Contactless healing: 1 (London)

I’m building up a bit of a reputation for healing with my massage.  

One day, one of the pub regulars told me he had done something to his wrist.  As I was still on duty, I couldn’t sit down and work on it, so I tried to help him establish where the epicentre was, so that I could teach him how to work on it himself.

A few minutes later, a chap from a group of regulars came up and said, “What were you doing there just now?”  He then told me he had a bad problem with his foot.  He’d somehow managed to get hit quite badly in the calf by a higher step on an escalator (how does one end up being hit in the calf at all by a step in an escalator?!?).  The injury spread to his foot, which then swelled up quite badly, to the point that he was having difficulty standing.  He worked long shifts (some ten hours or so), being on his feet all the time (as a store security man or something), so the pain was getting unbearable.

As I was still on duty, and looking at his foot would entail his removing his shoes and socks, I decided to give him some preliminary basic remedy: 

“Lie in bed with your feet up against the wall, forming an L shape, with the top of the L being your feet, and the bend in the L being your backside.  This will make the blood flow down your legs and take the pressure off your feet.  It’s non-chemical, and free, and should at least help ease the swelling for now.  We can look at your foot another day when I can.”

This is something I’ve been doing since age ten.  Putting the feet up against the wall sends a very pleasant tingling sensation down the legs to the thighs, and is particularly good for relieving aching feet and legs.  I do this regularly after my eight-hour pub shifts, for about ten minutes before going to sleep, and sleep better for it.  

I've taught this to lots of my pub colleagues, one of whom — a 19-year-old young man — told me recently it is very effective and he does it regularly now.  (I mention his age and gender only because young people, especially men, don't tend to go for such things.)

A few weeks later, one of the friends of the swollen-foot man (called Kamal, I was told) came in with his group for a drink.  He came up to me and said, “Oh, you remember my friend who’d asked you about his swollen toe and you taught him that exercise?  The problem’s gone now.”

Wow, that was better than I could ever imagine or hope!!  I hadn’t even got round to looking at his foot and assessing the problem.  Best bit of news I’ve had in a long time.

What's particularly brilliant about this method is:  it's free of chemicals, free of charge, and can be done for as long or as often as one can or wishes.

Update:  About three weeks later, after Christmas, I saw the friend again and asked after Kamal.  The friend said, “Kamal’s been doing the exercise you suggested.  Problem’s not come back.”

(London, 2018 & 2019)