Hand & Hand Mobile Massage | https://mobilehands.biz Just another WordPress site Tue, 22 Dec 2020 05:00:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 Vision & Muscle Tension, Healthy Holidays, Immune to Inactivity https://mobilehands.biz/vision-muscle-tension-healthy-holidays-immune-to-inactivity/ Tue, 08 Dec 2020 17:51:48 +0000 http://mobilehands.biz/?p=2729 Is Your Vision Causing Muscle Tension?

– Mary Betts Sinclair

Do you have tension headaches or chronic tension in your upper body? How about neck and shoulder stiffness? Maybe you experience strain in the temples, forehead, neck, shoulders, or back, especially after a long period of working at a computer or reading a book? If so, your tension could be related to how you look at the world.

Healthy vision is comfortable, efficient, and relaxed for the viewer, while poor visual habits can interfere with free and easy movement, making the body chronically tense. We use our eyes much of the day, and if we strain to see, we create tension in the face, neck, shoulders, and back muscles. Squinting and straining when we have trouble making something out, or stiffening our entire neck, spine, and pelvis every time we look up can affect the entire body.

Most of us develop these vision habits without even being aware of them, but there are other health factors that can play a role. Up to 5 percent of children are born with some kind of visual abnormality, or develop one in the first few years of life. A lazy eye, for example, may cause a child to hike up one eye or one shoulder, or twist the neck to look out of the better-sighted eye at all times. Being sensitive to light might cause a child to develop the habit of hanging the head forward. Injuries to or near the eyes can also cause chronic tension in the muscles of the eyes or structures near the eyes. And finally, emotional stress can cause us to hold our muscles tight while we look out at the world.

What To Do

Step One

Talk with your massage therapist about your pain and strain. During a session, your therapist can check you for extra tension in …(To read “the rest of the story” please click here Winter2020 Newsletter )

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Mary Betts Sinclair

Do you have tension headaches or chronic tension in your upper body? How about neck and shoulder stiffness? Maybe you experience strain in the temples, forehead, neck, shoulders, or back, especially after a long period of working at a computer or reading a book? If so, your tension could be related to how you look at the world.

Healthy vision is comfortable, efficient, and relaxed for the viewer, while poor visual habits can interfere with free and easy movement, making the body chronically tense. We use our eyes much of the day, and if we strain to see, we create tension in the face, neck, shoulders, and back muscles. Squinting and straining when we have trouble making something out, or stiffening our entire neck, spine, and pelvis every time we look up can affect the entire body.

Most of us develop these vision habits without even being aware of them, but there are other health factors that can play a role. Up to 5 percent of children are born with some kind of visual abnormality, or develop one in the first few years of life. A lazy eye, for example, may cause a child to hike up one eye or one shoulder, or twist the neck to look out of the better-sighted eye at all times. Being sensitive to light might cause a child to develop the habit of hanging the head forward. Injuries to or near the eyes can also cause chronic tension in the muscles of the eyes or structures near the eyes. And finally, emotional stress can cause us to hold our muscles tight while we look out at the world.

What To Do

Step One: …(To read, “the rest of the story”, please click here Summer 2020 Newsletter)

]]> Yoga=Calm, Preventive Care, Poor Vision https://mobilehands.biz/yoga-body-sense-summer-2013/ Mon, 01 Jul 2013 22:09:31 +0000 http://mobilehands.biz/?p=1060 IN THIS ISSUE: Breathe + Yoga = Calm * Bodywork as Preventive Care * Find out Why Your Vision May Cause Muscle Tension

Breath + Yoga = Calm

Hurried? Try these simple exercises before your session

By Mary Beth Braun

It’s one of those mornings. Your alarm didn’t go off and you have a massage appointment in an hour. You quickly shower get dressed, grab a protein bar, and dash to your car, only to realize your gas tank is nearly empty. Even so, you think you can make it to your appointment. On the way, you hit every red light and someone cuts you off just as you’re trying to change lanes. Finally, you pull into a parking spot, tense and frustrated— clearly not in the right mind-set for your bodywork session.

So, how can you collect and calm yourself enough to be fully present with only three minutes before your session? Breath and yoga.

STEP 1. BREATH

Once you enter the massage therapy room, it’s typical for practitioners to give
you a few minutes to undress and prepare for the session. Take this time to center and calm yourself.

Start by channeling your yoga instructor and begin with breath (pranayama): inhaling to the count of three and exhaling to

the count of six. Do this three times and move on to do a few yoga poses (asanas).

STEP 2. YOGA

You remember a few basic yoga poses from class, right? Try these three: simple seated twist, downward dog, and standing half moon.

Simple Seated Twist

Continuing to use your breath, sit on the floor in an easy, cross-legged pose and begin simple seated twist. Raise the crown of your head to the ceiling, elongating your neck and spine. Inhale and exhale, then twist to the left. Exhaling, move through center and repeat on the right, continuing to inhale and exhale.

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