Massage
Multiplied: Benefits of Massage
While getting a
massage, regardless of how often, is incredibly beneficial to your mind
and body, getting frequent massage treatments is even more powerful as a
healthcare ally.
Massage therapists
know that their regular massage therapy clients notice a reduction in
pain, muscular tension and have improved posture.
Benefits of regular
massage can reduce the accumulation of stress and improve overall
health. The benefits of massage are cumulative.
This being the case,
it only makes sense that those aches and pains you see your massage
therapist for might disappear faster, stay away longer, or even go away altogether
with more frequent visits. Stress might never reach those
physiologically detrimental levels where the immune system is suppressed
or the nervous system is sent into an alarm state if you are able to
receive stress relieving bodywork with some consistency. Not only
would your body benefit by regularly unleashing its aches and pains
instead of adapting to them, but your mind would have to wash away the
stresses of a life lived in overdrive. Both are critical pieces
for living well.
Experts say the body
and mind can learn to live more calmly more efficiently, and more
healthfully, when frequent massage shows the way. That makes for a
healthier whole, allowing us to continue to live life at its fullest,
even as we deal with each new stress or challenge.
Massage Can:
*Alleviate stress:
experts say more than 90 percent of disease is stress-related, and
nothing ages us faster-inside or out-than the effects of stress.
*Alleviate low-back
pain and increase range of motion
*Create body
self-awareness
*Improve muscle tone
and stimulate their nerve supply.
*Improve elasticity of
skin and promote skin rejuvenation.
*Improve sleep and
calm the mind.
*Increase endorphin
and serotonin production
*Reduce edema, as well
as joint inflammation
*Release negative
holding patterns from previous injuries.
*Stimulate lymph
circulation and enhance immunity.
Above information is
from Body Sense magazine, autumn/winter 2009
