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How
Often Should I Have a Massage?
Most people come for a massage once a month, or whenever they
feel stress and tension building.
For new
massage clients it is often important to have a massage once a week
for 3 or 4 or up to 7 or 8 weeks. This is because, for most people,
their body has forgotten how to relax. During the massage they
gradually begin to relax. This effect often lasts for a day or two,
and then gradually evaporates. If they have another
massage in within a week (or two at the most) then their body
remembers how to relax in this new way and they tend to relax more
deeply than the previous week.
In this
way, a person can gradually learn to become more stress free and
elastic in how they deal with stressful events.
If a
client doesn't do this preliminary weekly treatment series, then
they often start at "square one" at their next massage as their
body has forgotten what it learned during the last
massage.
Of
course, the more you know about your body and stress reactions, the
more permeable you are to the massage.
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