Real-Life Communication
Too many people don't know the benefits of a professional massage.
Fortunately, as one of only a few massage therapists living and working in
a small city, you're in a position to change that. In fact, your next
opportunity comes this week.
You're scheduled to give a talk to
a community group about the health benefits of massage. Your audience will
be a mixture of young and old men and women with varying states of health
and lifestyles.
To prepare yourself, you contact a massage therapy
association and get the following condensed information.
Your job is
to build a brief talk around this information. Remember who your audience
is. Use anecdotes from your professional experience to make the data more
interesting.
The Benefits of Massage
Massage
affects the body as a whole, and is known to increase blood circulation. For
the whole body to be healthy, the sum of its parts -- the cells -- must be
healthy.
The individual cells of the body are dependent on an abundant
supply of blood and other fluids that supply nutrients and oxygen and carry
away wastes and toxins.
It's easy to understand why good circulation
is so important to our health and why massage can be so beneficial for the
entire body. Massage is also known to:
- Increase the oxygen capacity of blood by 10 to 15 percent
- Affect muscles and promote more efficient movement
- Soothe or stimulate the nervous system
- Keep skin lubricated, clean and cool
- Allow greater blood supply to internal organs
The people of ancient Mediterranean civilizations knew all this. They
understood that education involves equal development of mind and body. The
modern public's interest in physical fitness, holistic health, wellness
and human potential represents a bid to revive a time-honored philosophy.
You'll
want the talk to run only a few minutes, so write about 350 to 400 words.