What to Get For the Grandma
[or Grandpa]
Who Has Everything At the Holidays…
You wade patiently thru the mall, being jostled left and right in search of that perfect gift for Grandma. You want to give something back to her for all the nurturing and caring she has given you thru the years but nothing seems quite right. She already has so much! She doesn’t need another blender or sweater or DVD set. What you would really like to do is send a hug thru the mail!
What Grandma Really Needs
It can be so hard with families increasingly spread out across the country to really spend time together on a regular basis. When with those we love, it can be easy to overlook how many times we touch each other… a greeting hug, a gentle “I-understand-and-am-here-with-you” squeeze on the arm, a clap on the back of pride in your accomplishments, or a simple affectionate brush when passing in the hall on a busy day. Touch is such an important human need, yet we take it for granted.
That is, until we start aging. As kids leave home and take on lives of their own, families can be increasingly spread out and see each other less and less. Seniors can become increasingly more isolated as it gets harder to travel and, with retirement, less reasons to leave the home. Touch can happen less and less, yet be needed more and more. Cutaneous Deprivation, lack of adequate appropriate touch, can decrease immune system functioning, and add emotional difficulties, and even lesson intellectual ability.
How to Get Appropriate Touch?
A massage gift certificate can help fill that most human need for touch. It can do more than just the wonderful effect of relaxing tight muscles. It can help ease the stress of the holidays. It can increase blood flow and circulation. It can help with sleeping, which can plague so many elders. In short, it’s the next best thing to you being there and giving them a hug yourself. And you should see the smile on their face when they get up from the table!
Massage gift certificates can be bought over the phone and arranged from virtually any part of the country. It is an easy gift that will give wonderful benefits for long after the massage is finished.
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