Relaxation Tips

Relaxation tips for the stressed out woman ....

Learning how to relax takes time and practice. But it is important to achieve balance on all levels - mind, body and spirit.

Depending on your current situation in life, you may require more or less balance to be in harmony with your life. The following relaxation tips will can you calm your mind and relieve the body of tension and stress.

Relaxation Tips

How to Relax If You Have One Minute

• Close your eyes.

• Keeping your eyes closed, roll your eyes in a circle in a clockwise direction for 30 seconds.

• Roll in a counterclockwise direction for the remaining 30 seconds.

• This movement stimulates connections between the brain's left and right hemispheres leaving you more relaxed, in balance and ready to focus.

• When you feel a stressful situation coming on, simply rolling your eyes can circumvent the body's stress response because the brain and the eyes are very closely connected.

How to Relax If You Have Five Minutes

• Brew a pot of tea.


• Tea is more than just a healthy drink.


• It can also lower your stress hormone levels by 20 percent in just minutes according to researchers at Yale University.


• Just holding a cup of hot tea in your hand makes you feel more relaxed.


• Another reason to relax with a cup of tea is that it contains L-theanine, a natural anti-anxiety chemical.

How to Relax If You Have Ten Minutes

• Take a warm bath.


• Researchers at UCLA showed that a ten minute bath is one of the most effective relaxation tips for the mind, body and spirit.


• Soaking in a hot tub can help you unwind at the end of a stressful day.


• Scented bath salts can help calm your nerves and relieve tension.


• Bath salts containing magnesium are a natural sedative.

• When you learn to relax, you are balancing both your mind and your body which helps you recharge and return to balance.

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More Relaxation Tips

Try these relaxation tips to balance the energy in your life...

Listen to Music

• Music is a great relaxation technique.


• You may have heard the saying, "Music soothes a savage beast".

• Scientific research is beginning to show how music can have many positive effects on the mind and body.


• Listening to music can alter brain chemistry associated with well being and stress reduction.


• Music appears to trigger the release of feel good hormones including serotonin, a neurotransmitter associated with the regulation of mood.


• A report by Depression and Anxiety shows that listening to soothing music lowered people's stress symptoms by 40 percent. This was the same effect as getting massages for 90 days.


• Listening to gentle background music while at home or driving to and from work can slow your heartbeat, lower blood pressure, calm the central nervous system and lower stress hormones.

• Listening to relaxing music during quite times or while taking a soft candlelight bath is soothing way to relax and lower stress. Click here to view all music for relaxation CD's.

Spend Time Alone

• Having time to yourself is a basic need according to psychologist Ester Schaler Buchholz, Ph.D., author of The Call of Solitude.


• Taking time to be alone can help strengthen the immune system.


• As humans, we tend to get anxious or stressed when we don't have time any for ourselves.


• If you can sneak away for a few minutes, find a room where you can be alone.


• Close your eyes and listen to the silence.


• You can feel relaxed and refreshed within just a few minutes.

Prepare for Sleep

• Try to begin your bedtime routine an hour early.


• Put away all computers and phones.


• Sometimes what we think is stress is really just a feeling of weariness from our brains being over stimulated.


• The constant electronic glow fom the computer, TV, cell phone, etc. has altered our lifestyle so much that we don't know how to log off.


• Also, be sure to keep it cool at night.


• The best sleeping environment is between 68 and 74 degrees.

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Hold Hands to Counter Stress

Studies show you can lower stress hormones and blood pressure by holding hands with your partner. This is according to psychology experts from the University of Virginia based on a study of happily married couples.