Massage Is Not A Luxury!

From my business webpage: http://serenitymassagetherapyllc.abmp.com/. 

Too many people in our culture have come to think of massage as a luxury - as spoiling themselves.  While a great massage can actually feel like you've just been spoiled, it does so much more.  See the "Benefits of Massage" tab for more details on this point.  

At Serenity Massage Therapy LLC, my goal is to bring all the benefits of massage to anyone within my reach who needs it.  I understand how hard times are for everyone right now.  For many, it's hard to justify spending money on ourselves, especially when we think it's for something we can do without.  

I believe that the majority of our health issues and several types of injuries find their roots in stress.  If we can reduce or alleviate the stress, the body can learn (or re-learn) how to heal itself without the use of pain medications, drugs for this issue, other drugs for that issue... Once we start taking drugs for one thing or another, we start depending on them.  Then we start needing more drugs to counter the effects of the other drugs. Our bodies end up spending all their efforts filtering out all the drugs we are taking for things we could have resolved ourselves if we could just kick out the toxins caused by stress. 

I'm not saying that no one should ever take any drug.  I keep a bottle of OTC pain meds handy for "just in case."  There are also medical conditions and injuries severe enough that drugs are a vital part of the recovery process. Using massage to reduce stress and relieve muscle pain (and thus joint pain) can aid the work of the prescribed medications by helping the body to relax, help lengthen the muscles, and help push the toxins out of the system by increasing circulation.

Consider yourself a machine that requires fine tuning to keep everything running smoothly.  You need fuel, oil, WATER, a good pump and some good filters: fuel = food; oil = the synovial fluid in your joints; WATER = WATER; pump = heart; filters = lungs and kidneys (with help from the liver).  You don't consider it a luxury to get regular maintenance on your vehicle, do you?  

It is never too late to start treating your body better.  You may have a long way to go to get back to a smooth running machine, and you may not be able to get all the way back to where you were before.  But that doesn't mean you shouldn't try to bring yourself back as close to that state as you can get.  I want to help you realize that you can heal, and I want to help you remember how to heal.  And by doing so, perhaps, I will help bring you that Serenity.