Body Work: A Healing and Pain-Relieving Therapy

There is a widely held belief that treating the whole person can greatly enhance the mental and physical constraints that one may experience. This idea, although not new, has become the catalyst for alternative treatments in an effort to promote physical and emotional healing.

How does it work? A massage therapist plays an active role in discerning how you are feeling at any given moment during the massage process. For example, if the pressure applied causes angst for the patient, the therapist will reduce the pressure on any given point in the body.

Moreover, the therapist’s role is to become as familiar with you as possible, such as noting your breathing, movement of body, and asking questions as to whether or not you notice a change as a result of the therapy.

In other words, unlike doctors who may take your blood pressure and ask a few questions, a body work therapist pays particular attention to your voice, your actions, and the way you move, and begins a dialogue that keeps them constantly aware of what you are feeling during the session.

By doing so, you become more attuned to your own body and what signals it is emitting. This self-awareness is important to the healing process.

For example, reflexology is a form of body work that incorporates applying pressure to the hands and feet which may provide relief from pain. In addition, there are at least twenty or more forms of body work that promote physical and emotional well-being.

Other well-known types of body work therapies include:

There are a host of other body work therapies as well.

Body work has been around for hundreds if not thousands of years, and has been widely used as an alternative form of healing.

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