Relaxation for better mental and physical health.

Health, they say is wealth! 

Without sound health, all other activities will be put on hold. Also, health is the condition of the body and mind especially in terms of soundness and proper functioning. As we wake up every morning, there is a hassle already waiting for us because we engage in different activities every day from getting out of the bed, to the bathroom and dressing up for work. Spouses, parents, and adult children caring for elderly parents increasingly struggle to balance their work and family responsibilities. Therefore, after a long day or week when you must have faced a lot of stress and anxiety, then, there is a need for relaxation. There are advanced ways to relax your body aside from visiting the

recreation center, which is progressive muscle relaxation and advanced muscle relaxation.

Massage is healthy because it helps eliminate toxins from the body, allowing the body to heal, to improve immunity, and to use its energies for the fighting off disease. Improving flexibility and loosening muscles helps protect you from sprains, broken bones, pulled tendons, and a lot of pain. A good massage will help you sleep quicker and enjoy a deeper sleep. Deep sleep allows the body to repair itself, lose weight, mentally relax and help avoid depression or anxiety. Better sleep affects your mood, and your thinking, your memory, and your ability to make good decisions. A deep massage will stimulate the lymph nodes and let them do their job to fight disease, rid your body of impurities. If you have injury’s massage can help reduce swelling and inflammation to speed up the healing process.

Massage Benefits:  Checkout these benefits.

Relieve Stress,  Anxiety, Depression	Relieve postoperative pain	Manage low-back pain	Help fibromyalgia pain
Reduce muscle tension	Relieve tension headaches	Sleep better	Improve cardiovascular health
Reduce pain of osteoarthritis	Decrease stress in cancer patients	Improve Mood and Memory	Quicker Healing and better Immunity
Improve balance in older adults	Decrease rheumatoid arthritis pain	Temper effects of dementia	Lower blood pressure
Decrease symptoms of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome	Help chronic neck pain	Reduce chemotherapy-related nausea	Improve the quality of life in hospice care

Overview of different kinds of Massage for better health

Progressive muscle relaxation, on the one hand, can be considered when you are having a backache or feeling pain in the neck and this can be a result of stress. When someone experiences stress or anxiety, the body responds with muscle tension and to relieve the tension, progressive muscle is the best therapy to consider. While using progressive muscle relaxation, it is required to tense a group of muscles as you breathe in, and relax as you breathe out, and this will make you work on your muscle groups in a certain order. Also, when the body is relaxed physically, the feeling of anxiety will not be there anymore, therefore when you practice progressive muscle relaxation for days, it will help in stress relief and makes you get better in your skill.  Another benefit of using progressive muscle relaxation will help you solve the problem of insomnia.

Advance muscle relaxation, on the other hand, is making use of several muscle relaxation techniques to suppress the stress and anxiety one is going through. Thus, advance muscle relaxation techniques could be by making use of two or more therapy techniques for stress relief. One of the methods include;

Visualization: it is also known as guided imagery, and this entails asking the patient to imagine a scene in which he feels at peace, that is free from all tension and anxiety and chose the most calming setting either a beach or where they love to visit. This method can be practiced alone and it is ideal for relaxation.

Self-massage is another advance muscle relaxation although this can be done effectively in a spa or other health club to help reduce stress, ease muscle tension and ease the pain. Thus, this can also be done at home by practicing self-massage. Also, both visualization and self-image can be done at the same time and this, of course, will ease the stress and anxiety.

Deep muscle massage is also one of the best therapy to enhance the ability of mind and also makes the body fit. Deep muscle massage is a technique that is specifically used to treat the musculoskeletal problem which includes sports injuries, and strains. This method is done by applying pressure to the target inner layers of the muscle by using slow, deep strokes to connect the tissues. This method of massage has both physical and physical advantages as it helps to treat muscle pain and improve fitness, unlike other massages that focus on relaxation. Deep muscle massage can also help to unwind mentally.

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