How Massage BENEFITS BODY Posture & Body Alignment

A key cornerstone to the benefits of massage is Body Posture and Body Alignment. Massage can help with many things including our Alignment, it can help us stand taller and sit straighter and walk through life with more assurity and flow.

Good posture keeps our body parts in proper alignment.

Physically

Poor posture is a slouched body in a chair, rounded shoulders, shortening your skeletal length, head tilts or pushed forward, protruding belly, arched back, bent or locked knees or hips.

Psychologically

Despondency can create poor posture. Negative thinking, low self worth and poor body image can create poor posture. Struggles in life, wearing and carrying life struggles and heavy situations can affect our stance. Blocked hearts and general defeatist disposition can wear on us creating body misalignments.

Some people have no idea of their body alignment until they become awae of their bodies. Poor posture is usually formed habitually. Slouching at your desk or in fro nt of a computer screen, sitting dining or sitting at any table, slouching on a chair or couch in front of the tv can all create habitual body positions.

Massage therapy (Swedish, Deep tissue, Remedial) can help with misaligned postures. The biggest help alongside physical massage and exercise tips is conscious awareness of how you are positioning your body and then being able to correct it by shoulders back, sitting up straight and looking forward.

Massage can help relaxing muscles, correcting and releasing boy stiffness and tension spots. Joints are more flexible and pressure points are relieved.

Other ideas to help include:

·       Avoid sitting for long period of times, get up walk around and stretch

·       Have a chair where you have a back rest that can support you

·       Keep a straight back and shoulders when walking or sitting

·       Look up straight and avoid times looking down on mobile phone

·       Do regular stretches where ever possible seated or standing.