Relieve Holiday Stress Get a Massage

By Kyle Brooks, LMT

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Relieve Holiday Stress Get a Massage

Tis the busy season that brings much joy and comfort to many gathering and celebrating the holidays with friends and family. It also brings a lot of stress shopping, traffic, parties, eating, drinking, travel, entertaining, decorating. And for some it can bring on bouts of depression, loneliness and anxiety.

So, take care of yourself get a massage. Make time for yourself. Recharge your body, mind and spirit. A massage or shiatsu session can restore your positive spirit.

Shiatsu is a Japanese word meaning “finger pressure.” A form of Asian body work, its goal is similar to that of acupuncture or acupressure to restore the balance of energy (chi) in the body.

Using ancient Asian concepts, the shiatsu practitioner (giver) utilizes points (tsubos) along the body's meridians. Practitioners of Chinese medicine and shiatsu assert that disease, illness, discomfort and many physical and emotional infirmities are caused by imbalances in the flow of energy.

Balanced chi promotes physical comfort; improves the immune system; provides for better physical and stronger, and more stable emotional health.

Shiatsu can bring

• Profoundly deep relaxation.
• Relief from common physical symptoms of stress fatigue, muscle tension, anxiety, headaches and joint pain.
• Rejuvenation, harmony and peace.
• A greater self-awareness and more complete connection of body, mind and spirit.
• Increased ability to sense and balance your own energy.
• Mastery of your own health and well-being. Regular private sessions will balance your energies so that your body can follow its natural impulse to heal itself.

You, too, can face the holiday and winter season more relaxed and fortified.