The Hands on Healing Blog
If we take shortcuts to feel better, we are slowly eating away at our capacity to handle future challenges. Although we might “control our emotions” and achieve temporary relief, the next time life brings a massive rainstorm, feeling better is a bit harder. Quick fixes carve deeper and deeper into the natural ways we have to deal with difficult situations; the trail we can use to navigate life’s challenges.
There are many good reasons why in-home massage might work better for you, from the logistical and scheduling considerations to the sense of safety and control.
The process of choosing a mobile massage therapist can be confusing to navigate. Here are some suggestions for how to use the searching and booking process to begin building the professional and trusting relationship that is essential to a good massage, especially when it comes to in-home massage.
Unconscious bias and ingrained assumptions live in our bodies and nervous systems and are largely inaccessible to conceptual thought. Just as with busy-ness, we have to examine and heal from white supremacy on an embodied level to truly be free from it. That is how we un-do, unlearn, and interact with the world in a new way.
In the tradition of meditation, there are long lists of obstacles and their antidotes. Fully discussing obstacles and antidotes is beyond the scope of this post, so here I just want to highlight the biggest pitfalls. The contraindications, as it were, for meditation.
Science is showing that the practice of meditation strengthens our body-brain’s innate capacity to sense, understand, and respond to real-time information. Even without our awareness and conscious involvement, practices like meditation that develop embodied self-awareness make your brain-body healthier and more resilient.
If we are to bring mindfulness and awareness into our life as a basis for a dynamic and self-sufficient healthy living, we need to first explore the meanings of mindfulness and awareness, and why meditation is an effective practice for cultivating them.
Meditation keeps our approach to healthy living rooted in accurate self-knowledge. Without the capacity to tune into our present physical, emotional, or psychological state, we are wandering around blindfolded, hoping to stumble into something easy that makes us feel better.
I wondered if the wind had snatched it from some child’s hand. I wondered if a tired parent felt its buoyancy tug against their leaden hand and granted it the freedom they wouldn’t have for another 12 - 16 years. Or had it wriggled free from a bundle of its companions? If so, did it cackle with glee or tremble in terror at its uncontrolled ascent into the boundless sky?