Bay Trail Massage and Healing Arts

Client comes in with knee pain. Upon palpation of hamstrings I notice an unusually hard bony prominence on his femur. I tell the client to get that checked out with his primary care doctor. Upon palpation, she tells him she does not feel a thing and that his massage therapist should know her anatomy! Upon x-ray, they find a bony prominence out-growth from his femur. 🦴 she’s surprised, I’m not! Come on Docs, give us professional massage therapists the benefit of the doubt, and please, trust our palpitation skills! This is our area of expertise!

This summer has been a creative labor of love! I am now a woman with power tools, feeling quite capable and although there are a few more details to make it complete here is the new studio transformation!

"When a cat falls out of a tree, it lets go of itself. The cat becomes completely relaxed, and lands lightly on the ground. But if a cat were about to fall out of a tree and suddenly make up its mind that it didn’t want to fall, it would become tense and rigid, and would be just a bag of broken bones upon landing.
In the same way, it is the philosophy of the Tao that we are all falling off a tree, at every moment of our lives. As a matter of fact, the moment we were born, we were kicked off a precipice, and we are falling, and there is nothing that can stop it.
So instead of living in a state of chronic tension, and clinging to all sorts of things that are actually falling with us because the whole world is impermanent, be like a cat."
~ Alan Watts

Rather than being focused on the deficit of what’s going out, we can choose to focus on the abundance of what’s being received and align ourselves with gratitude.

Simple shifts in focus can redirect our trajectory of well being and reduce symptoms of chronic pain.

Our emotions, have a direct impact on our brains perception of safety. If the brain senses threat, whether it’s an actual physical threat or an emotion signaling threat, the brain may send physical pain to warn and protect you.

If we can begin catching ourselves in mind-states of fear, insecurity, lack, anxiety, etc., and choose instead to shift our attention towards safety, we are actively rewiring our brain towards safety, which can eventually reduce or even eliminate this type of chronic pain.