Restore the balance of your body and mind
By Jacqui Iwu (jackie@sunnewsonline.com)
Saturday October 6, 2007

Sometimes ago, in a conversation with a Business partner in Asia on Body therapy and treatments, she asked me if I have therapists with ‘Insured Hands’. Insured hands? Absolutely! I knew exactly what she meant because, specialists in the beauty industry especially SPA business abroad do not just go for any one to care for their clients overall body wellness needs which includes, facial treatments, Sauna and massage treatment.

When you walk into a standard SPA, and you walk out without a body massage, then your treatment was not complete. Body massage does wonders to the overall body when done by an expert with the necessary therapy based essential oils and herbal medications. A good body massage detoxifies your entire body, replenishes stressed and tired skin and keeps you looking fresh and toned.

Body massage also helps you to manage anger, anxiety and balances the entire metabolism of your body thereby keeping all your body organs functioning well. Massage therapy is also good for back pains and increase blood circulation. People with arthritis, diabetes, hypertension also benefit from a good body massage.
How about people with insomnia, those who sleep for twenty minutes and start admiring their ceiling design till dawn? Indulging in regular body massage at a decent SPA, with a good therapist solves the problems of keeping awake all night because, after the entire process, you feel rejuvenated, calm, relaxed and happy and at night sleep comes without you asking for it; Naturally! Massage therapy comes in different types—traditional, western as well as oriental forms of body massage. It all depends on what your wellness problem and needs are.

Visiting a good SPA is vital in getting the best out of body massage therapy.
Body massage accompanied with diet, exercise also aid in tackling the old creep – cellulite. Using the Sauna and having your body massage with the right stimulating oils keep the fats and lumps all over body uncomfortable. Massaging alone ladies, cannot get rid of cellulite, you must modify your diet, exercise and drink lots and lots of clean water to flush out the toxins accumulated over the years in your body.

Now back on ‘Insured hands’. When someone who is stressed, angry and uncomfortable with his/her overall body wellness walks into a SPA for a treatment, a lot is expected from the beauty / skin therapist in charge to turn around the situation of that customer. Here in Nigeria, we are not there yet! Now, what kind of pampering or therapy can a customer with the above mention problems get when on entering a Beauty Parlour, he/she is being greeted by frowning faces, rude manners, long un-kept nails /artificial nails, foot dragging shouting, unkept underarms and all kinds of manners that should not exist in a wellness centre? Owners of such places here travel abroad and come down here trying to establish similar things and after, they abandon them to unskilled / untrained workers answering therapists.

Then you do not have a SPA yet! No matter how highly equipped you outlet is, if the human work force does not function well, then you are not functional in the real-business-sense. Walking into a good SPA and being welcomed by clean, groomed, polite workers is one step of treating a client. Of course, the SPA itself must be sparkling clean with unstained white, fluffy towels, bed sheets, clean toilets / bath room with sweet smelling scent etc. or else ladies, say the usual sentence – I will be back soon and off you go!

A stressed, weak and restless individual should walk into the SPA and come out relaxed, calm and full of energy. Rejuvenated!! The effect is also instant! When you walk into a SPA and you did not even sleep off during treatment and at the same time, walked out still feeling the same way you felt earlier on; then there was no body massage therapy and the place was certainly not a wellness centre.

FITNESS WATCH: Give your stomach a run; eat lots of coconut and swallow the fibre. It helps to empty your bowels easily. It fills you up too.
BEAUTY SPLASH: Still on coconut; if you are lucky to get natural pure coconut oil, dump your foreign moisturizers and use it all over including your face.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Taking out time to pamper yourself helps rejuvenate your life and making you more productive.