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I am a CMT. I am currently going to school to learn more about healing through massage. My profession prior to this was raising my children. However, somebody forgot to tell me that my careers would grow up and move away from home. I have now moved on to a new career.

Pictured next to me is my wonderful husband Bud, who has been my support, my massage pratice body (poor guy as all our friends say) for Swedish Massage. Anything and everything new I learn, I tried on him, he has been scrubbed down with sea salt, painted with seaweed mask, wraped like a mummy, all for Aroma Thearpy. He has been poked and probed, for my Acupressure learning. My muscle man for Anatomy class. Then I picked his brain for information for Business/Ethic class....He was my person to pratice on for Deep Tissue Ouch! Poor guy! He has been a real champ through the whole learning process. Oh! and I must not forget he is also my money sorce...Bless this sweet and wonderful man for taking all I have dished out to him...However, now that I am a Certified Massage Technician, all his friends are envious, now that he gets spoiled with a massage when ever he wants one....

Healing Through Touch

Massage in China

China's development and use of massage dates back thousands of years; today, massage is incorporated into their medical system as a respected means of treating varoius disorders and diseases. In the United States, massage is slowly gainning respect in the medical society. It is starting to be recognize a little more as an alternative treatment in certain types of medical cases. Many chiopractors have also include massage in their practice, which make perfect since to me. Muscle and bones work together to give us motion and movement. However, looking to the not so bright side of massage treatment, some people still have their heads in the sand about it. We, the certified and licenced massage workers are still fighting the bad name that past years have given us. A legitimate massage worker has policies and boundrys that they follow. They don't work in "Parlors" and don't play "parlor games". Legitimate, massage workers work hard at their chosen career choice. We love our work and seek the respect and consideration we deserve.

As we know when we are stressed, upset, depressed and many other reasons, to have someone touch, hug, or hold us makes us feel better. It gives us that little blanket of security we all need from time to time. Touch has a soothing effect on us, to calm our spirt. So take time to touch someone--your Mom your Dad a loved one, children need the loving caring touch to grow into giving adults.

"There are as many as five million touch receptors in our skin--3,000 in a single fingertip--that send messages along the spinal cord to the brain. A single touch--a hand on a shoulder, an arm around a waist--can reduce the heart rate and lower blood pressure."

-author George Howe Colt in a Life Magazine cover story called"The Magic of Touch" 8/97

There are several forms of massage;

• Swedish Massage, Great for relaxing tense, tired muscles, this gental massage of the muscular and soft tissues utilizes long flowing and neading strokes.
• Aroma Therpy Massage, A relaxing massage using natural, sented oils, gentaly massaged into the skin--creating a massage experience compaired to none.
• Deep Tissue (muscle) Massage, This type of massage elimiates knots, locked up in the muscles, releases emotional blocks in the body due to prolonged stress. It may include mild to medium pain with sore muscles for a couple of days after. While may be painful during and a couple of days after it is well worth it..
• Shiatsu Massage, According to Oriental therapy, this massage helps to stimulate the functioning of internal organs and balance the body's energy and, to keep the Qi of life flowing. It involves the applicction of thumb pressure on meridian channels that run up and down the body.

--from an unnamed Dooist priest, in The Way of Qigong, by Kenneth S. Cohen

I would like to take up a little space here
to thank my sister Sherry, for all of her help
on getting me started with my page. :)
Thank You Sis.

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