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🌿Self-care is not an expense, it’s an investment🌿 🌿Love the body you’re in🌿. 🌿May special price list🌿

🌿The need for human touch is one of our most basic, primal needs🌿Touch deprivation is correlated with negative health outcomes such as anxiety, depression, and immune system disorders🌿. 🌿“The positive effects of massage therapy derive from the movement of the skin and the stimulation of pressure receptor cells under the skin. When the skin moves, it increases vagal nerve activity.

🌿The vagus nerve is part of the body’s parasympathetic nervous system, responsible for involuntary functions like digestion, heart rate, and the immune system. Vagus nerve stimulation can trigger greater physical and mental attentiveness (improving cognitive alertness) and lower the body’s stress response🌿

🌿This response to touch and skin movement decreases heart rate, blood pressure, and cortisol (the hormone released during stress and pain) while increasing oxytocin (a hormone released during moments of human connection associated with feelings of empathy and trust)🌿

🌿Massage increases serotonin, so it can help people with depression. Serotonin is an anti-pain neurotransmitter. If you can decrease cortisol, you can increase serotonin, the body’s natural defense against pain🌿

🌿The physical and mental benefits 🌿 🌿The health of the skin is closely related to the way we experience situations and emotions. When we radiate from within, when we are happy and accept ourselves as we are, the skin hears it and applies it to itself. It then becomes luminous, radiant, and reflects good health🌿