Upper body massage. How to give an upper body massage - Continued

Massage along the check bones and the jaw line. Rubbing softly but firmly making all the muscles relaxes as you continue. Firmly press the areas along the eye sockets to relax muscles in the face, and use your finger tips to massage the scalp areas, spending more time along the back base of the head and the temples for great effects.

If your subject is having pains in the shoulders and in the muscles of the chest you are bets to stand with your body at their head with your fingertips facing their toes.  Rubbing on the chest with your hands in a flat position, move the palms of your hands up and down their chest and then from side to side to relax the muscles of the chest and that lead to the shoulders.

Cupping your hands put your hands on their shoulders where the shoulder meets the body using your fingertips to relax the muscles that run down the arms. This relieves shoulder socket pain and relaxes your subject more.

Moving your hands down the arms, continue to squeeze the arms, moving the muscles around and massaging the muscles so that the arm will relax even further. You might have to focus on just one at a time for an adult. For the baby or small child in pain, you may be able massage both arms at the same time which will give them a very soothing over all effect.

Turning your subject over and rubbing their back in the same manner that you massaged the chest will relax the muscles and give relief from stress and pain. Standing at the head, pressing your palms into the back muscles, rubbing in a motion where your fingertips are facing their feet, you are going to provide a total relaxing state for the subject.