Home and Garden: Ideas For Improving Your Quality of Life

Your home is your castle and you should make it a living space that you would be willing to live in for forever!  But how do you do that?  Below are a few ideas.  I recommend:  bath salts, aromatherapy, feng shui, and pomegranates.

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• Dead Sea Bath Salts (and Other Relaxation Products)

The principles of Feng Shui worked 6000 years ago and still work today! Feng shui products are designed to create a truly calm, stress-free, relaxing environment and bring serenity, i.e. harmony and balance into any environment - be it your home or where you work. ...

• Feng Shui Products Make Great Gifts For the Home or Office

The invincible pomegranate has earned its distinction as a super fruit. But there's more! ...

• Exotic Fruit: Pomegranates

History and Health Advantages of Aromatherapy

Aromatherapy is clean and natural, and proven to relieve several health issues. A treatment method to consider for anyone thinking about alternative or holistic solutions to healing and health care.

Hippocrates: a conventionalized image in a Roman "portrait" bust (19th century engraving) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Did you know that:

- Aromatherapy is an ancient art of healing believed to have been developed by the Egyptians.

- Hippocrates, father of modern medicine, used aromatic fumigation to cleanse Athens from the plague.

- A French chemist named Rene Maurice Gattefosset is credited with creating the term “aromatherapy”.

- Aromatherapy is used to treat several health problems: from stress and anxiety to postpartum blues.

Learn more:

Why We Love Aromatherapy (And You Should, Too!)

 

One final thought:

September is National Yoga Month and perhaps nobody has made this connection but seems to me Yoga and Aromatherapy would pair quite nicely. Don't you agree?

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