If someone in your family suffers from body aches and pains, giving a massage is one of the most relaxing methods that you can help them through the pain. A massage is where you are going to use your hands, fingers, and relax their muscles. This is not only a great option when you are treating someone in your family who is physically ill or disabled, but for the person in your family who is constantly using their body in their job, a massage is going to make their day so much brighter.
One important thing to remember when you are giving another person, no matter how old they are a massage, is to not massage the front of the neck area around the throat. This is one of the important areas that could cause pain or further problems if you were to massage this area. The front of the neck is delicate and should not be massaged.
As you are giving someone a massage, you can make your own energy benefit them more if you use your body weight when massaging and not so much your muscles. Take for example, if you are rubbing your hands on someone’s back while they are laying down, using your body weight to push your hands into their muscles you are going to give them more effective massages because you are going to be able to massage longer. When you use your own muscles in your arms to massage you are not going to be able to massage as long.
Massaging the upper body is better when the person is lying down, face up on a table or floor instead of the bed or couch. Their body is going to move and give more when lying on a soft surface like a couch so they won’t benefit fully from your massage as they would when lying on the floor.
If someone has headaches, neck problems or shoulder pain you can start by massaging their upper torso and give them a great relaxing massage. Rubbing your fingers over the temples, making circles on the temples, over the check bones and rubbing the forehead lightly is going to give your subject a great relaxing start. Imagine if someone were rubbing your head, how would you want it done? This is how you start and massage another person’s head.
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