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Here is how Massage actually works for you as the client:
YOUR FIRST SESSION:
At this first session, you probably ask yourself "Is this practitioner a good Massage therapist? Will I feel comfortable and safe? Will this person pry into my personal life? Will the practitioner respect my privacy? Will the practitioner be sensitive to my needs? Have I made the right decision coming for a Massage? Will they give me the Massage I want?"
You come for your first session and you are a little apprehensive of the unknown. If you are wise you will have booked yourself a series of 10 Massages over a period of 10-20 weeks.
It works even better if you have managed to find a regular slot (not always possible) and a regular day. This regularity also helps your subconscious to programme you for the very best results...
During this, your first Massage session with a new practitioner, everything is new - Finding the practitioner and the room they work from. The room, the decor, the smell, the oils, the system (where do I get changed ? do I have to take all my clothes off? will I be exposed?).
It is not so easy to completely let go fully and because it is a new experience, your Body and Mind has no reference point, so it stays alert and in learning mode. This is natural and instinctual.
During this session, these fears should be assuaged and your body will let go. But it is still only the first session. You are still just a Massage Baby!
(If your fears are not assuaged, cancel all future sessions and ask for a refund!)
So how do you measure the effect of this first session? If we say that the most powerful massage you could possibly have would score 100 units then, because of all your questions and anxieties beforehand, this first Massage would probably score no more than 10.
YOUR SECOND SESSION
Then you come for your second session. If you are wise, you booked this second session in for just 1 week after your first, so you get the benefits properly locked into your body before it 'forgets'. This time, you know the answers to all of the initial questions and you already feel more relaxed about this second visit….
Within 5 minutes of this second Massage session, you are already achieving a higher level of relaxation than you did at the end of your first session! Because only a week has passed, your body instantly remembers the level of relaxation you achieved last time and you now become much more open to the full power of touch... (With a NO HANDS practitioner the touch will always be powerful and profound...)
If we give this second session a unit score, it would probably be much nearer 20 or 30 units…
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