I first began relieving pain by pressing on pressure points and color therapy. Unknown to me at the time it was the start of my search for Alternative Healing Modalities.

I studied a method developed by Stanley Burroughs called Vita-Flex.   Vita-Flex means Vitality through Reflexology.  Stanley Burroughs believed that most diseases begin in the stomach.  He taught a series of pressure point that stimulates your digestive tract which then improves your elimination system.  He also developed the lemonade cleanse.

My sister, Laura Alvarado traveled with him to Europe.  Where she began to teach with Stanley Burroughs in Europe and then came home and began to teach in Texas.  She taught me Vita-Flex in San Antonio.  I wanted to learn because my husband had chronic neck ache.  And his doctor prescribed muscles relaxants which made him non-functional.

When I would come home from a class he was there waiting and would always ask, “What did you learn today?" Once, I replied, “Take off your shoes and socks and give me your feet.”  He just looked at me in protest and said, “No, it’s my neck that’s killing me.” I replied, “Yes, I Know, Give Me You Feet!  I need your big toe to be exact.”

My hands were now on my hips, so he did as I asked and now commanded.  Within seconds of my pressing on the sides of his big toe he remarked with surprise “I can feel blood rushing up the side of my neck, Oh, Oh, not so hard.”  About 10 minutes later he was thanking me and told me he had made dinner.

I’m not saying that your husband or significant other will make you dinner but their neck ache will go away by applying pressure to the side of their big toe. 

Another wonderful reason to learn Vita-Flex is: you can learn a fast technique for relieving a migraine headache.  A very dear friend and fellow Reiki Master named Carla Pierce had an awful headache during lunch one afternoon.  Her brow furrowed while we were eating so I asked, “What’s wrong?”  She replied, “I have a splitting headache” holding her head in her hands. I reached across the table and asked for her hand.  Tilting her head she stretched out her hand.  I took it and began to press at the side of elbow and the base of the thumb.  Within 2 minutes her headache was gone.  Suddenly, a beautiful smile appeared on her face and a sincere “Thank you” followed.  She then looked up and said, “You need to teach me that!”  I agreed.