Everybody needs a few minutes a day to relax and decompress. ESPECIALLY a stay at home parent. It can some times be a little difficult to make time or even remember to make time for yourself each day, but you must find a way!!! Weather it’s reading the morning paper while sipping a cup of coffee, retail therapy, a long afternoon stroll(while the kids are in school) or taking a candle lit bubble bath at the end of the night!! Being a Parent is sometimes a pretty thank less job, so it’s up to you to thank yourself.
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August 14th, 2008
Sweat it Out with the Gaiam Organic Yoga Pants
Don’t you just hate the way that sweatpants sometimes stick to your buns, thighs or legs in the middle of a workout? If they’re not to loose – they’re sometimes too tight that you can’t seem to move. Continue reading ‘Sweat it Out with the Gaiam Organic Yoga Pants’
August 13th, 2008
Easy Stress-Busting Tips to Set You Free
No matter how well your organize your time or your life – there will come a point when stress will rear its ugly head and creep up on you. It doesn’t matter what the cause is: marital woes, break-up, being eternally single, or not being able to keep those excess pounds at best. Continue reading ‘Easy Stress-Busting Tips to Set You Free’
June 3rd, 2008
Ease Those Aches Away with a Hand Massage
If your work is anything like mine, you would be spending eight hours or more pounding away on the keyboard of your laptop or desktop computer. Your hands, fingers and wrists may feel like they are ‘used’ to the tension being inflicted upon them while you are typing away – but any part of your body which is overworked needs to be pampered every so often. Hand massages are a great way to give your hands the care that they deserve.
The following are the benefits of a good hand massage: first, it is soothing and relaxing. Just like receiving a back rub at the end of a tiring day, a massage is a great way to relax your hands. Second, it eases away the tension, pain and stiffness from your fingers. Third, it improves the circulation of the blood from the tips of your fingers onto your wrist. You can either treat yourself to a massage from a professional therapist or learn how to perform a self-hand massage using hand reflexology techniques.
No matter how well-balanced you think your life is, there will always come a point when things will not work out the way you planned and stress will take its toll. For this, you need to relax, take things a bit slower and do some relaxation techniques.
The relaxation techniques that you can try include:
• Yoga
• Meditation
• Therapeutic Massage
• Tai Chi
• Pilates
• Exercise
• Hypnosis
Even the act of listening to music and taking some ‘alone’ time for yourself will greatly ease the stress in your life. By doing these relaxation techniques, it will have positive physical manifestations to your body. Your heart rate will be slower, your blood pressure will stabilize, your breathing rate will normalize and the tension in your muscles will be relieved. Finally, you will feel better and your overall concentration will be greatly improved by doing these relaxation techniques that will help de-stress your mind and your body.
