06/23/2026
🪷🙌🪷I borrowed this from another but, added to it. 🙌🪷🙌
Nobody talks about why massage actually works.
Yes, it reduces stress. Yes, it relieves pain.
But here's the deeper thing: it teaches you to live inside your body again.
Many people spend their days almost entirely in their heads. Screens, thoughts, plans, noise. The body becomes just a vehicle — something we drag around to the next meeting.
Research calls what we lose "interoceptive awareness" — the ability to accurately read your own internal signals. Hunger. Tension. Emotion. Safety.
When that channel goes quiet, you stop trusting yourself. You outsource your decisions. You miss what your nervous system is trying to tell you.
An hour of bodywork doesn't just relax your muscles. It reminds your brain that you have a body. And that body has things to say.
🙏That's not woo. That's neuroscience.🙏
✨️ When did you last feel at home in your body?✨️ That is something that I meditate daily with. Presence of mind. Body. Soul! All connecting for peace and healing. The iChing or Ching connects that. Truly where the heavens and earth come together and connect, there is truthfully, peace 🙏🙏🙏 Presence in your body is peace 🧡
**Photo credit of the iChing for peace tattoo from the amazing Christine Gibson
