Essence of Essential Oils

Essential Oils contain the “essence of” the fragrance and characteristics of the plant from which it comes from. Popular uses for essential oils is in aromatherapy where the oils are diffused in the air, burned as incense, or used in massage. There seems to be an essential oil that can fulfill almost any need emotionally or physically.

I have several clients that suffer chronic allergy problems and migraines. I recommend a few essential oils and demonstrate how to apply the oils to help them get some relief.

Is Running Helping or Hurting You?

Running has numerous health benefits including prevention of high blood pressure, strengthens your immune system, and relieves stress.  However, we often don’t realize how delicate our body really is. Just like any exercise, if not done with knowledge and proper care it can cause injury instead of benefit. Here are a couple issues to be aware of when running:

Ever Wonder Why You Sweat?

Did you know that we have over 5 million sweat glands all over our body? We sweat for many different reasons such as anxiety, stress, physical activity, and illness. Anything that can cause a rise in your adrenaline can impact perspiration. Whether you are eating spicy foods or accidentally walked into a sliding glass door, your body is going to naturally react.

What’s the Difference between Hot and Cold

Pain is often treated by using hot or cold packs. I am asked all the time, which one is better for sore muscles or pain. Typically cold is used for acute pain on areas that are swollen. Heat is typically used for chronic pain and old injuries.

How Colors Impact Our Emotions

There are three types of colors, warm, cool and neutral. Each of these types of colors impact our emotions and how we feel. Colors can fuel certain feelings such as happy, sad, depressed, angry, etc. Types of colors can also have a physical impact on our body’s as well creating feelings of hunger, tired or anxious. Understanding how colors impact your world can help you when you need to relax or change your mood.

Are You Counting Your Hormones?

Hormones basically direct our body’s responses. Hormones control how we respond to food, stress, fear, etc. Hormones are the culprit that drive our food cravings, bloating, weight gain, mood swings and bad hair days.

Hormones impacts your weight because of the role it plays in controlling your metabolism.Hormones control our hunger, energy and cravings (HEC). A hormone imbalance impacts the feeling of being full.

What Exercise is Best for You?

Every day you hear pro’s and con’s of various types of workouts. Designing a fitness plan that works for you and does not put you at risk for injury is important when you want to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Remember when you were a kid and running, jumping and rolling around was just second nature? As we get older, physical activity becomes something that we know is important but sometimes we tend try and fit it into our schedule and easily find an excuse to skip it.

Developing a fitness plan should include some aerobic activity, strength training and improve your balance.