Touch My Body
Buddha Hands Network wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
I am an unabashed hedonist.
In the pursuit of pleasure, the body is my first barometer. The sense of touch relieves and de-stresses by conveying physical intimacy and spiritual healing.
Whenever the migraine cometh, nothing beats a deep-tissue, full-body massage, preferably the Balinese massage, which uses a variety of techniques including skin rolling, kneading and stroking, acupressure and reflexology. (The good old knead and glide Swedish massage works for me too.) I am partial to unscented massage oil extracted from apricot kernel or jojoba, which aren’t too greasy and are easily absorbed into the skin.
There are other things that I would like to try too, like acupuncture. The insertion of hair-thin needles into the skin in strategic parts of the body in order to block pain has been practiced in China many centuries B.C.. According to Chinese medicine, the balance between the yin and the yang can be found by altering the energy flow in […]
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