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Stressed Out? Why Facials are More Relaxing than a Massage

April 20, 2020 By Urb Organic Spa

Your skin shows how you feel within. If you are anxious and stressed, your skin will suffer. You can’t hide the anxiety. Your face shows every worry. Improved appearance and immediate peace of mind are just two facial benefits. But should you get a massage or facial? Believe it or not, for long-lasting relief and destressing, many people find facials infinitely more relaxing. Why? Let’s find out how facials can help you feel like your happier self.

Achieving Ultimate Tranquility

An organic facial helps your facial muscles and overall body relax. Many clients feel deep relaxation and even calm slumber during a facial. This type of rest helps the anxiety and stress simply melt away. Facial benefits include relaxing the mind, facial muscles, scalp, and slowing one’s breathing. Slow breathing helps calm the body, easing worry.

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30 Ways to Reduce Anxiety

February 19, 2020 By Urb Organic Spa

Work, family life, illness, and the daily grind are enough to trigger your body’s flight and response system. In some of us, the body’s response can be hypersensitive. This leads to anxiety, stress, and depression. Help from a medical professional to manage anxiety is key to feeling better. Treat yourself better and reduce anxiety with these fun times, from spa day packages to good nutrition. Take care of yourself to feel like a better and less anxious you!

These are a few of my favorite things…

Each one of us is different. Find which of these helpful tips will help reduce anxiety for you. And remember, you don’t need to fight anxiety alone. A good friend, therapist, or significant other can help you minimize stress in your life. Work together. Enjoy life.

Sit quietly and relax
Learn slow breathing techniques
Treat you and your girlfriends to a spa day package
Exercise
Walk in the park
Yoga
Treat yourself to an organic facial
Join a painting class
Talk with a life coach
Write poetry
Enjoy a deep pore cleansing facial
Write music
Play an instrument
Sing out loud
Follow the advice of your holistic nutritionist
Go to a classical concert
Watch your children play
Go to the beach
Walk an art museum slowly, taking in each work
Spoil yourself with a deep moisturizing back treatment
Try a detox wrap
Take advantage of special spa promotions
Take your pet for a walk
Enjoy a cup of hot cocoa by the fire
Drink less caffeine
Read a book
Mindful meditation
Learn to say “No” to unnecessary tasks
Prioritize your work schedule
Avoid social media

Try to reduce anxiety with some of these helpful tips. You will be amazed at what slowing down your life and enjoying a day at the spa with your friends will do for your mental health. Don’t forget the importance of a good diet and exercise.

A New You with Urb Organic Spa

Urb Organic Spa in Toronto offers a wide variety of exciting services meant to help you feel like a better and improved you. From life coaching to organic facials, enjoy pampering yourself and prioritizing your health. Call us today and make your first appointment. We would love to hear from you!

5 Ways To Put Yourself First

May 18, 2019 By Urb Organic Spa

5 ways to put yourself first Feeling like life is moving too fast? You’re constantly rushing around to meet someone else’s schedule. At the end of the day, you finally have some me-time but you’re too exhausted to enjoy it. It’s time to put yourself first.

Make a list

How do you want to spend your time, and what are your priorities? Having ‘me time’ is great but is also vague and hard to implement. Stop and take a few minutes to organize your thoughts and write down what that ‘me time’ should look like. Maybe it’s finding time to regularly get your hair cut. Maybe it’s more time to read and finish a book. It could be more time to walk or stay active. Once you know what you want more of in life, the easier it will be to make that happen.

Ask for help

Again, make a list of who can help you and when. You might think at first that you don’t have much extra help, but by organizing this, it could turn out that you have more help than you realized. Which grandparent has expressed interest in watching your child every now and then? What neighbor has offered their services? In a busy world, there might be more help than you realized.

Schedule your time

It’s not enough to wish for more time for yourself. Instead, you need to take that time. Announce to everyone involved that such a date and time has been blocked off. This could be a standing weekly appointment or a regular evening time period. It doesn’t matter as long as the time works for you.

Schedule yourself first

There will always be conflicting times when you want to schedule your ‘me time.’ But instead of thinking about everyone else, think about yourself first. By blocking off a specific time, you are putting yourself first and that’s ok. It might take a bit of time but soon enough, life will start to revolve around your schedule.

Check-in

Are the steps that you have taken to put yourself first working? Have you made enough time for yourself? Is there something different that you want to look into? Nothing is ever set in stone and if your plan isn’t as seamless as you first thought, it’s ok to go ahead and change it. Life is constantly evolving. What might work in the winter probably won’t work in the summer. Vacations and deadlines can quickly change a routine and you’ll need to adapt with them. Just make sure that once life settles down again you continue to put yourself first. This way you can keep yourself fueled and ready to tackle anything. The more work you do for yourself, the happier you will be.

4 New Year’s Resolutions For A More Relaxed You

December 18, 2018 By Urb Organic Spa

The Christmas holidays are a time of fun, excitement, and unfortunately, a lot of stress. The beginning of a new year in January is the perfect time to pause and focus on yourself. Here are a few ways to create new year’s resolutions that lead to a more relaxed you.

Quality, not Quantity

It’s not about how much you do of something, but how well you do with it. For example, instead of trying to read a giant stack of books that maybe have little meaning, or are really just fluff, try to tackle more meaningful books. Find a memoir that will inspire you. Pick up a classic that you’ve always meant to read. You could pick a book with your partner and read it together to have something to discuss at night. Or, find a book club that will help inspire debate and get your minds working. The point is that if you can invest your time wisely, you will appreciate your hard work and effort.

Invest in Friendships

The new year is a good time to think about who you want to include in your life. Perhaps there are some old friends that you keep meaning to get together with. Instead of spending time worrying about communicating with them, just go ahead and contact them. Plan a date and get together. Sometimes you need to just dive in and get stuff done so that the worry of it allisn’t on your mind anymore. Catching up with old friends can also make us realize if we actually have enough still in common to continue a friendship. There is no shame in transitioning out of a friendship. So if you get togetherwith someone, and realize it wasn’t as good as you thought it would be, you canmove on knowing that you can now focus on other relationships.

Alone Time

We often spend too much of our time hurrying around from one even to the next. The result is an over-planned life that doesn’t let us breathe very much. It’s ok to have down time. Saturday mornings don’t have to be spent running errands. They can instead by pajama days. Take advantage of rainy days and stay inside with a good book or watch a movie you’ve beenmeaning to get around to. It’s ok to allow yourself to breathe.

Schedule Appointments

One important new year’s resolution is to take care of your own health. Take an afternoon and schedule all those appointments you’ve been putting off. Schedule your dentist cleaning and book your eye exam. Also include whole body treatments that allow you to relax, purify your mind, and make you more comfortable in your own skin. Don’t waste time thinking about making these phone calls. Just do them so that your mind can be a calmer, more organized place.