Repeat with the other arm
Massage your temples, face and jaw
- Time to start the actual massage moves. Reach up and apply circular rubbing to your temples. This move is a good way to combat tension headaches. Make your circles slow, deliberate, and firm, staying in contact with one area on the skin while you move over the bones below.
- Sliding your fingers up on to your forehead, continue the circular rubbing until your fingers meet in the middle above the nose. Then push in with the fingertips and glide back toward the temples again, keeping firm pressure against the skin the whole time. Repeat two more times.
- You may be surprised at how much tension gets lodged in your jaw muscles. Tension hides out there like an enemy soldier wearing camouflage gear, especially while you’re sitting at our desk, straining forward to concentrate on the computer screen. With the proper pressure and sensitivity, you can flush this tension out.
- Using your fingertips, press in at the angle of your jaw, and while you’re pressing, open and
- close your mouth slightly, which allows you to find the exact point that feels like it’s holding the most tension. Apply slow deep circular rubbing to that spot, plus a little pinpoint pressure, until you feel your jaw start to relax.
(published with permission in writing from:http://www.massagelondon.org/)
