The Fabulous Facial Massage
by Janice Bird
What’s your favorite part of a facial treatment? If you’re like most people it will be the massage.
Your face greets the world. What does it say about you? Are you lighthearted, tired, serious, dissatisfied, happy, sad, confident, depressed? It will show on you face. Although you may be able to temporarily mask your true feelings, the real you will eventually come through. Expressions often repeated become the so called “character lines” of the face. The muscles hold the emotions we feel on a regular basis. It is important to understand how the face can have an effect on the body, mind and spirit.
The Chinese found that by stimulating certain points on the face by either massage or gentle pressure that energy flows would be activated, circulation improved and capillaries strengthened. The massage encourages lymph drainage as cellular debris is carried away. It also improves collagen and elastin, smoothing wrinkles and toning the face.
Since emotions and memories are stored in the muscles, a good massage can cause an emotional release. This can sometimes feel like letting go of a burden one has carried around for a long time. A relief that can change your entire countenance.
We have a natural need to touch and be touched. Studies have shown how the lack of touch has a detrimental effect on babies and increases failure to thrive. A facial massage can fulfill the need to be touched in a safe, non sexual way and connect us to our humanness.
Make sure when you go in for a facial you get a facial massage. A good facial massage is one those facials that leave you totally relaxed and rejuvenated. Why pay for someone to just rub lotions and potions on your face? You can do that yourself at home. Make sure you get a well trained esthetician with the knowledge and knack for a fabulous facial massage.
By releasing tension held in the muscles of the face using massage and stimulating acupressure points, your face can look years younger, smoother and have the appearance of a face lift, without the surgery, painful needles, or aggressive treatments that leave you red an peeling for days.
Your face greets the world. What does it say about you? Are you lighthearted, tired, serious, dissatisfied, happy, sad, confident, depressed? It will show on you face. Although you may be able to temporarily mask your true feelings, the real you will eventually come through. Expressions often repeated become the so called “character lines” of the face. The muscles hold the emotions we feel on a regular basis. It is important to understand how the face can have an effect on the body, mind and spirit.
The Chinese found that by stimulating certain points on the face by either massage or gentle pressure that energy flows would be activated, circulation improved and capillaries strengthened. The massage encourages lymph drainage as cellular debris is carried away. It also improves collagen and elastin, smoothing wrinkles and toning the face.
Since emotions and memories are stored in the muscles, a good massage can cause an emotional release. This can sometimes feel like letting go of a burden one has carried around for a long time. A relief that can change your entire countenance.
We have a natural need to touch and be touched. Studies have shown how the lack of touch has a detrimental effect on babies and increases failure to thrive. A facial massage can fulfill the need to be touched in a safe, non sexual way and connect us to our humanness.
Make sure when you go in for a facial you get a facial massage. A good facial massage is one those facials that leave you totally relaxed and rejuvenated. Why pay for someone to just rub lotions and potions on your face? You can do that yourself at home. Make sure you get a well trained esthetician with the knowledge and knack for a fabulous facial massage.
By releasing tension held in the muscles of the face using massage and stimulating acupressure points, your face can look years younger, smoother and have the appearance of a face lift, without the surgery, painful needles, or aggressive treatments that leave you red an peeling for days.
