First of all, she went to a specialist doctor, he took some radiographies of her back and he realised everything was perfect with her spine. The doctor told her the problem was in the muscles, they were too contracted and this was the reason of so much pain. Then, she visited a professional masseur who course of her to make a special gymnastics, like stretching exercises. She did. She bought a kind of carpet and every morning she put it on the floor and she stretched until she was almost broken. First, she started with the muscles of the back, then the legs, then the arms… Luckily, she lives alone and nobody could see her. The positions were so strange and uncomfortable that someone looking at her would think she was mad. She did her best. But there were no results.
Her mother saw my friend so desperate that she started praying. My friend’s mother also decided to light some candles in the church in order to ask God for some help. But this help didn’t arrive.
Then, she decided to start with alternative remedies. One of my friend’s work colleagues had told her about reflex therapy, it’s a kind of massage but in the feet. There are a lot of nerves endings at feet and different parts of tehm are also connected with some of the organs in our body. For example, massaging the middle of the left feet can be positive for your liver disease. A massage on the top of the toes can be good for your headache, and so on. Indeed, a good massage on your feet can be the best thing in the world and you can get better.
So my friend decided to try this therapy. When she arrived at the feet-masseur's home, she realised the atmosphere was very peaceful. Though the house was in a very busy neighbourhood of Barcelona, she could not hear a noise inside this place. In the room, there was a very tenuous light and the smell was really nice: a little bar of incense was burning. The feet-masseur asked her to lie down on an examining couch. Then she put on her eyes a kind of little bag full of aromatic sand. The next thing my friend remembers is a bell sound. And she couldn't help starting laughing. Apparently, the feet-masseur was turning around her with a bell just to try to get my friend to relax. But my colleague could not. She couldn’t see the masseur because of the little bag on her eyes, but she could imagine her dressed up with strange clothes doing a kind of ritual around the couch. It was so funny…
When the masseur finished with the massage and the bell, she convinced my friend to try Bach flowers essences. An English doctor called Edward Bach created these natural remedies. After a seriously illness, he gave up the traditional medicine and started with flowers and plants. He thought that an illness is the physical manifestation of a discomfort, of a disorder due to a mental condition that alters the balance of the body. My friend, as I said before, doesn’t believe that some flowers can rid of the backache off, but obviously she tried. She was so fed up with the pain that she could have jumped from a plane without a parachute… This story will continue…
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