This book will provide you with a variety of available massage tech-niques both for therapeutic and relaxation purposes. It will enable you,in many instances, to help yourself or others, using simple techniques,or it will direct you to the proper bodywork professional. As you becomeaware of an energizing or relaxation technique or learn methods toalleviate a headache or a sore throat or prevent a sports injury, myhope is that you will be more in control of your body, mind, and spirit. These days many people who seek help from physicians have com-plaints of psychosomatic illnesses that are caused by tension and anxietycoupled with an inability to cope with daily stress. This is especiallytrue for people who live in big cities. once you realize the reason for certain physical problems, you canchange your reaction to stress-producing situations and begin to elim-inate the problem. Your brain is the master of your body, and whenyou select your reactions and emotions rather than let them rule you,you have acted as your own best doctor. Negative feelings eventuallyfind their way to your body in the form of some physical imbalance.