Stewart N. Johnson
 | Stewart N. Johnson is the owner and the Intuitive Healer. He has over 20 years of experience and has given over 10,000 massages and healing sessions. Once a Los Angeles California native, he recently left Denver to come to Pittsburg to help his wife’s parents. The Intuitive Healer can be found at 613 N. Broadway #F in the Colonnade building. Park in the parking lot in back off of Pine Street, enter building, 1st unit on your left. Walk-ins accepted. For more information call 620-687-3801 or visit intuitivehealingpittsburg.com.
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Health & Wellness
2011-10-20 11:41:21
Can massage therapy help S.A.D?
Q: What is S.A.D. and how can it be treated?
A: S.A.D. (seasonal affected disorder) is a four-elemental condition that directly affects your moods. As the day’s become darker, rainy and the cold sets in, so does the gloominess. The definitions for the four elemental conditions are: Your physical body, your mind, your emotional self and your spirit.
The physical symptoms include sluggishness, stickiness and that stuck feeling occurs. Things you thought about doing, you’ll put off for a bright sunny day.
Mentally: that cup of coffee in the morning now takes two cups of Joe to get the mind to cooperate with your sluggish body and the serotonins (brain chemical) tells your body to slow down.
Emotionally: you feel the aches and pains. Even taking a shower is a bit of a battle.
Spiritually: puts you in a more trusting state. Through your intuition and beliefs, the sun and warmth will be here tomorrow, but if it isn’t what are your options? Light therapy? Perhaps, but the most effective way of combating S.A.D. is through massage. Craniosacral touch therapy is a very good tool in this fight, by relieving tension in the cranium, down the neck, to the shoulders down the arms and out the hands via soft touch. Soft touch therapies design, is to attract delicate feelings to surface and allows your emotional self to surrender and allow for a cooling sensation to flood the body. The emotional state you’re in releases endorphins. These endorphins give your body a euphoric wave of warm sensations.
It is possible to take an emotional approach to massage therapy and to help you with your disorder, by opening your blocked pathways, unlocking your chakras and reinforcing your inner power plant. Most massages take an hour, but a S.A.D. massage takes a little longer, especially when bringing the four elementals together, to ensure appropriate recovery. This massage can take anywhere from one session or can be over 10 weekly sessions. All in all, it’s one goal, and that goal is to lessen your conditions and stabilize future results.
