Before bed, give your child a 15 - minute massage
using slow strokes, moderate pressure, and a baby - safe oil.
From your dog's head (or neck), apply a long,
slow stroke down his body to his legs, ending at his paws.
This might be just enough to get them started, so try it and see if a nice long,
slow stroke from head to tail helps your pet eat.
The experience begins with light to medium pressure and then progresses to firmer, deeper,
slower strokes designed to release physical and emotional toxins.
An approach that releases the chronic patterns of tension in the body
through slow strokes and deep pressure on the contracted areas, either following or going across the grain of muscles, tendons, and connective tissue.
Throughout, the Huskies maintained the
characteristic slow stroke that had led a Stanford man to exclaim in a preliminary heat, «Look at that.
Brain activity was similar when participants watched someone else
receive slow strokes, but not when touch was directed toward inanimate objects.
Effleurage is a gentle long,
slow strokes with your palm, starting at the puppy's head and continuing down to the tail and feet.
Remedial Massage / Deep Tissue Massage aims to release chronic patterns of tension in the body,
through slow strokes and deep finger pressure on the contracted areas.
Next, hold an arm or leg, and gripping softly with your open hand, gently move it back and forth using long,
slow strokes.
Begin with
slow strokes, moving up from your right hipbone toward your sternum, and down from your ribs towards your left hip.
Massage thoroughly into skin using
slow strokes.
Reward your dog when she does something good by petting her with long and
slow strokes and give her a great food treat or chew toy.
«If it wasn't a school of manta rays jumping, it was a sea lion popping up to say hello, or perhaps the impressive rock formations, that provided a reason to
slow our stroke and breathe in our surroundings.