If you listen to your body when it whispers, you won’t have to hear it scream.
Massage is an invitation to relax. It interrupts stress inducing patterns and helps nudge the body back into a natural state of balance. Massage achieves this by relaxing the muscles, tendons and ligaments. This together with pain relief, generally produce a relaxing response. The relaxation response is a state in which your heart and breathing rate slow, your production of stress hormones decreases, your blood pressure goes down and your muscles relax.
The physical pressure of massage may also improve blood circulation throughout the body, enhancing the delivery oxygen and nutrients to the muscle cells while removing waste products that cause swelling and other muscle issues.
