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[attunewellbrooklyn]

6 Massage Myths Debunked 

Massage therapy has a long history of promoting physical and mental wellness. A qualified massage therapist such as ATTUNE WELL performs expert manipulation of muscles, soft tissues, tendons, and ligaments in Brooklyn, New York. These specialists use their palms and fingers to deliver different levels of pressure. Massage therapy has numerous health benefits, including a greater range of motion, deep relaxation, and overall well-being. Despite its long-standing popularity and the growing number of people seeking massage treatment for overall well-being, misinformation and misunderstandings about this ancient practice persist. In this post you can look into myths about massage.

Massage is for Relaxation 

Although massage is generally associated with relaxation, its benefits extend far beyond that. Massage treatment provides many health advantages, including pain relief, stress reduction, improved circulation, immunological function, and increased range of motion.

With specialized techniques like deep tissue, Sports Massage, and therapeutic massage, it responds to specific demands and situations, establishing itself as a versatile therapy capable of treating various physical disorders.

Massage Can Worsen Neurological Conditions

Contrary to popular assumption, specific massage treatments can help relieve symptoms linked with neurological diseases. The key is tailoring the strategy to each individual's demands and limits.

Book your massage service at ATTUNE WELL, who is familiar with Neurovascular Techniques Brooklyn to manage neurological symptoms, emphasizing the necessity of specific therapy procedures for best results.

Massage is Unsafe for Pregnant women

Prenatal massage, when performed by a certified therapist, is generally regarded as safe and can give a variety of benefits to pregnant moms. This specialist massage can significantly reduce back pain, edema, and muscle tension and improve sleep quality.

Communicating your pregnancy to the therapist allows them to use appropriate techniques and changes that cater to your changing body. 

Massage Spreads Toxins in the Body

A common misconception is that massage may release and circulate toxins throughout the body. Contrary to popular assumption, the human body has highly efficient detoxification systems, including the liver and kidneys.

Massage's primary goal is to manipulate soft tissues, improve blood circulation, and induce relaxation while avoiding releasing toxins into the body. Regular Massage at ATTUNE WELL can help the body's natural detoxification processes by increasing lymphatic flow and circulation.

Massage can give only temporary results

Massage treatment significantly impacts pain relief and overall health. A qualified massage therapist can improve muscle flexibility, extending your range of motion and increasing muscle strength.

Massage's cumulative benefits in lowering pain and stress levels are particularly effective when performed regularly. When delivered by a professionals, massage treatment can lead to long-term gains in muscular health and physical well-being.

Massage is a Luxury

Massage is more than just aluxury. It provides significant health advantages for the body and the mind. Massage is used in treatment programs by a variety of healthcare providers.

It includes physical therapists and chiropractors to help with injury rehabilitation, pain management, and overall well-being. Regular massage appointmentscan play an important part in a proactive self-care routine.

Final words

Debunking these prevalent massage therapy myths sheds light on the holistic practice's advantages and potential. Book your massage at ATTUNE WELL to experience the true potential of massage therapy and reap its numerous benefits. Sports Massage Brooklyn at ATTUNE WELL can improve physical health, reduce stress, increase relaxation, and provide a general sense of well-being and improve your athletic performance.

[miraclemioart]

Design for Dislyte AU of Homestuck, first with John Egbert.

In this AU John is an esper blessed with the powers of Feng Po Po, acquiring her powers of the wind and sky after syncing with divine waves. He doesn't belong to any group or organization dedicated to researching Esperhood, but has friends involved with such organizations who he helps on occasion.

[idliketobeatree]

when Aziraphale pleads "it will be just like the old times, only even nicer!", Crowley thinks, "I was happy when I created the stars and they took that away from me. why would I want to go back? why would you?"

but in Aziraphale's head it's almost like another reminiscing confession, "oh, the only joy I ever felt in Heaven was when I met you."

[viaetor]

alright, and what if i create a wholeass mythology and universe for aethers background. what then.

[intermundia]

I think one of the reasons that people make fun of the prequel dialogue is that so often the characters like Anakin just say exactly what they mean without disguising it with implications. This writing is great for kids and also appeals to autistic people who appreciate it when people say what they actually mean. The dialogue is often kind of bare, open text.

Obi-Wan is a bit of an exception in that he is sarcastic, but it's pretty obvious when he's joking or being contextually polite. There's sometimes tragic irony in the sense that duplicitous characters like Palpatine can lie in ways that are clear to the audience as deception and manipulation, but he's still not really playing language games.

It all just sounds a bit stilted and awkward because it violates 'normal' adult conversation rules of implying what you mean for unclear social convention reasons. People are always looking to supply those extra implications bc it rings false and flat to people trained to expect those games, but no—the characters really are usually just saying the truest version of their opinions at any moment.

Idk it's a stylistic choice that makes sense for the genre and tone of the films, and the fact that people make fun of it for being literal, obvious, or stilted is kind of frustrating.

[kheprriverse]

Did I ever tell y’all Tekoha has kids? Idr tbh but I'm doing that now lol

They’re twins; Tefke and Safiya!

More info in the tags ↓

[icewindandboringhorror]

sometimes looking at like Self Help Strategies lists for the symptoms I'm having is always just like:

thing that I already do

thing I have tried 10 times

thing I already do

thing that I don't have the money to do

thing I already do

thing I've been doing since I was 10yrs old to no avail

thing that is impossible given my situation

thing that doesn't apply to me

thing that I already do

thing I have already tried

hrmm, oh wait, maybe finally- OH, yeah.. okay. thing that I already do but it was just phrased slightly differently

thing I have already done

[baeshijima]

KURO WHAT ARE THESE QUESTIONS OMG ???

[divinityunleashed]

"Why are people asking about biases for ships?"

"I did not think people cared that much about life at sea."

[unproduciblesmackdown]

also "textless" versions of these, wahooo

[bloo-the-dragon]

*holds nebula like hamborger* what am i to do with you.

[widowshill]

Character Opinions Bingo: Josette (either ghost Josette or 1795 Josette or! 1991?) Please and thank you!

i think i'm in a minority of people who actually do prefer josette in her ghost form, before we meet her in 1795 — which is maybe a product of less is more? letting your imagination run away with you? but i really like the air of mystery, and tragedy, and ... a porous myth, laying over the whole story. I tend to be a little more fond of the mythos version of the family history as opposed to the one that's told to us in time travel: that jeremiah was cruel, and josette suffered, but they suffered because human hearts are messy and getting involved with your husband's nephew can only really lead to tragedy. (as opposed to later tellings, where there is no fault placed on either josette or jeremiah, or barnabas, and everything stems from angelique's curse) and I love the way she functions as a device, protecting the lost and lonely and friendless kids (david and vicki) because, in the story, she was so lonely, and that lead to her death. so she intervenes, even with people who may or may not be blood collinses. (she wasn't! she was a collins by marriage!) for me ... I think she works better as a character who haunts the narrative, but she works really, really well as a haunting. the eternal ghost bride haunting the cliff called widows' hill, so-named because the collins family drove local wives to such suffering, widowhood, exile? the childless, unhappy collins wife protecting a distant collins descendant from his biological mother — and allying with his metaphorical mother? protecting vicki from dying before her time, before she can die as she's fated to on the cliff, which is at best ambiguously merciful? gosh i love her. i could ramble forever.

[not-poignant]

Hello! I read some of your reposts about importance of comments and that any can be usefull to self evaluation as author. My question - is it weird and uncomfortable if people bring too many personal problems commenting your fics? Like, do you distant yourself out from comments that bring a lot of person's drama, does it feel uplifting in the end, if comment is a lot about reader's not so happy history? Can you still feel joy from that kind of comment?Thanks for unswer if you do.Have a nice day!

Hi anon,

So, this is kind of complex. I would say the vast majority of people don't overshare at all, and when they are sharing from their lives, it's in a way that makes complete sense and is very 'contained.' I can tell they're not expecting emotional labour from me, and that they're sharing because they found a point of resonance between themselves, the story, the situation, or the character/s, or a combination of all of the above.

And like, that's a part of why I write, y'know? I want to strike up that sense of resonance in folks who relate to these characters, so when people share that it has resonated, that's like... purposeful and meaningful to me. I feel like I've made a connection. I also sometimes feel sorrowful - like when someone explains they relate to Efnisien because of abuse they've also experienced, or when someone explains that they relate to a character's chronic illness because of their own.

But I can also generally tell through tone and language that the commenter doesn't expect labour from me, they're speaking their pain into the world in a way that's like 'this is me, and here's this character, and we both share this thing in common.' In a perfect world, none of us would know what this kind of pain is like. In this world, a lot of us do, and we get to feel less alone when we read stories where we feel seen.

And that is, by and large, the general experience when readers share something personal that they resonated with in a comment.

That being said, I do also maintain very strong boundaries with people's personal matters, because I'm not someone who's 'healed and above all my own issues who is sharing what I've learned to people still going through it' I am someone who is still going through it. And often folks have no idea what kind of day I'm having or how I'm feeling when they comment, and so... on the very very rare occasion I do get a comment that feels like it's pushing for some kind of emotional labour that's beyond what I can give... I will not give that labour. I will acknowledge their comment, thank them for reading, and not...give energy I don't have to spare.

And like, honestly, 99 times out of 100, everyone is very respectful of that and even caring towards it.

I can probably count on like two hands, in ten years, the commenters who I felt had become very self-focused or what I felt was over-sharing in comments in a way that sort of...was no longer about me or the story, where they just treated the comment section as a diary instead. In those cases I tend to leave very brief acknowledgements, as a kind of 'I see this, I know this is painful, but this is not my lane, and I don't want this to be my lane.' But a more compassionate version of that.

If anything, the most personal stories, anon, come to me in Asks that are sent via Tumblr, off anonymous, so I can reply privately. These folks are usually very...aware that I might not be in the space to hear them, and are frankly the most 'if you don't have time or energy to reply please don't pressure yourself', so I feel no burden or obligation and that usually makes it easier to reply in my own time.

The ones that come to me via anon, I only reply to selectively, and that depends on a few factors. Some things are extremely personal and frankly I'm not comfortable replying because even if I did it would be to say 'I think a professional needs to handle this.' I've also - very rarely - had a few people do things that were not cool, to manipulate me into caretaking them, usually because they want the comfort feeling that one of my characters creates, and then from there thinks 'Pia made that character so they can give that to me instead.' This doesn't happen often, but it's very distinct when it does.

But that's rare! Super rare!

It might be that others read the comments of folks in fics and think 'I would never share those kinds of details about my life like that' and that's fine for them - but some folks do need to share, and want to feel seen because they felt seen during the fic, and I have no problems with that in general.

I have learned so so much about the human condition, about the fact that things that I thought literally no one would relate to are things that actually a lot of people relate to, etc. through the grace and vulnerability of the folks who comment on my fics with personal anecdotes or even just 'I've been through something like this, and I thought you showed it well / it's a painful thing to go through.'

I know a lot of authors wouldn't have much patience with that maybe? I don't know. I'm literally writing trauma recovery, mental illness and chronic illness, queerness and neurodivergence, and people going through tough times. I don't think an author ends up writing that stuff if they're generally not looking to make a connection with fellow folks who have also gone through some tough times! And even if I can't be those people's support systems, I think all of us having these ephemeral moments of effectively saying: 'Same bro' through the comments, is pretty powerful, and magical, actually.

Caveat: If a person brings personal problems into my fics with the expectation that I will then fix them, that's something I don't really do and don't enter into. That's where my boundaries are firm. Sometimes I won't even acknowledge those kinds of situations at all. If a person reads something for free and then seeks to obligate a complete stranger into being their support or therapist, there's a much bigger issue going on there that isn't my business, and I generally will maintain significant distance in those situations.

TL;DR - I don't think I'd write these stories if I didn't want to make connections with folks who have also gone through some hard times. The vast majority of people who bring up personal stuff aren't necessarily bringing me 'joy' - but I don't just look for joy in the comments, anon, I also look for connection, resonance, moments of feeling less alone, and sometimes that's not easy, but it's still very special. As for the very rare occasions where someone wants me to personally hold their hand, I step back, because a) that's not my job, and b) I don't think folks realise sometimes just how much proverbial hand-holding I need as well lol - I might sound like I have my shit together, but I do not.

[katfreaks-hidyhole]

[aq2003]

i'm rereading the lightning thief and i'm surprised at how much got changed, like there are a bunch of small details that got shifted so the show would flow better. i think my only nitpick (it's probably for pacing) is that we don't get a whole scene of ms dodds taking percy into the museum and him fighting her there, that's one of the strongest memories i have reading the book. but the show more than makes up for it, i think it does much better characterizing grover's anxiety and friendship w percy, portraying percy's adhd and dyslexia, having annabeth be kinda strange and offputting and Studying Percy Like A Bug from minute 1 in a way that immediately conveys her intelligence/wisdom/athena heritage (i could've SWORN it happened this way in the books too but it didn't lol that's just how good leah is at embodying the character i think). also due to the change in medium and how it's no longer being narrated by percy the whole way through i think it does more w/ showing the child soldier aspect of the story. the show very much feels like the book come to life so it's intriguing to go back and see the differences and how much it's improved on the source material

[readymades2002]

iirc episode 6 of s1 of the bear is the closest we get to acknowledging Le Gentrification. that's a pretty central theme of that episode obviously, though its done through richie kind of losing his place in the world as it constantly changes and dies around him. his conflict with that change is extremely visible in how he relates to sydney, which i think kind of muddles that theme a bit? sydney's treatment by richie (and carmy, though i haven't seen that discussed as much) feels incrediblyyyyy racialized and his war against her gets combined with his fear of everything around him changing. when he goes through his character development moment in s2, he finds that he actually fits in beautifully with the newly whitewashed Bear and he's able to start cooperating better with sydney as well, and its like...hm. his conflict. in episode 6. that fear of change. its shown as largely a personal issue and causes him to butt heads with sydney and to call the cops on her handiwork later on. its hard for me to express in a more coherent way but it feels like the show is conflating his issues with the bigotry he later attempts to unlearn and we see him improving and growing on both fronts through how he adapts to the fine dining atmosphere. and this is an interesting vehicle to show that, but it also means that the gentrification stuff is kind of just hovering uncomfortably over your shoulder and i don't know if that's intentional or not. because the bear DOES show its black characters with so much love and compassion and respect for their flaws and their struggle to live in the world and be part of it and their desires and learning to strive for more than they were. it just...hm. a lot of characters realize they want Something Greater through joining the world of fine dining. which is cool! but the beef is still closed for this and there is still an existing base of people who ate there who are not going to anymore. that's a community you're losing! that's a community that you're not feeding anymore! what do the longtime employees of the beef feel about this and why is this a conflict that's mostly shown through richie's pov