Massage - NO WAY!
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Greetings
From
Florida
Brothers
&
Sisters
Article#1 “MASSAGE ?…NO WAY!
NO WAY !!!! Those were my exact words…Did
I believe in Massage ? Yes, Did
I give Massages
? Yes, But did I get one ? No
Way! Not until
2005. Can you believe that? Boy,
did I miss
out on so much, a level of living
in this
body of mine I knew nothing about.
It was
not the Massage that I actually
feared ,
it was the “touch”(did I just
admit fear
to all you guys and gals, on
line for the
whole world to see ? lol). Ouch,
I see I
am not alone. Let’s look at this
thing we
call “touch” and why do we sometimes
feel
adverse to it.
Webster says: touch-to bring
a body part
in contact with esp. so as to
perceive through
the tactile sense: handle or
feel gently
usu. with intent to understand
or appreciate;
to lay hands upon with intent
to heal; to
move to sympathetic feeling;
to be in contact
with; to come close.
No wonder we are hesitant…in
our culture,
as a whole, “touch” has been
perverted. Touch
has been reduced to possessing
only sexual
or harmful intent. Where is the
healthy touch?
The touch that God gave us instinctually
to share, the reaching out to
comfort and
heal…it is all about intent !
Many people
have discovered the power of
touching and
being touched…and some of these
people have
surfaced as “Massage Therapists”.
Did you
know that the Integumentary System
is your
skin? So important is your skin
, that it
has been classified as a System…It
is also
the largest organ of the human
body. Wow,
How could we, as social, health
conscious
beings have missed one of the
most important
organs of interaction, our skin?
It is not
only the body’s first line of
defense, but
also through the touch receptors
of the nervous
system, located in the skin,
we become “in
touch” with our world and others.
I know , I know …. “tooooo much
info Laura”,
lol. I am sooo passionate about
bringing
healthy touch into other’s lives…replacing
and sometimes undoing the effects
of unhealthy
touch. Hey, maybe that’s why
I am a “massage
therapist” ya think , lol. Good
news, you
don’t have to be a massage therapist
to share
healthy touch…. You can start
right now…..pause
for a minute, look at your hands.
There is
not another pair like them in
all creation.(Focus
on your God given intent.) Remember
they
were created to touch….to bring
health and
wholeness to others….not harm.
I can just
see you now, hands held up like
a surgeon,
running around the room….who
can I touch
, who can I touch…..you go man!
And God bless.
***see ya next time…& keep
those emails
coming****
“POINT of IMPACT”
with Laura Wise
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