If you are unable to work in a professional massage, you can practice some simple massage techniques on yourself that can have great benefit in releasing tension and promoting relaxation.

Self-Massage Techniques

• Scalp Soother – place your thumbs behind your ears while spreading your fingers on top of your head. Move your scalp back and forth slightly by making circles with your fingertips for 15-20 seconds.
• Easy on the Eyes – close your eyes and place your ring fingers directly under your eyebrows, near the bridge of your nose. Slowly increase the pressure for 5-10 seconds, then gently release. Repeat 2-3 times.
• Sinus Pressure Relief – place your fingertips at the bridge of your nose. Slowly slide your fingers down your nose and across the top of your cheekbones to the outside of your eyes.
• Shoulder Tension Relief – reach one arm across the front of your body to your opposite shoulder. Using a circular motion, press firmly on the muscle above your shoulder blade. Repeat on the other side.

Self Massage Products

There are many products you can use to assist you with using self massage for relaxation.

One highly recommended product is Thera Cane®. It is a simple and highly effective self-massager makes it easy helps you apply pain-relieving deep compression directly to hard, knotted "trigger points" anywhere they occur - breaking up tension even in the hardest-to-reach muscles between your shoulder blades! If you have limited strength or mobility, Thera Cane's patented design gives you all the reach and leverage you need! For more information on product specifics, visit www.theracane.com

Still Point Inducer™ - recommended by chiropractors, massage therapists, and craniosacral therapists, this simple little device can help to release accumulated stress by relaxing the autonomic nervous system. It relieves headache and muscle pain and enhances immune system efficiency. For more information on the product, click here.