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Title: Why Massage?
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Author: Sam Benton
Email: jeffandalex@vm05.wanadoo.co.uk
Category: Health & Fitness
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Why Massage?
As a general rule of thumb, when a hobby, a pastime or in
this instance, a treatment has been around for a
significant period of time, it’s generally because it
continues to intrigue, to give pleasure or to give
significant benefits to the participant.
In the case of massage therapy, the first recorded
application was some 5000 years ago, although arguably
massage therapy has been practiced for many thousands of
years prior to this.
Such longevity for any therapeutic therapy suggests that
there is significant merit for its continued use, in fact
massage therapy has never been more popular, and is now
firmly established as an invaluable tool available to any
medical practitioner in the pursuit of good health and
wellbeing for their patients.
The benefits of massage therapy extends beyond the
physical, and are widely acknowledged to bring huge
psychological improvements. Anyone who’s had a massage will
confirm the `feel good’ factor they experience immediately
after, a state which comes about because of the direct
effects of massage.
What’s the cause of this `feel good’ factor?
The most likely candidate is endorphins. Endorphins are
naturally occurring wonder drugs produced and released by
the brain. They are released during massage or exercise and
are directly responsible for the state of euphoria often
experienced by the lucky recipients.
If massage therapy produces such highly desirable results,
a reasonable question to ask is, where do I start?. A quick
glance in the yellow pages reveals any number of masseurs,
clinics or health spa’s in your area, so accessibility
should be no problem. Unfortunately for some strange
reason, massage and massage therapy, when not prescribed by
a physician, seems to have become the preserve of the
wealthy, which is extremely unfortunate, not least because
of the benefits that can be enjoyed by all.
Most massage requires an additional pair of hands, however,
facial massage is an activity which can be learned and
performed by any individual. The appeal of self massage
goes a step further due to the fact that every individual
can control their environment completely with the addition
of aromatherapy and relaxing music and all important
privacy.
So do yourself a massive favour, start by giving your face
a very satisfying therapeutic massage, in the comfort of
your own home and in no time at all, you’ll start to look
and feel good, and who knows where your new found feel good
factor will lead.
Happy massaging.
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