RELAXATION MASSAGE THERAPY
Why have a full body relaxation Massage?
Relaxation can relieve the negative health effects of your body's stress response, including headaches, insomnia or increased risk of heart disease.
If you are feeling stressed, then you may be having trouble with sleeping and concentrating, and with being positive and hopeful. Your body may be trying to get you to recognise that it is feeling stressed by giving you headaches, making you feel sick, giving you indigestion, a fluttery feeling in the tummy, or any one of a number of other signs that are trying to show you that you need to relax.
Most massage treatments will relax you, among other things. With a relaxation massage, relaxing you is the only aim. For this reason, it is one of the most complete and indulgent massages you can have.
The clue to relaxation massage is in the title. A good relaxation massage relieves stress and tension in your muscles and will leave you oozing with a sense of wellbeing.
Relaxation massage achieves this because of the general benefits of massage: it improves your circulation, so your organs and skin get more oxygen; it moves fluid through your lymphatic system. A relaxation massage encourages your body to digest its food, and get rid of its toxins. It will help you to sleep better. A massage will also help un-knot any muscles, soothe aches and sprains and encourage the skin to heal minor abrasions.
Studies have shown that massage:
- Improves blood and lymphatic circulations
- Elevates mood
- Provides relief from pain
- Aids recovery from injury
- Reduces anxiety
- Aids relaxation
- Reduces stress
- Reduces depression
- Improves quality of sleep
- Improves immune function
- Improves joint movement