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“Touch: simple physical Act or Healing art?” (Cont’d from prev)..)
In recent times, massage has taken on something of an art form for developing and maintaining good health via its capacity to stimulate, invigorate and relax mind and body. Massage stimulates blood circulation, assists with lymphatic (waste) drainage, as well … Continue reading
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“Touch: simple physical act or healing art?” (Cont’d from prev)..)
As by now you will be aware, almost the entire ‘thrust’ of each blog contained in this compendium has focused around or upon an application of therapeutic methods of psychosocial support. In the main however, I have confined such descriptive … Continue reading
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“Touch: simple physical act or healing art?” (Cont’d from prev..)
My most recent blog in this series, has attempted to no more than introduce the subject matter entailed in its title. In postings to follow, we shall, albeit briefly, set the scene historically, from which, hopefully we can answer such … Continue reading
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“Just relax”…Easier said than done! (Cont’d from previous…).
Hopefully you are already beginning to see that in reality, the response in fact lies within the compass of the old saying referred to above and gives rise to a further question. Although undeniably, “many roads” do indeed “lead … Continue reading
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Routes, self applied or otherwise, to Relaxation and Healing.
Just relax!” Now there’s advice (often, so it seems, bordering on a command) that all of us will, from childhood on, have encountered. And have you noticed how it is that such – often gratuitous – counsel, almost unerringly delivered … Continue reading
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Final thoughts on Human Stress.
In my last blog I made reference to the true account of a middle-aged patient, who was being treated for ovarian cancer, on the hospital oncology ward in which I was working at that time. I shall therefore assume that … Continue reading
Coping with stress – Final thoughts.
Over the past weeks, I have attempted, to chart something of the history of our present-day usage of the word “stress”; especially in the sense of both its applications to, and implications for healthcare and quality of life. We have … Continue reading
Final thoughts concerning these concluding remarks about stress.
Let me begin to bring this short series of blogs on stress to a close, with an attempt to describe a rationale or underlying strategy for what it is, that together, we have been attempting in these blogs to achieve. … Continue reading
More about stress.
In the early part of my undergraduate years, I owned and rode a motorcycle, which both suited my pocket and (in good weather at least) provided a healthy and pleasurable mode of travel. One summer, I took a short break … Continue reading
Stress Can Be Good For You: (Cont.d further).
Following on from last week’s posting, take an analogy if you will, concerning this profitable input of stress from the activity of the gymnasium and regular roadwork in athletic and sporting pursuit. Exposure to controlled bursts of stressful exercise and … Continue reading