Archive for November, 2008
Just relax- Relaxation is an extremely hard thing for someone who suffers with anxiety to do. However, one of the main ways to cure your anxiety woes is to practice releasing tension within your muscles. A few techniques that may deem beneficial in ceasing the anxiety disorder are: meditation, relaxing your muscles, deep breathing from the stomach, and also try tensing your muscle and then releasing them again.
Breathing Exercises- Your anxiety disorder may be triggered by improper breathing, such as rapid breathing or hyperventilation. Breathing irregularly causes oxygen in your body to rise, while lowering the carbon dioxide within your blood. It is imperative that if you suffer any kind of anxiety disorder to utilize your diaphragm when breathing. The utilization of your diaphragm can help soothe your nerves and calm you down.
Train yourself to think peaceful thoughts-Better known as cognitive therapy, this focus’ on training yourself to think happy thoughts. The disorder itself is triggered by thoughts of stress. A few things that you may want to include in this therapy session are, self-talks (reassuring yourself that everything is fine), testing reality (what’s real and not real), and restructuring your thought pattern. Through this therapy you are challenging your own negativity and replacing it with positive self-talks.
Exposure therapy- Exposure therapy, also known as behavior therapy,it is another means that can be used to help you to eliminate your anxiety disorder. Through this therapy, you are challenged to face your fears head on. Through this therapy you redefine your fears; it allows you to look at what’s facing you in the eye and not have to turn away from it.
You can find any number of facial masks in your grocery, health food, or beauty store, but you can also make facial masks at home from all natural ingredients in your kitchen.
Here are a few facial mask recipes you can try at home. Try some and see which you like for your particular skin type. Feel free to modify, tweak, or even invent your own, too!
Of course, all these masks will need to be washed off. Use warm water only or warm water and a soft wash cloth.
If you have acne or oily skin, try this Apple Zinger mask: one medium apple, grated and mixed with 5 tablespoons of warmed honey. Leave on for 10 minutes.
Another recipe for oily skin takes a little more time, but you’re worth it! Beat 1 egg white until it’s fluffy. Then add 1 teaspoon grapefruit juice and 1 teaspoon sour cream. Leave on your face for 15 minutes before rinsing off.
And a third mask good for acne prone skin is a tomato-lemon mask. Scoop the insides from an overripe tomato and put it in a blender. Add 1 teaspoon of lemon juice and 1 teaspoon instant oatmeal. Puree the ingredients in the blender and apply to your face. Let it sit for about 15 minutes.
For fresh, revitalized skin, mash up half an avocado and leave it on your face for 15 – 20 minutes. Yep, that’s it. Just avocado.
How about a combination of ½ mashed banana, 2 tablespoons of yogurt, and 1 tablespoon of honey? Double the recipe and you can use half for a mask and half for breakfast. Try that with a store-bought facial mask. Well, no…DON’T try that with a store-bought mask!