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WHAT
IS THERAPEUTIC MASSAGE IN LODON ENGLAND UK?
In the UK, massage
therapy is a holistic, drug-free healing art which recognizes and
incorporates the scientific approach to healing of the West with the
energy-based, intuitive, artistic approach of the East.
Essentially,
massage is the biomechanical manipulation of soft-tissue for the
purpose of restoring or maintaining balance within and among the
various systems of the body-mind complex while the body is at rest
and the mind is letting go.
The latter cannot be over-emphasized, which, btw, is why
self-massage or massage during a sports event can never be as
effective or as lasting as one administered by a professional who is
proficient in both the hands-on as well as the letting-go aspect of
this body-mind health-work.
When a physical or emotional traumatic event disrupts balance,
without much analysis, knowledge, and good thinking, our 'automatic'
or in-borne first-aid line of defence is set in motion, keeping us
in an immediate but fragile balance for the short-run. T
herapist
intervenes with such negative adaptation as it engages our natural
capacity for long term healing - that capacity which we so often
deny ourselves, when, instead of human "beings," we have
turned into human "doings".
Drug free, non-traumatic, and pain-relieving without side-effects,
massage is arguably the earliest, the latest, and the safest health
technology. And it has been called upon for the prevention as well
as for the treatment or management of many health problems for
centuries. In massage, the therapeutic relationship is extremely
intensive, intimate and close. T
ouch healing provides us with the
most basic human need - the need for warmth and love, the need to be
enveloped and secured.
Within sessions we communicate feelings and thoughts constantly,
allowing a better flow: blood and lymph, emotions and feelings,
thoughts and energy. The therapist use both verbal and non-verbal
means to achieve it.
Non-verbal communication and non-verbal therapy in massage are
usually very subtle. Non-verbal therapy is mainly good for people
who find speaking a difficult task. We believe that sometimes
'talking psychotherapies' reach people for whom feeling is not an
easy medium.
Sometimes they emphasise thinking rather than experiencing,
analysing instead of being and feeling. In some cases, touch therapy
can reach levels just as deep as in psychoanalysis. Sometimes, even
deeper than that.
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