Hey, everybody, just a quick bonus video for you, one of the coping skills that you can use when
the stress management tools that you can use is massage.
And I've got a couple of different tools here.
Massage is great because what it does is as you use muscles, as you strain muscles, as they stay tense
from being stressed, over time, they build up a substance called lactic acid.
It's a byproduct of muscles being used.
And it's also an early warning system.
It's a system that provides pain for your muscles to say, hey, back off too much.
When this happens for muscular tension, it gets locked in.
And this is what creates literally the bumps in your muscles that need to be broken down.
When they are released and they're massage and they release, then the lactic acid flows out.
So massage can be a great thing.
If you can get a professional massage, someplace like massage envy where it's relatively cheap, the
prices of massage have gone down from like one hundred and fifty dollars to like I've seen them as cheap
as 20 or 30 dollars.
I think the typical price is between 40 and 60.
You need to get one about once a month.
Great stress reduction.
If you can get on a plan where you can get employed, go about once a week.
I actually have a plan like that.
So I go once a week.
OK, a couple of tools that I've got that we can use.
I've got this Rollerball.
It's literally a Rollerball.
Want to show that to you?
So you can see it and all it does is it rolls along the muscles, so you just push it in as much as
you want to do the hard areas like behind the neck, you want to get the brainstem back here right behind
your neck.
You could gently roll it on your head if you wanted to to massage the scalp.
Would I use it for is I use it in the heel of my foot to get in that little arch area in the heel of
my foot.
But I love it down my forearms, down my calves.
You can use it in the joint socket here, which is really great because this works the chest muscles
across and it also works this area here which works the shoulder.
So great, great tool.
You can also use it on your feet.
This is another one.
This has little spiky things.
So nice that is.
What does that do?
You have different acupressure points, especially on your hands.
So you just roll the ball around on your hands and that'll work some of the acupressure points on your
hands.
I even do it right in here in the hand.
There's some acupressure points there.
You can roll it on your foot and just roll it around to get your foot done.
You can roll it across any area of your body that you want.
Or sometimes if you say, put this behind your back and lie down, you can do this with either the tools.
It'll work like a ball that will maintain pressure because you're lying down on it.
You're putting your fiscal weight on it and it'll work that muscle.
How does it work it?
Because it's not moving by applying pressure and just staying there.
If it takes the muscle and the muscle relaxes, that'll get the lactic acid out.
Your body will feel much, much better.
So your body does a strange thing.
It's called body armoring, almost like you're getting ready for a fight.
Your body tenses up, tenses up so it can become harder and stronger.
It's getting ready for that fight or flight.
But there is no fight.
There is no flight.
So this body armor just gets left over is muscular.
Tension wears you out subtly, stresses your mind all day long because your mind, body connection,
your brain is saying, why would my muscles be so tense?
Because you're tense and it's not wrong.
But even when you're not tense in your home and the tension is over, the musculature still stays rock
hard.
It has to be released periodically.
I remember one guy.
He was in my therapy group and he said, I'm a therapist too, Paul.
I'm a therapist like you.
I'm a massage therapist.
And I said, well, not really the same.
I'm a psychotherapist.
You're a massage therapist.
And he says, No, Paul, you don't understand.
When you released those muscles, when you release those pain, people have emotionally trapped, have
mentally trapped emotions into their muscles.
And as you release them, I've seen like tears roll down people's faces because their body armoring
is a physical manifestation of your mental pain.
It sounded a little bit esoteric to me, but then I realized somatic disorder goes from the mind, goes
into the body.
That's what a somatic disorder is.
Absolutely.
This works.
So when you try it for yourself, when you experience it, when you get that massage and you notice
that not only does your your muscles feel better, but your mind starts to relax and it lasts for several
days after.
So that's your tip for today.
My name is Professor Paul and I'll see you inside my next training.