Just Let Go

Let go, let go, let go...With a massage!

Have you noticed how when the sun is shining everybody seems so much more relaxed and happy?  It's as if the warmth of the sun just melts our worries away!

Believe it or not being relaxed and happy is our natural state of being but most of the time we're holding onto a lot of emotional tension and stress.

The human mind tends to cling onto past negative events as if armoring itself against a repeat replay and negative thoughts and emotions are put into their relevant places in the body...

The familiar aches and pains we get in our upper back and shoulders when life gets stressful and we feel like we're 'carrying the world on our shoulders'. the niggling worries that become 'a pain in the neck' and the heaviness and sickness we get in the stomach when life deals us a hard blow and we feel 'gutted'.   
                
Emotional issues flow through channels or meridians with in the body; when relaxed and our mind at peace, the body is able to function at it's optimum.  However when stressed, our body is thrown out of its natural balanced state and muscles automatically tighten and become knotted.  

This may be necessary as an initial fight or flight response but prolonged tension in the body isn't so good as rigid muscles affect the nerves governing vital organs and knots that store toxic chemicals represent blockages in blood and lymph circulation.  Healing life energy also becomes blocked which in turn creates further physical and emotional imbalances.

Over time if not released, emotional stress and tension begins to manifest itself in the form of headaches, insomnia, bad posture, aches and pains, skin eruptions, anxiety, depression, irritable bowel and high blood pressure, to name only a few.

Eating healthily, exercise, becoming mindful of the continual stream of thoughts that bombard us and taking time to simply relax are all great tools for reducing and managing stress however nothing beats a good massage to really unlock the storage places of emotional tension within the body.

It may take a few sessions to convince your body to fully let go of everything you've been carrying but to feel your muscles relaxing and realigning to where they should be and too have all those knots ironed out is always deeply satisfying.  The body becomes open and clear encouraging a healthy blood, lymph and energy flow.

Over time your muscles learn what it feels like to be relaxed; this helps you become more in tune with your body and conscious of your posture/alignment as well as any tension you may be holding.
 

With regular massage it becomes easier for the mind to let go.  The flowing peace and aliveness your body feels during a massage session coupled with an awareness on the breathe creates a physical and mental state of complete relaxation which reconnects you to your true self.  From this place not dissimilar to mediation, you are invited to let go of the constant chatter of the mind and just be.



Massage really is an incredible and much needed gift to give yourself, so come on....Just let go!