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Reduce Stress and Anxiety With Essential Oils: Your At Home Spa!

Posted by author on April 10, 2012 13 comments

Reduce Stress and Anxiety With Essential Oils:

Get Your At Home Spa On!

Anxiety and stress can inflict horrible symptoms on people of any age and if you’re not sure which common ailments are stress and anxiety related, just look at symptoms of stress and you’ll understand very easily. These days, even kids need new methods of stress management and anxiety reducers that even 10 years ago, simply didn’t exist.

Anxiety and stress come in all sorts of different forms including social anxiety, panic attacks, or simply an inability to cope with the pressure of a hectic schedule and a hectic day. Anxiety raises your heart rate, causes you mental fatigue, and this not only creates stress, it can cause danger to your physical and emotional health and overall sense of well being.

Sometimes this results in a decision to see a therapist, use pills or other chemicals to help the feelings of repeated anxiety and stress. However, some of these drugs have unknown side effects, and some can even cause future health problems. This is why it’s good to keep in mind the fact that essential oils are all-natural solutions and relaxing ways for you to reduce stress and anxiety, calm your nerves, get a better night’s sleep, and stay at the top of your performance levels.

How Essential Oils Help

When you feel like you have difficulty with concentration, and your efficiency levels are down, this might simply be a sign that it’s time to try the all-natural solutions which essential oils offer. Also look out for moments when you tend to feel down more than usual. It could be a simple case of sluggishness or it might be a wake-up call to implement some healthy changes.

Dysfunctional relationships are also a major cause of anxiety and stress. If your relationship is in distress, worrying and focusing on your fears can make you feel more stressed and cause you to feel more anxious, as a result. These are other signs that some all-natural solutions need to be implemented in your life.

Essential oils can help soothe and relax your mind from this type of stress and anxiety and this soothing pleasure means less time you spend worrying. Worrying about distressed relationships never tends to enhance physical or mental/emotional health, so using aromatherapy can help keep your body strong and relieve your physical stress, too.

So whenever you find yourself overwhelmed from the anxiety and stress of work, school, home life, etc., trying essential oils offers you a new change to lift your spirits and help you to conquer pessimism over those bothersome situations. Regaining control of your emotions is what you need the most and it’s also good for you to remember that this can be done without the need of prescription pills, chemicals, alcohol and other commonly used stress reducers.

Essential oils accomplish your goal of a more relaxed state of mind without giving you any negative side effects. If you haven’t tried essential oils before, now might be a good time to try few drops here and there so that you can get the refreshing feeling of relief from stress and anxiety now.

Top Essential Oil Combination To Reduce Stress And Anxiety

The following essential oils are great for reducing stress and anxiety in your life. These three essential oils are particularly noted for their importance for good meditation and anxiety reduction. You can use them individually for their separate benefits, but it’s been recommended to use them together because of their combined potence as an all-natural solution to debilitating anxiety and daily stress.

Bergamot Essential Oil

Bergamot is a refreshing and uplifting essential oil. It is extracted from the peel of the fruit, and its citrus aroma helps lift you spiritually and rids you from negative thoughts. It helps your emotional balance, your sense of well being, and keeps you focused. It’s also known to be an anti-depressant and works effectively as an all-natural sedative.

Cedarwood Essential Oil

Cedarwood is a soothing essential oil that helps you reduce stress from your body and mind. This oil is extracted from the Virginian Cedar tree, so its fragrance is woody and refreshing to the mind. It has strong relaxing benefits and can also alleviate problems with insomnia.

French Lavender Essential Oil

French Lavender is one of the most popular flowery scents that exists and it really rejuvenates your mind quickly! This scent is French-born and has long been considered a therapeutic fragrance. It’s powerful to reduce stress from your mind, and it can even alleviate the aches and pains from your muscles, as well.

Uses of Essential Oil Combination: Your At Home Spa!

Here are some great ideas to get you started with your stress and anxiety reduction pack. These are just a few of the numerous ideas of successful methods of application and surely, once you start using these essential oils and feeling the benefits, you’ll discover many more!

Dilute a couple of drops of your potent essential oils into a carrier oil, then get (or give yourself) a long, relaxing massage
Make a steam inhalation by placing a few drops of your essential oils into a bowl of hot water, covering your head with a towel, then simply inhaling the delicious vapour
Apply 1 to 2 drops of your essential oils on a cup of epsom salts*, then dissolve that into your bathwater for a special anti-stress bath
Place your potent combo into a diffuser to inhale the peace while you exhale stress and anxiety; try an effective and specific diffuser like: Aura Cacia Diffuser – Aromatherapy Vaporizer with Oil, 1.64

*A great place for your epsom salts: myOTCstore.com – Online health and beauty shop.
**Be sure to test your essential oils for allergic reactions.
***Less is more, it only takes 1-2 drops because these essential oils are very powerful.

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How To Manage Your Inner Critic Stress Levels: 3 Basic Solutions

Posted by author on April 3, 2012 13 comments

How To Manage Your Inner Critic Stress Levels

It’s very odd how many of us fail to listen to that tiny voice inside ourselves, perhaps because of fear of what it might say to us. The inner critic challenges and undermines our self-confidence in our decision making process with life issues and this affects how you manage stress. As a matter of fact, the inner critic is one of the most devious sources of stress known to mankind.

Yet, this voice can be the all-commanding mentor giving you loads of positive words to fill your mind with positive thoughts. The pessimistic inner critic takes over when facing challenges where you might need extra courage or strength. This is when that inner voice tries to convince you of all the reasons why you wouldn’t be able to do it.

Don’t believe the lies your inner voice tries to tell you.

Your Inner Critic Affects Your Decision Making Process

Your inner critic was also given to you to keep you safe and help you see danger signs, but when it’s counter productive to your decision making process and hence, your growth as an individual, new measures must be taken. As reported in this article, Harvard Business Review on How To Manage Your Inner Critic, even people with much success report difficulty with managing the stress of their inner critic. Exploring how to manage stress effectively takes on many forms, but it’s something that affects us all.

Much of this boils down to your inner belief systems. As you’ve read here on Laughs Heal, we’ve covered and will continue to cover ways to change your belief systems. In Positive Affirmations Won’t Work For You Unless…, you discovered the difference between positive affirmations that work and those that don’t. You also have a case study with How To Manage Stress To Gain Success: A Formula with 10 Benefits.

These are helpful in understanding and having a plan of action to change your belief systems, along with many other articles in our archives. But the inner critic is a not so obvious source of stress in defeating the success of your inner belief systems.

So continuing to examine ways to improve your inner belief systems, we must address your inner critic. You inner critic is not only a huge source of stress, but it also makes discovering how to manage stress effectively, more important. Thank goodness there are solutions!

Here Are 3 Basic Solutions for Silencing Your Inner Critic:
The 3 R’s

1. Recognize Your Inner Critic

Use The 3 R’s
To Silence Your
Inner Critic:
Recognize
Release
Reconsctruct

When you recognize which voice is your inner critic from the good judgement which keeps you from dangerous situations, you will have accomplished a huge step! Once you know the difference, you can see where your inner critic might just be fear of stepping out of your comfort zone to accomplish new goals. However, you know that your inner critic cannot keep you from accomplishing new goals, unless you allow it to.

Once you complete this step, you have the power back in your hands. You can change your decision making process to include activities which help you to step out of your comfort zone and overcome that voice that tries to tell you that you can’t.

2. Release Your Inner Critic

Having recognized that the voice was only your inner critic, it is easier to face it head on and then release it from your consciousness. It’s amazing how many people are not even aware of the fact that they have an inner critic and this only makes that source of stress stronger. Ignoring the inner voice has never resolved the negative, pessimistic results it produces.

By recognizing and releasing it, you acknowledge that it was there, but you let it go. Once you do that, you are ready to take action in the opposite direction of what your inner voice was telling you.

3. Reconstruct Your Inner Voice To Relay Self-Confidence

Steps #1 and #2 give you clarity and clean out the dust of the old thought patterns which were not doing you any good. Step #3 reinforces the bonus benefits you get from the first 2 steps by creating new habits of thought patterns. It’s just as easy to say something nice to yourself as it is to let the inner critic have its way, so by reclaiming your power over your thoughts, it gets easier to choose the thoughts you really want to keep about yourself.

No one can define you like you can! Choose to define yourself with positive words and you will see positive results.

You Can Win Over Your Inner Critic and Manage Stress Effectively!

These are well tested methods for creating new inner belief systems and have been used in many different philosophies throughout time. When your decision making process is hampered by your inner critic, you can look at it just as a simple way of your inner voice telling you that you’re ready for a change.

You can change the habits of your inner voice! You can discover how to go through the decision making process without any negativity or undue pessimism. Surely positive self-talk will go a long way in helping you to change these patterns and solidify your choice to conquer your inner critic.

Laughter therapy will also help you to keep a light hearted approach towards this change. Learning how to manage stress means looking at all of the sources of stress in your daily life and your inner critic is one source of stress which can be defeated.

Let your next decision making process be that of choosing to take action to get rid of your inner critic. It will help you to lead a much more balanced and satisfying lifestyle.

Here’s to your inner self-confidence success!

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Managing Stress The Easy Way: A How -To Guide

Posted by author on March 20, 2012 41 comments

Your How To Guide: Manage Stress The Easy Way

Last week, I wrote you a nice post giving you The Top 10 Funniest Websites: How To Laugh Yourself Happy, which I have to admit, really works wonders to get a quick smile on your face! This week, I’d like to start you off with some more resources to help you keep those smiles. There are many ways to learn how to manage stress the easy way, so here’s more for you on that.

Over the weekend, I was really inspired to write you about some easy to use mind tools that we all have, but sometimes forget to practice. This morning I finished that article and I’d like to invite you to take a look at the result of it here: The 1 Action Verb To Take You From Stressed To Refreshed. I’ll tell you now that the action verb is gratitude.

How To Manage Stress With Gratitude

In the article, I explain the difference between using gratitude as the noun that it really is and using it as an action verb, which you can make it. As an action verb, it becomes a fast moving vehicle to take you from one state of mind to another, completely higher level of consciousness. It’s much more powerful than we give it credit for being, and the 4 powerful mind tools you’ll find in that article explain its power with actionable steps which you can take today to get that vehicle driving you in the right direction right now.

There’s really so much to say about the action that this vehicle of movement sets forth that you can surely look forward to closer examination of the details of this type of process in upcoming material. I’ll also make sure to always give you lots of examples and actionable steps that you can take to get you started in the easiest way there is.

Changing Your Personal Beliefs and Inner Belief Systems

Many readers have written to me and also commented here in the blog about advice on changing their belief systems. The power to create effective and life-changing positive affirmations depends largely on your inner belief systems, so the good news is that this is something which you have complete control over. This is such a vital aspect of the key to not only managing stress effectively but also to living your life to the fullest of joy, that I can assure you that I’ll really dedicate a lot of energy in offering you the best resources possible.

Gratitude as an action verb is a fundamental step towards changing your inner belief systems. You can get so many benefits in every aspect of your life from addressing this theme of gratitude in the direction of changing your inner belief systems. All it takes is the decision to start.

Start Where You Are
Do What You Can
Use What You Have
-Arthur Ashe

You don’t have to be a great tennis player like Arthur Ashe to put that saying into action. (Thank goodness for that fact! Ahem….speaking for myself, here) There are people all over the world who have overcome enormous difficulties to rise to the occasion of greatness in their lives. That means that you can do it too.

As a matter of fact, later on this week, I have a compelling guest post planned from an author who has not only survived PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome), but has found many keys to living a joyful life in spite of post traumatic stress.

No matter what your situation is, if the power of the universe has brought you to it, then the power of the universe can get you through it, so I strongly encourage you to stick with it so that you get your rainbow after the storm.

You’re not alone. I will be with you every step of the way to nudge you forward on your journey to victory!

Whatever The Power Of the Universe Brings You To
The Power Of The Universe Can Bring You Through

For today, I will leave you with this little 3 minute video that I really like a lot! The article I started over the weekend and finished today turned out to be really meaty, so I didn’t put this video in with that. Let the words in this video remind you of some basic truths about life we don’t look at, but need to know. It’ll take your perspective on how to manage stress to new heights.

Enjoy it!
How To Let Gratitude Help You Manage Stress
(just clink the link above and it’ll take you to the video.)

Let me close with A HUGE SHOUT OUT OF GRATITUDE TO EACH AND EVERY READER!

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From my heart,
Kim
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Reduce Stress and Anxiety With Essential Oils: Your At Home Spa!

Reduce Stress and Anxiety With Essential Oils:

Get Your At Home Spa On!

How Essential Oils Help