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Free massage on national stress awareness day

A local healing centre is offering business people a free massage on 5 November in support of the 10th annual National Stress Awareness Day.

With increasing pressures from the global financial crisis and the everyday challenges and strains of modern life, stress builds up and undermines our ability to cope. This year National Stress Awareness Day is focusing on the pressures we create ourselves - in particular the ‘worrying’ habit.

The awareness day suggests a number of actions to make daily life less stressful, including relaxation to cultivate the habit of postponing worry and complementary therapies - including, yoga, massage, acupuncture, reflexology and aromatherapy.

Health First is a new social enterprise company in the North East that uses massage and healing machines at a fraction of the price of traditional masseurs.

The machines combine a number of therapy techniques including massage, acupressure, chiropractic, infrared healing and heat therapy.

Manager Victoria Chao imported the machines from her native China where her friends and family were regularly using them.

Victoria said: “The healing beds, massage chairs and lamps are very popular and widely used across Asia and the USA. They are still relatively new to the UK but are becoming more popular as people discover the effects for themselves. Once they’ve tried them they always come back!”

Victoria said: “Our customers come from all walks of life, from sports people with muscle strains, to busy people exhausted by family and work life, people simply seeking relaxation and elderly and retired people who want to relieve the aches and pains of age. Some people come two to three times a week and it has become part of their lifestyle.”

For more about Health First, go to www.healthfirstuk.com.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .