Massage Therapy for Stress
By: Adonis GreenTotal Views: 167, Word Count: 494,
Extended periods of stress can negatively affect many functions of the body. Stress has been shown to aggravate or even cause problems such as gastrointestinal disorders, heart disease, memory loss and decreased immune function. However, it doesn’t just contribute to physical ailments, but stress can drain joy from your life, cause fatigue and could stop you from enjoying your relationships and leisure activities.
Thus, massage therapy for stress is one of the best antidotes. We know that this is true on an instinctive level. Even if the amateur hands of your partner or friend can ease pains and aches and lessen anxiety, then imagine the effect of a therapeutic massage by a trained therapist. The rituals of massage come as a well needed break from our hectic lives. Soothing music, dimmed light, the pleasing fragrance of mild oil or a candle even might help you to relax, but if you add this with massage you would actually feel the stress leaving.
Massage is a manual therapy that uses hands on treating the muscles and other soft tissues to ease muscle tension and reduce stress. Though massage affects the whole body, it is especially therapeutic for the circulatory, lymphatic, musculoskeletal and nervous systems. Massage if done correctly, boosts the immune system of the body which can be compromised from prolonged periods of stress. Tension can build up in the muscles leading to reduction in blood circulation and delivery of nutrients to the tissues.
How can Massage Therapy help Manage Stress?
Just taking a break from your hectic routine to see a massage therapist could help you to lessen stress and once you arrive at an appointment, you would get even greater benefits. Massage can help you to handle stress by relieving tension and anxiety, increasing your energy, promoting relaxation, improving sleep, decreasing pain and reducing muscle soreness.
Therapeutic massage that includes Swedish massage, is the massage technique performed quite often to relieve stress. This massage therapy for stress involves gentle kneading pressure and long strokes applied to the surface to relieve tension in the muscles and connective tissues. Therapeutic massage frequently involves aromatherapy in the form of massage oil or candles and its pleasing fragrance can also contribute to stress relief during your massage therapy session.
A mixture of massage techniques can also be helpful in handling stress. Other massage techniques that can help reduce stress include deep tissue massage to release tension from the deeper muscles and connective tissues, shiatsu therapy to improve the flow of energy in the body by applying hard pressure to specific acupressure points and trigger point therapy to release muscle spasms from specific areas.
In short, by using therapeutic massage therapy for stress, you can significantly reduce your stress level. This in turn, would increase energy and improve your attitude towards life. Coupled with slightest changes in diet and activity levels, massage could be the start of a thoughtful change for the betterment of your health and well being.
About the Author
Adonis Green is a renowned massage therapist and has been in this field for the last 15 yrs. He has worked in all aspects of this field. He taught at the Dahan Institute of Massage studies for a few years and then went on to open his own spa. Today his spa is quite famous among many people including celebrities. He has helped heal many injuries of people through his unique massage techniques. His advices on any massage related queries will surely prove beneficial for anyone.
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