The Power of Human Touch
Your hands possess a power to help you heal
Self-massage: Your new super power
Self-massage is a healthcare technique as old as DNA. Its ability to supercharge health has been known for millennia. Human touch—along with food, movement, and sleep— is one of the four pillars of healthcare. All four have served our species since the beginning of human evolution. They predate us. These four essential ingredients of a healthful life are part of our basic coding.
If you’re curious about a time-tested yet revolutionary way to get healthier and fitter faster keep reading. In concert with our video content, this blog will deliver an ancient healthcare therapy to your fingertips. At its heart, is the power of human touch.
Almost twenty years ago, I began researching the book ‘Self-Massage for Athletes,” which pretty much makes me the world’s leading authority on the subject. My YouTube Channel, Feel Better Fast, and this blog is based on what I learned over the last two decades on the power of self-massage as a health, wellness, and fitness tool.
Self-massage was marginalized as healthcare in the 20th Century. It was trivialized by the medical business model that characterized any healthcare that medicine doesn’t profit from as ineffective or dangerous. For hundreds of thousands of years, though, massage has been handed down, almost instinctively, from generation to generation along with food, exercise, and sleep. Not surprisingly, massage survived because it works a form of magic on the human body.
This blog, the videos on my website, and the Feel Better Fast YouTube channel wed this ancient healthcare technology to video in the age of social media. This revolutionary union reinvigorates, retouches, and reteaches basic massage strokes.
Surprsing Benefits of Massage
Unless you’ve written a book on self-massage, you probably don’t know all the benefits you can get from a daily dose. Let me fill you in.
For Your Body
Massage relieves pain. Children know their parents’ touch can make their pain disappear. Touch is nature’s analgesic. Athletes know massage reduces muscle pain and soreness after working out. It accomplishes this feat by releasing endorphin cocktails, a complex series of natural chemicals that your body produces to relieve pain. The cocktails include dopamine, serotonin, endogenous morphine, oxytocin, and anandamide.
For Your Mind
Massage improves mood and reduces cortisol, better known as the stress hormone. Daily massage shrinks stress and anxiety. It works as an anti-depressant with none of the harmful side effects of pharmaceuticals.
Relaxation
As an extra benefit, massage delivers an enhanced relaxation response. So if you have trouble sleeping, massage can help. It’s particularly effective when combined with Progressive Muscle Relaxation and breathwork.
For Your Wellbeing
Daily massage improves health. Studies show touch strengthens the immune system, making you less likely to get sick. And if you don’t get sick, you’re less likely to need medical attention. That fact alone will improve your health.
For Your Spirit
Massage is good for the soul. Touch focuses your attention on your body, and if done with intention, it boosts your ability to concentrate. Enhanced concentration is the basis of meditation. And meditation is medicine for your spirit.
For Your Budget
Massage will improve your health and fitness in less time and, for far less money than you spend now. Massage is the healthiest, least expensive necessity you can’t afford to miss.
Your Videos
Here and here you’ll discover some of the most effective, and popular massage videos ever made. They’re all free to experiment with and improve the way your feel.
TYPES OF VIDEOS
*Massages to treat and help heal (almost) every part of your body
*Recovery massages: to help your muscles rehab and grow stronger after exercise
*Pre-workout massages: to warm you up before a workout
*Tennis Ball massages: that double as workouts
*Massage tools: to help your hands make the rest of you feel better fast
*Training videos to help get you to move better
Conclusion
Give yourself a daily dose of massage to feel better fast. And in time, you will experience enhanced health, be more relaxed, enjoy better spirits, and be happier. Massage a different part of your body each day. Self-massage! It’s not just for one small part of your body anymore.