Tag: mental health

Emotions and Moods Stress and Anxiety • • • • • • • • • By liz 0 Comments

8 Stress Free Scents with Essential Oils

Aromatherapy for Stress and anxiety

Aromatherapy is one of the most pleasant ways to calm ourselves and feel better. It’s quick, fast and easy because our sense of smell triggers powerful physical and emotional responses.

Inhaling Essential oils for Stress

When an essential oil is inhaled your body responds by regulating heart rate, breathing patterns and blood pressure. Since chronic stress can suppress the immune system over time it’s beneficial to practice daily calming techniques and Essential oils is a pleasant option.

Use in your bath or shower, as a direct inhalation, hot water vapor, vaporizer or humidifier, fan, spray or with a diffuser.… Read the rest

Controlling Your Emotions
Anxiety and Depression Emotions Relationship Self Esteem Stress and Anxiety • • • • • • • • • • By liz 0 Comments

How to Control Emotions: Taming Your Inner Beast

Have you ever wondered how to control your emotions or tame your inner beast?

By that I mean the emotions that explode or creep up on you from out of nowhere. It could be anger, resentment, sadness or other feelings. Even love can feel out of control and scary at times. The important thing to know is Controlling emotions isn’t about pretending they’re not there. Often people say ‘let it go’ or ‘distract yourself’ in order to deal with overwhelming emotions.

A better first step is to, simply, name the emotion. But that is easier said than done 

 

The language of emotions is harder than you might think.    

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Image Bruce Lee who exemplifies Practice to make Perfect. Use that idea to make Practice become Happiness.
Emotions Goals • • • • • By liz 0 Comments

How to make happiness a practice and not about perfection

As Bruce Lee is quoted to say “I don’t fear the man that has practiced 10,000 kicks. I fear the man that has practiced 1 kick 10, 000 times”  

Well so it is with your relationships and in your personal life. How do we do anything well? We practice. This seems easy to believe when it’s an instrument or golf swing but what about if we’re wanting more Peace and Happiness? Does it apply? … Yes it does. 

Realistically you can say you’ve already been practicing some behaviours everyday. It’s our automatic, learned responses. If happiness isn’t a problem in your life leave well enough alone but if not then you could say you’ve been practicing the ‘wrong’ things. … Read the rest

A solitary man appears depressed.

What Is Complex PTSD?

<p>In order to understand Complex PTSD, let’s first talk about PTSD or Post- Traumatic Stress Disorder, which you have …

Intimacy between two adults.

EMPTY Intimacy: About More than Sex

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Authenticity is keeping it real.

The Authenticity Debate

<p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">“Authenticity” is an overused and often-debated term these days. We are told to …