* Bridges. Develop non-sexual touch to improve relationships with family and friends.

* Builds Skills. Practice skillful interaction between your brain and hands.

* Confirms Life. Touch another person nurturingly to confirm respect for life's miracle.

* Enhances Creativity. Use non-sexual massage to stimulate creative insights or problem-solving by formulating a problem or need before your session.

* Heals. Facilitate healing of stressed parts of your body by stimulating lymphatic, muscular, neural, and skeletal movement.

* Humanizes. Through bodywork, confirm your existence as a human being and your connectedness with the human race.

* Motivates. Think of receiving massage as your reward for work well done. Use the anticipation of its pleasure to spur yourself to effective activity.

* Nurtures. Use bodywork to express the power of Love in your Life.

* Pleasures. Enjoy!

* Protects. Done with a professional or in a group, there is no risk or pretense for sexual activity.

* Psychically Connects. Connect through your partner with the "Universal Mind."

* Relieves Tension. Relax tired muscles and enhance your feeling of well-being.

* Socializes. Deepen trust through responsible, responsive touch, key among senses.

* Supports Positive Values. Bodywork may be used to help alleviate destructive forces, such as alienation, boredom, conflict, crime, frustration, insensitivity, exploitation, tension, and under-involvement.