Stress and Relaxation Tips

The ability to relax is within Every woman grasps, & often just needs working at.

If you feel chock-a-block inside with hidden worries, draw them out into the
open, writing them down & studying them carefully. Can you do anything about this
problem, for example? No? Then take your pencil & strike it out. The very act of
putting your pencil through it will get it off your mind. Those worry now? You
can do something about it. Write down just what you can do & resolve to do it.
Learn to watch for points of tension. These are usually the shoulders, the hands,
the feet & the face. Check the position of the shoulders frequently.
We tend to hold them tensely, sometimes pulling them almost up to the ears. Make
sure that when you are sitting, your legs are not wound round each other. glance
in the mirror every now & then to make sure that you are not pulling your
eyebrows together in a nervous frown, not creasing your forehead, raising your
eyebrows unnecessarily or biting your lips.

If it were for nothing else, a few minutes face massage every night at bedtime is
helpful to relax tired muscles. To help alleviate vertical frown lines, pull your
eyebrows way down over your eyes, frowning so hard it feels as though you are
trying to get your eyebrows to meet each other end on. Then lift your eyebrows as
high, & open your eyes as wide, as you can. To relax upper eyelids, open your
mouth slightly, raise your eyebrows & close your eyes. As you raise your
eyebrows, stretch forward with your eyelids; feel as if you‘re trying to get the
greatest possible distance between your eyebrows & lashes. Hold for a count of
10. Very slowly & consciously, relax the eyelids, returning eyebrows to their
normal position.

Air baths are very relaxing. In the privacy of a warm room, walk about & do odd
jobs without any clothes on. The air allowed to play upon the body relaxes the
nerves. A warm bath, with he water at around 38 c (100 f), containing some
pleasant-smelling herb or perfumed bath essence, is another way of relieving

tension.
Between appointments or at the end of a busy day, make time to relax n- even if
just for 10 minutes. Lie down, on the floor if you have to. It doesn’t matter
where, as long as your feet, legs & thighs are supported so that they slope
gently upwards & that the feet are 30 cm (12 in) above the head. Normally, by the
sheer force of gravity, the blood is pulled down away from hair, eyes &
complexion to swell the legs & feet. It’s a common sense to reverse this pull,
sending the blood towards the head to feet, renew & re-oxygenate the hair, eyes &

skin.