Relaxation is crucial for maintaining overall health and well-being for several reasons. Entering into each day or each scenario with a true sense of relaxation can have significant effects on your body’s abilities to function at optimal levels.

Relaxation Reduces Stress Chronic stress can lead to a range of health issues, including anxiety, depression, heart disease and weakened immune function. Relaxation techniques help reduce stress levels, promoting better mental and physical health. There are myriad ways to achieve reduced stress.

To be Relaxed Improves Mental Health Relaxation can help alleviate symptoms of mental health conditions such as anxiety and depression. It promotes a sense of calm and well-being, enhancing emotional stability. To choose relaxation as a way of handling poor mental health is a step in a direction towards harnessing the power of your own body to help heal itself. 

Enhancing Physical Health with Relaxation Relaxation can lower blood pressure, improve digestion, reduce muscle tension and decrease the risk of stress-related illnesses. It also helps in managing chronic pain. Our minds and our bodies are interconnected. The health of one affects the health of the other. 

Boost Your Immune System when Relaxed Chronic stress can weaken the immune system, making the body more susceptible to infections and illnesses. Relaxation helps boost the immune system, improving the body’s ability to fight off diseases. Each person has access to the ability to boost their own body’s defenses. 

Relax Into Improved Sleep Relaxation techniques can improve sleep quality by reducing anxiety and promoting a sense of calm. Better sleep is essential for overall health and well-being. Even elite athletes prioritize deep, restorative sleep for optimal physical and mental performance.

Include Relaxation and Increase Productivity and Focus Taking breaks and relaxing can improve concentration, creativity and problem-solving skills. Relaxing helps the brain to function more efficiently, leading to increased productivity.

Enhance Relationships with Relaxation Being relaxed makes you more patient, understanding and better able to communicate effectively with others. This can improve personal and professional relationships. Relaxation allows you to approach a challenge with calm.

Relax for a Balanced Life Regular relaxation ensures a balance between work and leisure, preventing burnout and promoting a healthier lifestyle. When you are well, the work you do is done well.

Supports Emotional Regulation Relaxation helps in managing emotions better, leading to improved emotional resilience and the ability to cope with life’s challenges.

Relaxation can Foster Self-Awareness Relaxation practices like meditation and mindfulness increase self-awareness, helping individuals understand their thoughts, emotions and behaviors more clearly. This kind of self-awareness brings with it deep calm and understanding for self and others.

Learning how to manage stress is the best way to combat its negative symptoms. You can’t necessarily remove all stressors from your life. Instead, you can find ways to approach them in a healthier way. 

One way to enhance efforts to capture relaxation is to include essential oils in calming routines. Learn how to use essential oils for stress relief.

Aromatherapy Essential Oils for Stress Relief

Relaxation is essential for maintaining mental and physical well-being. Here are the top ten ways to relax and how to include Breatherapy aroma patches to enhance the effects of each practice:

1. Deep Breathing Exercises:
• Practicing deep breathing exercises, such as diaphragmatic breathing, can help reduce stress and promote relaxation. With our CALM patch, any stress can be lessened for you to fully experience the benefits of a breathing exercise. 
2. Meditation and Mindfulness:
• Engaging in meditation or mindfulness practices can calm the mind, reduce anxiety and improve overall emotional health. We have many essential oil patches that can help with deepening a meditation practice like PEACE.
3. Physical Activity:
• Regular exercise, such as yoga, walking or stretching, can help release endorphins and reduce stress levels. With our FORTIFY patch, the effects of exercise can be enhanced thanks to the powerful effects of essential oil aromatherapy.
4. Reading:
• Choosing our HARMONY patch when Reading a book or listening to an audiobook can be a great way to escape reality and unwind.
5. Listening to Music:
• Listening to calming music or your favorite tunes can have a soothing effect on your mind and body. BREATHE gives you the opportunity to open your lungs with Eucalyptus Radiata
6. Spending Time in Nature:
• Taking a walk in the park, hiking or simply sitting in a garden can help you feel more connected to nature and promote relaxation. When you include a HAPPINESS patch with essential oils of Lemon Eucalyptus and Pink Grapefruit, those nature baths become heightened experiences. 
7. Taking a Warm Bath:
• A warm bath with bath salts or bubbles can help relax your muscles and ease tension. Before bedtime, a bath followed by our SLEEP patch can create an ideal environment for deep sleep.
8. Practicing a Hobby:
• Engaging in a hobby you enjoy, such as painting, knitting or gardening, can be a great way to relax and take your mind off stressors. There are times when distractions can disrupt but with our FOCUS patch, since it was created for when you need to hone in on an activity, can help you focus.
9. Socializing:
• Spending time with friends or family, whether in person or virtually, can boost your mood and provide a sense of support and relaxation. Sometimes even socializing can bring different relationship stressors so we often recommend an ENERGY patch which was created to wake up your brain and body for engagement especially when caffeine is no longer an option.
10. Disconnecting from Technology:
• Taking a break from screens, such as your phone, computer or TV, can help reduce overstimulation and promote relaxation. GROUNDING may just be the perfect patch to add to this tech break. It includes the essential oils spike lavender, lime and spearmint.

One thing that can really help you relax is the soothing scents of aromatherapy essential oils. Lavender, in particular, helps combat stress, making it easier to relax fully at times. Wearing one of our LAVENDER patches throughout the day gives you hours of relief as you drive through heavy traffic, deal with an intense coworker, and find out at the last minute that your child has a big project due tomorrow.

There are plenty of things you can do to help relax throughout the day. Having a few aroma patches on hand to get you through the most problematic times at home, work and school is advisable. Because our patches are portable, you won’t have any trouble carrying them with you wherever you go and applying them directly to your skin or clothing near your nose.

Each patch lasts 6-8 hours at a time. That’s the length of a normal work shift or day at college. 

Breatherapy patches are like personal diffusers you can wear. We make it easy to inhale the healing effects of essential oils. In return, this elicits the relaxation response. The more you breathe in deeply throughout the day, the more your muscles relax and you can harness the power of what it means to take control of your health and wellness.