100. Callused Feet or a Calloused Heart?
What do your feet look like? Do you have soft, smooth feet? Or do your feet have thicker layers on the sides and bottom? Do you have callused feet? It is a strange fact, but there really are people who don’t have any calluses under their feet at all! Their feet are smooth and soft all over, with no calluses to be found. Most people, however, do have calluses on the soles of their feet. They can be found on the edges of their heels, to the side of the smallest toe and underneath your large toe, but also in the center of the foot’s sole.
Cracks and fissures
It’s a sign that you don’t care enough about yourself if you don’t take care of your feet. Ask yourself about the status of your self-love. If you let calluses grow, the skin will become too hard and dry and you run the risk of it cracking. Fissures will develop. This is most certainly unpleasant and it’s better to prevent them. You can do that by taking care of your feet (or having it done for you) and taking care of the calluses. Every pedicure knows how and can also give you tips for taking care of your feet yourself.
The meaning of callused feet
“Calluses develop by wearing the wrong kind of shoes”. It’s outdated to think that calluses develop from wearing shoes that are too tight or from constant pressure on certain areas of your foot. Foot reflexologists already know this. Calluses have a message for you. It says something about how you feel on the inside. Calluses on your feet indicate that there are emotions and events you haven’t worked through yet. You bottle them up. You carry them with you while you suppress them. It’s possible that you experienced things that you have no memory of. It’s possible that you never learned how to deal with emotions. How do you do that anyway? Release your grief by crying? Release anger by hitting? Chew away frustration? And let go, let go and… let go! Or are there other ways of doing this?
Where are your calluses?
Look at your feet, paying close attention to where the calluses are. Calluses on the side of the big toe indicate that you, at least for now, don’t want to receive any new impressions. You are protecting yourself. Calluses on your toes, like putting protection on them, indicate that you are receiving too many new impressions. It’s like putting a hat on your head, to protect yourself. Calluses on the heel of the foot indicate that someone is very harsh for himself/herself and that that person is insecure. And calluses in the middle of the front part of your sole, formed as a straight line from the front towards the back of the foot, indicate something about the esophagus. It means that you have swallowed too much.
Removing calluses on your feet
It might seem like a strange suggestion, but as soon as you have a pedicure remove your calluses, you also remove a layer of the trapped emotions. Each time you go to the pedicure, this process continues, even if you remove the calluses at home. You remove a bit of your armor and the emotions can surface. If you are doing the MIR-Method during the same period, you really help yourself to get the emotions out of your system. Your feet won’t need to grow calluses anymore.
Will calluses stay away?
It’s very interesting to see how you’re doing. Do the calluses stay away or do they return? If they return, you still have more to work through. If they stay away, that’s a sign that you’ve grown and have let go of old pain! And that your self-confidence has grown and that you dare to express yourself better! Great news!
How about you? I’m very curious. Where are your calluses? And if you have been doing the MIR-Method, do the calluses stay away when they’ve been removed or do they return? I’d love to hear about it! Please tell me about it below. Thank you!
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My wish for you is soft, cuddly feet, an expression of your cleared-up inner being!
Mireille Mettes
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I have had cracks in my heels my whole life. Diet, lotions, pedicures… they only help for a little while and then they get worse. I did MIR for a month and no change.
Dear G,
Do you drink enough water? It seems to me that your body is dehydrated.
Good luck!
Greetings, Mireille
Dear Mireille,
Thank you for all your generosity for having given us this amazing MIR method.
I used to have the callus that is long on the sole of my feet for as long as I can remember. I started to assert myself in the recent years and started to speak out and defend myself to the person who abused me so much, Now reading your article, I went to check the calluses and realized they are no longer there. Omg! I still have the calluses on my heels, but then again I’m still insecure 🙁 Not easy to change that since I live within a difficult life situation.
God bless you for all you do,
Sylvia
Montreal, Canada
I became worried about my own feet as you mentioned that getting calluses means that one is wearing shoes that are too tight or that there is constant pressure on the foot. This reminded me of my daily walks to and from the park to help me lose weight before our annual Christmas party. With your tips, I will find a podiatrist to ask for advice. Getting his help will increase my chances of returning my feet back to normal. http://www.choicepodiatry.com/about-us/
Dear Tim,
Am glad you are willing to give extra professional attention to your feet! Will be great to feel them ‘being freed’ again!
Greetings, Mireille Mettes
The perfect solution you shared on this page with the outstanding steps to eliminating of cracks and wrinkles from the Sensitive skin of foot heal in a seven days by using the hemp seed oil daily after the washing of face completely and also remove the water with the risen of clean wipes or cloth according the period of a time after the recommendations of a doctor ,Remember you must go to a doctor one time in a week for a starting of proper treatment of eliminating wrinkles and pimples appeared on the Sensitive skin of foot due to light of sun with a red light therapy,keep it in your mind don’t work in the light of sun because the heat of sun with the particles of sun rays increase the wrinkles and cracks on the skin due to the demaged of skin layers after the working of some time you notice the color of skin become black and cracks are increased on the Sensitive skin of foot heal due to the effect of sun light . So take care of skin and avoid to work in a light of sun . you also use a mask on the face if necessary to work in the light of sun and also use carrot in the food salad .
Thanks.
Have just washed my feet. Feel so much better emotionally, still scared I have so much bottles up.
I do not expect you to publish anything from me but it’s an observation. I don’t yet know how to release the rest.
But thank you.
Dear Nina,
Just take the time and let your body work together with your subconscious. Trust the self healing capacity of your body. You have already noticed changes, I read in another comment. Many more will follow. Give it time.
Good luck!
Greetings, Mireille Mettes
Thank you. I have never in my life had callouses/cracks on my feet even when I walked barefoot lot, till I started to live/stay with my mother and I have developed massive callouses and cracks in my heels.
I have been doing the MIR for nearly two weeks. The information you share is so full of wisdom.
Dear Nina,
Thank you for your kind words. It is important to observe what changes you noticed when you started to live with your mother. Did you feel enough space and safety? It may have triggered old emotions from the past. The good news is that you can give peace to those emotions, using the MIR-Method. Just continu doing it.
Good luck!
Greetings, Mireille Mettes
Dear Mirelle,
I have just seen that you replied to my earlier posts. And yes the cracked heels only started when I started to be at my mother’s….
I have been filing them off again. I felt no peace and no safety here. I have started mir again.
Calluses are from a vitamin D3 deficiency
I can only speak for myself but I have terrible callouses and cracks etc., and my D-3 last tested was 90 so?
I completely agree with the idea i swallowed too much. But at the moment i don’ t anymore.
Dear Claudia,
I am very glad to read that you are so much stronger now! Did you grow stronger by yourself or did the MIR-Method help you with it?
Greetings, Mireille Mettes
Interesting thought. I swallow too much. True. Very true. I’ve only been using the MIR method for three days. So far I have felt nauseous. There’s a lot I need to deal with, I am working with an EFT practitioner and that’s helping too. I have lots to learn.
Dear Linda,
And so do we all! Everybody learns a great deal during his life. It’s wonderful that you are open to the fact that it helps you to learn about yourself! Keep going, you’re doing great!
Greetings, Mireile Mettes
Hoi Mireille,
Je schrijft de laatste weken artikelen op het juiste moment voor mij. Zo ook deze. Ik zit op dit moment weer in een volgend laagje van de emotionele ui, die afgepeld wordt. Een heftige periode. Ik heb last van gevoelloze hielen en gisteren heb ik daar maar eens laag eelt weggehaald. De gevoelloosheid bracht ik gevoelsmatig al in verband met deze periode, maar het eelt nog niet. Tot ik dit las. Thanks.
Groeten, Alyt
Bonjour,
J’aimerai bien avoir la traduction de tout ce site !
Comment faire ?
Merci de me l’expliquer.
Bonjour Georgia,
Regarder le site en Français: https://www.methodemir.fr
Bon courage!
Mireille Mettes
I am a serious hiker/mountain climber and calluses are a natural and important part of the sport. WHen I rock climb a lot I get them on my hands and they are quite necessary and helpful. In this case, I’m not sure what to do because it isn’t always beneficial to remove my calluses.
Dear Lindsey,
No, you are absolutely right. When you actually NEED the callouses, then do not worry about them and keep them in place. Same goes with people who use certain tools and get callouses on their hands. They need to keep them there to protect there skin. When you do the MIR-Method the callouses that are no longer necessary will leave your skin. You can trust your subconscious to find the right way.
Greetings and good luck rock climbing!
Mireille Mettes