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Part I: Discovering Massage for Greater Health and Happiness
Improves appearance
The combination of all the preceding benefits leaves Just about anybody who
receives them looking better than they did before they started, and in that
way, massage can improve the appearance of even the most stubbornly unat-
tractive person. You know the type: the man with the big crease down the
middle of his forehead, or the woman with her mouth pulled taut like she just
chewed an entire lemon. Most of what we deem unattractive is simply poor
attitude, and the people with the strangest looking faces and bodies can still
be very attractive, especially if they are ...
3 Tension-free
3 Healthy
3 Rushed with the rosy glow of good circulation
3 Quickly recovering from any painful .conditions
3 Covered with silky "breathing" skin
3 Confident and emotionally assured
3 Profoundly relaxed
Who can resist a person like this?
The Massage Menu
There are literally hundreds of types of massage practiced around the world,
many of them with wonderfully evocative names like tui-na and lomi /omi.
This is not the section in which I'm going to explain each of those massage
modalities to you, however (a fairly extensive explanation of several major
styles is the focus of one section In Chapter 5). Instead, what I'm doing here
is explaining the generic types of massage, broken down into categories
based on the observable effects they can have in your own life.
Think of this section like the menu in a restaurant. Each category (breakfast,
lunch, dinner) consists of distinctly different dishes, and yet the foods used
to prepare the dishes can be the same. So the same eggs used to make your
omelet at breakfast can be used in your egg salad at lunch or your dessert
after dinner. It's the same with the following categories of massage. Any par-
ticular massage technique can be used to create various effects.
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