How To Use Facial Mapping & Reflexology To Feel Balanced & Energized

One of the most fascinating aspects of the human body is how it can work so hard on our behalf to create balance within with just a little conscious support. As the environment continues to become an increasing inflammatory threat with pollution, plastic-contaminated water, increased UV rays, and tech addiction, it’s especially important to learn how to counteract it to maintain an inner sense of well-being.

Multireflexology Dien Chan practice was founded in Saigon, Vietnam, by Professor Bùi Quốc Châu back in 1980. He discovered a new set of mapping patterns on our faces to help connect to the different systems of the body from questioning the root of acupuncture meridians and points. He did this by working on countless patients at the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, where he used to experiment with reflexology occidental works like iridology (iris-reading), endonasal reflexology (activation of pressure points near and around the nose), and auriculotherapy (ear acupuncture). Over several years, he developed a new therapeutic method for use on the face aimed to help improve health and balance holistically.

This permission to self-heal can help us better connect to our bodies. Sometimes it’s as simple as tuning in to what feels like too much (excess yang) and not enough (excess yin), at a certain point in your body or face, depending on where and how you’re using the tools.

In my experience, the sensation of using the tools can be described as slightly painful but should always be tolerable. Once you reach your focal point within your reflex zone of need, you can often feel a tension and a releasing sensation. In the end, it should feel good.

Interestingly enough, facial mapping through facial reflexology, which is based loosely on traditional Chinese medicine doctrine, indicates works under the idea that similar physical shapes in the body hold similar energetics. For example, when you use a tool for the nose, you can be connected to the spine since they are both long and straight, therefore considered to be connected and similarly oriented. If you are looking to alleviate sharp pains you can roll the yin side of your tool to help balance the yang energy. If the sensation is considered to be more of a dull ache, you can roll the yang side of the tool to help balance the excess yin energy. Some back pain can also be related to kidneys through excess dehydration, which affects your chi life force. Focusing on the kidney points along the sides of the nostrils can help balance this sensation, along with drinking extra water to support the kidneys. You will notice a feeling of relief on the tenderness of the nose, and you may also experience relief of the pains overall.

In addition to operating along different meridians and with organ energies, traditionally, facial mapping in reflexology is also connected to yin and yang energy. Yin energy is often described as cold, wet, smoothing, filling, dispersed, soft, achy, dull, deep, heavy, or even stagnant. An excess of yin energy can be as simple as excessively oily skin or even cysts. Yang energy can be described as hot, dry, boosting, moving, reducing, shrinking, precise, tight, or even red. Facial cues that indicate an excess of yang energy include red and/or inflamed skin. In order to balance an excess or deficiency of either energy, you must balance it out with its opposite.