Happy Holidays from Maya Massage & Spa! It's the season of over-eating...and while we all have a lot of fun stuffing ourselves the way we stuff our turkeys, it can have you agonizing over that decision later. There are a few things you can do to help your body handle the Turkey day. To start things off, make sure you have a great digestive enzyme ready to help you through the meal. It will give your digestive system the ability to digest all that food more effectively.
If you find that what you've eaten doesn't agree with you, some aloe juice will help to soothe your stomach. Also, taking a long walk will help to get the calorie burning process started. Scheduling a massage after all that hard work in the kitchen will help you to de-stress and including abdominal massage will help to regulate your digestive system as well. Another stomach soothing and mood boosting beverage is peppermint tea.
Of course, if there is drinking involved in the evening, please make responsible choices. Consider Round Trip 101 to get you home. They will ride to your destination on a scooter, fold it up, put it in the trunk of your car and drive you and your car home for you. It is a great way to avoid an accident or a DUI. Have a happy and safe holiday!
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Relaxing with hypnotherapy
Today I went in for a hypnotherapy session with Athena Sees of Carpe Diem hypnotherapy. I wanted to see if there could be a possibility of incorporating her into my referral base. During my session we talked about ways to deal with stress and how to handle conflicts in a more effective manner to avoid becoming agitated when things don't go the way a person wants them to. We talked about the causes of stress and how for many people it is due to a feeling of helplessness. By learning to work towards creating a desired outcome and accepting that it is okay if that outcome morphs into something a little different, a person can learn to detach and let go of a significant amount of stress.
The reason why this relates to massage therapy is that emotional stress obviously has negative effects in every aspect of our lives. My goal as a therapist is to help people reach a state of homeostasis, or balance. I can work on the body, but unless there is someone dealing with the deeper seeded issues, the body will return to a state of tension and inevitably pain and often injury as well. Our muscles reflect what our mind is struggling with.
Athena and I talked about coupling our services together and creating a package deal where a person can have hypnotherapy and then a massage, or the other way around. We also threw around the idea of offering hypnotherapy during a massage. I would be interested to hear what people think about these ideas, as I've never seen a service like that offered.
The reason why this relates to massage therapy is that emotional stress obviously has negative effects in every aspect of our lives. My goal as a therapist is to help people reach a state of homeostasis, or balance. I can work on the body, but unless there is someone dealing with the deeper seeded issues, the body will return to a state of tension and inevitably pain and often injury as well. Our muscles reflect what our mind is struggling with.
Athena and I talked about coupling our services together and creating a package deal where a person can have hypnotherapy and then a massage, or the other way around. We also threw around the idea of offering hypnotherapy during a massage. I would be interested to hear what people think about these ideas, as I've never seen a service like that offered.
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