Effects Of Soothing Music While Having A Massage

Having a massage now a days is quite normal.  It used to be a luxury before with its high prices and specialized professionals and elegantly designed spa rooms.  Most of these spas or massage centers have these elegant looking in ceiling speakers and in ceiling radios as part of their interior design.  These speakers are used to play soothing music while giving a massage to their clients.

Why is it that massage has become so common in today’s’ generation?  Does it mean that people of this day and age are more stressed and anxious?  Or has it become a lifestyle?  No matter what you’re reasons are for a massage, bottom-line is to relax and rejuvenate your body. 

Music on the other hand has a positive effect not only to our brain but also to our psyche and body.  This is also the reason why there is a growing demand for music therapy.  Music relieves us from the stresses of life.  While stress can kill, music can bring back our body to life.  Certain kinds of music actually lower blood pressure and heart rate, normalize breathing and lessens cholesterol.  That is why music is essential when exercising.  The faster the music the fater the heart rate, the slower the music the slower the heart rate.  If you want to burn more fats, you listen to fast music while running. 

Music makes your body younger.  Music can uplift our soul.

Combined together, Music and Massage will definitely revitalize your body.  Listening to a relaxing music whilst experiencing a massage creates a balance for the mind and allows a reconnection to the body.

Listed below are some of the known effects of music while having a massage.

1.     Reduces Stress.  The reason why you are having is to relieve your body from stress.  Listening to soothing music while having it will also help relieve you from stress.  Music relaxes any tensed muscle helping you to release the tension that your body is carrying from a hard day’s work.

2.     Power sleep.  While having a massage and listening to a soothing music, your body tends to relax to the point of getting a short deep sleep.  Studies show that taking a power nap (15-30 minutes in the afternoon) would increase your productivity.  Having a massage while listening to good music will also normalize your sleep in the nighttime.

3.     Listening to music while having a massage regulates breathing.  Breathing becomes slower and deeper.  This activates the body to produce more serotonin, which can calm the body thus aiding in regulating blood pressure.

4.     Mental alertness is one effect of music while getting a massage.  While music has direct effect on the way we think and process things, combined with massage, it has greater effects on our mental alertness.  Because music relaxes the individual and relieves them from stress, they become more productive and alert at work.  Common sense would tell that if you don’t have excess baggage running on your mind due to stress, you would be able to think well.

Listening to music while getting a massage has indeed a beneficial effect to both the masseuse and the one getting the massage.  Massage enhances a sense of harmony between body and mind and Music soothes away mental and emotional stress.