How Your Body Benefits from Massage

Massage is becoming one of the most well known, well understood and popular complementary therapies today, and for good reason. Due to the range of techniques and styles available in massage, you’d be astounded at just how good massage is for you. To find out more about exactly how you can benefit, read on for more information.



Physiological Massage Benefits

Massage has a strong effect on the body physically, or physiologically, and you will be surprised at just how much it can be of help to you. Some of these benefits include:

Improves waste removal processes in the body

Encourages sleep, thus helping with insomnia and other sleep issues

Helps to relieve stiff and aching joints

Encourages lymph drainage which can help to reduce swelling

Improves the blood circulation through the body

Helps to encourage deeper breathing

Improves skin tone and colour

Relaxes and relieves sore and tired muscles

Can either help to stimulate or sedate the nervous system

Helps the body to relax

Can help to limit scars forming after injuries and can also help to break down existing scar tissue

Massage can help to release muscles that are pressing on nerves, therefore relieving pain or tingling in arms and legs

Can improve muscle tone and balance, thus giving better support to the skeletal system

The relaxing properties of massage can help to decrease the heart rate

Regular massage can actually increase white blood cells, strengthening your immune system

By relaxing the respiratory muscles, massage can improve lung capacity

Improving and stimulating digestion

Psychological Massage Benefits

 

As well as the physical effects on the body, massage can also be very helpful psychologically.  Ways that you can psychologically benefit from massage include:

Overall relaxation, which is very important for helping to reduce stress, tension, anxiety, and the effects of these

It helps to ease the mental distress that is caused by being in pain

Massage can help to improve your self confidence and self esteem

It releases endorphins, which are the body’s natural “feel good” chemicals, giving you a natural high

Massage creates an overall feeling of wellbeing.

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