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Did you know that simple old-school hand-stands like these are super-beneficial for you?   Hand-stands are fantastic to strengthen your arms, shoulders, and wrists.  Once you get comfortable with hand-stands, you can go further into the move by bending your elbows and attempting to lower your forehead to the floor.  It also helps stretch the abdomen and improves one’s concentration, coordination and balance.  Through focused effort, it helps calm down the brain thereby helping relieve stress and tension and mild depression through the meditative effort involved.  When you feel like you have midday “fuzzy-brain”, where you’ve been over-stimulated and cannot focus, try doing a hand-stand to alleviate stress and get blood flowing to your brain again.  Don’t worry, you don’t have to be a gymnast to attempt a hand-stand.  Use a wall to put your feet against in the beginning.  As time goes on, you can inch away from the wall.  And as you do, you’ll be building your abdominal muscles (try it now…you’ll feel it instantly.)  When I’m feeling unfocused and overloaded with stress, I simply do a hand-stand for a minute or two to regroup and get my mind flowing again.  The stretch in the shoulders, back and arms feels so good.  And talk about instant results…you feel it immediately.

If you feel overwhelmed and stressed on a regular basis, there’s no need to go running for the Prozac.  Your body has a built in mechanism that de-stresses you without pharmaceuticals.  Did you know that deep breathing (at least five seconds in, and five seconds out) can slow your central nervous system and help wash calm over your body and mind?  Simply breathing in and out slowly, with intent, for several minutes does wonders to calm the central nervous system.  Skip the drugs and utilize what your body already has…maybe you just haven’t tapped into yet?

How is psychology connected to your sense of smell?  It’s the first sense that is activated when we are born.  Smell is provocative and deeply connected to our emotional state.  People who lose their sense of smell can even lose their will to live.  Your olfactory system can take your mind to places and situations in the past, recalling events that you’ve tucked away in your psyche.  Take a few minutes each day to stimulate your olfactory system by breathing in wonderful scents, such as citrus (to enliven your mood) or lavender (to evoke a calm mind.) 

Grapefruit Essential Oils have many therapeutic benefits, one of which is its antidepression properties.  Grapefruit essential oil contains chemical compounds which help to stimulate the production of hormones in the brain, including adrenaline and serotonin, thereby decreasing the symptoms of emotional and physical stress and depression. 

Before calling the doctor, try to alleviate your ailments naturally.  If you are feeling blue, try breathing the fresh scent of Grapefruit Essential Oils to brighten your spirits and stimulate your mind. 

For skincare products containing pure, all-natural Grapefruit Essential Oils, check out Supernatural Botanicals. 

Aromatherapy Facts:

Grapefruit Essential Oil:  Aids in relief of nervous energy, depression, headache, performance stress, jet lag, and PMS.

Therapeutic Effect:  Uplifted, Euphoric, Feeling of Wellness, Natural Stress Reliever.

What exactly is aromatherapy?  Aromatherapy is the practice of using volatile plant oils, including essential oils, for psychological and physical well-being.  Essential oils, the pure essence of a plant, have been found to provide both psychological and physical benefits when used correctly and safely, from mood elevating to healing. 

   Lavender:  Lavender is used for stress or sleep.  The aroma of lavender has been known to calm and relax the mind.  Lavender has additionally been used for:  Acne, allergies, anxiety, asthma, athlete’s foot, bruises, burns, chicken pox, colic, cuts, cystitis, depression, headeache, earache, oily skin, and vertigo. 

   Grapefruit:  Grapefruit is thought to sharpen mental acuity, stimulate thought, and create a cheerful balance.   Grapefruit essential oil is also very beneficial to oily skin, improves complexion, and helps with cellulitis and water retention.  Not to mention, it smells delicious!

   Orange:  Similar to Grapefruit’s benefits, orange essential oil stimulates the mind, evokes a cheerful mood and happiness, and smells amazing.  Orange essential oils are also thought to aid in digestion and clear oily skin.

   Ylang Ylang has a beautiful sweet, slightly fruity fragrance.  It has also been used to treat anxiety, depression, frigidity, hypertension, palpatations, and stress. 

    Rose essential oil immediately takes you to that place of calm.  Beautiful floral scent.  Rose oil has been used therapeutically to treat depression, eczema, stress, frigidity, and menopause symptoms. 

Put some thought behind the scents you choose.  They do much more than make you smell amazing.  They create balance, and submurge you in a zen-like state.