Benefits of Swedish Massage
A good massage affects you
on all levels of your being.
Physically, its benefits include relaxing and toning your muscles;
assisting the venous flow of blood; soothing the nervous system;
encouraging the lymphatic flow; and stretching the connective tissue of
joints
On a mental level,
massage not only relieves stress and anxiety, it also helps you to
become more conscious of your body as a whole, of the parts that you are
in touch with and of those that feel "cut off". Once you are aware of
where your energy blocks lie, you can begin to try and integrate your
body and, in developing a more positive self-image, take responsibility
for your own happiness and health.
A caring massage creates
feelings of well-being, trust and joy. It can also release a great deal
of energy hitherto wasted in tension and, by transforming chronic habits
of acting and reacting, effect profound changes on both posture and
facial expression. The emotional aspect of massage is extremely
important.
On a spiritual level,
the benefits of massage are hard to describe, for we are talking of
something that is intrinsically indefinable - the essence, the "life
force", the whole that is more than the sum of its parts. But it is not
uncommon during a massage for both giver and receiver to attain a state
of heightened awareness, of "presence in the moment", that is akin to
the experience of meditation.
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