Massage is like working out! It is deeply healthy for you!

I often find my clients having a hard time carving time out of their busy schedule for massage.

I know for me, that over the past 7 years of massage practice, it can still be a challenge to carve time in my own schedule. The rational and “workaholic” section of my brain argues that “Surely we could be doing something more productive! This is just pampering!”

Yes, even my mind is kinda narrow minded about the subject. But of course, by now, I ignore the voices in my head that argue against something that is good for me.

The truth is, massage is one of the most special and unique ways to do something really healthy for yourself. When you put yourself in someone else’s hands, there’s a deep letting go of responsibility and stress. Most of us really need to get our stress down anyway. Massage gives you one of the few passive ways to achieve this goal.

Massage is really healing! Especially if you come to me - a deep tissue or injury treatment specialist - you have a chance to permanently alter your body for the better so that the activities of your life do not cause the pain and aches they have in the past. Scar tissue and adhesions get reduced and you leave the massage table feeling more open, free and relaxed in your body.

Massage can feel so good that I think people often think of it only as a luxury. YES! It feels Great! But that is not where the benefits stop. The combination of feeling like your pampering yourself as well as really taking care of the miracle that is your amazing body gives you such an empowered feeling that life doesn’t seem so hard.

Your work becomes easier. Your body moves freely. Your mind is more open to possibilities, kindness to yourself and others and creating more of a life that you love instead of one that is the constant “go-go-go” that breaks your body, mind and heart down.

Do yourself a favor and see massage as healing. See massage as a necessary part of your health and healing regiment. All the other ways to heal yourself can seem like chores: eating veggies, working out and taking vitamins, but massage is the healing thing you do for yourself that makes you feel good - and it’s so much easier to be happy doing it than eating veggies.

Carve out the time! Get a massage. It feels good and it’s deeply good for your body, mind and heart!