Human touch is necessary for our psychological well being, and yet is rare and little valued in our culture. We have come to value our ‘,louboutin pas cher,abercrombie paris The Return of Extended Wear Lenses;space’,abercrombie paris; and ‘personal boundaries’ to such an extent that even with those we are closest to, there is almost always distance. Massage can not happen unless those boundaries are dropped. With out touch, there is no massage,abercrombie.
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I sat down to write this article thinking it would be easy. After all I’m a massage therapist, I’d better know what massage is. However, here I am, half an hour later, and no further along then when I started. The problem is not defining massage, but encompassing it. How do you write a half page article about a term that applies to dozens of practices from around the world?
That being said, I have to start somewhere, so I might as well start here: Touch, human touch. Massage, in all it’s forms, is the use of touch to heal. Most of the time this touch takes the form of direct contact: kneading, pressing, pulling, stretching. Sometimes tools are used, as in the popular Hot Stone massage,hollister, which, likes its name suggests,abercrombie, use smooth, heated rocks to sooth and relax.
I am a trained massage therapist, and grew up surrounded by alternative medicine. I entered massage training almost by accident, and found that I had fallen into the place I truly belonged. I believe that healthy human contact is the most powerful medicine there is. If you’re interested, you can learn more about me, and my massage practice at
What about the second part of that definition? Healing is the purpose behind the touch. Often this healing is subtle: the release of stress, the easing of depression, the realignment of energy. Or it can be obvious: getting rid of a muscle knot, removing old scar tissue, releasing trigger points. Every massage therapist comes to the client with this intent: that when client leaves they will feel better, wholer, healthier then when they entered. What ever form the healing takes,hollister online shop, it is this purpose, this intent of touch that makes massage,abercrombie.
Merriam-Webster defines massage as soft tissue manipulation for therapeutic purposes,hollister. If you break that down, soft tissue manipulation means moving and working muscles and tendons; therapeutic, from the same source, means ‘providing or assisting in a cure,louboutin pas cher A Look At Key Ingredients in Memory Pills.’ Looking at it,hollister online shop Confidence And The Well Groomed Ma, there isn’t much literal difference between their definition and mine. I like mine better though. Massage, done properly, is not clinical,hollister deutschland, ‘therapeutic,’ manipulation.’,louboutin pas cher; It is soothing,abercrombie, warming, healing,abercrombie uk.
It is touch.
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