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Let's keep this simple and right to the point
and maybe we'll actually get somewhere.
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Overview
'An overwhelming number of patients who visit
doctors -- for whatever reason -- display a sense of fatigue and loss of vitality.'
- from "The Alexander Principle: How to Use Your Body
Without Stress" (1973), by Wilfred Barlow, MD. (Barlow worked closely with F.M. Alexander for ten years and was a consultant to Britain's National Health Service. Alexander was one of the premier proponents of 'awareness through proper movement' of the 20th century.)
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It may be fair to assert that fatigue, therefore,
is an underreported epidemic in our country, and
perhaps worldwide. A condition reaches epidemic status when it affects a disproportionately large
percentage of the population at the same time.
Who among us does not know someone who's
fatigued much of the time?
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One definition and/or indicator Dr. Hans Selye (1907-1982) is considered one of the leading medical writers of the past century, and his work is
referenced in dozens of health-oriented books. Selye broadly defines stress as the point where the body's innate supply of "adaptation energy" is exhausted or depleted.
According to Selye, a vital index or measuring rod to
determine one's level of stress is this: the predilection to become fatigued. We know we're at this point when we lose our joie de vivre, our buoyancy. As a corollary, we as
masseurs can be fairly confident we've alleviated stress, and possibly even a bout of fatigue, when this buoyancy returns to our friend on the massage table.
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Hans Selye, former
professor of surgery, University of Montreal
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Irony / paradox
Curiously, it is reported that many run-down individuals
are in overdrive when they should rest and sleep, yet tired and weak when they need to handle life's daily
responsibilities. This seeming paradox is a "signature" of the fatigue condition.
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The paired lions of Paradox &
Confusion, which guard the truth.
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Fatigue & massage in historyHindu writing dating from 1800 BC
indicates that massage was used for weight reduction and to aid sleep, foster
relaxation and combat fatigue.
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Stress =
the predilection
to become fatigued.
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Jain Temple, Rajasthan, India
Historically, temples are associated with the practice of massage
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(Predilection =
inclination or predisposition)
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