Deep Tissue Massage

After work today, I received a deep tissue massage from The Body Center in Costa Mesa. Years of sitting behind a keyboard with my shoulders in a shrugged position has left me with a wide variety of knots and other little gremlins in my shoulder muscles.

Aside from being tossed around on a cold slab of marble like a dead fish by some Eastern Indian healer, this is the best possible massage imaginable. The therapist puts her body weight behind it and really digs with her elbows and forearms. Sometimes painful but from pain will come pleasure.

I do not quite understand how some will choose to have "relaxation therapy" or a "swedish massage". When I am being rubbed, I want to feel it. I want to feel my muscles beg for mercy as expert hands wrench them into submission.

At times during the session, I noticed repressed memories freeing themselves from the tangled web of constricted muscles. Ok maybe not repressed memories but my mind started wandering off to different moments of my life.. especially when she was working on my shoulders and neck area. It felt like some drug-induced hallucenation (not that I would know what that is like).

At the end of the massage, I found myself so relaxed that I could not think straight. It was literally hard to speak or steady myself. After sitting for a bit and drinking two glasses of water, my composure was regained and I headed for home.

I think I will have to do this more often.