Mental Benefits
Massage helps to foster peace of mind, calmness and relaxation. The decreased blood pressure aftre a massage helps to assist with all of these.
Massage helps to reduce and to relieve stress, and decrease anxiety levels so promoting physical well being. It has been suggested that up to 90% of all diseases and conditions can be linked with stress, and that any reduction in mental stress levels improves our physical health.
Because of the increased mental calmness that massage promotes, sleep patterns are improved, and the quality of the sleep is improved.
This in turn increases energy levels, as these can be reduced by tiredness and stress, and these are improved by massage, particularly when the massage therapy is regular.
As a result of the reduction in stress and anxiety levels, clarity of thought is improved, which allows for improved concentration and a reduction in tiredness.
The act that the client is touched in an empathic manner helps to satisfy the emotional need for a caring, nurturing touch. Because the largest sense organ is the skin, touch is important to all of us, this is demonstrated by picking up a crying baby, sometimes that is what the child needs, the physical reassurance that they are cared for. This requirement is never lost, and hence the emotional need that is fulfilled during a massage therapy.
A massage also helps the mind - body link, so increasing a client's body awareness, increasing the ability for the client to understand their own body's needs.