Following on from my previous post here's an opportunity to learn more about how massage works, based on cumulative touch. Written by Gerry Pyves the founder of No Hands Massage

"If you were wise, you booked this second session for just 1 week after your first, so you could get all the touch benefits properly locked into your body before it 'forgets'. This time, you know the answers to all of the initial questions and you already feel more relaxed about this second visit.

Within 5 minutes of this second Massage session, you are already achieving a higher level of relaxation than you did at the end of your first session! Because only a week has passed, your body instantly remembers the level of relaxation you achieved last time and you now become much more open to the full power of touch.

If we give this second session a unit score, it would probably be much nearer 10 units. This might be comparable to spending aday in a health spa or walking on the hills for a day.

Then you come for your third session...

If you are wise, you have booked this session for just one week after your second… Why? Because this means that your body remembers the effects of your last 2 Massages much more easily and by now you are feeling the effects from your previous session even as you travel to your appointment!

You get on the table already releasing tension you have accumulated over the last week, out of your whole being and you are already looking forward to what is becoming the most important hour of your week. You are beginning to understand that even with the best practitioner, it is up to you to let go of tension and your body is ‘remembering’ something you knew as a child.

Touch and healing is natural and normal and you are wise enough to know exactly how to release any tension you have accumulated. At the end of this session you have experienced amazing depth of touch and in terms of units are probably scoring 20 or 30 units. That is like being away on holiday for a week and it is ten times the power of your first Massage!!!

When you get onto the Massage table for your fourth session (still booked for 1 week after your last session!), within 5 minutes you have reached the level of release and rebalance that you ended the last session with…and the touch just pours into your life and you now understand how to focus your mind during the Massage on the 3 golden rules of Massage: BREATHE, FEEL and RELEASE!

You do this like you have been doing this all your life...

You are already becoming a Massage expert...You know how to get the most out of your session...you focus your mind on your breath, on the touch and on letting go....It is like a meditation...a meditation of touch...it is the place of healing, the place of your own personal journey.

The cumulative effect of 4 weekly Massage sessions means that you are probably getting 40 - 50 units of value from this one session, just like going on holiday for 3 months – still in just one hour, still just for a few quid!"