Kate writes:

“My introduction to any type of healing therapies came in 1990, at a time when I was managing services for learning disabled adults in Larne, Northern Ireland. I had held various posts since 1980 working with people with disability; however, this was one of the most rewarding jobs I ever held.

Many of my learning disabled members were severely compromised, with multiple handicaps – some blind, deaf, and without speech. In my quest for new therapeutic approaches to support them, I became interested in a more holistic approach to health and well being, including a sensory based, practical ‘hands on’ approach.

Therapeutic touch was all-important to my members’ well being. Many gained benefits through formal physiotherapy sessions, but the touch was incidental rather than integral and budget restricted.

I qualified in Reflexology in 1989. Reflexology is based on the principal that every organ in the body has a corresponding reflex point in the feet, hand, and ear. I was taught to slowly and meticulously stimulate each reflex point to effect change in the corresponding organ. Over a number of sessions through my use of Reflexology, I effected healing with many clients.

During this time I was also practicing Reflexology with a few people in my home. One Sunday I was, with great reluctance, treating a young man who had broken his collarbone in two places while playing rugby. I say with reluctance because when he telephoned for an appointment, I told him that I believed Reflexology could not repair broken bones. He was adamant that the pain, unresponsive to painkillers, was making him suicidal, so I agreed to treat him. As he stepped into my house and treatment room, I could see he was struggling to hold back tears, and beads of perspiration were visible on his creased brow. The pain in his shoulder was obviously excruciating. Slowly, with a great deal of effort he heaved himself onto my couch and, gingerly protecting his smashed collar bone, attempted to make himself comfortable. With a great sigh he relaxed his large frame into the couch. Every painful movement of his made me feel squeamish. He looked like a small boy just wanting to cry, not the 30 year-old-teacher of grammar school athletes teacher that he was. He was silent for most of the session, but in the late stages of his treatment he suddenly and quite abruptly asked, “What are you doing?” I told him I was manipulating the lower part of his foot, working the reflex point to the colon, while my other hand was gently holding the top part of his foot. He shocked me by replying, “I feel your hands inside my shoulder putting my bones together.”
I did not know what to say. My two hands were firmly on his left foot, not inside his shoulder, as he asserted. What happened next is actually vague as I was even more shocked than he. I had no explanation for what he had described. He left my treatment room smiling broadly, looking ten years younger. I was left with many questions.

This outcome was not a result of Reflexology and this was only the start of what has been developing since!”