Massage News 4U
10 TIPS TO STRESS LESS
Focus on the present
Relax with a MASSAGE
Set yourself realistic goals
Be active, eat and rest well
Develop supportive relationships
Accept the things you can't change
Note 5 POSITIVE THINGS each day
Use humour to see things differently
Find opportunities in life's challenges
Give someone a Massage Gift Certificate
CANCER IGNORANCE
Australian men are in denial when it comes to their lifestyle and the role that personal choice plays in cancer, a leading health group said.
Cancer Council NSW chief executive Dr Andrew Penman said, analysis of help line calls by men showed just 6% were to seek advice on prevention (massage) or risk factors.The rate of queries was low compared to the 30% of cancers in men that were lifestyle-related and therefore preventable. Massage therapy may heal cancer patients.
NO MORE STRESS
Our chief massage practitioner said, regular Massage Treatments will help circulate your blood + oxygen levels from head to toe in the body. Dynamically increase your immune system. Therefore, preventing most sickness/illness, unless you have a family history. Many scientific studies have shown that massage may reduce stress related symptoms, like pain, fatigue, anxiety, depression, nausea and many more. During times of uncertainty it it natural to feel stressed. Chronic stress can depress immune function and lower your body's resistence to a whole host of invading pathogens. Left unaddressed stress can lead to sickness, increased visits to the doctor, more prescriptions and higher costs.
HIGH COST OF SICKNESS AND ILL HEALTH IN AUSTRALIA
It is estimated that over 60% of all deaths in Australia result form nutrition-retated chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes ans cancer. Choronic diseases affect around 80% of older Australians ans are the main cause of disability and death. Chrone diseases also account for 70% of total health expenditure. Those with heart conditions can expect to pay over $4000 per person per year for treatment, while the direst costs of osteoarthritis are estimated at a staggering $1.19 billion annually. The good news is chrone diseases are largely preventable.
Adopting healthy behavaviour with regular massage therapy can prevent or delay the development of many chronic diseases and ill health.
Prevention is always better than cure for your body and with the high cost of health care, prevention is better for your wallet too!
Massage therapy, healing touch are good medicine for the treatment and prevention of chronic disease
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
As more and more people are discovering, massage therapy and healing touch therapies are proving to be extremely good medicine for treating those with chronic diseases such as cancer, osteoporosis, depression, and even circulatory disorders. There are several good reasons for this, such as the fact that massage therapy helps move lymph fluid around the body and oxygenate organs and tissues. Plus, there's probably something healthy going on in the fact that human touch is taking place. However, there is a widespread belief, especially among the leaders in Western medicine, that massage therapy can't possibly be considered a medical treatment. Most insurance companies still refuse to pay for massage therapies, and few doctors prescribe it, although the number of doctors recommending it has been increasing over the last few years.
I believe that massage therapy is shunned by the medical community primarily because it is considered an unsophisticated treatment -- you don't need a medical degree to give someone an effective massage. There's not a lot of equipment involved in massage therapy, it doesn't have a lot of cool technology, and it doesn't require years of training. And thus, it is looked upon as something that is below Western medicine, both by doctors and by many patients.
But all of this is a distortion -- something doesn't have to be complicated or cool to be effective as a healing treatment. Massage therapy gets to the fundamentals -- that is, the power of human touch, and the spiritual healing potential of one person's hands touching another person's body along with positive healing intent. These are timeless principles of healing that don't require technology to be effective.
Given that massage therapy and therapeutic touch are so effective in helping patients heal themselves, I find it astounding to observe the lack of physical contact between doctors and their patients in clinics and hospitals across the country. Doctors almost seem scared to touch their patients, and in fact, many doctors don't want to be touched, either. This lack of touch keeps everything at a "safe akes their interactions non-personal and sterile. It also allows the doctor to keep patients at a distance, where they can perceive them as patients with patient IDs rather than human beings with souls and spirits and emotions. It is this distance -- this chasm between doctors and patients -- that contributes to the lack of effectiveness in modern medicine.
True healers are willing to get involved with their patients in terms of understanding them, seeing the world from their perspective, and even touching them in a healing way with positive intent. That's why our modern physicians are outstanding technicians, but terrible healers. Personally, I would much rather see a massage therapist than a physician, unless I were suffering from sort of radical, acute injury such as an accident in which case, of course, Western doctors and surgeons are the very best in the world. But when it comes to treating chronic disease and maintaining a high degree of health on a regular basis, massage therapy and healing touch offer an outstanding system of healing that I highly recommend.
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
As more and more people are discovering, massage therapy and healing touch therapies are proving to be extremely good medicine for treating those with chronic diseases such as cancer, osteoporosis, depression, and even circulatory disorders. There are several good reasons for this, such as the fact that massage therapy helps move lymph fluid around the body and oxygenate organs and tissues. Plus, there's probably something healthy going on in the fact that human touch is taking place. However, there is a widespread belief, especially among the leaders in Western medicine, that massage therapy can't possibly be considered a medical treatment. Most insurance companies still refuse to pay for massage therapies, and few doctors prescribe it, although the number of doctors recommending it has been increasing over the last few years.
I believe that massage therapy is shunned by the medical community primarily because it is considered an unsophisticated treatment -- you don't need a medical degree to give someone an effective massage. There's not a lot of equipment involved in massage therapy, it doesn't have a lot of cool technology, and it doesn't require years of training. And thus, it is looked upon as something that is below Western medicine, both by doctors and by many patients.
But all of this is a distortion -- something doesn't have to be complicated or cool to be effective as a healing treatment. Massage therapy gets to the fundamentals -- that is, the power of human touch, and the spiritual healing potential of one person's hands touching another person's body along with positive healing intent. These are timeless principles of healing that don't require technology to be effective.
Given that massage therapy and therapeutic touch are so effective in helping patients heal themselves, I find it astounding to observe the lack of physical contact between doctors and their patients in clinics and hospitals across the country. Doctors almost seem scared to touch their patients, and in fact, many doctors don't want to be touched, either. This lack of touch keeps everything at a "safe akes their interactions non-personal and sterile. It also allows the doctor to keep patients at a distance, where they can perceive them as patients with patient IDs rather than human beings with souls and spirits and emotions. It is this distance -- this chasm between doctors and patients -- that contributes to the lack of effectiveness in modern medicine.
True healers are willing to get involved with their patients in terms of understanding them, seeing the world from their perspective, and even touching them in a healing way with positive intent. That's why our modern physicians are outstanding technicians, but terrible healers. Personally, I would much rather see a massage therapist than a physician, unless I were suffering from sort of radical, acute injury such as an accident in which case, of course, Western doctors and surgeons are the very best in the world. But when it comes to treating chronic disease and maintaining a high degree of health on a regular basis, massage therapy and healing touch offer an outstanding system of healing that I highly recommend.