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Meditation

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 | Business Insights, Featured, healthly living | 1 Comment

There’s a study out there that my favorite guru, Wayne Dyer, mentioned in his CD set “There’s a spiritual solution to every problem.” It shows how powerfully meditation increases the experience of peace.

Seretonin levels in the people’s bodies were measured before and after meditation.

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Healing Magical Crystals and Gems

Sunday, June 17th, 2007 | Featured, Massage, healthly living | No Comments

There’s a store up here in Whistler Village (I’m currently here on vacation) that has more geodes and gems than I’ve ever seen in one place.
Maybe this just shows that I don’t get out much… but I think any collector would be happy browsing for a good 15 to 30 minutes, at least. It’s called Rocks and Gems Canada.

There’s a guy in Seattle practicing energetic and magical healing arts named Daenin Tejeda.

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Access a Constant Zen Thru Your Massage Therapist

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007 | healthly living, stress | No Comments

Or at least thru her webblog. I found a site called dailyzen
I’m sure that most people out there have already heard of this site and are reading it all the time. I just discovered it and I’m putting up a link in this post so I can find it again.

I have the Osho Zen Tarot deck and I often enjoy drawing a card to get some insight or guidance.
These days I have been getting some great cards. Ones that tell me I’m on the right path, keep going, just celebrate life and take care or yourself. Today’s daily zen was good… seemed to fit into line with the messages I’ve been getting, but then, I think zen is so “everything just is” that it fits in with any messages that one could be getting; from cards, church, thier mom…

I look around my office and my massage practice and I ask myself why I do it. I first get “the healer” inside of me. She says that my massage - my presence - is a gift of healing that must be accessable and provided. It’s true. That is where I rest my mind. Because sometimes running a business is hard.
Running a practice isrunning a business. Let’s just say I’m way way way better at giving the massage.

I guess you could say that my meditations these days have dug deeper into me (go fig) and what I have found is a longing for more. The way I see it - is it’s a problem. That I’m doing something wrong because I have not fulfilled my goals and seem to have new ones popping up like weeds.
But it’s not a problem. That’s what the cards have been saying and that is what the daily zen is sort of pointing out.
Awaken, have insight, know everything -even your own life and things - are empty; see that very deeply and be calm not because you are trying to be calm but because you’ve cleaned yourself of thinking the things that made you not-calm.
I love zen.

Massage Blues - What happens after a massage?

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007 | Deep Tissue, Massage, healthly living | No Comments

I just had a new client come in and tell me that after every massage she’s ever gotten, she’s felt crappy the next day. I responded to her with this:

It rather depends on what it means to you to feel “crappy” because it is true that massage often leaves one feeling tired or worn out. Many people say that the next day - a deep massage will feel like they worked out the day before.

Even very “light” techniques like Cranio-Sacral (which I am getting certified in this year - yay!) and Reiki can leave a person feeling emotionally and physically “crappy” as well.

A classic Swedish massage is like 7 miles of hiking to the circulatory system because of all the stuff that gets all loosened up during the massage. Later on, all that released lactic acid, waste products, chemicals and “other” just get processed out of the body for the next day.

During deep tissue - deep pressure is applied to sore spots and so the area can feel sore and “worked”

It is a common concern how the body feels, reacts and how the emotional state of a body will be after receiving massage. It is very common to have the experience of cold-like symptoms, fatigue, irritability and even crying or emotional release after the massage.

I always suggest to my clients that they drink water - lots of water - the following 24 hours after their massage. That way the circulation of fluids and the healing process, in general, is helped along because it dilutes and flushes the entire system.

It is often a good idea to avoid coffee, alcohol and heavy greasy foods after a massage.

Always check in with yourself after a massage, for emotional disturbance. I find the most common “emotional” stuff that comes up after a massage is just irritability and sadness for no reason. This is totally natural. It’s just the combination of the chemicals and hormones that were sitting in your tissue that have been released to be cleaned out AND the emotions that may have been “stored” in places that were released and relaxed during the massage.

If you ever have issues after a massage, call your massage practitioner. They know what’s going on and they will have the information to help you understand what’s happening.

Don’t let the downside of massage keep you from getting one. The freedom from pain, pattern and holding is far worth the 24 to 36 hours of slight discomfort that comes after a massage.