Remove Stress With Aromatherapy Massage At Home
Scent your stress away
Are you sick and tired of those boring air fresheners that your colleague keeps spraying in your cabin every day? Give her an idea and scent your workplace or home with Lavender essential oil. Aromatherapy experts say that this aids in reducing computer errors by at least 25%. Imagine how much stress that could save you! You can use the same oil spray in your air conditioner so that you don’t keep breathing stale, stuffy air all the time. Play around with flavors like Lemon, Peppermint, Rosemary and Sandalwood Oil. Involve your colleagues and friends in this. Spray a new essential oil fragrance each day and ask them to identify which one you used!
You can also use these beautiful scents in your drawers, letterboxes, file and closets. Here’s my innovative tip – mix 5 drops of Lavender with a teaspoon of Jojoba base oil. Dab on a cotton stub and wipe/spray on your desk. When the heat generated from your computer warms the oil there is a pleasant fresh fragrance wafting through the air.
Bathe your stress away
This is the most special aspect of aromatherapy for me and so I mark out a specific day in the week to do this. This helps me maintain regularity in my therapy. This brings me to another point. You will be able to see solid results only if you maintain consistency. Imagine your bath tub full of fragrance and foam. Aromatic candles burning slowly and blending the air with mild scent. Rolls of colorful towels put on the side of the tub, accompanied by a range of bathing brushes. No, this is not a spa that I am talking about! This is something you can easily recreate at your home, given you have the right concoction of aromatherapy essentials. To create a bath mush that you can mix with your bath water, simply make a mixture of a quarter cup of aloe vera gel, honey, powdered milk and rock salt. Add 2 teaspoons of Jojoba oil and 5 drops of essential (select from Tangerine, Lavender or Marjoram) oil. Blend the essential oil of your pick with one ounce of carrier oil of your choice and your bath is ready!
Sounds like an exotic potion, doesn’t it? But if you carefully look, it is basically made out of healthy ingredients that you would easily find around you in nature. You may find it a little cumbersome to make all these arrangements but trust me, once you’re inside the bath tub, you will thank me for having told this to you!
Here’s is a great tip. Shhh – don’t tell it to everyone! Want your stimulating bath to last even after your bath ends? Once you’ve wiped off your skin with a towel, take one tablespoon of pure olive oil, five ounces of water, six drops rosemary essential oil on fresh rosemary (if easily available). Put this in a spray can and drizzle lightly over your moist skin. Take a deep breath and swing away like a fresh daisy. Don’t blame me if you start turning heads on the streets. Say goodbye to stressful days!
Have there been times when you have ended up spending a bomb on a spa therapy treatment straight after work because you have been super stressed out? Well, ladies, get ready to stash that cash back into your pocket! Get introduced to Eucalyptus oil – an effective analgesic which is often used as alternative stress relieving medicine for muscle, nerve and joint pain. For some extraordinary results, blend 3-4 drops of Lavender essential oil with a spoonful of base Eucalyptus oil and dab it on a cotton to the affected area on your skin, just before a bath. If you have been having screeching pain on the shoulder or back due to long hours on the computer, or knuckle pain due to excessive typing, this concoction will work wonders. This is aromatherapy’s answer to the Bengays and Voltarens of the world.
