By touching a body, we touch every event it has experienced. For a few brief moments we hold all of a client’s stories in our hands. We witness someone’s experience of their own flesh, through some of the most powerful means possible: the contact of our hands, the acceptance of the body without judgment, and the occasional listening ear. With these gestures we reach across the isolation of the human experience and hold another person’s legend. In massage therapy, we show up and ask, in so many ways, what it is like to be another human being. In doing so, we build a bridge that may heal us both.

For you to fully receive the deepest healing, the doors of your “ego-mind-will” must be wide open, and you must have freed up the internal space to make room for the new to come in. To do these two things is the biggest hurdles of ones healing. One frees up internal space by giving up or “surrendering” that which you have in it (“It is in giving that we receive”). Only then can more energy (prosperity) be able to flow in. One of the laws of physics states that “the universe abhors a vacuum”. This happens to be a spiritual law as well. When you have created the internal space, the universe cannot resist but rush in to fill it (“Blessed are the poor for they shall inherit the Kingdom of God”).

The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great. 



For you to fully receive the deepest healing, the doors of your “ego-mind-will” must be wide open, and you must have freed up the internal space to make room for the new to come in. To do these two things is the biggest hurdles of ones healing. One frees up internal space by giving up or “surrendering” that which you have in it (“It is in giving that we receive”). Only then can more energy (prosperity) be able to flow in. One of the laws of physics states that “the universe abhors a vacuum”. This happens to be a spiritual law as well. When you have created the internal space, the universe cannot resist but rush in to fill it (“Blessed are the poor for they shall inherit the Kingdom of God”).

You’ve got to let go of who you were, to become who you will be.

The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited and shortsighted; yes almost arrogant. You lapse into bad taste, thinking of yourself as Heine’s Atlas, whose shoulders support all the world’s puzzles and agonies, as if thousands, lost in the same maze, did not endure the same agonies.

So fail. Be bad at things. Be embarrassed. Be afraid. Be vulnerable. Go out on a limb or two or twelve. You will fall, and it will hurt. But the farther you fall, the higher you will rise. The higher you rise, the clearer your future becomes. Failure is a gift, welcome it. There are people who spend their whole lives wondering how they became the people they became, how certain chances pass them by, why they didn’t take the roads less traveled. Those people aren’t you. You have front row seats to your own transformation and in transforming yourself, you might transform the world. It will be electric, and I promise it will be terrifying. Embrace that; embrace the new person you’re becoming. This is your moment. I promise you, it is now, not to two minutes from now, not tomorrow, but really now. Own that, know that deep in your bones, go to sleep every night knowing that, wake up every morning remembering that, and keep going.

Live in rooms full of light
Avoid heavy food
Be moderate in the drinking of wine
Take massage, baths, exercise, and gymnastics
Fight insomnia with gentle rocking or the sound of running water
Change surroundings and take long journeys
Strictly avoid frightening ideas
Indulge in cheerful conversation and amusements
Listen to music.

Things to Be Thankful For

* Be thankful for the clothes that fit a little too snug, because it means you have enough to eat.
* Be thankful for the mess you clean up after a party, because it means you have been surrounded by friends.
* Be thankful for the taxes you pay, because it means you’re employed.
* Be thankful that your lawn needs mowing and your windows need fixing, because it means you have a home.
* Be thankful for your heating bill, because it means you are warm.
* Be thankful for the laundry, because it means you have clothes to wear.
* Be thankful for the space you find at the far end of the parking lot, because it means you can walk.
* Be thankful for the lady who sings off-key behind you in church, because it means you can hear.
* Be thankful when people complain about the government, because it means we have freedom of speech.
* Be thankful for the alarm that goes off in the early morning hours, because itmeans you’re alive.

~ Taken from Ann Landers’ column—11/22/01