Stress Management-Part 3

Self Massage: All of your Massage Therapists and Bodyworkers miss you as much as you miss them. This is mostly because this is a time when massage and touch could be so helpful and healing. Thankfully self-touch can have it’s benefits. Creating blood flow and promoting relaxation is still achievable. Sure, it never feels as good as when someone else does it but hey, this is what we got to work with. This can be done throughout the day and you don’t need any props

Scalp massage:

• Line up your fingers along your hairline of the forehead.
• Imagine that you are drawing small circles in a line until you reach the crown of your head.
• Repeat a few times.
• Then place your fingers along the hairline around your ears.
• Do the same small circles, still aiming for the crown of your head.
• Then go to the back of head, again moving to the crown of the head.

Top scalp massage

Side Scalp Massage

Back Scalp Massage

  Forehead massage:

• Starting with the fingers at the eyebrows
• Slide them apart to the temples and do a little circle.
• Move a little higher and repeat this pattern all the way up to hairline.​

•   Jaw massage: No doubt all this change has you clenching your jaw!
•    Line your fingers up on your cheek bones just in front of your ears.
•    Drag your fingers down toward the chin.
•    Let your face relax and don’t worry about the funny face that this makes. It will go away 
•         when you stop. :)

​     Now…. Go wash your hands after all that face touching!

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Be safe, stay well, breathe and stretch,
​Shannon