Habit 6: Self Message

Massaging your body with oil as a daily habit will uplevel your self-care and open the gateway to becoming your body’s best healer.

Most of us look to others for a hug, a foot rub or a shoulder rub. And that is wonderful. Yet, when we take the step to become our body’s best healer we enable another level of response-ability to come into our very own hands.

At this point, you might start to feel that this course is pushing all of your buttons and inviting you to expand into edgy territory. If so, know that the practice that we are focusing on for the next 2 weeks is the practice of self-love.

That sounds corny. But let’s get clear.

You have one body. You can’t replace it when it breaks down. The body runs on love and thrives on love. Ayurveda teaches that love is the vibration of consciousness as it comes into form.

If you disrespect your body, if you dishonor your body, if you are critical or judgmental of your body, you’re breaking things down. If you learn how to attend to your body’s needs and desire for self-care, you stimulate regeneration, repair and rejuvenation.

Let’s look at how to take the matter into our own hands.

— The Yoga Health Coaches