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.
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