Having headaches is annoying and sometimes it is difficult to avoid for us. In most cases when we are under pressure, headaches appeared automatically. If it gets high level, we might faint due to the pain we felt.
A headache is a condition of mild to severe pain in the head. It can also attack at upper back or neck. There are various types of headaches, but most of the time headaches are brought on by stress, too long in front of a computer, noise and others.
One of the chief reasons for headache is tension in the muscles of the neck, scalp and jaw. We usually treat it by taking some sleep or consume over-the counter aspirin to relieve pain. However, what do you think, can we do this at any place?
Obviously, we can’t sleep at the office or at the shopping mall or any public place. In addition, we might run of aspirin when headaches hit us.
Do not worry! The easiest way to handle headaches and we can do it anywhere is through ‘massage’. Massage is the process of applying pressure or vibration to the soft tissues of the body. to heal injury, relieve psychological stress, manage pain, improve circulation and relief tension.
When we bear headaches, we can help ourselves with self-massage. Simple and everybody can do it, either at work or home or any other place.
Here we have listed four easy ways in massage to heal our headaches.
4 Easy Ways To Relieve Headaches
1. Eyes Area Massage
Close your eyes. Keep your middle fingers to your eyes that are above cheekbones. Massage that area lightly but firmly in a circular motion for 1 minute,
2. Eyes to Nose Massage
Using thumb, go along the underside of your eyebrows (along the bone on top of the eye socket). Try to feel where this bone meets the bridge of your nose and eyes and find a point where there is a small indentation. Very lightly pressure, press your thumbs into the points. You can do this four times by holding and press that area for 10 seconds in each press.
3. Neck Massage
Massage a point where you can feel it by moving the middle fingers of your hands to the back of your head and realise the base of your skull. Especially, at the tops of your neck that meets the base of the skull. Massage for a minute by using finger tips gentle in a circular movement.
4. Scalp Massage
Let the palms of your hands massage your scalp on the top of your skull for a minute humbly.
These are the 4 easy ways to relieve headaches.
Final Words
Once you have finished all those massages, start taking a deep breath. Lift your shoulders towards your ears for five to ten seconds to relieve the remaining pain. And then let them(shoulders) drop back down into their normal position.
You are going to feel better when you can do that a couple of times. Your massage will mostly relieve all your headache and your head will feel less weighty.
