Massage Therapy by Sarah Rachel BA, LMBT Pittsboro-Chapel Hill-Mebane NC

09/26/2025

Relocating back to North Carolina. Check back in Nov. Thanks.

01/08/2025

Soon to be relocating to Massachusetts!

10/13/2024

Soon to be relocated to Connecticut in January, 2025! Please check back.

03/15/2024

Happy Spring! Now offering Lymphatic Massage for Detoxification. Treat yourself to a massage today! Swedish, Deep Tissue, Cold Stones, Reflexology.

11/19/2023

Happy Thanksgiving. Come get a massage, you'll be thankful you did.

1717 Legion Rd, Chapel Hill, NC 27517, PO Box 393, Siler City, NC 27344 1-(919)-742-2031

11/09/2023

08/23/2023

Massage On My Shoulders Makes Me Happy.....

05/14/2023

Happy Mother's Day. Here's to pure enjoyment. Exercise, relaxation, massages, self care. Mother wisdom, the Mother knows.

02/13/2023

We all intuitively can feel that connecting with others boosts our health, right?

How much better do you feel after a warm hug from a friend, the comforting squeeze of a partner’s hand, or the joy of laughing around a dinner table with your children. Sharing space with a loved one for even one minute is enough to completely turn a bad day into a good one.

Medical studies have shown that increasing your connection to others not only improves your health, it actually increases your longevity. I feel this has something to do with the fact that we merge our natural energy fields together when we are close to one another.

We each produce our own healthy, natural EMF fields. Both the brain and the heart emit measurable energy fields, and it’s a beautiful thing. When our heart energy fields are overlapping, we can become attuned to others, and we can literally feel when we are resonant (or discordant) with others.

Connecting to others is so important that it actually helps provide anesthesia to pain… that’s how much physical closeness helps.

A medical study (published in 2018 in the Proceedings Of The National Academy of Sciences) showed that simply holding hands provided significant analgesia during pain.
Physical touch can even calm brain activity during distress, a study (published in 2006 in Psychological Science) found. In this study, brain activity was measured via a functional MRI while partners held hands with their spouse… hand holding significantly reduced level of brain activity during painful stimuli.
Another study, published in 2019 in Pain Management Nursing, found a simple hand massage reduced pain as well as provided longer pain free intervals in critically ill patients in a surgical intensive care unit.

Physical touch even has the power to lower heart rate, lower blood pressure, and calm respiratory rate. A study published in 2017 in Scientific Reports found when evaluating patients who had a pain event while being monitored via an ECG… patients holding their partners hands had significant analgesia which resulted in lowered blood pressure, lowered heart rate response, and a lowered respiratory rate.

Medical studies are just starting to reveal the healing power of physical touch:
- physical touch has the power to reduce pain
- physical touch has the power to prolong pain free intervals (even in critically ill patients)
- physical touch has the power to calm brain activity during distress
- physical touch has the power to lower heart rate and blood pressure
- physical touch has the power to calm respiratory rate

And all of these studies are just from touch the touch of a loved one. Connecting and attuning with each other, overlapping our heart energy fields with those that we love. So when you fall in love, you are specifically overlapping your heart energy with your lovers heart energy. Your bodies naturally attune together. You grow in love as you grow in sync.

Energy matches, breath matches, you literally become one energy field, together. As you attune together, you feel connected. They become your favorite person, an extended part of yourself.

What to do this Valentines Day if you are not in a partnership? Pets provide the exact same benefits, and self care does too -- I give you tips for getting a health boost through all three ways -- with other humans, with pets, and through self love, in today's free blog post. Plus links to the medical literature so you can read it yourself if you like!

https://intuition-physician.com/connecting-with-others-protects-your-own-heart-medical-studies-that-explain-how/

xoxox Laura Koniver MD

01/24/2023

https://lifespa.com/intro-ayurveda/ayurvedic-philosophy/the-power-of-touch/?inf_contact_key=7d909c1ebfc23e83b7c559e04a9d332e1b0a3f0fd3ee5d9b43fb34c6613498d7&fbclid=IwAR203o0hIUNop82Wb-4jhwoovNpaLvxNXhUWkrujLYkXk_WKeKD3Ot6oESw

Does your skin get tender love and care? Learn the science behind the power that touch holds.

12/29/2022