Do you often feel bloated, gassy, or heavy after meals—like your food is just sitting in your stomach and not moving along—it may be a sign that your digestion is slowing down. This sluggish feeling can happen when the stomach empties slowly or when the intestines aren’t moving food efficiently through the digestive tract. Along with incorporating healthy habits, have you tried hand reflexology to support healthy digestion?

 

Slow Digestion Impacts Gut Health by creating Havoc on your Digestive System

 

Causing Bloating and Gas

When food remains in the stomach and intestines for extended periods, gut bacteria have more time to ferment carbohydrates. This fermentation process produces gas, leading to bloating, abdominal discomfort, and pressure.
 

Causing Constipation and Irregular Bowel Movements

Slow movement through the colon allows more water to be absorbed from stool, making it harder to pass. Chronic slow transit can contribute to constipation, hemorrhoids, and digestive discomfort.
 

Altering Gut Microbiome Balance

Gut transit time influences which bacteria thrive in your digestive tract. Slower digestion can favor methane-producing bacteria, which can further slow intestinal motility, creating a cycle of sluggish digestion that can lead to SIBO (Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth). This is where bacteria that normally live in the colon grow excessively in the small intestine rather than remaining at relatively low levels.
 

Increasing Toxin Exposure and Inflammation

Stored toxins can cause digestive problems like IBS.  When waste stays in the gut longer, it increases contact time with the intestinal lining. This may contribute to inflammation, gut permeability, and hormone reabsorption, potentially affecting overall health.

Whole-Body Symptoms Through the Gut–Brain Axis

Your digestive system is closely linked to the nervous system. Slow digestion can contribute to fatigue, brain fog, mood changes, and skin issues through the gut–brain connection.

 

Supporting Your Digestive Health with Healthy Habits and with non-invasive Reflexology

You can support digestive health with simple, healthy habits as part of your daily wellness plan. Staying hydrated, eating fiber-rich whole foods, chewing slowly, and incorporating gentle movement like walking after meals can naturally stimulate digestion. Adding relaxation practices such as deep breathing, meditation, or gentle stretching can also help activate the body’s “rest and digest” nervous system.

 

Hand Reflexology for Digestive Health

Hand Reflexology is another easy and holistic tool to include in your routine. By applying gentle pressure to specific reflex points on the hands that correspond to the stomach, intestines, and colon, you may help encourage digestive movement and reduce stress-related gut symptoms. Hand reflexology can be done anytime, anywhere, and only takes a few minutes a day—making it a practical and calming way to support proactive digestive wellness.

 

Improve Your Digestive Health with Reflexology- 4 Video Course

 

4 part Self Care Series- Reflexology for Digestive Relief for IBS, Constipation, Gas, Bloating & Acid Reflux

  • Do You Eat Your Emotions? How Negativity Affects Your Digestive Health (Energy Medicine)
  • Step by Step Foot Reflexology to Relieve Gas, Bloating, Constipation, IBS and Acid Reflux
  • How do Energy Healers Manage Negativity for Healthy Digestion (Inspiration)
  • Grounding Healing Meditation to Release Digestive Stress

 

 

Where Can You Take Holistic Digestive Health 4 part Course?

Be proactive with your Holistic Digestive Health.  Learn easy Reflexology, mindful, energy medicine techniques that aren’t overwhelming and can incorporate into your everyday practices. Once you are aware of your negative energy cycle that is stuck in your digestive health, you can break the cycle before pain, and stress set in. You can take this course at by becoming an Awaken Your Inner Healer member of Youtube.com/HealingPlaceEnergySchool for $24.99 a month (cancel any time.)

 

 

helen chin luiAbout the Writer, Teacher, and Film Maker

Helen Chin Lui is a Certified Reflexologist, Certified Energy Medicine, and Reiki Practitioner. She is the owner of the Healing Place LLC and Healing Place Energy School LLC in Medfield, MA. She specializes in helping adults and children to find long-lasting relief from chronic pain, digestive issues, and heal hormonal imbalances naturally.

 

 

 

Healing Place LLC

Healing Place LLC specializes in helping people of all ages break the pain cycles of chronic pain and chronic digestive problems and balances hormones naturally. If you would like to learn how Reflexology can support your health, please schedule a FREE consultation on the HealingPlaceMedfield.com website or call us (508) 359-6463. Too far to come to Medfield, MA? Look for a Certified Reflexologist in your town and state.

 

 

Healing Place Energy School

Learn more in-depth hand and foot reflexology from the privacy of your home by going to HealingPlaceEnergySchool. We offer Reflexology, chakra, self care, meditation, reiki courses.

 

 

Helen Chin Lui’s Books

If you would like to learn more about personal energy flow, or Reflexology techniques, get copies of Helen’s Books Know Your Chakras: Introduction to Energy Medicine or Foot Reflexology to Promote Relaxation

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Get Helen’s Free Digestive Health E-Booklet

For Helen’s free report “Proven Alternative Ways to Heal Common Chronic Digestive Problems: What Your Doctor Doesn’t Know Can Keep You From Healing” 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 

 

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