{"id":5705,"date":"2020-04-27T13:39:33","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T12:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/BlackburnPrimary\/?p=5705"},"modified":"2020-04-27T13:39:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T12:39:33","slug":"what-is-story-massage-and-its-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/BlackburnPrimary\/2020\/04\/27\/what-is-story-massage-and-its-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Story Massage and it’s benefits?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Story massage is a fun and interactive approach of sharing stories and rhymes in a positive and respectful way. It involves asking permission from the individual if you can perform story massage on the time.<\/p>\n

The benefits are:<\/p>\n

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  1. It can bring calm and relaxing feeling to the individual.<\/li>\n
  2. It promotes oxytocin the “feel good” hormone.<\/li>\n
  3. It may improve sleep patterns.<\/li>\n
  4. It may promote self esteem and confidence.<\/li>\n
  5. It may regulate emotions<\/li>\n
  6. Can build positive relationships through touch.<\/li>\n
  7. Can develop a readiness for learning.<\/li>\n
  8. It may develop imagination, expressive language and creativity.<\/li>\n
  9. Improves communication.<\/li>\n
  10. Can help prepare for future events e.g. going to dentist, new school, or hospital.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Story massage is a fun and interactive approach of sharing stories and rhymes in a positive and respectful way. It involves asking permission from the individual if you can perform story massage on the time. The benefits are: It can bring calm and relaxing feeling to the individual. It promotes oxytocin the “feel good” hormone. … Continue reading What is Story Massage and it’s benefits?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25408,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10919],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hopefield-nursery-class"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/BlackburnPrimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/BlackburnPrimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/BlackburnPrimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/BlackburnPrimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25408"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/BlackburnPrimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/BlackburnPrimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5706,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/BlackburnPrimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5705\/revisions\/5706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/BlackburnPrimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/BlackburnPrimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/BlackburnPrimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}