Hey everybody just a quick bonus video for you when 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 strained 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 massaged 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 plane re and get him.
Boy I'd go about once a week.
I actually have a plan like that so I go once a week.
OK couple of tools that I've got that we can use.
I've got this roller ball.
It's literally a roller ball.
I 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.
Do the hard areas like behind the neck.
You want to get the brain stem 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 large area and the heel
of my foot.
But I love it down my forearms down my calves.
You can use it in the joints 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 feel nice that is.
What is 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'll maintain pressure
because you're lying down on it you're putting your physical weight on it and it will work that muscle.
How does it work it.
Because it's not moving by applying pressure and just staying there.
Fatigues and 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 getting ready for a fight
your body tenses up tenses up so 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 armoring just gets the leftovers muscular tension wears you out suddenly
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 to Paul I am I'm a therapist
like you a massage therapist.
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 release those muscles when you release those pain
people who are 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 that 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 is Professor Paul and I'll see you inside my next training.