10/24/2025
✨️ Your time in Massage Therapy✨️
Massage therapy goes beyond mere touch; it provides your body with the necessary time to respond, release tension, and promote healing.
Here’s why the length of your session is significant:
🍂 Muscles Require Time to Relax
While short sessions can offer immediate relief, chronic tension or deep knots demand more extensive work.
Sustained pressure and gentle movements are essential for muscles, fascia, and connective tissue to fully release.
🍂 Nervous System Reset
Massage stimulates your parasympathetic nervous system, which is responsible for the "rest and digest" response.
A longer session allows your nervous system to transition completely from stress mode to relaxation mode.
🍂Deeper Healing
Chronic pain, postural problems, and long-standing tension do not resolve immediately.
Extended sessions provide your body with the opportunity to regain balance and enhance circulation, leading to lasting relief.
🍂Mind-Body Connection
Longer sessions enable you to reconnect with your body and identify areas of tension, discomfort, or emotional stress.
This heightened awareness is a crucial step toward long-term healing.
🍂 In summary: Massage is a time investment in your well-being, mobility, and tranquility. The longer and more consistent your sessions, the more profound the benefits you can reap.
Your Massage Therapist,
Tera Gatlin, LMT
