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How to Use Essential Oils for Headaches

Essential oils are concentrated plant extracts. They are the “key ingredients” of that plant and act by “retaining the natural smell, flavor and essence.” Some essential oils are: • Peppermint. (Eases motion sickness, headaches and nausea) • Bergamot. (Eases pain, aids in digestion) • Orange. (Energizing and purifying, combats unpleasant odors) • Chamomile. (Calming, promotes sleep relieves pain and great for your skin) • Marjoram and cinnamon (alleviating cough and gall bladder complaints) Others include lemon, Lavender, jojoba oil, jasmine oil, and sage, for example.   How to Use: 1. For Headaches How to use essential oils for headaches? Peppermint or Lavender oil can be applied to temples and scalp to ease headaches. You can also sit in a relaxed...

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How To Increase Your Self-Confidence

Yoga is the perfect way to relieve the stress accumulated from our everyday life with work & tasks. The practice of yoga will also instill confidence within, helping you to achieve goals in life. It is an experience of feeling secure in life with the inner peace that comes with a regular yoga practice. One of the most important benefits of yoga is that you gain self-confidence with regular yoga practice. Confidence is something which is very much required for us in both professional and personal life. Confidence is needed for completing a test or interview, or you are facing your bosses by giving a presentation or starting a new venture or project. Practicing Yoga every day without fail will...

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How Yoga reduces Body Pain?

Yoga is a powerful practice that combines mind and body through physical postures, breathing exercises, relaxation, and meditation techniques. Performing yoga brings many benefits as it reduces body pain, stress, and anxiety; it also improves physical condition, flexibility, strength, and balance and even strengthens the immune system.            Many conditions can generate body pain, from chronic illnesses to having a stressful day. The good thing is that regular yoga practice can help you reduce body pain and tension.    But how does yoga reduce body pain?      The secret is that yoga acts directly on some of the underlying causes that contribute to pain:    It controls breathing. It energizes, relaxes, and strengthens the nervous system. Controlled breathing helps to relax...

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Four Yoga Poses to Try at Home

  We live in a first-paced world swamped with schedules streaming from dusk till dawn. And sadly, there isn't much room left for mental or physical awareness. Yoga is one of the most valuable practices that could help you get in touch with your body and keep your health robust. While this practice has been there since the dawn of centuries, recently, it has gained incredible traction owing to its massive wealth of benefits. What's more impressive is how you could practice yoga at your home or any free environment. In this article, we will discuss yoga, the types of yoga poses, and how they could impact your life.   What is yoga   Yoga is an ancient practice that...

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Beginner’s Guide to Yoga – What You Need to Know

      Yoga is an excellent practice that provides your physical and mental health with many benefits. While it may seem intimidating for beginners, yoga can be very easy to practice, especially when you start with simple poses that don’t require a lot of flexibility.   In this article, we will briefly cover the benefits of yoga, then switch gears to the type of equipment you need before getting started.   The benefits of practicing yoga Due to the variety of benefits offered by yoga, it can be challenging to summarize all of that in a shortlist. For this reason, we opted for the most established health benefits.   Stress management In one study, researchers concluded that yoga can...

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