4 Advanced Points to Improve Your Massage Experience

While receiving massage is a passive thing, it's an activity. It's a passive activity. There are a few things that I realized are helpful for improving the massage experience and the therapeutic effort.

1. Let your therapist do the work! A lot of people are trying to be helpful by moving their hands, fingers and legs. No, let the therapist do it. Your job is to go slack. Sometimes, I go as far as asking the therapist to move my arms for me, if I feel like having them rest in another position. It's about letting your mind completely go.
2. Disrobe. It's basic. If your therapist has full access to legitimate areas, the work gets full. Wouldn't it suck, if that one muscle that pulls your back out of alignment is covered by your shorts and the therapist won't work on it to give you relieve?
3. This is a big one. Let your therapist know! A few people reported to me that they didn't like x's massage, because it was painfully firm or the stretches were way too far. Let your therapist know, and it can be adjusted to make you feel good. What's the point of waiting a full hour through pain and discomfort, if you could just say something and be in heaven instead? Also, let your therapist know, if something feels good.
4. Make a sigh or a sound. For a long time, I didn't make any sounds. It just felt awkward to make sounds. Though, I started to gently hum in a few sessions. And, the humming felt were warm and sousing to me, and just helped the work to go deeper. Then I worked my way up to deep sighs. It can be a real massage booster to make a sound, and feel the vibration and liberty to make sounds.