Having trouble sleeping? A Tranquility Massage promotes better sleep

I cannot tell you how many of my clients tell me they have difficulty sleeping at night.  I myself fall into this category from time to time.

Many people have a hard time falling asleep at night because they feel stressed or anxious. This could be caused by chronic stress or a major event.

Poor sleep is a common problem in the United States. As many as thirty percent of people in the United States have experienced bouts of insomnia, while at least ten percent experience chronic insomnia. Two things commonly rob people of a good night’s sleep: anxiety and pain. Massage can address both of those issues helping you rest easy.

An overactive mind can keep you awake. Massage can trigger serotonin, a neurotransmitter that induces calm feelings. In addition, we often hold tension and stress in our muscles, especially our neck and back. This tension can cause our bodies to feel tight and rigid, making sleep difficult. A massage can release the tension that is held in these places so that muscles feel relaxed and ready to rest.

Pain can also keep you awake at night.  If your neck throbs, joints ache, or your lower back is sore, it can be very challenging to rest comfortably. Massage therapy can relieve pain, even chronic pain so that you can improve the quality of your sleep. Massage reduces inflammatory cytokines, which are known for causing inflammation and pain. The article states that essentially, massage has the same effect as other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NAISDs) such as Tylenol and ibuprofen. Reduced inflammation means less pain which will result in better sleep. It is a more natural way to reduce pain.

The Tranquility Massage is designed to help calm your nervous system and quiet your mind.  To maximize the effect, I recommend booking the last or next to last
appointment of the evening. Better still if you can, would be an in home treatment ( not available as a promo, full price plus travel only).  Follow the massage with some chamomile tea, and quiet time in bed with a book or  something that generates soft nature sounds like rain falling. YouTube has many available like this  Do not go on the computer, phone or TV.

Try this amazing massage treatment, once a week for one month to see how it improves your sleep.

I have made this available at an affordable price. It covers 4 weekly appointments and must be used within a one month period.

Regular Price $440 Package Price $299 You Save $141 off the regular price.
Book your package HERE

To maximize the effect, I recommend booking the last or next to last
appointment of the evening. Better still if you can, would be an in home treatment ( not available as a promo, full price plus travel only).  Follow the massage with some chamomile tea, and quiet time in bed with a book or  something that generates soft nature sounds like rain falling. YouTube has many available like this 
Do not go on the computer, phone or TV.

 TRAVEL NOTICE:  HAWAII - March 8 - March 15, 2019
 
Aloha Friends
I will be traveling to Hawaii (Oahu) March 8-15, 2019 and will accepting bookings.
for massage as well as workshops.

Pre Booking Discount if you book now.

Please like and share if you know anyone that might be interested.

Tips to Manage Stress and Anxiety this Holiday Season
With Christmas and New Years a mere two weeks away - the holiday season is in full swing.  From now until Christmas Day, there will be a flurry of office parties, reunions, family gatherings and meet-ups with friends that you would also want to participate in.  After Christmas comes the New Year celebration. 

Even if you are not the assigned host of a holiday dinner party, you would feel the stress of the occasion not just because of going through one event after another, but also because of the freezing temperature.

These are precisely the reasons why, amidst all the busyness of the holiday celebrations, you should take time to give yourself a massage.  

Strategies to Reduce Christmas Stress

• Make a List - It works for Santa and it will work for you.  Checking items off a list as they're accomplished is satisfying in itself..
  
  
• Pick and Choose Your Christmas Activities - Many of us do what we do during the holiday season just because we always have, turning the entire month of December into a mad whirl of non-stop Christmas preparations and activities. If the things on your list that you have to do outnumber the things that you want to do, it's time to make your list more manageable by eliminating some of these holiday activities. 
  
  
• Take the time you have created and do something you enjoy - Such as just sitting down by a cozy fire enjoying some Christmas music or touring the Christmas lights in your neighborhood. Or Getting a Massage. 
  
  
• Simplify -   Think about how much your time (and sanity) is worth, and contract out accordingly. Use the gift wrapping services, order food, assign some tasks to other family members. Lighten your workload and your mood.
  
  
• Shop Online  -This is a no brainer, many are already doing. It goes against the "shop local" idea, but if that is what you prefer, select a neighborhood, rather than driving all over creation chasing sales.
  
  
• Self Care - Make time for self care.  Book a massage, take hot baths, Exercise or do yoga. Clear your mind and relax your body
  
  Get the Christmas Sparkle Back
  The holiday season should be a joy, not an ordeal. Applying some time management skills during the holiday season can help.
  

zen habits:
By Leo Babauta

Many people I know are on a quest to optimize their lives — some of my favorite people in the world will spend days trying to perfect a productivity system, get things automated, or find the perfect software for anything they’re doing. They are on a continual search for the perfect diet, the perfect work routine, the perfect travel setup.

Optimizing can take quite a bit of time and energy.

What would happen if we let go of optimizing? Who would we be without the idea that we should optimize everything?

One idea is that if we decided not to optimize everything, we’d stop caring, stop trying to make things better, and live sub optimal lives. But I know myself pretty well — I will always care, even if I am not trying to optimize. I will always do my best, which is different than optimizing — it’s taking care and giving love, even if things aren’t optimized. I believe most of you are this way, pouring your hearts into something with pure love, without needing to make everything perfect.

So why shouldn’t we optimize? And what would it be like if we didn’t?

Give me a few moments to make the case against optimizing, and present an alternative way.

                                         The Case Against Optimizing

I don’t think people who optimize are idiots (many of the smartest people do it), nor is it a life-ruining thing to try to optimize. I’ve done it many times.

But consider:

•  The savings never get realized. When you try to optimize, you are spending some of your precious life moments trying to find the perfect setup. Sure, once you’re done, things will theoretically be set up perfectly from then on, so over the long run you should save a lot of time and effort, right? Well, first, let’s acknowledge that there’s a big cost to optimizing up front. And the savings would only be realized after running the optimal system or method for a good while. Unfortunately most people who optimize don’t just set it up and forget it — they continue to try to optimize over and over. It’s a never-ending quest, so the cost keeps adding up but the savings never catches up.
  
  
• Optimizing is a trap of dissatisfaction. Optimizing is the quest for something as close to perfect as you can get it. But that’s an unrealistic ideal. It doesn’t really exist. And we’ll never get to optimal — when we get close, we’ll continue the habit of being dissatisfied with the way things are. We’ll have put in a lot of work, but then not be happy. Because the search for perfect is a trap, where you’re strengthening the mental habit of dissatisfaction.
  
  
• Optimizing is a focus on what’s not important. Coming up with the perfect productivity system, the perfect to do list software — it’s not important. It’s procrastination on the things that are truly important. The tasks at the top of the to do list you already have, that you’re not working on, so that you can optimize. Coming up with the perfect diet system isn’t important — eating vegetables is. Eating nuts and beans and fruits is important. Forget the rest, just do that. Coming up with the perfect vacation isn’t important — you’re missing out on what’s right in front of you, there at home, when you are trying to optimize your next trip.
  
  
• Even if you could optimize, such a perfect life would suck. Let’s imagine for a moment that you could spend a week optimizing every single thing in your life. Everything is now perfect, most things are automated, life because ridiculously easy. (Hint: it’s not possible.) Even if were possible to make life this perfect, life would absolutely suck. If everything ran easily, you would never appreciate any accomplishments, because they came too easily. Nothing would be earned, nothing would feel amazing. People run ultramarathons not because they are perfect and ideal and easy, but because they are such a struggle. The struggle makes it meaningful. Sure, get some good tools, learn how to do things well … but don’t worry about a little extra work. Don’t worry about don’t something a few too many times. A little repetition helps you to get really good at something. A little difficulty helps you to really learn something. A little irritation helps you to find patience, let go of ideals and love things as they are.
  
  
• Optimizing is a good way to get things to break. Imagine that you optimized a series of software tools so they all ran perfectly together, a huge complicated structure of connected machines … amazing work, well engineered, well thought-out. But when things are optimized like this, they are fragile. If one thing breaks, the others do too. If your life is optimized, it’s easy to break. To give you another example … let’s say you have an optimized sleep routine. It’s amazing, and you get great sleep this way! But then you have to fumigate your house, so you have to sleep at a relative’s house. Your entire optimized routine is thrown off, so you get horrible sleep for a few days. Then you try to optimize your sleep for travel, getting a great setup for sleeping on the plane and trains. Then your favorite sleep mask, ear plugs (or noise-canceling headphones) and travel pillow get stolen. No sleep! The most optimized thing to do, then, is to not optimize — get good at dealing with everything, from sleeping on trains without any kind of setup to sleeping on the ground. Unoptimize your life by getting good at dealing with unoptimal situations. Throw randomized craziness into your life. Forget about optimizing, and learn flexibility, learn to deal, learn to let go, learn to adapt.
  
  
• Optimizing is a distraction. It’s like cleaning the decks when the Titanic is sinking. It’s not important that you optimize. It’s important that you are present, that you learn to be mindful, to be compassionate, to work from a place of love, to let go of your attachments, to see your interconnectedness with others. To be pure love, and to give your gift to the world. Not what todo software you use, not what bulletproof coffee you drink, not what perfect backpack you carry. Don’t get caught up in the distractions — focus on what truly matters. So what’s an alternative way? There isn’t one way, of course, but I’ll share some ideas.
  
  
                                         An Alternative Way
  
  Consider a different way of being:
  
  
• Instead of optimizing your schedule, pick one thing to do and focus fully on it. Do it with all of your heart, out of love. When you’re done, give a bow of gratitude. Take a moment to pause and not rush to the next thing. Repeat.
• Instead of trying to find the perfect software, the perfect tool, the perfect travel clothes … focus on being content with where you are, who you are, what you have, what is in front of you right now. Contentment is much more important than getting to perfect.
• Instead of building a fragile optimized routine, system or setup … give yourself less-than-optimal situations, randomness, things you need to adapt to. Develop flexibility, agility, adaptability, robustness, antifragility.
• Be present. Appreciate the fleeting moment, because there won’t be many more before you die. Be fully immersed in the moment, cherishing the beauty of this life.
• When you find yourself with the urge to optimize and find the perfect setup, recognize that you’re letting yourself be distracted from what’s important. Then ask yourself, “What’s most important right now?” Focus on that, even if it gives you discomfort and makes you want to run. Get good at that, rather than good at optimizing.
• Let your path be less controlled, more random. Let it be filled with messiness, because that’s how you adapt to messiness. Let it be filled with chaos, because then you can find peace in the middle of chaos. Let it be filled with the joy of life exactly as it is, because that’s optimal. What is. Not what you wish it could be.
  
  

And do it with a smile and joy in your heart. What a life we have been gifted with!

Sooo many clients tell me, "I need to come in more regularly, but I get busy and forget to book.  Or " I wish it was a bit more affordable".

I was not certain that a massage membership would be a program suitable for a sole practice, or that my clients would want one - so I sent out a survey.  Boy was I surprised.  A whopping 88% said they would be "Interested" or "Very Interested" in a discount massage program and a 20% discount seemed to be the sweet spot to entice people to participate.

So that's what I have created. A simple no nonsense membership program designed to  provide routine  monthly treatments for you at an amazingly affordable price.  Membership  will help you to create a self care commitment, plus  you'll be building a relationship with a thoughtful caring therapist provider. 

*When you commit to membership, you are helping change the culture of massage therapy. It is not a luxury, or a gift to oneself but a critical component to an overall wellness regimen.

Memberships provide a discount for every treatment.  At only $90 per month, it is a savings of 20% over walk in rates and helps reinforce the idea of routine visits and incorporating massage into a wellness regimen..

Our 6 Month members enjoy these amenities:

• Includes one 60 Minute Swedish massage treatment per month
• Discounted cost to upgrade to Deep Tissue ( + $15 ) , or 90 minute treatments ( + $40)
• 20% off one additional Swedish Relaxation bodywork session per month.
• No sign up fee
• Can freeze membership one time for a total of 60 days for $10 a month
• Members can offer $20 off to a friend new to Healing Hands
• Members receive 15% off gift Certificates
• 25% off additional massage during Birthday Month
• Can earn free services when you refer someone else - 50% off additional session for every referred new membership

Our 1 Year members enjoy all of the above  plus:

• One FREE month, pay for 12 get 13 months of treatments
• Larger discount to upgrade to Deep Tissue ( + $10 ), or 90 minute treatments ( + $35),  or Lomi ( + $50)
• 50% off (instead of 25%) additional massage during your Birthday Month
• Up to 2 additional Swedish Relaxation bodywork sessions per month at 20% off

If you would like more information, or wou dlike to sign up, please go here:
www.healinghandsbodywork.com/how-membership-works.html