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Stress Reduction Techniques – Music Therapy

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Music influences the respiratory rate, blood pressure, stomach contractions and hormone levels. The heart rate speeds up or slows down so that is synchronized with music rhythms. We also know that music can alter the electrical rhythms of the brain.

If you close your eyes for a minute and listen to the world around listening horns, hammers, raindrops, children laughing, a symphony orchestra, and so on. Music therapy holds that what one hears may affect health positively or negatively. Sound can be a great healer.

Music therapists use sound to help with a wide variety of medical problems ranging from Alzheimer’s disease to the toothache. Medical doctors know about the power of sound. The researchers have produced evidence of the ability of music to reduce pain, improve memory and reduce stress.

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Stress Reduction Techniques – Massage

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

When our muscles are tense or have been subjected to too much effort to collect waste substances that cause pain, stiffness and even muscle spasms. By increasing circulation to and from the muscles, massage accelerates the elimination of these toxic substances and harmful. At the same time, massage makes you get fresh blood and oxygen to the tissues thus lightens the recovery process of injuries and numerous diseases.

But this is only the beginning. Since the last fifteen years has accumulated a wealth of evidence showing that massage has an impressive array of benefits for the health of our body and mind. This even in areas that many did not even suspect. Here:

The health of our body depends on the health of our cells. The cells in turn rely on an abundant flow of blood and lymph. Massage improves blood circulation and lymph flow. This helps carry nutrients to cells and remove impurities and toxic substances.

Massage also increases the ability of blood to carry oxygen. In fact we know that massage helps increase red blood cells and white blood. (more…)

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Stress Reduction Techniques – Hug Therapy

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

It seems incredible that it can cure everything, make, improve and prevent a simple, loving hug.

It is proven that physical contact, far beyond the sexual content, has healing powers and broadens our emotional well being.

When we touched and embraced a spirit of solidarity and happy life we reaffirm our senses and trust our own feelings.

It is also a way to express our feelings beyond words. It is the universal language of hugging. Not only must we use language we must also use the intuitive wisdom, without words, and listen with your heart. Thus we perceive the deeper meaning of the mystery we call love.

Hugs, besides making us feel good, are used to relieve pain, depression and anxiety. Cause positive physiological changes in who plays and who is touched. It increases the desire to live for the sick. It is well known all four hugs a day are necessary for survival, eight for twelve to stay and grow as people. (more…)

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Stress Reduction Techniques – Breathing

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

A proper control of our breathing is one of the simplest strategies to cope with stressful situations and handle increases in physiological arousal caused by these.

Correct breathing habits are very important because they provide the body with enough oxygen to our brain. The current pace of life encourages incomplete breath does not use the full capacity of the lungs.

The aim of breathing techniques is to facilitate the voluntary control of respiration and automate it so it can be kept in stressful situations.

Let’s move on to a series of breathing exercises.

BREATHING EXERCISES

Exercise 1: Inspiration abdominal

The objective of this exercise is that the person to run the inspired air to the bottom of the lungs. This is due to put a hand on her belly and another on the stomach. In the exercise must perceive breathing movement in the hand placed in the womb, but not placed on the stomach.

It may seem difficult, but is a technique that is controlled at about 15-20 minutes. (more…)

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Stress Reduction Techniques – Hypnotherapy (Hypnosis & Psychotherapy)

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

Hypnosis is term applied to a single complex form of unusual behavior, but normal, which can probably be induced in any normal person under suitable conditions and for people who suffer from different types of abnormalities. It is primarily a special psychological state with certain psychological attributes that make it similar to physiological sleep but only superficially, and characterized by an individual’s functioning at a level of realizing called, for convenience in conceptualizing, perceiving unconscious or subconscious.

When the subject is hypnotized, or hypnotic trance, you may think, act and behave so well, often better, as can be done in the awake common psychological state, this being possible by the intensity of his attention to the task and distraction free. There is , as is commonly believed, without decision-making or under the will of the hypnotist. The relationship between the hypnotist and the subject is rather interpersonal cooperation, based on reasonable mutually acceptable.

Therefore, the subject can not be forced to do things against his wish, but can be helped to achieve the goals you want. The failures in hypnotic therapy patients reveal limitations of hypnosis to achieve goals that are even desired by the person, and the most extensive and reliable experimental studies debunk the possibility of using hypnosis for antisocial purposes.

Hypnosis and trance are normal experiences that can develop naturally during periods of introspection. No need for mysterious manipulations of the subjects. One really does not control subjects in hypnosis, rather provides them with incentives and opportunities for domestic absorption which sometimes leads to recognizably different states of consciousness. (more…)

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Stress Reduction Techniques – Aromatherapy

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

It is an ancient Oriental technique which effect is to relax.

It involves using herbal oils and other aromatic plants applied to the body, achieve relaxation or relief of pain or disorder.

The oils are extracted from leaves, flowers, roots, seeds, fruits, bark and resin of various plants and diluted in water or unscented oil such as jojoba.

These solutions can be applied to the skin with a relaxing massage, inhale as steam or smoke from aromatic candles, added in the form of bubbles or oils in bath water or used in compresses that are applied in certain parts of the body .

Aromatherapy is one of many relaxing massages and treatments that ultimately reductive offered in spa services. (more…)

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