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The benefits of massage

benefits of massage

Nowadays, people are busy, their lives are chaotic and leaves little room for relaxation. In a world as chaotic and pressing, the benefits of massage can significantly improve your health and well-being while helping you become more focused and more relaxed. More and more people are turning to massage therapy to relieve the stress of daily life. Painful joints, muscles or simply overworked human need to be affected are some of the main reasons why these people try to experience the art of relaxing massage therapy. Your body, your mind and your soul will enjoy the benefits of a relaxing massage.

Some health benefits of massage therapy:

• Heart rate attenuated
• Blood pressure decreased
• Muscles relaxed
• More endorphins
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Three keys to a massage exceptional

massage exceptional

How to create the ideal environment for massage

If you want to massage someone, it is important to make the experience as relaxing as possible. In addition to its virtues relaxing massage also provides a real benefit medically: it improves the circulation and the muscular system and eliminates muscular tension and joint.

Because it relaxes and revitalises both, it is essential to create the ideal atmosphere to practice massage. The three key elements are: light, atmosphere and temperature playing with these factors, you will find the compromise that will suit you and what you’re massaging.

First, let’s look at the light. Most people do not like the lights too bright and fluorescent, such as those found in stores. The fewer lights, more people are likely to relax. If you need a minimum of lighting, better light some candles to light bulbs in the ceiling.
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Massage Therapy for Seniors

Therapy for Seniors

Massage therapy can offer senior citizens a number of benefits that can improve your sense of health and welfare. As the population continues to grow, it is important to consider how we can improve the lives of those who are affected by the passage of time. Many studies have shown that massage therapy can have a direct impact on managing the effects of age. It has also shown he can bring comfort to those suffering from arthritis and other physical problems.

As people age they naturally become less active. This lack of physical activity can lead to other conditions which, if untreated, can reduce the quality of life. The National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork has been promoting the use of massage as therapy for some time. According to a recent study, a lot of knowledge of massage therapy but very little understanding of its direct benefits.
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Dance Therapy

Dance Therapy

In dance therapy, the body becomes the instrument from which one learns to be comfortable in his skin, leaving his head to find the energy of the child. Dance therapy is the awareness of self and the release of tension and dispute named in memory of the body. Physically, it improves circulation, coordination and muscle tone. Mentally and emotionally, it strengthens assertiveness, revives the intellectual capacity and creativity, and can meet emotions sometimes difficult to verbally express anger, frustration, feelings of isolation, etc..

A dynamic therapy

A session of dance therapy is conducted individually or in groups in a place that resembles a dance studio to a therapist’s office. At the first meeting, the therapist seeks to establish the motives and objectives of the process, then it continues with dance and movement. The movements can be improvised or not, and vary the style of the therapist. The music is not always present in groups, it can be a unifying element, but the silence encourages the pace of research in itself.

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Californian massage

Californian massage

Californian massage is a holistic approach that focuses as much relaxation as the awakening of a psycho-consciousness. This massage uses long, slow and fluid movements that allow a deep physical and mental relaxation.

Starting with gentle stroking, enveloping and relaxing, laborers are linked and improved to ease tensions deeper. This can raise and release hidden emotions, embodied in the bodily memory. Over the massed person surrenders to the experience, the more it appears that the Californian massage called touching the heart.

Californian massage appeared in the early 1970s, at the time of the emergence of therapy groups which had precedence over development of human potential, the expression of feelings and mind-body connection. The Institute Esalen1 a growth center located in Big Sur in California, then brought together many researchers who contributed greatly to this current of thought. Various forms of therapy and several physical techniques are born.
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Meditation antidote to aging

Meditation antidote to aging

How aging slower? The systemic aging.

Reflections on Aging and its antidote meditation. Aging in the jargon of systems is the “entropy”.
Everything is deteriorating, the fire goes out, rust corrodes, time flies, old age we win!
The entropy is: – everything has an end – time is irreversible. Degradation, loss of material and information becomes irreversible and death is certain!

But the systems approach also recognizes that life resists entropy, through the uptake of circulating information (negentropy). Capturing the energy circulating, this is done by meditating on the present moment. Through meditation, we can give a positive dynamic in our lives, to resist …

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Neo-Reichian Massage

Neo-Reichian Massage

The neo-Reichian massage is a holistic approach that allows to recognize the link between physical sensations and emotional experience. It aims to release muscle tension recorded in the memory of the body and refine the consciousness of “self.”

The interaction with the therapist and integrating body / emotions are paramount in this approach. It is through this experience that the subject can reactivate or verbalize his emotions or repressed unconscious. The therapist and the person being massaged therefore working together in order to resolve the tension and release the emotional charge, among others, by working on breathing. The technique is derived from the work of Dr. Wilhelm Reich1 (1897-1957), Austrian physician and psychoanalyst, considered one of the pioneers of psycho-therapy.

Therapeutic applications of neo-Reichian massage

According to the Quebec Federation of massage therapist, the neo-Reichian massage is indicated for people who suffer from back pain or headaches, insomnia, anxiety, digestive problems, symptoms of sciatica, burnout or simply feel the need to be affected. In addition, as part of a psycho-exploration, this type of massage can cause the person to realize the links that exist between muscle tension and emotional or psychological problems.

Regarding evidence, it appears that no clinical trials have been conducted to assess the specific effects of neo-Reichian massage. By cons, many studies confirm the effectiveness of massage in general to relieve many ailments.

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