The benefits of massage therapy are many. Massage therapy can be physically, mentally, and spiritually rewarding with over 300 modalities to relieve stress, relax muscles, improve range of motion, lessen anxiety and depression, enhances immunity and decreases medication dependence. Massage can also strengthen the immune system, improve rehabilitation, lower blood pressure, manage pain and fibromyalgia as well as relieve headaches related to tension. More and more people are turning to massage to relieve stress, find relaxation, and simply maintain a healthy balance in life.
Massage is body awareness.
To Be Touched
by Earon S. Davis
7/3/04
Receiving massage is . . . to be touched, with caring compassion, with knowledge of healing, with respect for body, mind, emotions, family and even soul. It is forming a partnership to help heal weariness and fear, to relax in a profound manner and unlock the healing powers of the unconscious.
Massage is to look in another's eyes, to feel another's hands on your body, and know that you are safe, accepted without judgment, at your own comfort level, the only agenda being to help you.
Massage is to ask a trained professional to touch you in areas that are appropriate, but not normally touched, even in areas that may hold pain, that may hold deep fear, all because you trust their intention to facilitate your healing.
It is to allow yourself to be trusting and yet a bit vulnerable, for the purpose of better understanding your body, of releasing some of the tension you carry with you daily.
Massage is to be open to healing, while being respected and safe. It is to have your questions answered fully and to have your comfort levels respected. Whether fully clothed or unclothed under draping, massage can be an important path of healing from the challenges of life's journey.
Massage is . . . a poem written in the deep tissues of your body to facilitate the release of pain and weariness, to calm your mind and to lift your spirit. This is . . . to be touched.
by Earon S. Davis
7/3/04
Receiving massage is . . . to be touched, with caring compassion, with knowledge of healing, with respect for body, mind, emotions, family and even soul. It is forming a partnership to help heal weariness and fear, to relax in a profound manner and unlock the healing powers of the unconscious.
Massage is to look in another's eyes, to feel another's hands on your body, and know that you are safe, accepted without judgment, at your own comfort level, the only agenda being to help you.
Massage is to ask a trained professional to touch you in areas that are appropriate, but not normally touched, even in areas that may hold pain, that may hold deep fear, all because you trust their intention to facilitate your healing.
It is to allow yourself to be trusting and yet a bit vulnerable, for the purpose of better understanding your body, of releasing some of the tension you carry with you daily.
Massage is to be open to healing, while being respected and safe. It is to have your questions answered fully and to have your comfort levels respected. Whether fully clothed or unclothed under draping, massage can be an important path of healing from the challenges of life's journey.
Massage is . . . a poem written in the deep tissues of your body to facilitate the release of pain and weariness, to calm your mind and to lift your spirit. This is . . . to be touched.