Symptoms caused by stress and the best spa and wellness treatments to treat them!
Stress describes the pressures we all face every day – physical, emotional, mental or even chemical. It activates your sympathetic nervous system, releasing stress hormones throughout your body, and this makes you ready to handle a sudden stressful event. It prepares you to take emergency action.
But when there’s no relief from stress, no down time, that’s when it becomes a problem. Then it becomes “distress,” which is a negative stress reaction.
But there are ways to manage and alleviate stress. Take a break and schedule the most helpful spa treatment for the specific type of stress you are facing.
1. Anxiety
Try an aromatherapy massage with lavender, which is thought to reduce the negative effects of stress hormones such as cortisol. Or schedule reflexology, again with lavender.
2. Tense muscles
Geo-Thermotherapy, such as a visit to a steam room or sauna, is a heat therapy that causes your body temperature to rise. Your body recognizes this increased temperature as fever and responds by producing more white blood cells, which in turn boost your immune system. Try our the Fire and Ice Massage to stimulate this process by reducing adrenaline and increasing endorphin levels, too, so they are also good for your mental health.
3. Body aches
These can be reduced through stretching and massage. Choose Mobility Room in Bowmanville that offers cupping therapy and soft tissue release massage and also incorporates fascial stretching.
4. Insomnia or other sleep problems
Special massage for insomnia, sometimes combined with aromatherapy, helps your body decompress and relax into slumber.
5. Headaches
Massage that focuses on the neck, shoulders and head will decrease the discomfort and pain of tension and migraine headaches. Try out the Indian Head Massage at Cocoa Heaven
6. Skin problems
Reserve a facial to nourish and repair your skin or a full-body exfoliation with lymphatic drainage that will leave you feeling relaxed and silky. Check out Cocoa Heaven Holistic Facials and/or Body Scrub and Essential Oil Lymphatic Drainage Massage.
7. Impatience or short temper
Massage increases your level of serotonin, the hormone that makes you happy and causes you to have a positive outlook. And smelling a fragrance during an aromatherapy treatment causes your olfactory receptors send a message to your limbic system, which deals with your instincts, moods and emotions. Check out Cocoa Heaven Aromatherapy Massage or take a Mindfulness and Meditation Class.
8. Back pain
People have used hot stone therapy since ancient times. Usually, heated basalt river rocks are used because they retain heat and are smooth. They warm, relax and soothe aching muscles.
Don’t let stress get the best of you. We offer solutions to help you!
Contact Cocoa Heaven for a consultation!