Overcoming Stress Through Self-Massage

At work or at play, everyone is subject to stress from various causes. In social gatherings, worrying how to behave, what to say, or when to leave, are oftentimes reasons for dread. On job, performance evaluation, quota expectations, shifting schedules, human relationships, are routine grounds of strain and tension.

Additionally, normal daily living presents constant bombardment of mundane yet persistent problems like rent, purchases, and provisions. All these create pressure on our mind and soul.

Many people realize they are already suffering from stress only when body pains come or that they are having constant corporeal aches. The truth of the matter is that it can be manifested in physical, emotional, or mental planes. Even experts agree that 90% of diseases are due to long-term effects of stress.

What exactly is stress? Very simply it is the natural response of the human organism in coping with external forces or stimuli of danger. It is said to compose of three reactions in rapid sequence: fight-or-flight tendency, resistance action, and sheer exhaustion.

Experiencing it again and again inevitably weakens the body up to the point where it becomes susceptible to and then overcome by disease.
Immediate relief is therefore really very important. Fortunately, it may be availed of quite inexpensively and easily by learning how to massage oneself. This is a simple expedience with significant
consequence that it must not be overlooked or downplayed. There is no need for specialized equipment: just one’s own two hands. Neither is any particular venue necessary: anyplace and anytime will do.

Instinctively, humans rub the part that is affected, and that is the only practical training required. The only other precaution to be observed is that rubbing or massaging should be done in a direction towards the heart – downwards if from the upper extremities and upwards if from the lower extremities.



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