Boomtown13
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Been meaning to mention this for several weeks now. I was standing in the checkout line at the Whole Foods Market, and I picked up the December issue of Massage Magazine. I opened up to a random page. It was an article titled "Warning: Laughter Ahead."
Sounded like my type of article. Maybe, perhaps, perchance it would mention tickling? I read on...
Turns out it's an entire article about tickling.
Here's the opening paragraph:
"Although most people think of laughter as a healing, happy and healthy response, massage therapists sometimes encounter a tickle-induced laughter in our client that may be a yellow light saying, "Warning: Proceed with Caution." Instead of mirth, ticklishness in our clients may actually point to something much deeper. The problem with ticklishness is that sometimes it masks the very areas that most need addressing to help alleviate our client's pain or discomfort. If a massage therapist retreats when ticklishness occurs, it cheats the client our of the full benefits of massage..."
And the article goes on for a page or so. Don't bother buying the magazine, I bought it for us. The article's not worth the money, just worth the mention. Here are the only other sentences in the article that we like:
"My introduction to cautionary laughter was in massage school when one of my classmates giggled every time her knees were massaged..."
and
"As soon as I touched her abdomen, Marsha laughed uproariously. I backed off, changed my angle and tried again. After numerous attempts she said, "Why am I laughing? This isn't at all funny.""
The article's thesis is to work with the ticklishness, calm the client down with an steady touch, etc.
But what WE can glean from this article is to tell our girlfriends and boyfriends the next time our massaging turns into tickling that we don't want to cheat them out of the full benefits of massage.
As if we haven't used that line already.
just mentioning,
Boommassage
Sounded like my type of article. Maybe, perhaps, perchance it would mention tickling? I read on...
Turns out it's an entire article about tickling.
Here's the opening paragraph:
"Although most people think of laughter as a healing, happy and healthy response, massage therapists sometimes encounter a tickle-induced laughter in our client that may be a yellow light saying, "Warning: Proceed with Caution." Instead of mirth, ticklishness in our clients may actually point to something much deeper. The problem with ticklishness is that sometimes it masks the very areas that most need addressing to help alleviate our client's pain or discomfort. If a massage therapist retreats when ticklishness occurs, it cheats the client our of the full benefits of massage..."
And the article goes on for a page or so. Don't bother buying the magazine, I bought it for us. The article's not worth the money, just worth the mention. Here are the only other sentences in the article that we like:
"My introduction to cautionary laughter was in massage school when one of my classmates giggled every time her knees were massaged..."
and
"As soon as I touched her abdomen, Marsha laughed uproariously. I backed off, changed my angle and tried again. After numerous attempts she said, "Why am I laughing? This isn't at all funny.""
The article's thesis is to work with the ticklishness, calm the client down with an steady touch, etc.
But what WE can glean from this article is to tell our girlfriends and boyfriends the next time our massaging turns into tickling that we don't want to cheat them out of the full benefits of massage.
As if we haven't used that line already.
just mentioning,
Boommassage
