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You found our Home page because you were interested in knowing more about the WarmFeet® Intervention. Here you will learn what you and WarmFeet® can accomplish for your own health, how the technique works, how it was researched, developed, tested and how you can get a WarmFeet® Kit for yourself.

                             Do you have pain in your legs and feet?

                       Is it hard to walk a distance without stopping?

                       Do you have foot sores (ulcers) that are slow to heal?

- If so, first seek help from your physician or foot care professional trained in this area and have the medical problem taken care of. It may then be the right time to learn the WarmFeet® relaxation, which increases blood flow to your skin, hands and feet. It improves healing and relieves pain. This will complement much medical care prescribed by your physician.

WarmFeet® is a complementary intervention, all natural, no pharmaceuticals are used and you are the one in charge of learning and practicing the technique regularly.

What is WarmFeet® ?

It is a standardized relaxation technique designed to take advantage of the body's natural relaxation response, which dilates the peripheral blood vessels and improves circulation in the hands and feet.

1. Learning to relax is the first step of the intervention: The guided relaxation recording prompts the client to release tension through conscious muscle relaxation and breath work.

2. The second step involves visualization, in which a person imagines comfort or warmth around his feet. Visualization, or forming a mental image, is often used in stress reduction and self-healing and has played a successful role in the treatment of various illnesses. It is particularly effective when the body is in a relaxed state.

A component of the WarmFeet® intervention is visualization (imagining or seeing with your mind's eye). "Thinking warm" allows the feet to feel even warmer or more at ease (skin temperature increases). Healthy outcomes or desired healing can also be visualized. Remembering the beauty and strength of the legs and feet at an earlier age is another very encouraging and powerful image. The WarmFeet® recording suggests various images that can be used during the visualization portion of the relaxation session.

3. The third key component of the WarmFeet® intervention is called assisted temperature biofeedback. Biofeedback is a method in which people use measured information about changes in bodily processes to gain conscious control over normally unconscious physiological (bodily) functions such as skin temperature. In this case, assisted temperature biofeedback means measuring skin temperature at a specific site (such as a soft finger tip or fleshy part of the big toe) before relaxation and then again afterward. This before-and-after setup allows the relaxation time to be spent relaxing, rather than worrying about a temperature change on a thermometer.

Recording a temperature increase (a log) at the end of practicing the WarmFeet® technique indicates that a more relaxed state has been achieved. Remembering how this relaxed state feels and then aiming to improve on that sensation next time, strengthens the person's ability to achieve the desired outcome. Increased temperature and the length of time it takes to achieve it, is a sign that the skill of relaxing is improving.

Keeping a log of temperature changes from time to time helps and reinforces the development of this new skill. We all need encouragement for our efforts and seeing the increased skin temperature is a powerful motivator.

"Motivation is
what gets you started.
Habit is what keeps you going.”

- Jim Ryun