Muscle pain & anxiety

Over doing it at the gym, bad posture, illness, DOMS are all causes of muscular pain and tension that my clients seem to readily know about, but when you ask them about their stress levels, over half I would say cannot make the link between their levels of stress and feelings of anxiousness until I have talked them through it.

Clients can complain of being achey and tired for no reason; they aren't sick, they don't really exercise, the doctor has said there is nothing wrong but still they feel like they've been ran over by a bus, so it must be something quite serious, so they get more stressed & anxious and on and on it goes.  As I've mentioned in previous posts, our mind has a great tendency to mirror itself in our bodies and vice versa.  This is all results in a huge accumulation of tension both physically and psychologically.

What I see with such clients is a reluctance to make a connection, how can something that you can't see affect your physical well being?  I explain that, yes this massage will relax you and ease your tense muscles in the short term, unless you tackle the root cause ie your stress/anxiety no amount of massage is going to see you rid of your tension/pain/discomfort long term.  In the past I used to see former clients in the street and they'd tell me firstly that they didn't think massage worked for them as they still felt like they had tense muscles afterwards, then give me a long list of "calamities" and dramas in their life that had stressed them out etc.

For anxious & stressed clients, massage can a short term solution, by offering an opportunity to dull the overactive mind for an hour, release tension in muscles and regular treatments can only benefit the body but it cannot be a miracle cure that one visit will sort out.  The only way to treat symptoms of anxiety, whether it is a sore body or an obsessive mind, is to treat the cause of the symptoms, the condition whether by having therapy, seeing a gp and talking about the anxiety that is proving so troublesome, seeking help and finding the power & strength to overcome it.  

Contact Michael on 07794084666 to discuss having a treatment or if you have anxieties about having one in general. He will be happy to chat with you and work with you to achieve a solution.