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GOOD HEALTH IS A STATE OF BODY AND MIND Health is more than the absence of disease — it is the presence of energy, relaxation and joy! Do you value your health as the resource that it is? Do you really understand the concept of preventive and holistic medicine? The one and only way to prevent dis-ease is to take good care of ourselves. Good care begins when we acknowledge that health is a state of both mind and body. What is your body to you? Is it just a vehicle to take you places and accomplish life’s work? Do you tend to ignore it until it hurts? I have news for you. Your body does not complain until it has to. I am always surprised when I visit my chiropractor or massage therapist. I come in feeling fine. Then the therapist presses on a muscle and “ouch.” The absence of pain does not indicate that all is truly well with your body. If you were to lie on my massage table right now, I would likely find several areas that are in distress, even though the soft tissues are not yet complaining.
By the time the body complains with pain, conditions are approaching severe. So please, don’t wait until you hurt to practice good care of your body. It is always more expensive to treat and cure a major pain problem than it is to receive a monthly massage focused on keeping your soft tissues healthy.
Please understand. Many factors affect the health of your muscles and joints. These include:
Taking care of yourself means paying attention to these factors and making healthy choices.
Other factors include your personal attitudes, the health of your relationships, how much you love yourself and others, and how well you manage stress.
At Harmonia Medical Massage, we help your body heal itself by applying scientific manual therapy, and we help you achieve mind-body wellness by supporting you on mental and spiritual levels.
Here is my goal for you. I want you to live with enthusiasm, purpose, inspiration and love. I want you to say “Yes!” to this statement — “I value my body as an integral part of my being, the way I value my mind, relationships and work. I enjoy physical activity and I am glad my body feels good and functions well. I am committed to taking care of my body because I want to live with energy, relaxation and joy.
Harmonia Center for Healing is a place to come to heal, a place to learn and grow, a place to experience love and acceptance and a place of peace.
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A CLEAN BODY IS A HEALTHY BODY Lymphatic Massage Helps Keep Your Cells in a Clean Environment Have you tried lymphatic drainage massage? We have used it successfully to help cure colds, flu, sinus infections, earaches and shingles. The lymphatic system is a critical part of your immune system. Its main function is to help keep your body clean. The lymph system removes dead cells, bacteria, viruses, waste products and other unwanted elements from the fluid environment surrounding the cells. Lymph drainage therapy has been used successfully before and after surgery for many years, especially in Europe where it is prescribed commonly by physicians. We are just beginning to learn its usages in preventative medicine. Lymphatic drainage massage increases the volume of flow of lymph up to twenty times. You also can assist the movement of your lymph by exercising and by practicing correct diaphragmatic breathing. Lymph fluid, vessels, and nodes are everywhere in your body, both at the superficial and at the deep tissue levels. All lymph vessels lead to lymph nodes. Lymph nodes can be as small as the head of a pin, or as big as an olive. The lymph nodes produce various types of lymphocytes. Lymphocytes destroy harmful substances within the body, and are an important part of the immune system.
There are 400-700 lymph nodes in the body, half of which are located in the abdomen. On a deep level, lymph nodes surround the aorta, the pancreas, spleen and other organs. Most people are aware of the lymph nodes just under the chin and in the neck, as these can be manually felt when they are swollen. Lymph nodes are also distributed throughout the head, especially around the sinuses.
The primary function of lymph nodes is to filter and purify the lymph and interstitial fluids. The lymph nodes reabsorb about 40% of the liquid content of the lymph. This makes the lymph thicker. Because of this thickening and the filtering process, the lymph nodes offer the greatest resistance to the flow of lymph. In fact the lymph nodes offer about 15 times more resistance than the vessels themselves. Lymphatic drainage massage can help overcome this resistance and get the lymph flowing.
Joan Sloss highly recommends that you receive lymphatic drainage massage at least four times per year. The best time to receive it is at the beginning of a change of season. It will help your body ward-off infectious disease. Joan also recommends that you receive a lymph drainage massage anytime you feel tired, or feel a cold or sinus infection coming on. A clean body is a healthy body.
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