of the heel gliding is that preparatory technique for the shear and it's also a way to investigate tissue for the barriers or areas of restriction and here we've got a lot of barriers in our feet so when you come back to position point number five tighten up the wiggle for the direct shear remember this is a tight local compression technique to increase that fluid that's in this local region of the foot then once you do your shear force compress and wait give the tissue a moment to adapt take a nice focused breath and now let's try rinsing across the forefoot bring the ball underneath position point number two and create consistent pressure across to your pinky knuckle and then release and go back to your big toe and come across and then release so just like when you turn on your cellphone you only swipe the phone one direction it's the same thing here we want to create fluid movement in one direction try that one more time from the big toe to the pinky toe then let's rinse down the foot from toe to heel remember when you rinse down the foot keep your knees soft and allow your entire body to go over the ball so that the other hip and foot don't become tired as you're doing this remember you could always do this entire technique seated you don't need to be standing like I'm doing here let's try two more rinsing passes down the foot and one more take a focus breath and now let's try friction remember this one requires balance so try to balance on your left leg and very very lightly start to rub the ball underneath the bottom of your right foot take a nice focus breath and let it go let's bring our feet side by side again line your feet up now you might notice that your foot feel is a little different which I always appreciate because you were rubbing your foot with a ball but let's use our body sense and reassess to see if we've gotten the fluids throughout the entire body bring your arms at your side and close your eyes take a focus breath I want you to first draw some awareness to the leg we have not melted so notice your left leg when fluid is absent in the connective tissue our joints become compressed and you'll start to notice that you actually have joints so in your left leg if you're noticing you have a hip an E and an ankle but on the right leg the leg we've melted if it feels more seamless and rooted to the ground we know we've created that fluid exchange clear up to the hip open up your eyes take a nice focused breath let's try this on the other side I want you to place the ball underneath the center of your left foot bring the ball underneath the foot a position point number one and begin to shift your bodyweight left and right remember you're trying to find tolerable compression don't cause pain try to identify that place where you could tolerably compress the ball and stand for a moment take a focus breath and start to move your joints around your pelvis so that you help your autopilot reacquire its connection to your center of gravity this will help us with balance when we go to move come on back up top take another focus breath take your right leg and step backward now bring the ball to position point number two take a focus breath and let's create position point pressing across the forefoot remember this forward and back stepping motion is a part of the technique so I want to make sure that you're constantly shifting your body weight forward and back every time you step backward you're challenging your balance which heightens the autopilot reception to your center of gravity and can heighten your natural balance once you get to the pinky knuckle make sure that you've brought that ball back a little deeper and then decompress let's try to find position point 3a the lower number three halfway between the big toe and the heel take a focus breath then step backward go to the upper number three right behind the knuckle and create compression on 3b decompress try to find position point number four halfway between your pinky toe and your heel and again ease some body weight onto the ball and then release and try to find position point number five just in front of the heel let's go through position point pressing one more time now that you're familiar with it Center of the foot take a focus breath and decompress position point number two remember at the forefoot every time we compress on a knuckle if you look down at your foot you want to see those knuckles rising up in the foot pad that's showing you good hydration and good mobilization of the joints when connective tissue is dehydrated our joints get stiff and they don't move so we want to make sure that these joints stay hydrated because this region of your is related to your shoulders eyes ears head neck and jaw decompress try to find 3a on the inner arch and create compression this point relates to digestion so take a focus breath and notice if it's tender decompress go to the upper number 3b and create compression this point relates to your neck take another focus breath decompress try to find position point number 4 and create compression this point relates to the lateral line of the body and also stimulates the metabolic system decompress and go to position point number 5 this point relates right to the pelvis keep your pressure constant take a focus breath and then decompress to create even weight between your left and right foot keep your forefoot on the ground and let's go for our glide consistent pressure right at position point 5 is what a glide is all about keep your pressure constant it's not about the depth of pressure once you create consistent pressure start to move the ball all the way to the back of the heel I always think this move looks like the dance move the twist so they see how my whole hip is moving with my body I'm creating that nice gentle motion so I don't want my knee to create any compression or twisting work your way back to position point number 5 and once you get back there tighten up the wiggle remember this is the shear technique this is what increases the fluid exchange from cell to cell and creates that local exchange of fluid that we're going to bring through the body with the rinse now wait here create the compression take a nice focused breath decompress and let's rinse from the big toe all the way across to the pinky toe lighten up go back to the big toe and rinse from big toe to pinky toe and release let's go two more times to create that fluid exchange across the forefoot and then let's take the fluid through the body from big toe to the heel and then the second toe to the heel and then the third toe to the heel so remember shift your body weight back and forth so that your other hip doesn't get tired and you keep your pressure consistent underneath the forefoot let's do two more rinsing passes and then one more time the last technique you'll remember is friction a nice light motion remember with friction I want you to go back and forth two times at the end of any treatment because friction helps to stimulate the lymphatic system and creates of a blood flow in fluid exchange right to the skin which can really offer up a lot of fluid decompression and exchange throughout the body so if you feel at the end of the day your feet feel like they swell up friction is a great technique to do take a nice focused breath and let it go bring your feet side by side one more time line your feet up so that you're convinced they're side by side again bring your arms at your side and let's try the body scan and autopilot assess one more time close your eyes take a nice focused breath into your body notice your footprints if now the footprints feel more cohesive we've got better grounding for your body to stay balanced on scan up your legs if before you were clenching your thighs or butt cheeks or you were naturally locking out your knees you might now notice that your body is more relaxed in this upright position draw your awareness back down to your feet if before you were feeling like one foot was staggered in front of the other ideally now the feet are more rooted and grounded into the floor finally let's assess our autopilot take a focus breath and on an exhale lift all 10 toes off the ground again now you might notice this time your body shifts back very fast but that is not a bad exchange it's just your body reorganizing new vibration because movement is happening through the body faster take a focus breath and on an exhale drop all ten toes to the ground open up your eyes if you notice that you've drifted less where your body is more stable you have helped your autopilot reacquire its connection to your center of gravity and this can help you decompress unnecessary low back hip and knee pain make sure that you drink eight to ten fluid ounces of water and have a great day you

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Length: 15min 35sec (935 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 21 2017