Touch / Massage

As we navigate our way through the challenging and different times that we find ourselves due to the pandemic we are looking more than ever to find wellness, grounding, relaxation and a sense of safety to perhaps overcome fear, anxiety and stress. 

We’re all likely experiencing a level of touch deprivation, also known as skin hunger. As humans, we crave connection and interaction, and touch. Many of us are lacking physical touch at this moment, and with it negative feelings that can come from being in isolation. 

The idea that our wellness and health can be positively affected by touch is not new and can be tracked back through history to the ancient Greeks and Egyptians and the natural healing systems of China and India.

Consciousness is not just in the mind; it is in the body too. All too easily we hold on to tension, strong emotions and trauma in our body, resulting in stiffness, pain, headaches, aching joints and discomfort. Massage is a wonderful antidote to stress and tension, improving circulation, lymph drainage and balance to the nervous system.

Massage is grounding, rejuvenating, detoxifies the tissues, and stimulates the digestion, and elimination processes. But it also gives us a pause from the doing mode, to the being mode, where we can process what we are feeling, tune in with our bodies, our senses, and let go of whatever emotional and physical tension has built up. 

At the end of April close contact services are able to resume in the Scottish government route map out of Lockdown and whilst it may be some time before we are all back to hugging friends maybe a massage could be a therapeutic stop gap for you.