1. Your body produces additional adrenaline
2. Your heart beats faster and more blood flows into your larger muscles
3. Your breathing becomes shallow and you start to perspire
4. The functioning of your immune and digestive systems is inhibited
5. The flow of blood to your extremities and internal organs is
decreased.

Frequent or unrelenting stress can damage your body, ultimately leading to discomfort or pain. It’s a contributing factor in most disease processes. The adverse effects of stress can manifest themselves as high blood pressure, changes in blood sugar, ulcers, headaches, hypertension, colitis, and heart disease. Accumulated stress and tension can spoil much of the pleasure and productivity you find in life.

What Massage does to Stress

The antidote to stress is the relaxation response. Your endocrine and nervous systems activate changes to slow your heart rate, improve your circulation and digestion, and relax your muscles—in direct counteraction to the stress response.

There are many activities that can trigger the relaxation response, such as exercise, deep breathing, meditation, or listening to soothing music.

One of the Best methods to combat Stress is Therapeutic Massage

Massage can dramatically reverse the damaging physiological effects of stress by helping to:
1. Lower your heart rate and blood pressure
2. Improve your circulation
3. Raise your skin temperature
4. Heighten your sense of well-being
5. Cause your anxiety level to drop

During the massage your tight muscles tend to relax and the pain associated with chronic tension is relieved. Increased circulation will supply more oxygen and nutrients to your muscles and help rid them of metabolic waste. Blocked, deadened areas are thus able to respond to sensory input again. Massage also stimulates release of the body’s natural pain killer—the endorphins.