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Articles about journal therapy (0-50 of 348)
- Herpes Antiviral Therapy History
By: bcured | - Herpes support groups have been formed in the United States and the UK, providing information about herpes and running message forums and dating websites for sufferers. Some people experience negative feelings related to the condition following diagnosis, particularly if they have acquired the genital form of the disease.
Feelings can include depression, fear of rejection, feelings of isolation, fear of being found out, self-destructive feelings, and fear of masturbation. People with the h ...
Tags: HSV, antiviral therapy, prognosis, resistant, prevention, di
- Acupuncture Weight Loss Study. How Does It Work?
By: Marina Kim | - Acupuncture weight loss is one of the more effective methods that help individuals with excess weight to reduce their body fat successfully. This growing interest in acupuncture as weight loss therapy has come to the attention of researchers with the result that some of these studies have been reported in the International Journal of Obesity. One such study involving acupuncture for weight loss therapy looked at 3,013 different cases which involved overweight people utilizing acupuncture as a to ...
Tags: Acupuncture weight loss, weight loss therapy, losing weight
- Control Your Anger With Anger Management Techniques
By: Julie Landry | - On the physical level, anger brings about changes to body processes. Heartbeat speeds up and blood pressure rises as adrenaline surges through the system.
Part of the definition of anger is that it inflates the negative qualities of a person or situation you feel anger towards. Things seem worse than they are, triggering a fight or flight reaction. This exaggeration contributes to the instability of your mental state.
After the first initial response you must take a break. ...
Tags: anger management tips, anger management, anger management therapy
- Journal Writing Secrets - 5 Steps To Start Journaling For The Health Of It
By: Mari McCarthy | - For most of us, theres a lot more going on inside our minds and bodies than we let on. We may carry ourselves with the utmost confidence,when in reality we feel like a mess. Theres a lot we havent processed,perhaps because we dont know how or simply dont want to.
When we bottle up negative thoughts and feelings for too long, we get sick. This negativity may manifest itself in something as minor as a common cold, or even in something as serious as a chronic illness.
Tags: journal writing, journal therapy, writing, writing therapy, writer's block
- Journal Writing Secrets - 8 Ways To Use A Journal To Defeat Writer's Block
By: Mari McCarthy | - Writer's block is an annoying and often persistent condition that impacts all writers: and that means everyone, because everyone is a writer!
A writer's block episode is a temporary situation, but we prolong the agony when we allow ourselves to be overwhelmed by it rather than meeting, managing, and mastering this challenge.
You may know all too well that feeling of being shut down, not knowing what to write about or how to write it. But it's actually an opportunity to ...
Tags: journal writing, journal therapy, therapeutic writing
- Discover The Benefits Of Daily Journaling
By: Wee Dilts | - Introduction
The word journal comes from the French jour which means day. Journaling each day is having a visit with your best friend, you.
This ancient practice dates back to the 10th century Japan. Successful people throughout history have kept journals.
Journaling has a positive impact on your well being. James Pennebaker, researcher, states that writing strengthens the immune system and decreases symptoms of asthma and arthritis. He also states that writing about s ...
Tags: Journaling, Journaling ideas, journal writing, personal journal, keeping a journal, how to journal, writing a journal, life journal, spiritual journal
- Why You Should Make Journal Therapy A Part Of Your Life
By: Sue LaCopine | - Journal therapy is being used more and more often by doctors to help patients recover from many different medical conditions. By having the patient keep a daily journal of their thoughts and activities, this allows the doctor the opportunity to find any underlying issues that may contribute to the current condition. This can help with prescribing the correct medications or other therapies that might be necessary to allow the patient to live a normal life.
This type of therapy is als ...
Tags: journal writing, journal therapy, writing, writing therapy, writer's block
- Regular Massage Helps Reduce Frequency, Intensity Of Chronic Tension-type Headaches
By: Brandon J. Thomas | - Throbbing pain. Vice-like pinching. Pressure. Tension. There are many ways to describe a headache and recent research has shown headaches to be more than just a mere annoyance. Headaches are, well, a major headache for the United States where 157 million workdays accounting for almost $13 billion!! are lost each year due to missed work caused by headaches. Fortunately, recent research has also shown that regular massage therapy can help ease the intensity, duration, and number of tension-type ...
Tags: massage therapy, headaches, massage, chronic pain
- Art Therapy: A Form Of Anger Management
By: Bianca Tora | - Art therapy has long been seen as a form of therapeutic process for emotional disorders and anxiety. Van Gogh kept some of his demons at bay through art. More recently, therapists have reported a high success rate with the use of creative expression to deal with anger, depression and pain.
Take for example Carla P., who was saved from her 15 year severe depression by art therapy. She claimed that taking creative expression sessions saved her life. Although medication provided some ...
Tags: art therapy, anger management, anger management class, anger in children, van gogh
- Art Therapy: Healing The Heart
By: Bianca Tora | - We know that art therapy can help children with anger, stress and depression. Do you know that it can also help children with heart disease?
One such patient is an 18 year old girl profiled in the July 1 2009 issue of the Wall Street Journal. At age 9, she had her second heart transplant. Her body was determined to reject the first heart. She went into cardiac arrest six times in 2 hours. She recalled being "awake" when the doctors were frantically trying to revive her.
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Tags: art therapy, heart disease, depression, music therapy, Washington University School of Medicine
- Why The Bluemd Device Is The Best For Acne Treatment
By: Allen Anderson | - Blue light treatment is an FDA approved photo-dynamic procedural alternative for acne treatment. It is light of wavelength between 400-490 nm (the FDA approves 405-420 nm for general treatment of acne conditions) and therefore belongs to the blue segment of the natural light spectrum. The light itself reacts with Porphyrins in the acne bacteria (P. acnes bacteria), which readily absorbs the energy, destroying the bacteria as it does so. There is no requirement for topical or ingestible medicatio ...
Tags: light therapy, blue light therapy, light therapy products,
- Bharatbook.com : Monoclonal Antibodies - A Core Part Of The Biotech Market
By: bharat book bureau | - Monoclonal Antibodies in Cancer Therapy Report ( http://www.bharatbook.com/Market-Research-Reports/Monoclonal-Antibodies-in-Cancer-Therapy.html ) based therapies for cancer are a thriving part of the biotechnology sector, as our new market report . The oncology market continues to expand worldwide, with high demand for more-efficacious and better-tolerated cancer therapies. The monoclonal antibodies oncology market has been growing at a significant rate and holds high potential for continued gr ...
Tags: Antibodies, Cancer, Therapy, pharmaceutical & healthcare
- The Benefits Of Medical Hydrotherapy - A Miracle Cure For Seniors? - Part Ii
By: George Bentley | - Treating common Ailments with Hydrotherapy
The four most popular types of ailments people use hydrotherapy to treat are: arthritis, lower back pain, insomnia and diabetes.
Benefits of Hydrotherapy for Arthritis
One in six Americans has some type of arthritis. Its a fairly common disease that affects our joints, and it usually progresses as we age. Generally, joints swell and become painful and sometimes hard to move, especially after heavy or ...
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- Side Effects Of Proton Therapy For Prostate Cancer
By: M. Goz | - Radiation is frequently used as the primary treatment for low-grade cancer that has not spread outside the prostate gland, or has spread only to nearby tissue. It can also be used if the cancer was not completely removed or comes back after surgery. Progression-free survival for men treated with radiation is comparable to men who undergo surgery. If the cancer is more advanced, radiation may be used to shrink the tumor and provide pain relief. This article is dedicated to a discussion of Proton ...
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- Proton Therapy For Prostate Cancer
By: M. Goz | - Radiation is frequently utilized as the first treatment for low-grade cancer that has not spread beyond the prostate gland, or has spread only to nearby tissue. It is also sometimes used if the cancer was not completely removed or comes back after surgery. Progression-free survival for men treated with radiation is comparable to men having surgery. When the cancer is more advanced, radiation may be used to shrink the tumor and provide pain relief. This article is dedicated to a discussion of Pr ...
Tags: proton therapy, proton surgery, proton ratiation treatment for prostate cancer, proton therapy for prostate cancer
- With The Odds Of Getting Cancer At 41% The Best Defence Is To Be Informed
By: Bruce Goodsir | - The July 29, 2008 issue of USA Today declares "Hollywood has had it with cancer." This is in relation to reports that celebrities have vowed to conquer cancer.
There has been a growing occurrence of cancer among celebrities and high profile public figures, such as in the recent cases of Patrick Swayze, Cristina Applegate, Sheryl Crow, Melissa Etheridge, Farrah Fawcett,Ted Kennedy, Kylie Minogue, Rudy Giuliani, and Lance Armstrong,who are but a few of those affected.
Tags: cancer, cancer cure, cancer treatment, cancer therapy, alternative medicine, natural cures,
- Thailand Stem Cell Therapy Gets An Explosive Boost With New Discovery
By: Gregory Smyth | - Since researchers first named and realized the potential of stem cells for adult stem cell cures, they have been trying to understand what makes them tick. While the body of knowledge has built significantly over the last decade or more, the actually molecular processes remain largely unknown. There have been discoveries regarding the makeup of human adult stem cells as well as embryonic ones at a steady rate - we look at the history of how scientists have tried to understand cell therapy, inclu ...
Tags: breast surgery Thailand, breast reconstruction Thailand, diabetes stem cell therapy
- The Importance Of Adult Stem Cells In Leukemia Cures
By: Gregory Smyth | - Leukemia is one of the more prevalent types of cancers, and is especially heartbreaking because it occurs so often in children. It is estimated that it the US alone, around 30,000 people per year are diagnosed with the disease, and of those already diagnosed, around two thirds die every year. Adult stem cell cures have enjoyed much more focus in research and popularity in recent years, and scientists may now have found a new way to protect the body's own human adult stem cells. Current treatment ...
Tags: breast surgery Thailand, breast reconstruction Thailand, diabetes stem cell therapy
- Multiple Sclerosis And Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
By: Paul Fitzgerald | - First of all, it must be understood that hyperbaric oxygen therapy is not a cure for Multiple Sclerosis. You probably already know there is no cure. The usefulness of hyperbaric therapy is to stabilize the patient's condition and improve their quality of life.
Many people suffering from MS report improvements in their overall symptoms and their functional abilities after hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Patients have reported improvements in their ataxia, numbness in their fingers and h ...
Tags: hyperbaric oxygen chamber therapy, muscular dystrophy. autism hyperbarics, cosmetic surgery
- Stroke, Traumatic Brain Injury And Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
By: Paul Fitzgerald | - My husband suffered strokes in August 2006 that resulted in total loss of short-term memory, slurred speech, and difficulty walking. The doctors said he may never recover, and if he did it would take at least two years. Now, after only two months of hyperbaric therapy his memory is back, and his speech and walking are normal. His energy has improved.
Conditions that harm the brain have a wide reach. Whether from a stroke (vascular accident) or a traumatic brain injury, the results ...
Tags: hyperbaric oxygen chamber therapy, muscular dystrophy. autism hyperbarics, cosmetic surgery
- Chronic Pain "cocktail"
By: RayHeyHeyHey | - Sometimes the coventional medical system fails to provide a diagnosis or treatment for a pain that can relentlessly take over your life. Neurological, laboratory tests, pelvic exams, ultrasounds, and the like all come back negative and your primary care doctors can seem at a loss. Typically, neither your primary care doctor nor the various specialists can come up with a viable organic reason for your pain and you keep hoping that some wise, all knowing person will appear to help you figure out w ...
Tags: pain, pain relief, chronic pain, chronic pain relief, pain products, pain therapy, pain treatment, pain killers
- The Questionable Issue Over Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (adhd) And The Controlling Of Y
By: Hoe Bing | - As you start reading the beginning of this article you find yourself amazed when you learn the truth that there is no proof that attention deficit hyperactivity disorder - (ADHD) exists at all.
You don't realize it yet, but at the conclusion of this report, you will feel that there is a real dificiency in our medical knowledge about this mysterious mental illness.
Imagine for a what it would be like if you were told without a shadow of a doubt that attention deficit dis ...
Tags: do children with adhd do poorly on iq tests, educating child with add adhd, medicating children adhd add, behavior therapy for children with adhd in n
- Gene Therapy To Restore And Improve Vision
By: Jay B Stockman | - Reduced vision, or even blindness my exist for an individual for a number of reasons. Treatment will depend on what the cause is, and how effective the treatment will be. Conventional, non invasive treatment has always been eye glasses, or contact lenses to correct visual problems. Over time, improved eye glass lenses and contacts have evolved that reduce glare, eliminate unwanted wavelengths of light, improve depth perception, and address many environmental issues.
More recently, ...
Tags: gene therapy, macular degeneration, myopia, eye glasses, contact lenses, Avastin, Lebers Congenital Amaurosis
- American Music Therapy Association
By: Cornel Tanady | - In creating validity for music therapy, the American Music Therapy Association has quite a job ahead of them. While this organization is comprised of over five thousand licensed and practicing music therapists, getting the word out to the community as a whole has not necessarily been an easy process. But the American Music Therapy Association is doing its part to help let others know the value of music therapy for those patients who may not be responding to conventional therapies.
The mai ...
Tags: Music Therapy, alternative medicines, health, yoga, meditation
- Top 7 Tips To Treat Eye Conditions Using Vision Therapy
By: Raymond Lee Geok Seng | - Unfortunately, few people have ever heard of vision therapy. It is the best kept secret in eye care. The few people who know anything about it think it is the Bates Method. But Bates is outdated. This method only focus on the eye muscles. Today, we know, in addition, vision therapy works by retraining the way the brain processes visual imagery. It is more like visual biofeedback than vision callisthenics. Using today's methods, we get better, more permanent results than Bates did. Today ...
Tags: Vision therapy, eyes
- Magnetic Bracelets And Their Contribution To Pain Relief From Osteoarthritis
By: Mel Epstein | - Can magnetic bracelets play a significant role in helping to reduce pain from Osteoarthritis?
There is a growing body of evidence to say yes.
Osteoarthritis What Is It?
Osteoarthritis is a commonly described as the wear and tear disease. It is a widespread degenerative disorder of joints characterized by loss of articular cartilage with thickening (sclerosis) of underlying bone. Some areas of bone may become porous with formation of bone cysts ...
Tags: magnetic bracelets, magnetic therapy, magnetic jewellery, magnetic jewelry
- Break The Habit: Stop Smoking Journal
By: Mike Krantock | - Some individuals prefer to do automotive repairs themselves. This saves you a lot of money if you are mechanically inclined and have the proper tools. Over time the cost of the tools pay for themselves and can be a great investment. Of course you would not want to tackle any kind of repairs if you did not have the proper tools.
This example is just the same as the task of quitting smoking. Surely, when it comes to the decision to stop smoking, you are making a choice to repair ...
Tags: stop smoking, quit smoking, smoking cessation, Nicocure, Avprin, ZeroNicotine, Chantix, Zyban, Hypnosis, Nicotine Replacement Therapy, Laser Therapy, Cold Turkey
- Urine Therapy And Miracle Cures
By: Patrick Hamouy | - Last year, whilst on holiday in the Philippines, one of the ladies who was staying at the hotel got stung by a Jelly fish. A swelling immediately appeared on her leg and she cried from the pain. As she seemed powerless, I approached her and suggested that she pee'ed on it. She did not seem too enthusiastic about it and claimed that she had just been to the toilet and did not feel like peeing any more. I suggested her partner pee'ed on it. Both started looking at me in a funny way and declined. S ...
Tags: urine therapy, cures, therapy, jelly fish, sting, skin, sore throat, hair loss, cuts, bruises, digestive problems, eye or ear problems, headaches, mig
- Natural Therapy For Maintaining Healthy Blood Pressure Part 2
By: Arthor Pens | - One of the more common treatments for high blood pressure are ACE inhibitors. When your kidneys detect low blood pressure, they release an enzyme called renin, which stimulates the formation of a protein called angiotensin I. Angiotensin I is then converted by the angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) in the lungs to a very potent chemical called angiotensin II. Angiotensin II is a powerful blood vessel constrictor that causes muscles surrounding the blood vessels to contract, resulting in narrowi ...
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- Music Therapy │ The Healing Power Of Music
By: John McIntosh | - We've long known that music can soothe the savage beast, but we now know that it also helps heal the ravaged body. When people who are ill are surrounded by the healing arts such as musicas well as painting, architecture and theaterthey feel less pain and recover more quickly.
Anecdotal evidence from doctors and patients about these benefits is nothing new, but recently the palliative effects of exposure to art during recovery have been carefully studied. As a result, more a ...
Tags: music therapy, patient care, art therapy, palliative care, healing arts, patient recovery, hospital, arts
- The Yoga Journal Gives The Complete Lowdown On Yoga
By: Ann Marier | - If ever there is need to get all your yoga information in one place, the first magazine you should look for is Yoga Journal. It has tons of information about yoga poses, practice, health, wisdom, meditation, views and much more. As you will gather, this magazine provides readers with all the information, expert advice as well as blogs that relate to different aspects of yoga.
Help to Get Started
You can visit the website and check out for yourself if Yoga Journal of ...
Tags: yoga, yoga chair, hatha yoga, yoga journal, bikram yoga, dahn yoga, beginners yoga,
- 10 Ways To Use Articles To Attract Clients
By: Linda Puig | - While it may be true that a picture speaks a thousand words, the written word has a power all its own. Seeing something in print tends to make it more credible-especially if it's speaking to an issue that is present in the reader's life-and it helps establish the author as an expert.
For these reasons, articles are extremely valuable marketing tools when building and maintaining a private practice, whether you're a coach, consultant, psychotherapist, attorney, massage therapist, o ...
Tags: coach, coaches, coaching, therapist, therapists, therapy, articles, article writing, article marketing, marketing, attracting clients
- Is Hormone Replacement Therapy Cancerous Or Great For Wrinlkes
By: Naweko Nicole Dial | - Would you like to see a cat fight? Just ask two cancer researchers whether hormone replacement therapy (HRT) causes cancer. This question certainly provoked several arguments in the medical community this week. The first feud started once a report in the New England Journal of Medicine linked the decline in breast cancer rates in 2003 to reduced usage of hormone replacement therapy.
After that announcement, the International Menopause Society (IMS) attacked the report's credibilit ...
Tags: wrinkles, anti aging, hormone replacement therapy, hormones, estrogen, natural estrogen, natural anti aging, estrogen cancer, cancer, estrogen, wrinkl
- Cbt And Nlp For Agoraphobia
By: Karen Hastings, Hertfordshire | - Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is considered to be extremely effective in helping people to overcome panic disorders, and this can usually be achieved within 8 sessions. I use CBT at my practice in Hertfordshire and have found it very useful in treating agoraphobia, particularly when used in conjunction with a newer cognitive therapy, Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP). This article details some of the ways in which CBT and NLP are used during NLP Herts to help clients achieve freedom from ...
Tags: agoraphobia, panic disorder, panic attacks, panic, fear of going out, CBT Therapy, NLP, Herts
- Common Sense Methods For Beating Depression
By: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes | - Depression can feel overpowering at times. Medication can help, but it certainly does not do everything. So what else can you do? I suggest the following interventions to many of my patients. Try adding one or two at a time to see what helps.
Environment
Most of us just feel better if we are in an environment that is clean, organized and pleasing to the eye. Try to keep your main living areas tidy. If you are like me and have a husband, children and pets, that is no ...
Tags: counseling, self-help, depression, self improvement, color therapy
- What's In Your Coping Toolbox?
By: Karen Hastings, Hertfordshire | - Life consistently presents us with challenges and changes and at times this can lead to us feeling stressed. Planning how to manage and cope in various life situations, and finding out which coping skills work best for you, is the key to succeeding with stress rather then experiencing distress. When clients come to see me for NLP and CBT therapy in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, it is a big part of therapy that they develop and become confident in employing coping skills. This article contains ...
Tags: Life-coaching, coping skills, emotional distress, NLP therapy, CBT therapy, occupational therapy.
- Beating The "winter Blues"
By: Karen Fusco | - Come January, when the euphoria of the holidays has faded and the days are short, a sense of melancholy is pervasive among northerners. Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), commonly referred to as the "winter blues," is marked by feelings of lethargy, depression, lack of appetite and lack of desire to have sex.
It may surprise you to learn that sunlight deprivation can cause all of these symptoms and more. Though not often taken seriously, perhaps because it is perceived as temporar ...
Tags: SAD, seasonal affective disorder, winter blues, sunlight deprivation, depression, serotonin, vitamin d, sunlight, light bow therapy, light box, endorph
- Try Colon Therapy For Improved Health
By: Lee Dobbins | - Keeping your large intestines healthy is important in maintaining one's overall health. Remember that the large intestines play a vital role in the disposal of waste from the body.
And to keep the intestines healthy, it is important to eat food rich in fiber and phytochemicals. In addition, obesity, smoking and excessive drinking must be avoided.
Aside from these preventive measures, colon therapy is another option in maintaining the health of the intestines. Colon ...
Tags: colon, colon cleansing, colon hydrotherapy, colon therapy, colonics, alternative medicine
- Enjoy Exotic Tastes In Your Everyday Cooking With The Power Of Aromatherapy
By: Stacy Richford | - Anyone who is at least a beginner when it comes to cooking in the kitchen has more then likely already incorporated many of the elements of aromatherapy into some the dishes they have created. Making use of various ingredients such as infused oils and flavored butters can add a incredible amount of depth in flavor to the meals you cook. When you use these types of ingredients you cause your smell receptors to burst with activity and come alive from a flood of tantalizing aromatic sensations.
Tags: Essential Oils, Aromatherapy, Cooking, Health, Oils, Aroma therapy, Essential
- Music & Emotions: Can Music Really Make You A Happier Person?
By: Duane Shinn | - How many times have you turned to music to uplift you even further in happy times, or sought the comfort of music when melancholy strikes?
Music affects us all. But only in recent times have scientists sought to explain and quantify the way music impacts us at an emotional level. Researching the links between melody and the mind indicates that listening to and playing music actually can alter how our brains, and therefore our bodies, function.
It seems that the heal ...
Tags: music, emotions, music therapy
- How To Use Aromatherapy To Keep Your Home Clean And Smelling Fresh
By: Stacy Richford | - If your going to clean your home, why not make the most of it and reap the benefits of aromatherapy while you clean! As many of us have noticed when we tackle our household chores, the smell from the chemicals of many products can be pretty overwhelming, and if we use them without decent ventilation we may end up making ourselves sick.
Would it not be a great change if when we did our household chores that we would end up invigorated instead of feeling tired and drained? Well the ...
Tags: Essential Oils, Aromatherapy, Incense, Health, Oils, Skin, Hair, Aroma therapy, Essential
- Eguchi Toshihiro And Palm Healing Part 1
By: Bronwen Stiene | - There has been a great deal of interest in the history of the system of Reiki in recent years. This interest has occasionally hit brick walls and impasses and has not been unlike piecing together an historical jigsaw puzzle. There are pieces of information that people have been sitting on and then there are those pieces that remain unturned. Naturally, there will also be missing pieces to this puzzle, ones that have fallen through the cracks or been swept away never to return.
On ...
Tags: reiki, healing, meditation, spirituality, alternative therapy. complementary therapy
- The Power Of Life Journaling
By: Tristan Loo | - I am a firm believer that there is no greater self-help or self-exploration tool than a journal. Thats righta simple blank book and a pen can help you manifest millions of dollars. It can help you identify goals. It can ease emotional pain or grief. It can transport you back in time. The journal is a physical manifestation of the contents within your own mind and heart. In this article, I am going to list some basic techniques and guidelines to follow when journaling.
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Tags: life journaling, journals, journal therapy, goals, goal setting, empowerment, life coaching, tristan
- Creative Uses For Aromatherapy
By: Francesca Black | - Copyright 2006 Francesca Black
The Chinese, Egyptians, Greeks and Romans all recognized the therapeutic properties of essential oils and plant extracts. The use of plant oils can be traced back over 6000 years. Individuals in many cultures believed that scent inspires the imagination and frees the spirit. In modern society many individuals are finding innovative ways to incorporate aromatic scents into their daily lives, to elicit feelings of relaxation and contentment.
Tags: aromatherapy, aroma therapy, aroma, aromatic, health, heal, oils, essential oils, holistic, organic, plants, scent, scents, relax, relaxation, skin ca
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