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Anti Aging Advisor: Dont Be Superficial!

By Steve Esquire
Jan 26, 2009
Are you interested in retaining your youthful appearance? Most people are trying to fight the aging process and maintain their beauty and young appearance. A whole industry has sprung up called anti aging. Anti aging is a broad category targeting all aspects of maintaining your health and beauty. Most people are familiar with cosmetic companies offering a whole range of anti wrinkle creams and ointments. On the other side is cosmetic surgery where your appearance can be changed by skilled doctors. In between is a whole host of other products and services targeting the fight against the aging process. Aging is a complex issue that is just in the beginning of being understood. What is known is that skin is just the superficial layer and the muscles and tissues below the surface need treatment as well. Now, massage chairs are offering massage therapies to help the fight against aging.

Let us bypass the skin treatments and start to look at cause and effect of aging. We will all get old. The trick is to age gracefully. If we go to the root of aging, we see 2 major factors that act as catalysts to the aging process. The first is stress. If you want to age quickly, stress will definitely be the accelerator. The second catalyst is the muscles of the body. Our muscles can be used, abused or underused. This will determine how we look and age. These two items can percolate to the surface causing signs of aging. By the time the problem reaches the skin, we need a major overhaul.

It is impossible to live life without stress. The question is how do we minimize it and quickly reverse the effects of it on the body? We come under pressure from all angles. As we are put under stress, our body reacts. Stress mobilizes your major organs and activates your muscles for action. Your body is ready to take physical action. Trouble is that most of the stress we have is mental. I am late to a meeting and I need to get in the car and drive their quickly. My body is racing, but I am sitting down in the car. Meanwhile, the stress is causing chemical reactions in the body. The body builds up waste products as well, such as toxins. But we do not give the body a physical release of these items.

If we are out running errands and are running behind what happens? We start to get nervous or stressed. We have all these things to get done and we aren't quite getting there. This builds up stress in our bodies, but we are not releasing them through any physical action. Chemicals and toxins build up in the body. They need to be released. How can we do that? One proven effective method is massage therapy. Not only does massage therapy such as shiatsu or Swedish massage help to release toxins, but it also helps us to relax. Both of these massage techniques are available in the best massage chair brands.

What is the relation between the process of stress and anti aging to counter act this process? The major organs support the body to either fight or flight. This mobilizes the feet and hands for action. Reflexology massage is geared to reverse this exact process. The hands and feet have certain points that are related to the major organs via meridian lines. Reflexology massage stimulates these trigger points to calm the major organs and induce relaxation. This helps to reduce the reactions to stress and to help induce whole body relaxation.

Unfortunately stress is ongoing and continuous. It has become a part of modern life. To counteract this ongoing barrage of stress, your anti aging treatment must also be ongoing. Regular and frequent massage therapy is just such a treatment. The removal of the waste products of stress is an important factor in keeping the body healthy and to fight the ongoing battle with the aging process. To receive ongoing massage therapy, massage chairs are the most convenient and economical method. They offer in home convenience and can be used at any time. Keep yourself healthy and retain your youthful look with a massage chair recliner.
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