Article by Thomas Jane

“Massage” has been practiced as a healing therapy in nearly every culture around the world for many centuries. It promotes our well-being by relieving muscle tension, reduce stress, and evoke a serene feeling. The term “massage therapy” encompasses many different techniques from Swedish to Shiatsu, but basically the idea of a massage therapy is to press, rub and manipulate the superficial and deep layers of our muscles and connective tissues using hands, fingers, forearms, elbows, and feet to enhance function, aid in the healing process, and promote relaxation.

Brief History

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Massage is the treatment of external layers of muscle and connective tissue to improve and boost up the functioning and give relaxation, comfort, freshness and well being. Massage therapy is very well liked by people. Mostly people do massage therapy for relaxation and peace of mind.

Massage engages performing on and controlling the body with pressure – structured, unstructured, – tension, motion, or vibration, stationary, or moving done manually or with mechanical aids. Objective tissues may consist of muscles, tendons, ligaments, skin, joints, or other connective tissue, as well as lymphatic vessels, or organs of the gastrointestinal system. Massage therapy can be applied with the hands, fingers, elbows, knees, forearm, and feet.

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The idea of energy balance has its basis in medical systems that have been utilized in the Far East for thousands of years. All of these systems assume that there is a subtle nonphysical energy that permeates and circulates throughout the body.

Traditional Chinese medicine calls this “chi”.  The terms that best describe this energy in English would be “life force” or “vital energy”. The difference in energy that you feel when you have the flu versus when you are healthy is an example of fluctuations in this type of energy.

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Origins of the massage therapy

Massage therapy as a cure for ailments is as old as Cain and Abel. And its tenacity makes its genesis almost untraceable. But, if experts are to be believed, it was first practiced in the land of far and middle east. Approximately a 5000 year old therapy, it has since been practiced in myriad ancient civilizations including India, Greece, Rome, China and Egypt. It gradually percolated to other parts of the globe, with today most of the countries having adapted it, thus giving birth to copious novel techniques of massage.

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In today’s life, physical stress is most common among all ages of people. It has become the number one cause for many other associated problems and people opt for various treatments methods for reducing physical stress. However, in my opinion Asian massage is one of the easy and quick methods of healing the physical stress. Here, I will be covering some of the advantages of Asian massage briefly.

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It seems that whatever ease and calm efforts we try to make our lives less stressful, it turns out we can’t control what’s going on around us. And this, as it always had done, makes us more tiring and exhausted by the end of the day. You may not know it, but perhaps the extreme stress and tiredness may be due to something else. The best retreat, a soothing massage to comfort the aching and tired mind and body.

A good alternative for relaxation is the Shiatsu massage. Shiatsu massage is holistic, focusing on the whole person, both mind and body. Unlike western medicine, which treats symptoms, Shiatsu seeks to discover and treat the source of the imbalance. Consequently, Shiatsu may be used both to treat and prevent disease. During a session, one might also receive various suggestions that are intended to assist the healing process. These suggestions may include dietary, life habits, thought/perception and lifestyle changes. Shiatsu is also a great alternative for people interested in the benefits of acupuncture but are needle shy. Because shiatsu’s focus is on massaging the meridians, so to speak, the massage may feel deep and focused without feeling invasive and “pushy.”

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People who get chronic back pain will tell you that it is a life-altering ailment. It has serious implications on the ease of carrying out daily activities and function. Back pain sufferers can feel completely disabled by their condition and therefore, prone to depression.

Back pain is one of the most common ailments in adults and sub adult today, it can be caused by something simple as a poor lifting habit or even poor sleeping habits. This can become a very large problem, as this type of pain really has no boundaries and can last from hours to months. This is a very long time for someone to suffer this type of pain, as sometimes it can be very excruciating.

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”If I’d known I was going to live this long. I’d have taken better care of myself” — Eubie Blake at the age of 100

Such a work driven society we live in today, it’s very easy to be led into a monotonous routine. Bed to desk, desk to dinner table then back to bed! The few luxuries that we afford ourselves are the few minutes of conversation during breaks, the cigarette and the occasional outing. Rarely do any of these contribute constructively to our ever degenerating bodies. Even athletic individuals concentrate more on the wear and tear (jogging, exercising), relying on the regenerative functions of the body to reign supreme. That just might work for us till a certain age, but what then?

Incremental bulge of the belly, stiffness of both body and mind, pressure on joints and the ever imposing ”age-factor” make us all the more prone to physical and (the correlated or otherwise) mental stress vis-a-vis back pains, headaches, anxiety, depression, blood pressure, insomnia, injuries, reduced blood flow to the muscles (including cavernous dysfunction), PMS pains and what not! Blue collar or white collar, athletes or stay at home parents; we all are dependent on our bodies to keep us in action. Society has come to that junction where primary medical facilities are just not keeping pace anymore! Where do we turn to then?

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The idea of energy balance has its basis in medical systems that have been utilized in the Far East for thousands of years. All of these systems assume that there is a subtle nonphysical energy that permeates and circulates throughout the body.

Traditional Chinese medicine calls this “chi”.  The terms that best describe this energy in English would be “life force” or “vital energy”. The difference in energy that you feel when you have the flu versus when you are healthy is an example of fluctuations in this type of energy.

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