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Cause and Effect of Stress

Cause and effect of stress is a problem that faces most of us in today's world. Many of the clients I have seen over the years are caregivers; either they are parents caring for their children, or adult children taking care of their parents. Then you add on the demand as the breadwinner for the family. Now if that isn't enough we have our children in outside school activities; for example, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, soccer, football, cheerleading, gymnastics, and music lessons. To top it off we have all the doctor and dentist appointments, and possible hospital visits, and financial management for ourselves and for our parents. All of our daily tasks take a major toll on our bodies, emotionally and physically.

So my question to you is how do you take care of yourself? How can you continue giving quality care to your loved ones, if you don't replenish yourself?

When was the last time you did absolutely nothing at all? No, I don't mean reading a book or watching TV or taking in a movie, just simply resting your body, mind, and soul? Receiving a massage will allow you to accomplish the hardest task of "doing nothing at all".

Massage therapy is preventive medicine because it affects all the systems of the body - in particular, the muscular, circulatory, lymphatic(immune) and nervous systems. Massage will release the stress and tension held within your muscles, increase blood circulation, increase lymph flow, and reduces heart rate and blood pressure.