Welcome to this week’s Self-Care Guidance for 21st – 27th October 2019!
 
How do you sabotage your success?
 
It’s may not be a question you like to think about.  However, it is amazing how you, and I, can get in our own way. 
 
I read in a book yesterday that sometimes miracles happen when we reframing how we think about something.  This reframing of a situation brings big changes.
 
May Chang is the Aromatic Kinesiology essential oil for this week.  Its light, fresh, lemony scent helps you move from despair to success.
 
Emotional fitness is just as important as physical fitness. 
 
You can be focused on achieving your goals.  You think you’re doing everything you can to achieve them.  But nothing.  You feel stuck.  Then you sink into despair.
 
This is where emotional fitness comes in.  When you are emotionally fit, you’re able to sit with the despair.  You’re able to look it in the eye and ask, “What do you want to teach me?”
 
Sitting with despair can mean going for walks, journaling, getting a treatment, meditating, yoga or maybe counselling.   Anything that helps you connect with the inner stillness and peace that helps you sit with despair.
 
When you sit with despair, it will eventually give up its secret.  You find out what’s being holding you back.  Sometimes it’s a sense of inadequacy, low self-worth, lack of confidence, feeling overwhelmed, feeling isolated.  When you find out what’s been holding you back, hey presto!  You make the small changes needed to move forward, achieve your goals and there is your success.
 
I love the Blossoming Heart Affirmation for May Chang:
 
“I am the light of my own success.”
 
You may like to write it down and put it somewhere you can see it often.  In my experience, when I write it down and put it somewhere I can see it often, then it sinks in to a deeper level, to the heart level.
 
This week’s stress management technique is try a slow-moving class such as Tai-Chi or some types of yoga. These gently help relax the body, release tension and help build resilience to future stress
 
Looking to practice self-care this week?  Visit www.relaxfromstress.ie for some wonderful ideas.

Welcome to this week’s self-care guidance for 14-20th October 2019!
 
Have you ever felt restless?   
 
I just Googled the definition of restless because I wasn’t entirely sure what it meant.  I know I feel restless sometimes, but what does it actually mean?
 
Restlessness is the inability to rest or relax as a result of anxiety or boredom.
 
When you feel restless, it often means that you are in need change.  It doesn’t necessarily mean a big dramatic changed.  It just means that you need to shake things up a little. 
 
Change begins from the inside out.  You need to work on your mindset before you start seeing results externally.
 
Do you know what you’re moving towards when you want to stop feeling restless?
 
In Aromatic Kinesiology, Elemi is the essential oil that helps us move away from restless to tranquil. Elemi guides us towards our inner world, so we can look deeply inside us and understand ourselves.
 
Within us is a gentle and deep stillness that is tranquil.   It’s already within us.  We don’t need to search for it.  When we feel restless, we need to find a way to remember and connect with that stillness.
 
As restlessness takes a hold, take a time out.  Go for a walk in nature, read an uplifting book, listen to some wonderful music, meditate, practice yoga, whatever it is that helps you to connect with the stillness within.
 
When you connect with that inner stillness, you’ll connect with your intuition as well the light and love of your heart.  From here you’ll find the peacefulness to overcome restlessness and feel tranquil.
 
Curious how you can practice self-care this week?  Visit www.relaxfromstress.ie for some wonderful ideas.

Hello! Welcome to this week’s self-care guidance for 7th – 13th October 2019.
 
As I write this blog post, Storm Lorenzo is making its way towards Castlebar.  It is so cold out, and it feels particularly apt that this week’s self-care essential oil is Black Pepper.  Black Pepper is a wonderful warming oil physically, and it a lovely oil for the circulation and warming up the body.
 
Mentally and emotionally, Black Pepper encourages fearlessness, strength, stamina, endurance, motivation, flexibility and comfort.  Storms provide great analogies on how to cope with life.  Take these quotes as examples:
 
“When you are in the middle of a storm cloud it's hard to think outside of it, but the only way out of the storm is to ride through it and things will be a lot clearer on the other side.” - Jodi Ann Bickley
 
“When the storm has passed, put your energy into rebuilding your life, don't waste time looking back.” - Leon Brown
 
“You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it.” - Mary J. Blige
 
Storms come along and afterwards, we repair and rebuild.  Whether it’s after a physical storm like Storm Lorenzo, or after a personal storm, we carry on and learn to overcome and rebuild and thrive.
 
Self-care provides the fuel for overcoming storms, rebuilding and thriving.   While going through a storm, or just after it, we can feel detached or cynical.  Yet, with self-care, we rebuild our inner world first, then we rebuild our outer world.
 
Black Pepper helps us move from denial to acceptance.  When we deny when things are bad or that we’re hurting, we build a wall that keeps out peace and success.
 
By taking a deep breath and calling on our inner resources, you can look your situation in the eye and trust that you’ll find a way through.  Often when we look at something we’ve been avoiding; we see it’s not as bad as we thought.  If it is as bad as we thought, then we found out we’re more resourceful and resilient in recovery than we originally believed.
 
Sometimes we need support to help us to take a deep breath and call on our inner resources.  This week’s stress management technique is to make time for a treatment you like with a therapist or practitioner you like.  Whether it’s massage, reflexology, reiki, osteopathy, shiatsu, acupuncture, find a treatment that helps you relax.  There are so many different therapies and therapists out there that it’s important to find a therapy you like with a practitioner you like.  I often find that every reiki or massage therapist I go to is a completely different experience from the others
 
I invite you to devote some time to your self-care this week and book a session with me. This could be Aromatic Kinesiology, Indian head massage, reiki, foot reflex massage or a Kundalini yoga class. I have guided meditations available at on Bandcamp. You’ll find information on all my services at www.relaxfromstress.ie

Hello! Welcome to this week’s self-care guidance for 30th September to 6th October 2019.
 
Are you feeling physically exhausted? 
 
Are you feeling mentally exhausted? 
 
Are you feeling emotionally exhausted?
 
Feeling physically, mentally or emotionally exhausted is a sign that self-care is needed.  You need to be aware of the signs that your body and mind send you.  Then you know when and how to take care of yourself.  Just like listening to a growling tummy is a sign that you need water or food, your body and mind sends signs that you need self-care.
 
Physically, your muscles may be tight, or you may feel exhausted.  Mentally, you may be finding it hard to concentrate or make decisions.  Emotionally, you may be irritable and unable to find anything good in the day.
 
When you feel depleted like this, an oil that often comes up through muscle testing in Aromatic Kinesiology is Ginger essential oil.  Ginger helps us move from depleted to sustained.  By putting a couple of drops of ginger on a cotton pad and inhaling every so often, ginger begins to restore and balance your energies.  It’s like ginger turns a dial within you, so that you become open to being sustained in every moment.
 
What do you need to do differently to preserve and conserve your energy?
 
One way to preserve and conserve your energy is to take a time out to laugh.  Laughter raises the spirits.  Find something funny, whether it’s having a good belly laugh with a friend, watching a comedy or watching comedians or animal videos on YouTube, laugh the stress and depletion out of your body.
 

Hello! Welcome to this week’s self-care guidance for 23-29 September 2019.
 
You need physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual energy to be your best you.
 
Self-care renews these energies and provides the fuel for an effective, resilience, energised, wise and meaningful life.
 
One of the signs that self-care is needed is that you’re sleep deprived.  Perhaps you struggle to get to sleep, or you wake during the night.  You certainly don’t feel rested when you get up in the morning.  Feeling like this is a sign that it’s time to look at ways to improve your sleeping patterns.
 
This week’s stress management technique is: not everything can be changed – once we are able to accept that there are somethings we can’t change; it will become easier to move past those things. So start now by focusing on taking charge of what you can control.
 
When it comes to our sleeping patterns, we can control the environment, what time we go to bed, or finding some therapy or technique that will help you develop a good sleeping pattern.  Some of my clients find monthly or bi-monthly regular treatments or weekly yoga classes help a lot.
 
This week’s essential oil reflection is Spikenard.  Spikenard helps us when we feel overcome by grief and want to move towards resilience. 
 
“In today’s world, sometimes you can’t fight, you can’t fee.  The only way out it to learn to flow” Dr. Robery Eliot
 
We experience grief in many different ways, the loss of relationships, jobs or finances, thoughts and beliefs, life setbacks or loneliness.  We can even experience grief as we move in a wonderful new direction.  New directions mean saying goodbye to old ways of doing things.
 
Spikenard helps us rebuild foundations after grief changes us.  It helps us to connect with and call on our strength and resilience to nourish and settle the emotional heart.
 
Care for yourself as you grieve.  Trust yourself to create conditions that will support and comfort you. 
 
What qualities and strengths do you draw on when times are tough?
 
I invite you to devote some time to your self-care this week and book a session with me.
 
This could be Aromatic Kinesiology, Indian head massage, reiki, foot reflex massage or a Kundalini yoga class.
 
Or spend half an hour listening to one of my guided meditations, available at on Bandcamp.
 
You’ll find information on all my services at www.relaxfromstress.ie

Hello! Welcome to this week’s self-care guidance for 16-22 September 2019.
 
Each of you, was well as myself, are under pressure from something every day.  We need some pressure to get motivated and get things done.  However, when that pressure manifests as frustration, insomnia, poor concentration or poor choices, then it’s time to practice a little self-care.
 
Self-care renews our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual energy so you can be your best you.
 
Aromatic Kinesiology – Essential Oil Support
This week’s essential oil is Eucalyptus. Eucalyptus helps us when we feel overwhelmed and want to feel integrated. 

When we become overwhelmed with the details of daily life, the refreshing and stimulating influence of Eucalyptus sorts individual bits of information so that that we can understand it. 

From this sorting of information, we can develop a strategic system for handling the details of life.  When we understand where we are, we can get organised, create systems and plan ahead to get to our destination.
 
Eucalyptus will encourage your mind to discover an appropriate way to respond to situations, rather than over-reacting when your ability to respond is diminished.  The answer that arises from an integrated state of mind will always be the most beneficial.
 
Put a couple of drops of Eucalyptus on a cotton pad or in a diffuser.  Breathe it in, and allow your body and mind to integrate your thinking process.
 
What aspect in your life is requiring integration?
How could greater organisation move you away from overwhelm?
What planning do you need to do?
 
Stress Management Technique
Declutter!  Go through your home or office, a little bit at a time, and decide what you need and what you ned to let go of.  Decluttering helps release stagnant energy and frees you up from holding on to things that no longer serve you.
 
I invite you to devote some time to your self-care this week and book a session with me.
 
This could be Aromatic Kinesiology, Indian head massage, reiki, foot reflex massage or a Kundalini yoga class.
 
Or spend half an hour listening to one of my guided meditations, available at on Bandcamp.
 
You’ll find information on all my services at www.relaxfromstress.ie

Welcome to this week’s newsletter self-care guidance for 16-22 September 2019.

Each of you, was well as myself, are under pressure from something every day. We need some pressure to get motivated and get things done. However, when that pressure manifests as frustration, insomnia, poor concentration or poor choices, then it’s time to practice a little self-care.

Self-care renews our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual energy so you can be your best you.

Aromatic Kinesiology – Essential Oil Support
This week’s essential oil is Eucalyptus. Eucalyptus helps us when we feel overwhelmed and want to feel integrated.

When we become overwhelmed with the details of daily life, the refreshing and stimulating influence of Eucalyptus sorts individual bits of information so that that we can understand it.

From this sorting of information, we can develop a strategic system for handling the details of life. When we understand where we are, we can get organised, create systems and plan ahead to get to our destination.

Eucalyptus will encourage your mind to discover an appropriate way to respond to situations, rather than over-reacting when your ability to respond is diminished. The answer that arises from an integrated state of mind will always be the most beneficial.

Put a couple of drops of Eucalyptus on a cotton pad or in a diffuser. Breathe it in, and allow your body and mind to integrate your thinking process.

What aspect in your life is requiring integration?
How could greater organisation move you away from overwhelm?
What planning do you need to do?

Stress Management Technique
Declutter! Go through your home or office, a little bit at a time, and decide what you need and what you ned to let go of. Decluttering helps release stagnant energy and frees you up from holding on to things that no longer serve you.

I invite you to devote some time to your self-care this week and book a session with me.

This could be Aromatic Kinesiology, Indian head massage, reiki, foot reflex massage or a Kundalini yoga class.

Or spend half an hour listening to one of my guided meditations, available at on Bandcamp.

You’ll find information on all my services at www.relaxfromstress.ie
 
 
Lots of love
Tracy Fitzgerald

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This video has a three self-care tips for the coming week, an essential oil from Aromatic Kinesiology, a stress management tip and Kundalini Yoga .

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