I tend to carry my stress in my shoulders and neck. I have also been getting back into the workout routine and have been feeling a little stiff.
I went to the King's Spa for their acupressure massage knowing that I could soak in the pools and relax in the saunas afterwards.
As the masseuse was working on my back and neck I was thinking that it kinda hurt! But I was OK with it because I knew that I would feel much better later. And this got me thinking about life. Life comes with pleasure and pain.
I think that many of us, me included, would like a world and life of only pleasure. But a little pain is part of life. We can never be immune to pain. Parents now seem to go to great lengths to protect their children from any kind of pain, physical or emotional, but that's really not possible. One should not expect to have no pain in their life.
There is also a fine line between pleasure and pain. In a physical sense, relationship and sexual sense too. Some take this to the extreme with Sadomasochism. I don't; so I'm not going there in this blog post.
Why is it that I still want a pain free life though? Maybe I just have to endure the moments of pain to enjoy the pleasurable parts of life even more.
And no! There was no happy ending to the massage. Get your minds out of the gutter. LOL
5 comments:
Hi Jim,
Glad you get regular massage! As one who is licensed in that field, our preferred term of address is "massage therapist", not "masseuse" (which would be a woman) or "masseur" (a man). And no, there are never "happy endings" in professional massages.
Raybob
Raybob... my massage therapist was a masseuse. First time I've had a woman, I'm used to a man's stronger and deeper tissue work, but it was still good. Thanks for the comment and correct terminology.
:)
A first massage can be quite painful. If you keep going, say, a couple of times a month, it will still take a quite a while to work out all those muscle "knots" accumulated over a lifetime.
I would keep up with the massages. They help us middle-aged guys enormously with flexibility and overall skeletal-muscular-spinal health.
I take massage very seriously; knowing it is of great therapeutic use. I find it sad to hear it often is a prelude for sex/sex acts. It tarnishes the pros who are trying to make it and do great healing.
I miss getting massages. I need to find another good massage therapist in these parts.
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