Natural Therapy Courses- Massage

A therapy is considered to be a natural therapy if its main focus is to enhance either the people's wellness, general health or if it manage or treat specific health condition. Further, it must manage or manipulate the connection between mind and body. Researchers evidently showed that psychological states and immune function are strongly associated.

For this reason, maintaining the connection between the mind and body could promote general health of an individual. Natural therapy is also under the control of the individual. It is a matter of personal choice when to have the therapy or when to stop. Beside what was stated, a therapy can also be qualified as natural therapy when it only rely on the innate healing abilities of the body.

Massage is one kind of natural therapy as its main purpose is to give relaxation and promotes good circulation of blood. Hot stone massage for example, relaxes the muscles, improves blood circulations and calms nervous system. Applying direct heat serves as vasodilator. It opens and widens up blood vessels.

Because of this, nutrients and oxygen can be distributed evenly in the body, wastes and carbon dioxide will be eliminated, thus avoid over stressing the functions of the organs in the body.

Moreover, massage is one of the techniques use for stress management. Stress according to the study of Kwon and associates (2011) can increased anxiety of a person. It alters the function of the brain specifically the hypothalamus, pituitary and adrenal axis that can cause an elevation of corticosterone. Corticosterone mobilized the body's psychological processes against infections but abnormal increase can adversely affect the structure of the brain.

As it is discussed above, massage can give a soothing feelings and relaxation, the antidote of anxiety. It could also calms down the nervous system resulting to the release of serotonin hormone. This hormone regulated individual's mood, emotion , sleep and appetite. Lack of serotonin can cause depression.

In addition, receiving a massage can make oneself feel pampered and cared. It only proved that massage significantly reduce stress.

Massage is indeed a natural therapy. It helps the body heal itself by enhancing its functions. It is also an individual's choice to get one or not at all. What was mentioned above are also the evidence how it promotes health and wellness of a person. Furthermore, many colleges of natural therapies specially in Australia are offering courses on massage. It simply proves that massage is a kind of natural therapy.

However, massage therapy has many kinds. Massage that manipulates person's aura or energy flow is not classified as natural therapy. Shiatsu is an example. In shiatsu, it is believed that disease is caused by blocked energy flow in the body.

The purpose of this is to explain the clinical point of view of natural therapy and how massage can fit those qualifications.

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