Massage Therapy for Physical and Emotional Wellness

When you think of getting a massage, you think soothing relaxation right? It's an escape from your aches and pains. Did you know massage therapy helps not only with your physical ailments, but your emotional ailments as well? Pain hurts, which raises your stress levels, leading to depression and anxiety. When you come to get a massage at Back in Balance Wellness Center in Bangor, it’s not only a physical experience it is an emotional experience too.

How Massage Helps Us Mentally

Massage is associated with relaxation, so it’s simple to see how it can help our emotional health. When the relaxation starts the stressed influence hormone cortisol gets let loose lowering our feelings of stress, anxiety, even blood pressure. Here are some other emotional and mental benefits massage therapy has to offer. They include:

• Improved concentration–When you are all relaxed and Zen your brain can finally focus and concentrate better letting your creative mind soar.
• Better Sleep– Massage relaxes, thus invoking better overall sleep. Sleep time is when our bodies heal. Lack of sleep can lead to mental, emotional issues such as irritability, depression, anxiety, and fatigue.
• Overall Well-being–A massage just helps you overall physically helping reduce pain, increase circulation, and flexibility, making you feel relaxed and happy inside and out.

Letting Massage Therapy Benefit You

Welcome massage therapy into your life at Back in Balance Wellness Center. It is a lovely complementary to the service packages we offer. Our massage staff provides a list of massage services right here in Bangor to fit you from a simple relaxation massage for stress relief to deep tissue, or sports. We also offer reflexology and hot stones treatment, and more. Call us at 207-947-8077 to consult with one of our massage therapists and start your total body healing today.