Frictions, pressures and gentle rubbing help release hidden tensions. We show you how with this exercise!
We use our arms to open doors, hold objects, press keys, write, drive, cook… And with each of these activities small tensions accumulate in the musculature. However, it is not an area of the body that receives much attention.
Often only when during a massage someone presses or manipulates our arm, we realize how pleasant and beneficial it is. When receiving a professional massage is not possible or have someone close to us who can help us, you can always resort to self-massage. The arm is just a very grateful part to practice alone.
SELF-MASSAGE TO RELEASE TENSION IN THE ARMS
Juan José Plasencia, body therapist and author of several works, proposes the following self-massage:
- Keeping the arm straight, it performs friction, first from the shoulder to the elbow and then from the elbow to the hand.
- Then, starting at the shoulder, gently compress the muscles of the arm and go down to the hand.
- Continue to exert tolerable pressure with your thumb on the inside of your arm, from your armpit to your wrist.
- Finish with gentle rubs in the downward direction, and make an exit movement by hand.
- Grab your wrist while turning your forearm upwards.
- Then, with circular movements of the thumb massage the palm of the hand, from the wrist to the fingers.
- Take the fingers of your hand one by one and stretch them gently, bringing them back.
- Finally, cover the entire hand and make enveloping movements in it.
- Do the same movements on the other arm. Benefits: This self-massage favors emotional balance, the expression of vitality and openness to the world.
BE GUIDED BY INTUITION
At the end of the day or during a break at work, massaging your arms can be a good idea to release them from accumulated tensions.
In terms of space, any place in which one feels comfortable, is appropriate. It is important to give free rein to the hands. Once you know the movements and sequences proposed in this article, you can improvise, since no one knows your own body better than yourself.