(Treebeard shares with us his knowledge of reflexology learned from centuries of planting where growing plants within a certain time is necessary and you must find energy somehow. From him we get other uses for it such as channeling it through the nervous system to achieve the desired results.) 

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Russ: Treebeard?

Treebeard: yes?

Russ: can you try an experiment for me?

Treebeard: uh-huh.

Russ: Karra and I are working on a little experiment this last few minutes here that I thought you were the perfect person to ask about this.

Treebeard: uh-huh.

Russ: we’re trying to practice on reflexology….

Treebeard: uh-huh.

Russ: and finding a certain point in the hands that will bring alertness.

Treebeard: you want me to demonstrate?

Russ: absolutely.

Treebeard: hold hand out.

Russ: okay.

Treebeard: under.....okay…..let me…..okay.

Russ: oh, that’s it. Oh thank you.

Treebeard: you may being of wishing to explain for tape what just happened.

Russ: oh right, Treebeard pushed into my hand somewhere just to the right of the center lower quadrant.

Treebeard: with hand face up.

Russ: with hand face up right, with fingernail or finger point.

Treebeard: finger point. You felt like little jab?

Russ: yeah.

Treebeard: you are being active now?

Russ: uh-huh, ahh good.

Treebeard: there is another spot as well, that is being here?

Russ: oh, to the other side of that?

Treebeard: yes, pushing down?

Russ: all right.

Treebeard: try it

Russ: working on it now. Okay, I see it yeah.

Treebeard: uh-huh, there are several within hand.

Russ: oh okay.

Treebeard: main one being just off-center is quick stimulation.

Russ: ahhh.

Treebeard: the one on heel of hand, is that correct?

Russ: uh-huh.

Treebeard: is more longer, it is more stimulation.

Russ: excellent, you’ve picked up quite a bit of knowledge in your many years.

Treebeard: it is something that I needed of doing when dealing with plants.

Russ: really, why?

Treebeard: when planting lots of plants in limited of time….

Russ: uh-huh.

Treebeard: you have to be aware all the time.

Russ: oh.

Treebeard: so have short window of time to work so go without sleep to get things being of done.

Russ: I see.

Treebeard: so you learn little tricks to activate of body. One that has reverse effect but at start does not feel so is back of neck near towards the swelling of the I think you would be of saying cerebellum?

Russ: okay, at the base there? Just before it goes from the hollow up to the point where it starts to bulge out?

Treebeard: that is correct. If you apply gentle pressure there but do not use full pressure, you will feel a slight sensation.

Russ: oh yeah.

Treebeard: that will if jabbed make you feel at first energy and then drained. It is like being of tub of liquid….

Russ: uh-huh.

Treebeard: and pulling out cork and energy draining out.

Russ: I see.

Treebeard: other such places being behind ears. Having noticed that head makes one sleepy whereas various parts of arms and hands activate. On body many different possibilities of draining or activating depending on where and pressure. It is something that is using of what you would call points of pressure?

Russ: yeah pressure points.

Skip: uh-huh.

Treebeard: and using right amount of pressure would being of doing either on certain parts.

Russ: now why is our body like that? How is it just pushing on this little part of the hand makes you more alert or back of the neck or others, what’s the energy connection there?

Treebeard: it is not so much energy but sensitivity to feeling and energy little bit. Certain parts are associated with certain actions. For example, you use hands most when stimulated, is that not of correct? They are more active. Using head more when you are feeling of as I am, word was tired?

Russ: tired.

Skip: tired yeah.

Treebeard: so put two and two, come up with answer. So you using of head when you are ready for dormancy but hands being used for activity. Body other parts being used either so either can being of used. Yes?

Skip: that would be conducted by the central nervous system then.

Treebeard: that is being of correct. It works like electronical network as you are thinking of.

Skip: uh-huh.

Treebeard: wire max of nervous systems apply pressure here, energize and channel energy flow through main conduction. Channel energy there and opposite effect of shutting down occurs so it matter of body circuitry like yes, computer.

Russ: hmm, so if you’re staying healthy and maintaining youth, isn’t there parts of the body you could work on on a daily basis to bring up….

Skip: on your feet.

Russ: yeah to bring up your health and so on?

Treebeard: if you of applying pressure to certain parts of feet, you have interesting sensations. If you drag nail up foot, does it not tickle?

Russ: uh-huh.

Treebeard: and your toes curl in and it makes you what?

Russ: laugh.

Treebeard: uh-huh which laughter is being of associated with?

Russ: youth.

Skip: health.

Treebeard: health and youth, you are healthy when you are of young correct?

Russ: uh-huh, so daily tickling of feet sessions for you?

Treebeard: not necessarily, tickling more of massaging.

Russ: hmm, so every day, work a little bit on the feet to stimulate your health and maintain your youth.

Treebeard: I think Skip has experience of that from youth when wearing green?

Russ: huh? Okay, you guys lost me there.

Treebeard: many miles walked, is it not nice to sit down and massage one’s feet?

Skip: yes it is, 35 miles in one day is pretty far.

Treebeard: I am seeing that it would be. Over many different kind of terrain certainly would be of bruising to feet. So it would be of relaxing so learning at young age would be best time to know what points to use later on.

Russ: hmm.

Skip: okay Treebeard, can I make a statement here?

Treebeard: you are welcome of doing so.

Skip: thank you. I have learned just in the last few years of the pressure points in the feet that controls the different organs and systems of the body. Now I’ve noticed that they’re putting out roller…..how can I say this? They're pads with ball bearings in them to stand on to roll your feet on to hit all the pressure points on the bottom of your feet.

Treebeard: those are useful and comfortable but you learn't about pressure points and what parts are good for what parts of the body or organs long time before reading about them but did not know that that’s what they did.

Skip: uh-huh, you’re correct.

Treebeard: so you had knowing that it felt good and helped you but did not know reasoning of why so you have both now.

Skip: uh-huh.

Treebeard: but the foot chairs that you think of you see in computer magazines?

Skip: no in fact I’ve seen them in the actual store…

Treebeard: ahhh.

Skip: okay? They’re already been made and produced.

Treebeard: uh-huh.

Skip: in fact I’ve seen them in Walmart.

Russ: seems to me that kind of soul for your shoe, an insert that had like little ball bearings or….

Skip: magnets.

Russ: hmm, I’ve seen the magnets.

Skip: yeah magnets are getting to be quite the thing down here now.

Treebeard: uh-huh.

Skip: and I don’t know if they're all that ingenious or not.

Treebeard: I am not of medic, what I know of pressure points I learned when working planting to keep going. But as older as I am getting, it seems more pressure necessary or maybe lacking strength in hands to pressure so.

Skip: it happens.

Treebeard: okay, any more of questions?

Skip: no.

Russ: uh-uh.

Skip: thank you.

Treebeard: thank you, I am going off to indulge in walk back so I may be of dormant.

Russ: excellent, have a good walk.