Is your mind going 1000 miles per hour when what you really need is to relax?

One way to receive massage is to just allow touch to carry you away. And it often does.  However, at Lighten Up Therapies, we often get clients who just don’t know how to unwind and may need some help.

By bringing mindful awareness to touch and exploring your experience during your massage, the body sends messages to the brain that may help you to reframe or reorganize patterns of thinking and feeling.  This sacred space lends to releasing and renewal in so many ways.  People often feel re-energized and more centered after a session at Lighten Up Therapies, here in Columbus, Ohio.

Awareness

It is also very helpful to take meditation home and make it a daily practice.  This can be achieved by:

1.  Be curious. Stay in a mode of asking.

2.  Observe what is happening in the moment. Be as objective as possible with this practice.

3.  Experience life as it is.  Acknowledge your perceptions and sensations.  Be authentic in your intention.

Using these skills can help you to calm and move through anything that is negatively affecting you in your life.

A helpful article I found on mindfulness was in the AMTA archives.  If you are interested to learn more about meditation, check out: 

http://www.amtamassage.org/articles/4/eTouch/detail/2785

Sharon Hartnett LMT is trained in Hakomi, Somato-Emotional Release (SER) through the Upledger Institute, and in Trauma work, studying under well-known therapist Pat Ogden, author of “Trauma and the Body”.