Yearly Archives: 2015

A common picture used in massage advertising is a person with stones placed on them. They seem remarkably happy that somebody took the effort to lay stones on their body. Apparently these stones have incredible qualities that allows them to relax completely and remove all of their stress and muscle […]

What is a hot stone massage?

December 31, 2015 in Massage tagged hot stones / Massage / massage appointment / Muscles / pain relief / pressure / relax / stress / touch by hudsonmassage

When there’s an event that’s important to us we make sure to put it in our schedule. We may put it in our phone, write it on a paper calendar, write a note, tell somebody to remind us so we don’t forget it, or all of the above. It is […]

Scheduling

November 17, 2015 in Massage tagged Health / Massage / massage appointment / pain relief / stress / time by hudsonmassage

We all have things that we rely on others to do for us. Some may be things that we can’t do for ourselves and others are things that we could do but we are willing to pay for the skill, knowledge, and expertise of another. They can do a better […]

Strangers

October 27, 2015 in Massage tagged Health / licensed massage therapist / Massage / massage appointment / money / Trust by hudsonmassage

As a licensed massage therapist with my own business I do a lot of laundry. It’s mostly the sheets that are used during massage appointments. I lug them home, wash, dry, and fold them, and lug them back again. It’s just another part of the job. It’s not a big […]

Adventures in drying my massage sheets

September 25, 2015 in Massage tagged licensed massage therapist / Massage / Muscles / pain / pain relief by hudsonmassage

What kind of spaghetti are you? Since I’m not a chef let’s keep it simple and think only about cooked and uncooked spaghetti. Uncooked spaghetti is stiff, rigid, and unyielding. It has very little flexibility. It bends a little but it quickly snaps with just a little pressure. That’s fine […]

Massage and Spaghetti

August 27, 2015 in Massage tagged Massage / Muscles / pain relief / relax by hudsonmassage

This is post 100 on my blog! Thanks for reading along and for the encouraging words to continue with it. If you haven’t picked up on this by now, I think massage is great. I began thinking of things that massage is better than. So here, in no particular order […]

100 things massage is better than

July 14, 2015 in Massage tagged back pain / goals / headache / Health / life / Massage / Muscles / neck pain / pain relief / relax / sleep / stress / touch / worry by hudsonmassage

Most of us have been to an amusement park and driven the bumper cars. It’s a fun activity that doesn’t provide much threat of danger. You know when you get in the car that you are going to get hit – probably many times. There are too many other cars […]

Massage and Bumper Cars

June 23, 2015 in Massage tagged headache / life / Massage / Muscles / neck pain / pain relief / relax / stress by hudsonmassage

We routinely do many things, such as going to the dentist, exercising, watching what you eat, car maintenance, washing clothes, lawn and garden care, and cleaning our house. Not all of them are things that we look forward to. Some take up part of our valuable time that we would […]

Pulling weeds

May 26, 2015 in Massage tagged Health / Massage / Muscles / pain / pain relief / relax / stress by hudsonmassage

Imagine that you walk into your home one day and you notice how messy it is. There are dirty clothes laying around and all tangled together. There is clutter everywhere you look. Somebody has been using things and not putting them away. Somebody else hasn’t been doing enough cleaning and […]

Get untangled and cleaned up

April 29, 2015 in Massage tagged customer service / Massage / massage appointment / massage therapist / Muscles / pain / pain relief / relax / stress by hudsonmassage

You have many choices on where to go for a massage. You can go to a local or national chain, a spa or resort, or a small business. The biggest advantage of going somewhere other than a small business is availability. The bigger the business, the better your chances are […]

Advantages of getting a massage at a small business

March 26, 2015 in Massage tagged anatomy / customer service / Massage / massage appointment / massage therapists / money / pressure by hudsonmassage

Our mainstream media is always suggesting to us that we need to look and act a certain way to be happy, successful, popular, and important. They are not always right, of course. Advertising is set up to make you want to buy their products, so if you are not, they […]