Why Slow Work Often Creates Faster Change

Fast work looks impressive. Slow work actually works.

When touch moves too quickly, the nervous system stays alert. When pressure changes abruptly, the bodyguards. When sessions rush toward outcomes, tissue tightens instead of releasing.

Slower bodywork allows the nervous system time to register safety. That’s when muscles soften, breathing deepens, and circulation improves without force.

This doesn’t mean light or superficial. It means deliberate.

Think of it as giving your body time to finish a sentence it’s been trying to say for years.

If you’ve ever left a session feeling temporarily better but unchanged a few days later, speed may have been part of the issue.

Change that lasts usually arrives quietly.

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