MASSAGE IS MORE THAN JUST RELAXATION
Massage has a restorative power, reducing pain, depression, anxiety, and stress while boosting your immunity. Massage is known to reduce pain by increasing blood flow, easing inflammation, and reducing muscles tightness. These pains affect your life and your quality of life. If you have a high level of stress you are more prone to illness and injuries. One of the benefits of massage is to reduce stress, which is caused to elevate your heart rate by increasing hormone cortisol that leads to an unhealthy way to gain weight, high blood pressure, headaches, digestive problems, sleep problems, heart disease, memory, and concentration control. These all affect your immune system and make you physically ill. You may not be able to remove all the stress in your life, but you can take stress-reducing measures which you can get from massage.
Based research has shown that having a regular massage which can help you boost your immune system and flush out the toxins, increasing the blood flow throughout the body. Massage also increases the white blood cells that help your body to fight diseases. Always remember that massage is not leisure but a healthy routine, combining massage with other complementary and conventional treatments will surely help you look and feel your best. These will result to be your best condition of you, and it will make you at the top of the game, becoming more productive at home, work, sports, and in your everyday life.
Here are a few tips for reducing stress and boosting your immune system.
- Get a regular massage which will help lower your stress level and increase your immune system.
- Accept that there are events that you cannot control.
- Try to keep a positive attitude or at least work on it.
- Try to halt stress in its tracks, yes it's hard when you can't control it
- Manage your time. Give yourself time to get things done; don't overwhelm yourself, you know your limits.
- Do things you enjoy, like cooking, reading, or gardening.
- Take 15 to 20 minutes every day to sit quietly and reflect. Learn and practice relaxation techniques like yoga or deep breathing.
- Exercise regularly.
- Avoid alcohol, recreational drugs and don't smoke
- Eat healthy, well-balanced meals
- Get enough rest and sleep, your body needs to recover and repair itself
- Seek out social support