Spa-goers visiting the spa for the first time often need to know what is expected of them as they prepare for their spa experience. As the spa strives to provide the client with a tranquil and safe environment so too the spa-goer has certain expectations placed upon them.
Laser hair removal is the trendiest solution for removing unwanted hair that grows in some parts of our body. However, hair removal is not guaranteed for everyone. There are some things to consider before undergoing such treatment.
First and most importantly, go to a professional hair stylist. Let them give you a professional opinion on cut, style and maintenance. They will take your body, face, hair color, skin tone, etc… all into account and come up with a hairstyle, color and cut that will best suit you. The difference of before and after is usually night and day. Rarely do any of us have a great style and cut that fits us best.
Home Spa Treatment for Hair
Molasses Honey Hair Help – hydrates and deeply nourishes locks. Great for dry, winter months . Don’t forget a glass of wine or cup of tea and some relaxing music. Combine this hair treatment with one of the body treatments below.
1/4 cup molasses
1 tablespoon honey
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 tablespoon castor oil
Mobile spa
Fast gaining popularity, mobile spas are ‘come home’ spas. They offer their services at a venue of your convenience and are a great way to enjoy a relaxing massage I the comfort of your home. Alternatively, you can treat yourself and a group of friends to the luxury of a spa treatment.
If your hair and skin feel dry, give them a little extra attention with a hair mask and a salt or sugar scrub for your skin. Since things can get a little mess with those, grab your CD or mp3 player with some summer music and head for the bathroom. Apply the salt scrub while you are standing in the shower and rinse off when you are done.
Use a combination of coarse sugar granules and mineral oil to massage away dry, roughness on hands and feet. Wash hair and face, and relax with soothing music and good conversation. Give pedicures and even manicures, if you are up to the challenge, get the door when the massage therapist arrives, and follow up with herbal bath soaks. Use Lavender essential oil and float lavender or rose petals on the top, add scented candles and warm, fluffy towels.
Drain the water and fill the tub again with fresh water. Add essential oils according to your choice of fragrance. For the effect of a real spa, you can sprinkle some rose petals in the water. Massage the scalp with your choice of oil according to your skin type. After the soak, wipe the body with a soft towel and moisturize with a good body lotion. For the face, apply a toner according to your skin type and moisturize it.
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Hair Spa Treatment
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Nov 10
How Certain Kinds of Music Can Relax Your Mind And Body
Music is a known stress reliever, but not all has the same effect. I love music, I grew up with it all my life, but like most people certain types of music just don’t do it for me. For an example classical music, for some people this is very relaxing, but for me it makes my blood pressure go sky high, same for Opera. As a kid my parents listened to Country and the golden oldies, so that is the type of music I grew up with. Country, you have to watch out for because scientific studies show that country music can cause depression, or make you depressed. So as you can see music can effect people differently.
Today we live in stressful times, and it seems it’s going to be like this for a while. People losing their jobs, homes, and even families, because of the economy. Stress can cause a lot of health problems, anxiety, depression, heart problems, the list can go on and on. I know because it happened to me and I had trouble with eating and sleeping, I just could not relax, my mind was going a hundred miles an hour. It was a bad time in my life, but a friend of mine, who also went threw some tough times almost the same as mine, gave me a web site that was given to him by his sister, and told me to try it out, so I did and wow! It really worked, it was a type of music that is scientifically designed using Binaural Beats incorporated in the music to help you relax. They have like 60 different types of music depending on what you need, they have one for relaxation, anxiety, stress, even weight loss.
The site is great it explains how the music works, and you can easily download it to your computer or your MP3 player. They also, if you want to try it out first, they give you a ten minute sample of the music that you can download for free, that’s how I started out, and it was well worth it because I downloaded several, It’s great, and I feel ten times better. When listening to this music you may want to find a quiet place with no distractions to get the best effects. I’m writing this article because my friend helped me out, and if I can help just one person to be more relaxed, and in a better state of mind then it will be well worth it. For more information on this site see link bellow.
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Aug 10
Music and Sound Healing
Music and sound healing is not a new concept. Cultures throughout the world have used music to empower, energize, heal and soothe the body, mind and spirit since time immemorial. It is no accident that Apollo, the Greek god who is credited as being the father of medicine, is also the father of music and the inventor of the lyre.
Music and healing are part of each other, and current research is pointing to that more and more. Recent studies have shown that music can slow down and help balance brain waves, reduce tension and stress by affecting endorphin levels, reduce physical tension by changing the vibrational frequency of cells, and even evoke feelings of love and inner peace.
Of course, if music can slow down your body’s rhythms and effect soothing, peace and healing, it can also have the opposite effect. A well-chosen set of music can help energize you and prepare you to work hard and be creative. Studies have also shown that athletes working out and practicing to music use more energy, stretch themselves further and burn more calories than those who work without music.
There’s a great deal of information available now about music and healing. Sound healing, music therapy, and the power of sound to effect changes in the mind, body and spirit are becoming more and more accepted. It’s sometimes difficult to tell how much is true and how much is marketing hype.
I became interested in the healing power of music as a by-product of trying to produce the most beautiful music possible. Years back, Leonard Bernstein invited me to perform as concertmaster in the world premiere his production of Mass. While there, he invited me along to speak with management and producers in the recording industry.
I learned from them, to my surprise, that the violin, the instrument that I consider the most beautiful and evocative of any, was not considered by the recording industry to be a marketable sound – that people would not buy recordings that featured the violin.
That piece of news amazed me. To me, the violin is the most beautiful, evocative and versatile instrument ever created. In the hands of a skilled musician, the violin can gloat, laugh, exult or cry. It can express nearly any emotion that humans can feel in their hearts and souls. I challenged myself then to produce works of music that presented the violin as I know it – the evocative and expressive voice of the soul.
That was the beginning of my own music label and catalog, Li-Sem Enterprises. As it grew, I began to hear from those who work in the fields of healing, both the traditional hospitals and doctors’ offices, and those working in CAM (complementary and alternative medicine), telling me that they were using my music in their practices, to enhance meditation, focus awareness and evoke emotions.
Perhaps the most potent, powerful story that I heard was that of a teenage boy diagnosed with schizophrenia who did not speak at all, but who, while listening to my CD Fragrance of a Dream, looked up and said, “This music is so beautiful it breaks your heart.”
Those stories and touches from others led me to begin exploring the world of healing with sound and music, and what I find both amazes me and confirms my own belief that music is one of the most potent healing tools the world has ever possessed. I am still very much a student, a pilgrim on a quest to learn all that I can about the ways that different tones, vibrations and sounds can affect the body and attune with the emotions and the spiritual.
It is a wonderful journey, and one that I intend to share with as many people as I can. As a beginning of that sharing, here are some things that I have learned, and that I believe about how music helps to heal and regenerate the body.
1. Your body will heal itself if you give it the right tools. I believe that some music can help your body to heal by helping it to realign its balance. At the same time, it is far too early in the research for anyone to tell you which musical selections will heal a specific medical condition. I would be irresponsible if I recommended that music replace other more traditional forms of healing and therapy. Music is a complementary way to give your body the tools that it needs to help itself heal.
2. One of the most important and effective things that you can do for your body is to help it relax into a meditative state. There is a great deal of research to support that a state of meditative calm inspires your body and your mind to renew itself.
3. Sound is one of the best tools for inspiring the meditative state in which your body is receptive to healing and renewal – but it is important to choose your music carefully. Some music – classical music in particular – seems to go there instinctively, but most music was not designed to relax you.
We are barely beginning to understand the ways that music affects us and effects healing in us. The research is exciting and ongoing, and I spend a great deal of time working with different bodies of healers in various fields to aid this research in all the ways that I can.
I incorporate what I have learned into the production of the titles and arrangements chosen for every new Li-Sem Catalog release in the hopes that this wonderful gift that I was given, the gift of making music, can become a gift to others – one that helps heal and refresh and renew, and in the process becomes part of a positive change in the world.
World-renowned violinist Daniel Kobialka embraces both the classic and the avant-garde in his search to create sounds that enliven and heal. Dr. Bernie Siegel states, “I found years ago that music creates a healing environment? I find Kobialka?s to be the best available.” Visit Kobialka’s website for more articles and healing music.
