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“And your arms, legs, neck, shoulders, hands, feet . . .” said a massage therapist. Massage therapy is something we all already know about. Even monkeys know how to do massaging although they are not particularly aware that they are doing it. But they are!

Well, I bet you didn’t know that it’s most likely the most ancient and plainest form of health care. Massage is a healing art that has been around for a really long time, thousands of years in fact. In ancient times, it was illustrated in Egyptian tomb paintings. Even in archaic times, dating 4000 years ago, and the most ancient written record was a Chinese medical text called Con-Fu of the Toa-Tse, dating to about 1800 BC. Another record of massage therapy was called Ayurveda, which as deemed to be a divinely-created way of natural healing in India which emerged as early as 3000 B.C.

Today, different forms and techniques of massage continue to be discovered again from ancient practices and different cultures all over the world. Massage therapy is a term for manipulating, pressing, rubbing the skin, muscles, tendons, and ligaments.

Choosing the right massage for you may become challenging for there are different massage styles. When you go to a massage center, why do you go there? Is it just for relaxing? To relieve stress? Or perhaps you have been prescribed by a specialist or you’ve read something that said going to a massage center relieves any pain or symptom you are feeling? You should ask the massage therapist what massage will soothe you or what will give solace to the feeling you want to relieve.

There are wide varieties of massage therapy. The most widely known is the Swedish massage which consists of five strokes – Effleurage, Petrissage, Tapotement, Friction and Vibration. Despite the fact that it helps you relax, it can also lead to muscle tension, increase the circulation of the blood, and dissolve scar adhesions and lymph.

Another one is the aromatherapy massage which includes adding essential oils that helps in relaxing, energizing, reducing stress, maintaining balance and more.

Shiatsu, a Japanese bodywork that utilizes localized finger pressure, eases you up yet there is a firm pressure, and there is no soreness most of the time.

Then there is the deep tissue massage which is used to lessen pain and soreness to help rehabilitate injuries.

After all this, is there any benefit you ask? It wouldn’t be very popular and widely practiced if it doesn’t work right?

There are many good benefits of massage therapy. Firstly, it relieves you from stress. A stress-free life leads to a healthier lifestyle. If you have high blood pleasure, you don’t have to consider this for very long at all because it lowers your blood pressure! Been sitting in school all day long? Or at work? Have neck, back or perhaps a muscle pain? Another benefit is that it helps to relax the tense muscles. Besides these benefits, it also helps strengthens your immune system and allows for easier and deeper breathing if you have anxiety or feel nervous most of the time. Lastly, it improves the flow of your blood and even has other benefits too.