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Two Effective Ways to De-Stress and Boost Your Mood

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Life today is unfortunately filled with stress and anxiety. With our busy schedules that have us running from work, to family to taking care of bills and home, we hardly have time to unwind and get our batteries recharged.

But unwinding is necessary because if we do not, we run the risk of debilitating heath issues that are well known and documented. For this reason we have little choice but to find ways to relax more.

That is why more than ever, we need to include things in our lives that assist us to create moments where we can back away from our responsibilities and get a break. Thankfully, there are many actions one can take that fit under this heading. We only have to be sure to do them regularly to get their greatest benefits. Here is a list of a few for you to consider, when you need a break.

A Steam Bath

Steam baths are popular all over the world for their wonderful health benefits. They utilize a steam generator in an enclosed shower to create hot and relaxing steam. In habitants can sit or stand and select how much steam they want in the steam bath.

Steam showers are in most fitness clubs where they are usually next to the regular showers, in higher end condominiums near their gym area.  You can also find steam baths for sale and installation in private homes. Steam bath sessions usually run for fifteen to thirty minutes followed by a cool shower. The benefits from using a steam shower include:

Improved Circulation: Steam showers produce a wet heat that widens the blood vessels throughout the body. This causes more blood flow to your organs and causes you to be healthier and feel refreshed.

Relieves Congestion: Many people suffer from allergies and all of us at one time or another get colds or stuffed up in our airways. Steam baths do a great job of dissolving mucus in your airways and allow you to breathe better.

Loosens Tight Muscles: After exercise and when you are stressed out, your muscles will contract. The damp and warm heat of a steam bath works to loosen tight muscles all over the body. You will feel better and have much better sleep following a session in a steam bath.

Swedish Massage

For thousands of year the benefits of massage have been well-known and appreciated. Around the world nearly every culture has their own style of massage, but each has the same effect, to use the hands to rub and knead the body relieving it of tight and stressed muscles.

One of the most popular and effective types of massage is Swedish massage. This is called a master massage, because it forms the basis for many other types of massage popular today. Swedish massage uses kneading, rolling, vibrational, percussive and tapping movements in a particular rhythm and speed to relax you and improve circulation.

It energizes the body by releasing toxins that have built up in the muscles, and stimulates circulation up to more than 4 times its normal rate. This fresh oxygenated blood flows into the muscles and increases vitality.

 

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