Stanley Burroughs is known for pioneering the well-known master cleanse or lemon cleanse, an internal cleanse that has helped many people improve their health, lose weight, and relieve pain and chronic conditions. In tandem with the cleanse, Burroughs also recommends two other therapies: color healing and vita-flex, a form of pressure point massage.
What is Vita-Flex?
According to Tom Woloshyn, whose practice and teachings are a direct descendant of Burroughs' protocols, Vita-flex treatment is "a reflexive, or pressure point, massage technique." (Woloshyn, 2007)
The name "vita-flex" is derived from "vitality" and "reflex" – and the principal behind this therapy is to allow the body to balance itself by redirecting its vital energy. The technique itself is said to have been developed over 5,000 years ago in Tibet, where Tibetan lamas may still practice it today.
Similar in principal to reflexology, vita-flex is "a more extensive and comprehensive therapy because it is applied throughout many more areas of the body." (Woloshyn, 2007) Whereas reflexology is only done on the feet, vita-flex can be applied almost anywhere.
Vita-flex is also related to acupuncture and energy psychology, focusing on many of the same treatment points.
How to do Vita-Flex
Vita-flex technique is much easier demonstrated than described! It involves a specific hand position over the part of the body being massaged, and a twisting motion that Woloshyn says "looks similar to a blended movement of, say, pulling the trigger of a gun and rotating your hand as if you are turning a door knob."
Vita-flex technique is often used on the feet and legs, but can also be applied to the arms, hands, or other areas.
Vita-flex is said to produce a tiny electric charge that stimulates points on the energy meridians and other reflex points. The human body may have as many as 1500 reflex points, mostly concentrated in the hands, feet, face, scalp and ears – all areas on which acupuncture and energy psychology also focus.
Vita-Flex Heals
Vita-flex treatment is said to help with a number of different issues and conditions, by using the body's own "self-regulating or balancing process" to support its own healing. (Woloshyn, 2007)
Vita-flex is used to relieve pain, promote relaxation, balance hormones, help during cleansing, and promote health and healing of every body system.
One of the greatest benefits of vita-flex is its versatility and ability to affect injuries and internal organs non-invasively. It is possible to massage points on the feet and affect the head, or do vita-flex treatment on the feet and notice results in the back or digestive system.
Reference
Burroughs, Stanley: Healing for the Age of Enlightenment, Burroughs Books, 1976 (reprinted 1993).
Gallo, Fred: Energy Diagnostic and Treatment Methods, W. W. Norton & Company, 2000.
Woloshyn, Tom: The Complete Master Cleanse, Ulysses Press, 2007.
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