Press "Enter" to skip to content

An Uncommon Remedy for the Common Illness | Lily Nguyen | TEDxSDMesaCollege


[Music]
hey guys so what comes to mind when you
think of the word massage perhaps some
of you think the word relaxation its
Missy so being a much female massage
therapist myself I’m all too familiar
relax Jack I’ve got a bigger tip or some
people are like I don’t really need it
you know I haven’t gotten injured or
hurt yet but the most common one I
really don’t have time for one I’m just
so busy so that right there I don’t have
time it’s a huge reflection of a problem
that had an actual sickness that we all
shared and it’s very good amongst the
regular hard-working American which is
almost all of you so in America we are
told to go to school get a job have a
career raise a family but when are you
actually told to stop and take care of
yourself so we are working more and more
stress somewhere the American
Psychological Association conducted a
survey and I connect the survey they’ve
been conducting a survey for over a
decade now
examining the relationship between
Americans and stress and over the ten
years
the most common top stressor has been
work which is not surprising right the
Bureau of Labor Statistics released last
year reported that Americans work or on
average 11 mmm
and Americans we’re more than 59 hours a
week it’s 11 million Americans it’s
bitchin at now is we’ve let that sink in
we’re working more for testing why and
what exactly is the problem with this we
are taught to grime hustle you know just
keep keep keep going contribute to the
constant input and output of production
in society but at what point does
society say hey like stop just cause
take care of yourself at what point did
anyone tell you that and the simple
thing is oh no one did we are stuck in
this repetitive this rat race is
exhausting cycle where there’s no room
for recovery and we’re actually
deteriorating a lot faster because of it
because of the stress and now obviously
like hey like I can’t just stop working
like I stopped going to school so what
can I actually do about it well one
thing you can actually do is actually
get a massage and a massage like it’s a
lot more simpler than you think it is
because massage is not a luxury it’s
something that’s needed it’s something
that’s part of the healing process that
we’re not taught to do – we’re not
taught to implement into our lives
massage has clinically been shown to
help reduce pain reduce fatigue anxiety
and depression it even helps you sleep a
little longer
and the coolest thing is see the human
touch it’s an amazing thing it’s an
amazing thing but it’s also a necessary
thing there was a study that came out
examining touch therapy on premature
newborns so with touch therapy over a
span of about 10 days or so the
premature newborns receivest therapy
were shown to gained 47 percent more
weight than premature babies who receive
standard medical care studies have also
shown that touch therapy has some
alzheimer’s patients and that’s more
with others relax a lot better and
reduce their depression as well now
obviously I don’t know how many of you
are massage therapists audience there is
actually something that you can do on
your own it’s very quick so first I want
everyone to take a deep breath in and
you know slow and everyone take your
run them over your eyebrows and just
slowly drive them across here at your
temples breathing and you can do this to
yourself or a loved one any time when
you’re feeling stressed you know when
your mom or a loved one is yelling at
you the finals are coming up when that
tax return wasn’t us
Vegas Michelangelo said that to touch
you can give life but how many are you
are actually living now how many of you
are actually putting aside time to take
care of yourselves
not many the thing with all this stress
it’s killing you a lot faster and you
realize raising blood pressure causing
insulin spikes and more fat on the
organs you gain weight increasing
anxiety how long are you going to let
yourself deteriorate before you your
time runs out we all have an expiration
date right but
if you want to take care of yourself as
much as possible you are more important
the money you make them the money you
make and then things you buy so but I
want to leave you guys with is remember
to pause [Music]
Please follow and like us: