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First, I'd highly recommend you get a Swedish massage. I know it sounds frivolous, but the massage will work like a magic pill on you right now. There's been s
by bcopa 5y ago
First, I'd highly recommend you get a Swedish massage.
I know it sounds frivolous, but the massage will work like a magic pill on you right now. There's been some research on it – but basically persistent stress makes your body tense, and then even if your mental stress is gone, your body's tenseness keeps you on fight or flight mode. You shouldn't make any decisions in this mode.
A 60 minute massage will untangle this stiffness and put you on the right mindset to make the best next decisions.
- dm03514 5y ago+1 About 7 years ago I got a massage and went to a store in a location that usually caused me a ton of stress due to the driving and the parking and how overcrowded the store gets. After the massage I did not experience any stress; 0, none, zip, zilch. My muscles were completely relaxed and had 0 stress in them. At that moment I realized that stress doesn't cause tightness, but tightness causes stress, for me. Relaxed muscles relaxes my mind.
- RangerScience 5y agoIf you can find bath houses (in SF there's a... Russian? bathhouse, in LA there's lots of Korean bath houses - Wi Spa is probably the most popular), you can combine both a spa day (hello hot/cold plunges!) with massages. Highly recommend the combination.
- ihm 5y agoThere are Korean and Japanese bathhouses in SF as well actually. Also a Korean one in San Leandro.
- agumonkey 5y agoMaybe UBI won't make it but universal free massage should really land.