Therapeutic
Massage

• Are you stiff with aching muscles?
• Does your body feel tired even after you have slept?

Massage can help relieve pain, stiffness and tension

Massage can help relieve stress and anxiety and lets you take a little time for yourself.

We spend a great deal of time concentrating on other people or activities. During this time our own resources are depleted. Our bodies continually tell us what we need to do to care for them - yet we can be stubborn at dismissing those signs. Our muscles tighten up as stress increases. This in turn constricts blood flow and exacerbates the problems - so we enter a vicious cycle.

Massage can help you break the cycle.

The physical benefits of massage

On a physical level, massage will help to increase blood circulation and lymph flow, helping your body provide the muscles with essential nourishment and eliminate the waste products. Pain or stiffness, commonly felt in the neck, shoulders and back, are often due to muscles that have gone into spasm or that are over-stretched or worked.

Massage can help by working on the muscles in different ways to help them release and return to how they should be.

Nerve pain, such as sciatica, can be as a result of an injury. But pain can be prolonged as the muscles continue to stay contracted to help protect the area when they no longer need to.

Massage can help alleviate this problem and encourage the muscles to relax and allow the body time to begin to heal itself.

The effects of our muscles being tense all the time is that we can feel very tired and never really rested. This is often due to the fact that our muscles never relax properly and so are continually using up our energy, even while we are sleeping!

Massage can help release the tension.

The emotional benefits of massage

On an emotional level, massage can act as an un-intrusive support. How we feel emotionally can have a tremendous effect on our body and really impede our level of functioning. Massage offers real acceptance and care, which is something everyone needs. It is not about talking through problems but just allowing your body some focused attention and the chance to let go. That in itself has a profound effect on many people?s well-being.

Your sleep is affected when you are stressed, and can result in disturbed nights where you are unable to ?switch off?. You start the day tired and eat food to give you instant energy to keep going, which can result in digestive problems, increased anxiety and general misery.

As anxiety, fear or frustrations increase, your body releases hormones to prepare you for the apparent ?danger? it is anticipating. There often is no real danger but the release of these hormones still effect your whole system physically and continual build-up of them can cause real problems.

Massage can help give you the space to get away from these stresses, slow your body down and relax which will then help on all levels.

Do you dislike an area of your body, maybe your hips, legs or belly? Do you make a lot of effort to ignore or hide that area, through clothing as well as in your head? We have this amazing ability to cut off from our body, and by doing so we also can begin to starve that area of nutrients. Massage can help us to refocus on those areas in a more accepting way and re - integrate them. By doing this, our perception can change. Our acceptance of those areas increases our sense of well-being. As this process happens, these 'problem' areas may actually change in feel and shape as your circulation increases and drainage improves.

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