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We have scoured time and spirituality for the critical few elements and healing powers of massage therapy. It's true that massage has become commoditized in our hurry-hurry world. Benefits that accrue over time have been eliminated because of the hit and miss nature of our attention to the healing virtues of regular massage therapy.

Massage is at the Heart of Dr. Deepak Chopra’s Health Programs
By Brian Coughlan

When it comes to speaking out for the clinical importance of touch, best-selling author Deepak Chopra, M.D. has few peers. He is one of a handful of medical doctors in America who regularly employ massage therapists (15) at his Chopra Center for Well Being.

 

Dr. Chopra is ever radical in his thinking, including his thinking about massage. His view of medicine and massage in the Western tradition, unique and radical as it is, is enhanced by his celebrity as an author and speaker on human potentials and possibilities. Thus he straddles both Eastern and Western perspectives. In terms of the Eastern traditions, he seems to have almost single-handedly put Ayurvedic medicine, including Ayurvedic massage, on the U.S. map of alternative treatments. His written and spoken body of work is replete with references to the wisdom of this ancient medical tradition from India and his center features its own distinctive signature Ayurvedic massage treatments.

View of Massage

"Physical therapy’s purpose is to restore neuromuscular functioning after some damage, whereas massage therapy has systemic effects. It influences your immune system, your endocrine System, your cardiovascular system."

Dr. Chopra views massage in terms of mind-body medicine, not as a part of physical medicine. This is a far leap from conventional thinking. Dr. Chopra explains the difference between physical therapy and massage therapy this way: "They are two completely different things. Physical therapy’s purpose is to restore neuromuscular functioning after some damage, whereas massage therapy has systemic effects. It influences your immune system, your endocrine system, your cardiovascular system." In Dr. Chopra’s view, this is a distinction that a physician should be able to make readily.

When he speaks of massage having "systemic effects," Dr. Chopra draws on his background in endocrinology and the work of researchers such as neuroscientist Candace Pert and psychologist Tiffany Field who chart the effects of touch through biochemical changes in the brain and body. In the terms of his eastern vocabulary, touch is stimulating the Marma points, the junction points between physiology and consciousness in Ayurveda. In his Western vocabulary, touch is the sensory experience which gives rise to emotions and higher levels of consciousness. It’s about consciousness as well as soft tissue. Regarding what physicians need to know about massage therapy, Dr. Chopra says, "The first and most important thing is that it works," that they should recommend it to their patients. The questions he gets from doctors in Europe are "more sophisticated" than those he gets from American doctors: "In Europe, physicians are much more open because alternative and complementary medicine, including homeopathy and Ayurveda, have a much longer tradition in those countries."

He has specific thoughts about what physicians should do to begin integrating massage into their medical practices. He warns that "They can’t do it all by themselves. They have to start now, looking at offering these services in their offices, using massage therapists and meditation instructors."

 

Clearly, we are seeing massage gain a foothold in medicine, sports and metaphysics. There are critical, yet systemic benefits for practicing massage consciously and regularly.

In this book, we explain these criterion for improving health, immune system function and probably most important of all--managing stress.

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