At Caring Palms, we care about our clients and our staff.  Sessions are booked with 30 minutes turnaround time in between.  We are always there to help each other including showing new things and helping one better what they do as to work with less effort.  Caring Palms has been determined to be one of the top 18 massage establishments in Jacksonville by Expertise.com. in an independent study. 

If you, or someone you know would be interested in joining our staff, send resumes to brian@caringpalms.com, or call 904-246-2206.

These changes include:

• The next tab in has been renamed to Prices, Gifts, Other Classes/Sessions.  This still gives session pricing for massage and Reiki (including multi-session pricing) and gift certificates.
  
• Under the Prices tab, Other Classes Available has been added and includes things that were previously on one page, but have been split apart.  They are classes in Astral Projection, Basic Energy, Chakra Balancing, Clearing Blocked Chakras, Energy Cleansing, Massage for Couples, Sensing Problems, and White Light Healing
  
• Also under the Prices tab, Energy Sessions Available has been added and includes things we have been doing, but have never been listed anywhere.  These include Chakra Balancing, Energy Cleansing, Major Chakra Cleansing, Etheric Cord Cutting, Soul Retrieval, Unspecified White Light Energy Work, and Trance Healing.
  
• A Meditations tab has been added.  Underneath it is Meditation Sessions, Meditation Classes, Soul Retrieval, and the order page for Guided Meditations on CD and MP3.
  
• The Our Studio tab has been changed.  All the information on the studio including directions and pictures have been made into a sub-group.  Also, another sub-group has been added called Policies / Scheduling which includes class and session scheduling policies as well as our cancellation policy. It also contains things that were there before like Student Ratings and Comments, Testimonials, Reviews, and information on the therapists here.
  
• An Events tab was added so one can immediately see what is going on.

If you are unfamiliar with some of the things we’ve added, please take a moment and see what they are.  We hope you find this new menu system easier to find things.

Introduction to Sacred Emergence –DNA Activation

 *Ready for a Cosmic Soul expansion?

 *Would you like to activate your DNA for a greater hidden potential?

  *Would you like to have more possibilities to create with?

 We are undergoing an accelerated leap towards a greater soul potential consciously, energetically and evolutionary. This can be commonly called as Ascension.

This class explains the beautiful metamorphosis we are all undergoing and your higher purpose within it.

It is an interactive experience with learning, meditation, activation and talking about the experience. This serves to expand your bandwidth of consciousness for a cosmic soul expansion. This will assist in realizing more of your light, gifts, divinity and perhaps your star soul or starseed heritage. A starseed is someone who may identify with living other places besides on earth, which we’ll go over and help discover.

Come for an amazing experience to upgrade your light codes and transform at a deeper level. 

On March 4 Saturday 1-3 or 4pm depending on the amount of participants for $30.

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This class is taught by Imelda Arcilla, an Intuitive Soul Strategist, Alchemist, Energy Healer & Creative Ascension Guide.  To learn more about her, go to  Imelda's website.

Mesothelioma and Reiki

This week, we received an interesting article on the use of Reiki and Mesothelioma.  We found that we liked the article so much that we put it on the website under the Articles tab.  We’ve put a couple paragraphs here with a link to the full article on the original site. We think you will find it interesting.

Reiki For Mesothelioma Patients

Reiki is a type of complementary and alternative medicine that began in Japan but is now practiced worldwide. It is an energy therapy that aims to change the flow of so-called vital, universal energy in the body. By doing so a practitioner of Reiki claims to be able to induce relaxation in a patient, reduce stress, and promote greater healing in the body.

The validity of Reiki has been challenged by academic and medical studies and has been found to have some useful benefits for mesothelioma and cancer patients. Proponents of reiki have never claimed that it will cure any illness or that it can replace traditional medicine, but they do say that this healing art can be a complementary technique that helps cancer patients and others find peace, relaxation, and healing.

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Massage Therapists.  What Do They Do?

by Brian Dean

There has been a lot of information changing about massage in the last few years, but the majority of the people still do not know what it is, or what it can do.  The same is true for massage therapists.  Well, let’s start at the beginning.

Massage is the systematic manipulation of the soft tissues of the body.  The goal can be many things from relaxation to helping those return from injury.  It is scientific and quantitative, but on an individual level. 

The popular belief is that massage is a luxury, something to be gotten at spas when you are vacationing.  In some places they refer to it as ‘Rubbing’. But to many, it is a needed part of healthcare.  It helps them better do the things they need to do as they go through life.  This could be something as active as sports, or as simple as sitting at a desk while dealing with a sore back.  It helps people feel better, no matter the condition.

But what about therapists?  Well, massage therapists are trained for hundreds of hours on things like anatomy and physiology, the same things doctors and physical therapists are trained on.  But they also are trained on numerous ways to help people, and after schooling, they go out and learn more ways.  While they are not doctors, they are artists, but that art is in helping people.

A massage therapist gets clients with all types of needs.  Sure, there are the ones that just want loving hands on them so they can relax and let go of life for an hour.  But the majority of work that they do is figuring out what someone needs, and finding the best movements that can help this person the most.

Basically, massage therapists are problem solvers.  The majority of clients that come in have some type of problems.  These could range from simple muscle pulls to alignment issues, to range of motion injuries (where they can’t move to the full potential that they normally do), to outright pain.  A good therapist will talk with their client to understand what is going on, basically gathering information.  Then they will make a recommendation on treatment, and then perform the treatment best suited to fix the issues that the client is comfortable with.

But there are a lot of variables that need to be worked out as the treatment is performed.  “How is the pressure?  Is it too much?”  “Am I hurting you?”  “Is this the exact spot where it hurts?” All these things need to be weighed in performing the task at hand.

Good therapists will have a good feel for the required pressure, even though everyone is different, and each person’s definition of ‘firm’ is different.  They will then make changes as needed.  They will use different movements based on each person’s problems and needs.  They will work until they have done what they can to fix any problems.  But they also understand that not all problems can be fixed in a session, and some problems can not be fixed.  But they do their best to do everything they can to help.

Basically, a massage therapist is a licensed, trained healthcare professional who is also a problem solver in regards to the human body.  They are professionals that care to give everything they can to help someone because that is what they do.  So the next time you have a problem, see what your local massage therapist can do. 

by Brian Dean

There has been a lot of talk and press about the large amounts of celebrities dying.  While recent ones we have lost have “been up there in years”, many in the last year have not.  And lately, they seem to be going left and right.  But while we hear of celebrity deaths a lot, we have to know that they are not the only ones leaving this physical plane.   

Yes, because of the fame of these people, the news covers them.  But there have been as many (and probably on an order of 10-fold or more) of normal people that have passed on.  We just only hear about the famous ones.  Basically, a lot of people are leaving the planet.   

I remember being told many years ago, that there would come a time when things would turn bad, a time of the coming apocalypse, or Armageddon.  And I was told that a lot of souls would leave this plane as they don’t want to be around for it.  Well, this all may be true, or it may just be a bunch of felgercarb.   

I mean, yes, a lot of people are leaving the planet.  But a lot of people are staying, and a lot are being born into it.  I feel that we as souls make a decision when to live, when to come into existence.  We decide before birth what it is we are meant to accomplish on this mortal plane.  Do we want to set up certain things and then leave them to others.  Or do we want to be the ones helping, or leading others to better times? 

While it seems there is a lot of talk of destruction and the end of the world, a lot of talk of hate and evil, there is also a lot of talk of love, and compassion, and care.  You see if we follow the belief that we are here for a reason, and that reason was decided before our births, then those of us that are here now, made this decision to be here in this time.   

And to be here may be a responsibility, a way to better humankind, a way to bring about better times, a way to spread light.  With all the talk of darkness, there has to be people that will shine the light, the light of peace, the light of joy, the light of… hope.   

When we lose hope, then darkness can overcome.  But I have hope, hope that things will get better, better without violence, better without catastrophe, better without destruction.   

I have hope, and because I do, I believe that if we spread hope, hope will overcome.  All it takes is one positive thought a day.  And then telling someone that positive thought.  Maybe they will tell others.  And before long, positive ideas will turn to positive actions.  And positive actions will create more positive actions.  Then you will begin the process of spreading hope, of spreading light.

So, this was my positive thought for the day.  Who else has a positive thought they want to pass on?

We have all heard about Murphy’s law, which was created by Air Force Captain Edward A. Murphy, an engineer working on a project designed to see how much sudden deceleration a person can stand in a crash. When it didn’t work, he uttered the phrase “Well, if anything can go wrong it will.” That became known as Murphy’s Law.   

Well, I now have the positive side…

Murphy’s Law Reversed.   If anything can possibly go right, it will.