Massage is a very old practice. I once read that in order to control your stress level and the anxiety that comes with it, you have the choice of either relaxation/meditation or massage therapy (if you can afford it).
The theory goes like this; In order to eliminate the accumulated stress, you need to eliminate more that you accumulate each day. It has been observed and calculated that to get to an acceptable level of stress, a normal person, subjected to a normal dose of daily stress (noises, electromagnetic waves, social pressure, alarms, shocks, etc.), should eliminate twice that amount, daily, for a period of three (3) months.
To do that, you may have two (2) seances of meditation/relaxation of about twenty (20) minutes each day for 3 months or, if you can afford it, you should have at least two (2) full-body massages per week for thirteen (13) weeks.
With either practice, you will get to a healthy level of stress that you only need to maintain with regular relaxation/meditation or massages.
As of today (04-Nov-2020), nothing else will work.
The practices I described above, will also change something permanently in you.
>>> “Research in osteopathy and manual therapy, where practitioners have been working closely with neuroscientists on affective touch, suggests that the beneficial effect of massage therapy goes well beyond the actual manoeuvre performed by the therapist. “
aeon.co/essays/touch-is-a-language-we-cannot-afford-to-forget