Nurturing is an incredible component to the foundation to the healing process, allowing yourself to surrender completely to the care of another person. That can only happen during a massage. Secondly, of course, I love the muscle release that comes from massage therapy. It's an incredibly deep feeling of relaxation that massage therapy brings. I try to have a massage at least couple of times a month.
Massage is a foundation of Chinese medicine.
My hypothesis is that massage stimulates my immune system, which I feel is always under chronic stress because of all of the travelling I do. There may even be research on this. So for me, massage is a basic health practice. It's one of the most important things I do for myself, right up there with exercise and eating right. Yes, I do.