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Vol. XIV, NO. 1 - #21 Spring 2006 STRESS AND TOUCH All living creatures need to be touched. Domesticated animals in particular thrive as a result of the care and touch of their masters. What dog doesn’t like his belly rubbed or a scratch behind the ear? Cats, usually a more independent companion, are more content to just be near, and benefit from the comfort of snuggling up to someone who cares for them. Human beings need to be touched. Without touch, we can become ill. Add stress to the equation and matters just get worse. "Stress-related disorders make up between 80-and-90 percent of the ailments that bring people to family-practice physicians. What they require is someone to listen, someone to touch them, someone to care about them. Unfortunately, that does not exist in modern medicine" says Joan Borysenko, PhD. She goes on to say "I believe massage therapy is absolutely key in the healing process . . . Nurturing is an incredible component to the foundation to the healing process, allowing yourself to surrender completely to the care of another person. That can only happen during a massage . . .Physical touch releases growth hormones that will help your immune system recover. Without touch, the immune system cannot recharge. Everybody needs to be touched.” In European and other countries, touch is much more a part of life than it is in the United States. Natural Health Magazine reported that "In a single day, a Frenchman will touch, and be touched, 100 times more than his American counterpart." Massage is a way of receiving that touch if you do not get it another way. Massage can relieve stress as well as boost the immune system and offer a content state of being.
Quote of Note “The man who views the world at 50 the same way as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.”
Muhammad Ali
Keeping Posted What other things your therapists are doing
Barry has been teaching his Full body Active Stretching for EveryBODY Class at the Harvard Ridge/SWYMFIT Fitness Center in Boxborough on Saturdays. This is his first experience teaching in a Fitness Facility outside the STAR Tech Healing and Learning Center.
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The ballet Coppelia has recently dominated our lives. Our daughter Miranda ended
her fifth season with the Columbia City Ballet in Columbia,
SC, and returned to New England
to star with her partner Terry Blogg in Dance Prism’s all new production of
Coppelia. x x x
Barry attended the Massachusetts
Men’s Gathering May 12-14 and gave two
workshops. He offered his popular Full Body Active Stretching for EveryBODY
Workshop again, as well as his Self-Help for Arm and Hand Overuse Workshop. DID YOU KNOW? The average adult has about 18 square feet of skin. That's a lot of surface to get massaged. That’s a lot of area for good, healthy touch!
Barry's has
been teaching classes for the Acton Boxborough Community Education Program for
the past year. Classes have been very popular.
June 18th
Remember Dad with a
Massage Gift Certificate
STAR Tech Healing and Learning Center Show Dad you Care, by giving him the Gift of Love. No hassle with size, color, style or duplication.
Special Offer As a part of our new email newsletter communications, we offer specials to the reader from time to time. These will be unadvertised specials, available only by reading our on-line Newsletter, Therapy News.
This offer is only good for new appointments that are scheduled as a result of receiving this newsletter. This offer does not apply to Gift Certificates. To receive your discount, you MUST mention the Spring 06 Special offer when you schedule your appointment.
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