Have you ever told somebody that they could use a massage? If you haven’t, how many times have you been tempted to? You know the person that we’re talking about. Maybe they usually are good to work with or be around. They have a good attitude and don’t cause you […]
Health
Some people wonder why their pain returns after getting a massage. They felt so good after the massage but eventually their muscles start to tighten up again. One explanation falls in the line of the principle that when you do the same things you get the same results. Once upon […]
Same things and same results

What if you could spend twelve hours over the course of a year and feel really good? What if that time could help you feel better physically? The stiff neck, sore shoulders, aching back, or other pains may not be cured but feel much better. What if that time helped […]
12 hours this year

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
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

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

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
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 […]
Big changes made easy

If you could wave a magic wand and all of your pain were gone – what would your life be like? What would you do that you don’t do now? What would you do more of? What would you do less of (sitting and taking pain pills maybe?). Use your […]
Massage and the magic wand

Busy-ness is the trend these days. People carry over-packed schedules like winning trophies. “I’m SO busy at work!” “How do you have time to do that? I’m too busy to read/watch TV/exercise/do anything fun.” “I can’t get monthly massages I have too much to DO!” Too much “busy” could be […]
Make time to Relax
Let’s say you have some pain that you would rather not have any longer. Maybe you need some relief from the stress that is weighing on you. Perhaps you are having a lot of headaches or are not sleeping well. It happens to just about everybody. “I’ll schedule a massage!” […]
Massage and attractiveness
Recently I was given some good advice. Actually it wasn’t anything new – it was something I have told to people and have used myself also. I had something I wanted to do but I was having a hard time getting started. When I looked at everything there was to […]