Imagine one of your usual busy days, working hard, under a deadline. Will you ever get a break from all this pressure? Don't you just wonder sometimes?
When you lie down to receive a massage, sometimes simple act of lying down, taking a load off your feet begins to remove the figurative, but no less real, load off your back. And then the session begins, first with breathing in the relaxation, allowing body and mind begin to let go. And then the touch, the connection, finding the tension spots, feeling them relax under magical fingers. Have you ever wondered why massage therapy feels so good?
Within the first few days of massage school, we viewed what was known as the Touch Video, probably from Nova. In it we learned that if a newborn human was given everything it needs except for touch he would die. There was also a study in a corner store where the checkout clerk would give the customer change either without touching them, or by touching them very quickly and subtly. Outside someone would ask them about their experience, whether they liked the store and whether the clerk touched them. Interestingly those who were touched claimed they were not touched but still rated the business more favorably than those who were not touched.
I think massage feels so good because we are social beings, making touch a part of our very nature. Touch complements our humanity.
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