Benefits of Melting

Benefits of Receiving Melting Muscles:

 

• Melting Muscles is a comfortable and pleasant experience, without any need for pressure beyond your comfort.
• You don't have to wait until the session is over to tell if it worked. You can tell during the session it is working, because you can actually feel your own muscles soften and relax, as if a drain were opened and the tension is leaking away.
• Even when the session focuses on one muscle or one region, like a shoulder, your brain feels safe and makes your whole body relax.
• When the session is over you feel lighter, like you are floating.
• You can move more freely with less effort.
• Balances your body and brain, your mind and spirit.
• Reduces soreness, and causes no extra soreness the next day.
• The relaxation lasts, because it was your brain's choice to relax.
• Empowering: with each session you gain more and more influence to relax your own muscles. With a series of sessions you can graduate, when you are able to relax your own muscles without a therapist.
• Relaxed muscles allow greater circulation of fluids, including the White Blood Cells of the immune system.
• You'll have more endurance and more effective strength since your antagonist muscles won't be working against you.
• Increases creativity, resiliency, connection, and flow.
• Supports progress, growth, personal discovery and spiritual development.

 

 

Conditions that may improve with Melting Muscles:

 

• heart conditions
• muscle or joint aches
• sacroiliac joint pain or stiffness
• poor circulation
• nervousness, worry or anxiety
• tremors, tingling, sciatica
• difficulty relaxing
• hormone imbalances
• depression
• fibromyalgia
• carpal tunnel syndrome, golfer's elbow, tennis elbow
• achiles tendinitis, plantar fasciitis
• rotator cuff overuse and injuries
• difficulty sleeping
• jaw clenching and grinding
• immune system weakness
• ADHD
• lacking empathy and sympathy
• body acceptance issues
• self judgment
• posture, torticollis, frozen shoulder
• PTSD
• recovery from surgery, injury and trauma
• Fight-Or-Flight hyperactivity

 

Melting Muscles Reduces Fight-Or-Flight Reactions

Disease of all kinds is made worse by an active Fight or Flight reaction. In the olden days when humans were confronted by Saber Toothed Tigers, it was natural to activate the fight/flight instinct. More blood and nerve energy is directed to the arms for fighting, to the legs for running, the eyes narrow focus, the heart beats faster, and blood pressure rises, adrenaline and other hormones are dripped into the bloodstream, and the brain switches to black or white thinking, where everyone is either an enemy or an ally. All functions of the human body that are not necessary for survival in the next five minutes, are stopped, so their energy can be diverted to fighting or fleeing. That means no digestion, and no immune system protection. Face it, if a Saber Toothed Tiger is leaping toward you, you don't really need to digest the contents of your stomach and you don't need to fight cancer or prevent catching cold. Lose are lower priority when you may die in the next minute. So the Fight/Flight instinct was very helpful in the days when survival was frequently at risk.

 

The inventions of law, law enforcement and fire fighters have greatly increased human safety. There are still threats to our survival but they aren't nearly as frequent. Still, people seem to be using their fight/flight instincts as much, or more than they were when survival was truly at risk. Any time you see others as competitors, say (even in jest) you have to finish a job or you'll lose your job and be out on the street, or tell yourself you must win, you activate your fight/flight cascade. It's like pushing the panic button.  

 

The fight/flight system is designed to stay on for five minutes, and then switch off. If the Saber Toothed Tiger is leaping, it's going to be over one way or the other in five minutes, so there's no purpose for adrenaline in the sixth minute. Still, people in today's world continue to tell themselves, its do or die, eight to ten hours a day, forty to eighty hours a week.. you see the problem. For every minute and hour that the fight/flight system is active, there is no support for fighting the common cold, for replenishing hair and skin, for digesting the food properly. The food just sits in the intestines fermenting and creating problems. Tumors are not nipped back by the immune system.  

 

Relaxation isn't a luxury, it's a necessity for life. Only when the fight/flight system is turned OFF can the body replenish, rejuvenate, protect and repair itself.

 

It is unfortunate that many people in our world have not been trained how to relax. Melting Muscles is training in relaxation. Every time a muscle melts, that means your brain is actively deciding to relax. If twelve to thirty muscles relax in an hour, that's many repetitions of a skill you really need to survive and have quality life while you are alive.

 

 

 

More than 700 therapists nationwide have attended Melting Muscles training since 2002. Sessions are still offered by the developer of Melting Muscles, Patrick Moore LMT BA in Tucson, AZ. Please visit www.meltingmuscles.com for details.

Melting More Than Muscles

Melting More Than Muscles

 

Melting Challenges in Life and the World

 

 

"…four effects may be ascribed to love… Of these the first is melting, which is opposed to freezing. For things that are frozen, are closely bound together, so as to be hard to pierce. …melting denotes a softening of the heart, whereby the heart shows itself to be ready for the entrance of the beloved."

 

--Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, question XXVIII

 

"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate."

-- Albert Schweitzer

 

 

On the first day of massage school in 1993, forty students sat in a circle on the floor. Each of us was asked, "How do you want to be different a year from now, when you have graduated?"

 

When my turn came I said, "I want to be practicing the world's most effective methods to reduce others' suffering." In later years, I was a little embarrassed by what I had said--I wondered if it sounded self-important or pompous. My answer reflected a vow I had taken in connection with the Dalai Lama's visit to Seattle. Now, nineteen years later, I see how much that vow has guided my career.

 

By 1996 I had adequately mastered three techniques that Osteopathic Doctors had developed. But I did not feel I was really making a difference. I observed my teachers practice often and I noticed people changed more in sessions with my teachers than they did with me. And yet I was doing the techniques exactly as they had taught me. It finally dawned on me; it was not because of what my teachers were doing, but because of what they were being. So in 1997 I began intensely studying personal qualities (like presence, compassion, patience, and curiosity) and the equal therapeutic relationship. I began to feel I was making a difference, and more people were coming for ongoing sessions.

 

In 2001 I attended training for Reiki natural healing energy. The next day after the attunement I was massaging the back of somebody's leg when I had an amazing experience. I felt the hamstring muscles melting. The muscle was literally sinking and softening under my hands. At the same moment I had an aha experience—I suddenly knew how and why muscles melt. That evening I began writing down the method. A few days later I titled the article, Melting Muscles, and sent it off to Massage&Bodywork magazine. The published article launched my career teaching therapists how to melt muscles. It came to me as a gift, along with a responsibility, to share Melting Muscles with the world.

 

It's been ten years now. I had a new person come for a massage this morning and I still used Melting Muscles for most of the session. I still shorten each muscle the same way I did in 2001, palpate each muscle the same way, and it still melts. Melting Muscles will always work, as long as brains control muscle contraction. And since it is so easy to perform, I may still be Melting Muscles when I'm 100.

 

But Melting Muscles is so much more than a technique. It is a way of being—being present, patient, compassionate, curious, and nonjudgmental. It is an equal partnership that serves the recipient well. It serves the giver too, and the world.

Being in the moment of melting:

 

N  activates seven qualities for both the giver and the recipient, including presence, nonjudgment, patience and curiosity

N  provides an ongoing demonstration of equal partnership

N  balances the brain hemispheres, multiplying creative intelligence

N  trains the recipient to have more influence to relax her own muscles at will

N  increases the recipient's body-awareness and body-acceptance

N  queries metaphysical wonder--whose brain is relaxing the recipient's muscle? ..whose brain is guiding the giver's hands?  

N  optimizes conditions for intuition, energy, discovery, healing, resolution, and transformation

N  an experience of unity

N  releases any toxins and memories "stored" in the muscle

N  rather than reversing symptoms and pain, embraces them

N  rather than fighting tension, makes peace 

N  muscles feel they are being "heard"

 

Muscles are like dogs—they speak a different language that most humans don't understand. The Melting Muscles practitioner has been trained in muscle language. The moment the muscles realize someone speaks their language, they feel at ease.

 

At least once in each session the practitioner will say, "This muscle is beginning to melt. Can you feel it sinking?" 

 

"Maybe," the recipient often replies.

 

"That means whatever your brain was tense about, is now resolving. Your brain is turning down the level of contraction as we speak."

 

The recipient ponders this as she feels her muscles continue to melt, like a flow. She still may not understand why and how her brain made her muscles tense in the first place, but she feels with certainty that her brain is now making the opposite choice. Sixty minutes of melting leaves her with a sense of freedom, balance, and optimistic awareness--more evidence that her life is changing.

 

 

Melting Benefits the World

 

þ People who give or receive Melting Muscles are more cooperative.

þ People who have experienced equal partnerships in the massage room, create more equal relationships with others outside.

þ Discovering alternatives to force in the massage room, gives people alternatives to force in politics, business and the environment.

þ People who have been heard become better listeners.

þ Resolving, and embracing muscle tension empowers people to do the same with all their life challenges. 

þ Muscles compete with other muscles and cells have conflict with other cells. If muscles can resolve their conflict within one person, people can resolve their conflict within the whole world.

 

 

 

 

Patrick Moore LMT BA provides coaching, tutoring, workshops, and melting muscles therapy. www.meltingmuscles.com 520-334-8950