How about with a massage in a room with bio-flourescent jellyfish swaying gracefully to New Age music? Part of the pricey panacea in a society where changes in men's and women's roles and in the workplace are piling on stress -- and people have a lot of money to spend in search of relief. The modern search for Zen serenity is a $30 billion-a-year business in Japan, states this WashingtonPost article.
People are spending six times as much on healing products and services than they are on flat-screen televisions and about one-fifth as much as they did on automobiles. The Japanese are packaging and selling healing like no other time in their history, even though they have always had a concept of the power of healing.
Changes in employment and women in the work force have resulted in a shift in traditional roles. This has led to work pressures that woman have never dealt with before as well as men and the waning of 'lifetime' employment.
Read the whole WashingtonPost article.
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