For many people, the word “massage” is automatically associated with relaxation. But why is that? How did massage start to be a tool for relaxation, and how does massage continue to help people in New Jersey to relax after so many decades? These are the sorts of questions that the staff at Essential Massage Therapy consider after hours, and we are thrilled to share more about massage with you!

Massage Origins
Massage can be traced back through many generations, and most likely started with the natural need for human touch. People have engaged through physical touch for many years, and before there was ever a formal massage office, training schools, or anything else of the sort, humans touched each other for comfort, relaxation, and security.

Need for Touch
That’s right, even the least sociable of people require touch, and many people start getting their touch needs met from the very moment they are born, pressing close against the mother after delivery. Touch continues to be important throughout infancy, and anyone who has had their own child or even babysat for a few hours knows how the right touch can soothe a fussy infant. As humans age, touch is the last sense to deteriorate—even those who have lost vision, hearing, smell and taste will usually respond to touch.

Muscle Manipulation
Some of the benefits of massage come from releasing tension from muscles, be that through physical manipulation or through emotional relaxation. Comfortable positioning, temperature, and setting help relax in all ways.

Human Connection
So why not just visit those massage chairs at the mall or save up for your own? Unlike simple mechanical massage, massage by a professional encourages human connection. Even more, you can ask your human massage therapist to go slower, faster, deeper, and lighter—and they will listen.

Setting Counts!
For some, just walking into the massage office opens doors to relaxation. Unlike other places in your life, you know that you never have to drop what you’re doing and help someone else at the massage office, you never have anything to clean or work on, and you know that you are spending your time on yourself and well-being!

Now that you know a little more about how massage works, try it yourself! Stop in today for a relaxing massage by an expert massage therapist at Essential Massage Therapy in Sparta, New Jersey.