Maintaining a wellness routine contributes to your overall health and well-being. An established routine can help you sustain healthy exercise and eating habits, reduce stress, and ensure that you’re getting enough sleep. Receiving regularly scheduled massages will benefit your body and mind, and can go a long way towards making you feel refreshed and relaxed during this sunny season.
Benefits of Incorporating a Massage into your Wellness Routine
1. Reduce Stress
Just because we tend to associate summer with vacations and opportunities for relaxation doesn’t mean that stress doesn’t creep into our lives. When you receive a message, you give yourself permission to step away from all your personal and professional responsibilities. The calming environment combined with your massage therapist’s ability to cater to your skin, muscles, tendons, and ligaments can release endorphins and relieve any stress or anxiety you may be feeling.
2.Lessen Pain
If you work out regularly and/or are susceptible to pain in one or more areas of your body, a regular massage can help to give you relief from aches and pains, including chronic ones. Massage therapists are trained to target specific areas of the body and can use techniques designed to lessen pain and aid in healing troublesome tender areas.
3.Boost Circulation
Your massage therapist will use touch, pressure, and movement to get your blood flowing, which boosts your circulation and offers relief in areas where you may notice pressure or tension. Good circulation facilitates healing, lowers your blood pressure, keeps your organs working properly, and gives you a brighter, more even-toned complexion.
4.Accelerate Muscle Recovery
Exercising regularly is one of the best ways to stay active and fit. As beneficial as exercise is, it also puts a lot of stress on your body. After every workout, your body has to recover. A massage can aid in the recovery process by reducing inflammation, aiding in the prevention of cramps and muscle spasms, improving your flexibility and range of motion, and decreasing your risk of sustaining an athletic injury.
Many people regard a massage as an indulgence, but we consider it a necessary part of a solid self-care and wellness routine. It’s an easy way to encourage your body to function optimally, and a fantastic opportunity for you to breathe, relax and unwind.
To incorporate a massage into your summer wellness routine, we recommend scheduling regular appointments. Whether you elect to get a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly massage, consider a massage a healthy habit—a powerful way for you to feel your best both physically and mentally.
At Elements Massage, we’re here for you this summer, as well as year-round. Book an appointment to get started on your wellness routine!