Your masseuse will then work their way up to your neck and finish by massaging the around the skull, usually with certain types of essential oils. Aside from feeling amazing and being a great way to relax and shut the world out for an hour, there are actually many health benefits to booking yourself an Indian Head Massage.
Tension and tightness in the upper back and neck is one of the most common culprits of headaches, migraines, and even back pain. By targeting and loosening the knots and tight muscles in your upper body and encouraging better circulation of cerebrospinal fluid by massaging the neck and scalp, you can rid yourself of that tightness and pounding overtaking your day.
Indian Head Massages target both the physical and mental stress your body may be coping with, and aim to transport you into a calm state of deep relaxation. This rids your body of the stress that is preventing your brain from shutting down when you need to sleep, which in turn allows you to let your body fall into a restful state of relaxation once again.
Massaging the head aids in increasing and revitalizing the circulation of oxygen through your brain. Increasing the flow of oxygen to your brain helps regain the proper chemical balance needed to maintain a healthy mental state.
The Indian Head Massage will encourage higher oxygen flow to your brain, lifting your mood and effectively reducing a variety of both mental and physical symptoms caused by anxiety or depression.
Too often, we let our brains become overloaded with thoughts, ideas, and feelings, usually being too busy to take a moment to breath and sort ourselves out. When we become too overloaded with information, we become incapable of properly categorizing and organizing these thoughts, which in turns hinders the efficiency of our memories. This reset allows us to slow down and re-establish self-awareness, effectively revitalizing our memory.
By rebalancing your chakras, you are effectively rebalancing the energies within your body. By combining this rebalancing of energies with the cleansing of your mental state and the relaxation of your physical body, you will feel a new type of energy throughout your body. Through certain massage techniques used on the neck specifically the lymph nodes , the Indian Head Massage can stimulate and improve lymphatic drainage and blood flow.
In turn, we will not only feel better on a day-to-day basis, but we will also target or prevent certain health problems such as swelling of the face or limbs, production of cancer cells, etc. Massaging the scalp is proven to promote longer and healthier hair by encouraging better blood flow to the scalp. This is the portion of the massage where adding essential oils into the routine has to most benefits.
Different types of oils can have positive effects both on your skin and your hair. Tea Tree Oil and Chamomile Oil both sooth the skin, which can work to cure a dry or itchy scalp. Lemon Oil is great for fighting dandruff.
If it is used on dry as opposed to wet hair, oil will strengthen, condition and created splendid texture in the hair. There are conflicting arguments as to whether you should massage oil directly onto the scalp. Chande J quotes renowned hair stylist Rod Anker as saying oil on the scalp is not a good idea as it will block hair follicles.
Also it will change the ph level on your scalp. Ph levels of the skin affect what happens to the hair follicles and how much natural skin oil sebum is produced. On the other hand, it is well known that oils can be good to manage dry and damaged hair.
So applying it to hair rather than the scalp might be the way forward if it is used in the treatment. Narendra Mehta was blind from childhood. Still he made a good life for himself and became educated. After he came to England in to train in physiotherapy, he became upset that when given a full body massage, head massage did not take place.
He had been brought up with champi in his family routine. He knew the benefits of it. So seeing a gap in the market returned to India to study it. In his studies he found that including massage to the upper body was more beneficial than just the ancient champissage techniques, which were limited to the scalp and hair.
Ancient Chinese wrote about health treatments involving therapeutic massage. Hindu scripts regularly talk of massage. The Ayurvedic tradition absorbed massage as an integral part of its teachings. In modern times, Ayurvedic practitioners helped popularise Indian head massage in the west. Experts are currently examining a link between the use of Indian Head Massage and improved recovery from illness and injury.
A study found that Indian Head Massage reduced muscle tension, energised participants, and helped patients deal with negative psychological experiences. Recovery from injury requires a multi-faceted approach. Doctors and other medical professionals should not expect to tell patients that a single approach to recovery is all they need.
Physical therapy combined with therapies which affect mood and the parasympathetic nervous system is a much more effective approach. The fact is that depressed people recover from injury more slowly. Negative emotions often cause blockages in muscle tissue , a fact that every massage therapist and acupuncturist will relate to. Regrowth of hair is one of the touted benefits of head massage.
Can follicles of hair grow back from the power of touch on the scalp? A study from showed that after several months of a standardised scalp massage test on men, hair thickness increased significantly. The main cause of male baldness is the DHT molecule , a male sex hormone. Balding caused by hormones cannot be reversed by scalp or head massage. However, the increased blood flow to the scalp from massaging the scalp can strengthen the hair follicles and prevent further hair loss.
The scalp, being at the top of the head, far from the heart, sometimes needs a little help with blood circulation. One contributor to male pattern baldness could be reduced blood flow to hair follicles. Tests on a small group 25 of people showed promising results on the reduction of mental fatigue after receiving binaural beats and massage treatment.
Researchers found that sustained attention, verbal short-term and long-term memory and non-verbal long-term memory were statistically significantly increased after using brain massage. In essence, this concept of massaging the brain improves attention span, memory, alertness, and cognitive function. It helps us think better. Remember the tingling, pleasurable sensation you feel when the hairdresser massages your scalp?
Just try it. But ASMR is a new sensory phenomenon that uses triggers such as sound and slow movements to generate the tingling sensation.
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