Stress and Massage
Massage is a pleasurable experience. It increases your body self awareness and sensitivity, reduces your stress, tension and anxiety levels, calms the nervous system, relaxes, focuses and clears your mind, helps to improve and maintain your posture, helps to fulfill your need for a caring and nurturing touch, encourages self-esteem and a general feeling of well-being and improves your emotional awareness. |
Health Benefits of Massage
The effects of a massage can vary according to the techniques employed. With most methods, the circulation of blood is enhanced throughout the body, the nervous system is calmed or activated and the muscles are stretched and relaxed. Specific techniques may be employed to target the lymphatic system, the digestive tract or other body systems. Relieving physical pain and stress improves your mental health and your physical well-being. Increasing the blood flow through massage can help to flush out waste generated by your muscles and body.
Most people will feel very relaxed and experience relief from long-term aches and pains developed from tension, stress or a repetitive activity. Following an initial period of calmness, people often experience a surge of energy, heightened awareness and greater productivity that can last for many days.
Massage enhances medical treatments and may shorten the time it takes for the body to recover from injury and illness. Massage or Reflexology can help release chronic muscular tension and pain, improve circulation, increase joint flexibility, reduce mental and physical fatigue and stress, promote faster healing of injured muscular tissue, improve posture and reduce blood pressure. |
Web Links
American Message Therapy Association (AMTA)
www.amtamassage.org
The AMTA is the oldest and largest institution representing the massage therapy profession. Their website is a great reference for industry related information and current events.
National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB)
www.ncbtmb.com
The NCBTMB aims to foster higher standards of ethical and professional practice through a credentialing program that assures the competency of practitioners of massage therapy and bodywork. This is a professional credential, but will not substitute for a license to practice massage therapy.
Upledger Institute
http://www.upledger.com
Founded by John E. Upledger, they offer workshops and clinical services in craniosacral therapy and other techniques.
American Botanical Council (ABC)
http://www.herbalgram.org
ABC is the leading independent, nonprofit, international member-based organization providing education using science-based and traditional information to promote the responsible use of herbal medicine.
American Herbalists Guild
www.americanherbalistsguild.com
A non-profit, educational organization to represent the goals and voices of herbalists. It is the only peer-review organization in the United States for professional herbalists specializing in the medicinal use of plants. AHG membership consists of professionals, general members (including students) and benefactors.
Connecticut Center for Massage Therapy
www.ccmt.com
Since 1980, CCMT has been dedicated exclusively to massage therapy, and is one of the largest independent, founder-operated massage schools in the country. We provide comprehensive and holistic training in a supportive learning environment, with innovative programs, preparation for professional practice, licensure and placement assistance, continuing education and more.
Partner Earth Education Center
www.partnereartheducationcenter.com
We hope you plan to visit us this year for our variety of herbal, plant spirit healing, heart-centered, and earth-based educational opportunities. We also invite you to experience the healing environment of Sweetwater while you receive a health consultation or treatment. It is here, surrounded by the exquisite beauty of mountains, waterfalls, diverse plant life and abundant wildlife where you hear rushing water in the stream, smell the sweet flowers, touch the rich earth, see the moonrise and shooting stars and taste the burst of flavor in wild greens that your essential nature comes alive and you remember who you are.
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