UNLOCK THE POWER OF AROMATHERAPY
How Essential Oils Can Enhance Your Daily Life
Have you ever wondered how to escape feelings of anxiety? We’ve all been there: Anxiety and stress can wear you down over time. On a daily basis, our minds are constantly thinking, worrying, and stressing over the racket and turmoil of daily life. Stress often leads to restlessness and even insomnia.
intermittently for half an hour before you go to bed. The neurotransmitters in your brain will start to wind down while relaxing your mind and body. How It Works The most potent healing compounds are gathered in a single oil by extracting the aromatic oils of plants. The fragrant nature of essential oils triggers the limbic system to create physical reactions in the human body. When inhaled, the scent molecules in essential oils travel through the nose to the olfactory nerves and then the brain, activating the limbic system. The limbic system — known as the “emotional brain” — is responsible for heart rate, blood pressure, breathing, memory, stress levels, and hormone balance. By calming the limbic system, the entire body relaxes and reaps the benefits. Essential oils can lift your mood and make you feel good with just a whiff. If you want to stay calm and fall asleep faster, it’s time to explore the power of essential oils!
Enter Essential Oils Aromatherapy uses essential oils for
therapeutic benefit. To save your sanity, essential oils are proven to help with anxiety and stress levels. Lavender essential oil can help with fear, anxiety, stress relief, panic, and depression, reducing nightmares and similar sleep disturbances. To use, put two drops of lavender oil on the inside of your wrists while slowly rubbing them together. Next, take a deep breath of the scent, and repeat
Unraveling the History of 4 Phrases TRACING THE ROOTS OF EVERYDAY SAYINGS
Many different vernaculars are used in daily conversations — English is constantly changing! Some phrases we hear often might make sense if we think about them, but we probably could never guess the backstory of others. So, let’s “dive in” and explore four commonly used phrases and their origins. Raining Cats and Dogs When you hear someone say, “It’s raining cats and dogs,” this comes from when houses had straw roofs with no wood underneath. Animals would burrow into the straw roof to stay warm. The roof became slippery when it rained, and the animals would fall off. It would “rain cats and dogs.” This phrase is now used to describe heavy and abrupt rainfall and sometimes bad weather in general. Dirt Poor The phrase “dirt poor” is just an extreme way to call someone poor. As simple as this sounds, though, it comes from a time when many poor people had only dirt floors and were thus considered “dirt poor.”
Bite the Bullet To “bite the bullet” means to accept something difficult or unpleasant. In the olden days, when doctors were short on anesthesia or time during a battle, they would
ask the patient to bite down on a bullet to distract them from the pain. The first recorded use of the phrase was in 1891 in a Rudyard Kipling novel, “The Light That Failed.” Break the Ice When you “break the ice,” you remove tension from a first or uncomfortable meeting. Before road transportation was common, ships were the only means of transportation and trade. At times, the ships would get stuck during the winter because of ice formation. The receiving country would send small ships to “break the ice” to clear a way for the trade ships. This gesture showed affiliation and understanding between two territories — similar to how the phrase is used today.
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