The Women Warriors

[RawMahdiyah]

Massage is a loving thing to do. A loving massage is always therapeutic, especially if you ask for the highest energy flow through your hands and the recipient's body. Above all, it should make the recipient, and you, feel good. If you don't love to do massage, don't do it.
To learn to give a good massage, you must practice. Your hands will become sensitive to the needs of the recipient, especially if you completely give yourself over to what you are doing. You can invent your own strokes, or you can read George Downing's marvellous MASSAGE BOOK for an exact description of each stroke, accompanied by an accurate drawing. He even gives you the rudiments of anatomy.
Do massage only when your vitality is high, when you are rested and happy. Then good vibrations will flow and you won't pick up any sick or tired vibrations. It is natural to feel exhilarated, never tired, after giving a massage.
You can give a good massage on the floor-just remember to keep your back straight, and work from your hips whenever possible. Ideally you can work at a massage table. Then you can use your whole body, leaning into the strokes-it's like dancing.
If you need an incentive, there are now available many massage workshops, inexpensive, but intensive enough to get you started.
Remember to recieve a massage back once in a while
I enjoy Shiatsu massage/therapy which helps balance ones Qi (life force energy) in the body to return to a higher level of health. Stretching, massage, and gentle holding are used with Emmitted Qi to help you change blockages and patterns of illness.
There are many traditional massage therapies.

THE BENEFICIAL EFFECT OF MASSAGE

* Massage dialates the blood vessels, improving the circulation and relieving congestion throughout the body.
*Massage increases the number of red blood cells especially in cases of anemia.
*Massage acts as a "mechanical cleanser," Stimulating lymph circulation and hastening the elimination of wastes and toxic debris.
*Massage relaxes muscle spasm and relieves tension.
*Massage increases blood supply and nutrition to muscles without adding to their load of toxic lactic acid, produced through voluntary muscle contraction. Massage thus helps to prevent buildup of harmful "fatigue" products resulting from strenuous exercise or injury.
*Massage improves muscle tone and helps prevent or delay muscular atrophy resulting from forced inactivity.
*Massage can compensate, in part, for lack of exercise and muscular contraction in persons who because of injury, illness or age, are forced to remain inactive. In these cases, massage helps return venous blood to the heart and so eases the strain on this vital organ.
*Massage can have a sedative, stimulating or even exhausting effect on the nervous system depending on the type and length of massage treatment give.
*According to some authorities, massage may burst the fat capsule in subcutaneous tissue so that the fat exudes and becomes absorbed. In this way massage, combined with a nutritous but calorie-deficient diet, can be an aid to reducing.
*Massage by improving the general circulation, increases nutrition of the tissues. It is accompanied or followed by an increased interchange of substanced between the blood and tissue cells heightening tissue metabolism.
*Massage increases the excretion (via the kidneys) of fluids and waste products of protein metablosim, inorganic phosphorus and salt in normal individuals.
*Massage encourages the retention of nitrogen, phosphorus and sulphur necessary for tissue repair in persons convalescing from bone fractures.
*Massage stretches connective tissue, improves its circulation and nutrition and so breaks down or prevents the formation of adhesions and reduces the danger of fibrosis.
*Massage improves the circulation and nutrition of joints and hastens the elimination of harmful deposits. It helps lessen inflammation and swelling in joints and so alleviates pain.
*Massage helps to reduce edema (or dropsy) of the extremities.
*Massage disperses the edema following injury to ligaments and tendons, lessens pain and facilitates movement.
Massage makes you feel good


ELLEMENTS OF MASSAGE


1) Harmonious environment (personal cleanliness, quite, freedom from interruption.)
2) Energize and center yourself (concentration, be present).
3) Assist the recipient to a comfortable position. Ask whether he or she has any physical ailments.
It may be necessary to avoid certain areas. For example, avoid pressure on badly vericosed veins, bruises or new scar tissue.
4) Visualize the recipient in a state of well-being and yourself as a channel through which energy flows. Remember, the recipient may be tired, asking for help. You are the recipient's servant. Do well unto the person.
5) Place the hand momentarily on the recipient (usually the shoulders) so that your presence may be accepted before you begin.
6) Work on the aura. Palms downward, stroke the hands through the air about three inches above the recipient's body from head to foot, slowly, so that you feel the energy transfer. It may feel cold or hot.
7) Resiliency is a potential quality of every part of the body. Work slowly and firmly to bring this about. Jerky or sudden movements by the operator might cause the recipient to lose trust and consequently the freedom to relax. Upon completion of an area, smooth its corresponding aura.
8 ) Tense areas are often tender. Work very slowly; concentrate on energy flow into the area, & visualize purest blue-green soothing-healing for the area. Let the area rest and periodically return to it during the massage. Often more than one treatment will be necessary.
9) Injury or inflamed areas in general should not be worked mechanically or only under a doctor's (Latin docere, meaning "to teach") [or healer's] guidance. Auric work is helpful as is application of vitamin E, grass juice or wheat germ oil. Work on the corresponding reflex area.
10) Beginners should not attempt work on persons who are ill or with whom they are unable to establish rapport.
11) Terminate the massage by smoothing the entire aura. Shake your hands vigorously and wash with cold water to the elbow to break the psychic connection. Again picture the recipient in a state of well-being or silently offer prayer, boosting &/or blessings. Center and re-energize yourself.
12) The duration of a massage should be about one hour. Coconut oil, safflower or sesame oil (or an oil good for their dosha), cold pressed and organic, may be used as a lubricant for massage. You may add herbs to them or a few drops of pure essential oils (Young Living has some beautiful combinations).
13) The purpose of massage is to pycho-physically and electro-magnetically alter the state of the body so that circulation and energy exchange pathways are opened up at the cellular level, and the proper state of ionization is created so that the body will have continuous access to its innate potential for control of vital energy. The function of massage is essentially the same as that of Hatha Yoga (breathing exercises/physical postures), but through an external agency.
14) Become proficient from working oh healthy people before working with those who are not. Trust yourself, and the oppotunities as they come. Always be loving, generous, kind channel of energy. Surrender to the task.
15) Juice regime 24 hours before and after massage helps to make it a powerful purifying process (rest the body, esp. from heavy meals and oils.)
16) A salt bath and sleep following the massage makes it a perfect revitalizing experience.

Namaste.
I bow to You.
I honor the place in you
in which the entire Universe dwells,

I honor the place in you
which is of Love, of Truth, of Light and of Peace,

When you are in that place in you,
and I am in that place in me,
we are One.



The Joy of Sensual Massage , by Jack Hofer.
Human Structural Dynamics, Rev. Arthur Burks. ($3.00, CSA Press, Lakemond, Ca.),. The method of Ida Rolf - deep massage technique for restructuring the body.
Alexander Technique, Methods for Changing Stereotyped Response Patterns by the Inhibition of Certain Postural Sets, Dr. frank Jones (Psycho Review Vol. 72, No. 3, May 1965). How to straighten the spine.


RawMahdiyah
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"Cast down what is in your right hand. It will swallow up what they have wrought. Verily they have wrought only a sorcerer's stratagem; and a sorcerer does not succeed (no matter) from whatsoever (skilled group) he may come." (Quran-20:69)