| PARENTING PAGE ARTICLE: 5 Simple Ways To Relax By Terina McKinney |
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| 1. Connect with your friends. |
| • Our phone calls have become rushed succinct interactions during our commuting frenzies. Catching up with friends has been reduced to email's and playing voice mail tag. Take the time to curl up in a comfy spot and call you best home girl. You’ll laugh, reminisce, and release feel-good endorphins that’ll relax you and make you feel good all over. 2. Express yourself. |
| • Tough day at work has got you clenching your fist? Traffic jams, family drama, financial stress, accidents of all sorts: Life happens. Don’t hold in your emotions. Nothing adds wrinkles to your doll face and tension to your sacred body like pent up frustrations. Write a journal, sing a song, or turn up the music and ROCK OUT! Sketch, paint, bead, crochet, sew, bake, sculpt, decorate, dance! Turn negative energy into positive energy through self expression. 3. Pamper yourself. |
| • Don’t deny yourself the maintenance and pleasure your mind, body, and spirit deserve. You’ve earned that pedicure after kicking butt all week at work. Pencil a spa date in your schedule just like you manage to make time for everyone else in your life. If money is an issue, there is still no excuse. Home spa treatments that turn your bathroom into an hydrotherapy chamber make self-pampering a breeze. Bathe, exfoliate, and massage your beautiful self with natural elements that heal through aromatherapy and nourishing ingredients. 4. Sit quietly. |
| • Reduce your fears and worries by taking a moment to catch your breathe. Meditate, clear your mind of clutter, and lighten your heart. We must get a hold of the madness racing through our minds before we self-destruct. Slowing down gives us a chance to see past our current situation and envision the big picture allowing us to gain perspective and sort through our options. You can do this while taking a nature walk or finding a quiet place to sit and reflect. Breathe deeply and let it go. 5. Exercise. |
| • We all know the many benefits of exercising. Nothing will keep you looking and feeling more alive, fit, and energetic while providing an amazing self confidence boost like working out. But while you are strengthening your body and increasing your energy, you are simultaneously relaxing the mind. You aren’t stressing about deadlines while counting reps. It’s all about you! Get moving, it’s a win-win situation! |
| Terina Nicole McKinney is the founder and President of Innerglo home spa products www.innerglo.com. Innerglo home spa products was developed to assist in transforming the ordinary bathroom into a sacred space, an enhanced space for hydrotherapy; relaxation; rejuvenation and body beautification. Each item is 100% natural and hand-crafted from Mother Nature's finest therapeutic-grade essential oils, clays, herbs, and other elements of the Earth to provide the purest product and most luxurious bathing experience. |