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No matter what
your occupation may be, whether you are a
professional athlete, a white collar worker or a
full time housewife, your body needs to stay
healthy so that you can perform your daily
chores at the highest level possible. For your
body to withstand the work that needs to be
carried out, you need to look after your body
well. Whether you go for a massage or a rub, or
a herbal steam, some self-care will do your body
a lot of good for it to be in top condition.
 There are several
spa experience that you may undergo to enable
you to function at your peak and achieve
overall wellbeing. Using of essential oils may
aid in the stimulation process of the limbic
system and also help to improve energy and
alertness, increase blood supply to tissues and
likely to overcome any soreness in the muscles. To begin an aromatic steam healing,
filled a small bowl with a small amount of
lemongrass and peppermint essential oils. Turn
on the hot water shower and put the small bowl
on a shelf next to the shower, away from the
water. The reason of doing this is to let the
steam trigger the essential oils so that the
aroma will be released in the shower. While this
is happening, shower in the warm water for about
five minutes and let your body relax.
Photo: Body Massage
The
fragrance you breath in will stimulate your
brain's emotional control centre. Your autonomic
nervous system will respond to this change which
then leads to physiological changes that will
overcome muscular pain. You may then dry
yourself off. For further care, you are advised
to rub a deep-heating muscle balm into old
injuries or knots, or on areas where your
muscles are tight. A readily available lotion is
the Tiger Balm but you can also make your own
muscle-soothing oil by mixing massage oil with
white camphor oil since the latter is used to
warm areas of stiffness. Beside the use of
muscle balm, the correct massage techniques
applied is equally important. The cross-fibre
friction massage method is known to release
muscular tension. This method involves the
rubbing of your thumb, fingers or knuckles
across the grain of your tight muscle. Stop
massaging when you feel your muscles start to
relax. Also able to cure painful joint spots is
the ginger-almond rub. After finishing rubbing
with the mixture of these essential oils, use a
dry bath towel to cover the infected area to
enable the soothing process to take place. Rinse
the oil away after thirty minutes.
Another simple
method to release muscle strain is to use rubber
reflex ball. Not only it is easily available in
most body, bath and health shops, you can also
take it to anywhere you wish, even when you are
on vacation. Known to aid in curing knots and
sore areas, it is simple to use. All you need to
do is lean against a wall and put the ball
between your back and the wall. Roll the reflex
ball into the sore area by pressing your weight
against it and slowly glide up and down against
the ball but never apply pressure directly to
the spine. You can also put the reflex ball on
the floor and place your foot on top of it. Put
pressure on the ball and roll your foot up and
down over the ball. Once you have done with one
foot, repeat the process with the other foot.
All of this is done while you are sitting down.
This approach not only relaxes your feet but it
also stimulates reflexology points of your other
body parts. A simple but often neglected method
is regular exercise since this traditional
healing therapy will always relieve muscle
tension.
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