Easy 5 Stress-Fix Ayurveda Rituals

Easy 5 Stress-Fix Ayurveda Rituals

5 stress-fix rituals to unwind your mind and body

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When the hustle of life tip yours out of balance, it can affect your emotional and spiritual health. Through the therapeutic techniques of Ayurveda and the power of touch, breath, and essential aromas – proven to reduce stress – you can help restore balance every day, leaving a lasting impact on your life. Here are 5 easy rituals to get you started.

1) Just breathe

1-10 minutes

You can feel less stressed anytime, anywhere, by simply rolling an essential oil, such as lavender – a clinically proven relaxer – onto your inner wrists, bringing them to your nose, and breathing in the aroma. For deeper relaxation, do alternate nostril breathing:

• Roll some essential oil onto your wrist and place the index and middle finger of that same hand on the point between your eyebrows.
• Use your thumb to close your right nostril and inhale through your left.
• Use your ring finger to close your left nostril and exhale through your right.
• Inhale through your right nostril.
• Close your right nostril and exhale through your left.

Recommend Eden’s Garden French Lavender for a good essential oil to use:

Recommend good essential oil roller bottles for repeated use:

Repeat for 1-10 minutes.

2) Give your hands a break

1-2 minutes

To help release tightness caused by keyboarding and texting, smooth your favorite lotion on your hands and forearms, and use your thumb to massage the muscular area at the base of your other thumb.

• Press and hold any tense areas.
• Massage your inner forearm with your thumb from wrist to elbow.
• Press and hold any tense areas near your elbow-flex and extend your wrist while pressing to help reduce muscle tension.
• Repeat on your other hand and forearm.

This technique I have used since my days of playing concert piano during my teenage years and childhood. After straining a couple of tendons, doing this repeatedly helped bring circulation back to the damaged areas and regain full motor control of both my hands, so I highly encourage it!

3) Save your neck

1 minute

For every hour of sitting, do this for one minute and your body will thank you!

• Stand up and roll your favorite essential oil over the back of your neck.
• Inhale while lifting your chin up to the sky, and exhale dropping your chin to your chest.
• Inhale brining your head back to the center, and exhale turning your head to the left.
• Inhale bringing your head back to the center, and exhale dropping your right ear to your right shoulder.
• Inhale bringing your head back to center, and exhale dropping your left ear to your left shoulder.
• Inhale bringing your head back to center.

4) Treat your feet

5 minutes

Smooth some body lotion onto your foot and rotate the ankle 10 times in both directions.

• Use your thumb to massage the arch from heel to toe 3 times.
• Massage any tender areas with circular motions.
• Massage the pad of each toe with circular motions.
• Massage the outside of your arch with a gliding motion, and your sole in circular motions.
• Massage your heel using your knuckles.
• Stroke your foot from toe to ankle to promote circulation, and finish by pulling each toe gently.
• Do the same for your other foot.

5) Take sanctuary

20-30 minutes

Take a personal retreat from stress with 2 tablespoons of a bubble bath or sugar scrub and a warm bath.

• Lay back in the bath and place a cool, damp washcloth over your eyes.
• Focus on your breathing.
• Take deep breaths, expanding your diaphragm, and think of something you are grateful for or someone you love.
• Be aware of the way love feels in your body and your heart chakra – your body’s center of sympathy, compassion, and love – located in the center of your chest.
• Repeat the words “harmony and balance” to yourself, while you continue to relax and breathe deeply for a few minutes or more.

If you would like to learn more about Ayurveda techniques, here is a definitive guide I use. It is called The Ayurveda Bible: The Definitive Guide to Ayurvedic Healing. Used by many Reiki practitioners and Yogis alike, this book contains great information presented simplistically, and has wonderful pictures to go along with it as you read. Highly recommend!

Do you use Ayurveda in your daily life? What are your favorite techniques? Share with us and comment below!

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