AROMATHERAPY

BURN-OUT

Well, you've done it. You've worn yourself to a frazzle and the cells that haven't seized up have gone on strike. The plant has been shut down. Congratulations! Instead of charging around achieving four things at one, rising at five amand working until ten at night, you're now incapacitated by an overwhelming tiredness.Well, you've done it. You've worn yourself to a frazzle and the cells that haven't seized up have gone on strike. The plant has been shut down. Congratulations! Instead of charging around achieving four things at one, rising at five amand working until ten at night, you're now incapacitated by an overwhelming tiredness.Relaxation is impossible as your mind goes around in circles, getting nowhere fast.

You seem to ba a different person and you are beginning to wonder if you're cracking up. Your energy is completely and utterly depleted and you wonder if you will be able to get the milk in off the doorstep,let alone get through the day.Burn-out is exactly what it sounds like, only instead of referring to an energy source which burns fast and furiously utill nothing is left, it's referring to that energy source - you. It happens when the body and mind have been under stress for a long period.

Commodity brokers and other whizzkids in the City suffer burn-out with alarming regularity, and with millions of pounds hanging on their split-second decision making, it is not surprising. But mothers trying to juggle the requirements of a family may suffer burn-out too, as can any one of us if we do not take care of our natural resources.It is vital to build up your energy stores to avoid exhaustion.Exercise not only helps to keep you healthy enough to fight off fatigue, it also strengthens the heart and enables endorphins to be sent from the brain into the whole physical system, providing you with a sense of well-being. Rub the following synergistic blend oil over your body before exercise.

BURN-OUT EXERCISE OIL SYNERGISTIC BLEND

Relaxation is equally important but if you find that you can't relax, at least breathe in a way that will slow down your pulse rate. Open a window, inhale and take in a large volumes of air, slowly filling the lungs, then exhale slowly. Do this several times, once a day at least. Self-hypnosis is  a good way of reaching into what is out of your conscious control and is a method that can be used at any time of the day.

Lessen your workload wherever possible, and start and finish work at preordained times. don't let anything interfere with this resolution - it can wait. You only have one body and that is your priority. The human energy system has been likened to a petrol tank in a car - if you run out you can draw on the 'reserve tank'. People with burn out are relying on their reserve tank and need to cruise nice and gently until they can fill up again. if you continue to drive yourself at full throttle, you may run out of energy again before you reach further supplies.

Bring yourself into lower gear with relaxation oils.Lessen your workload wherever possible, and start and finish work at preordained times. don't let anything interfere with this resolution - it can wait. You only have one body and that is your priority. The human energy system has been likened to a petrol tank in a car - if you run out you can draw on the 'reserve tank'. People with burn out are relying on their reserve tank and need to cruise nice and gently until they can fill up again. if you continue to drive yourself at full throttle, you may run out of energy again before you reach further supplies. Bring yourself into lower gear with relaxation oils.

BURN-OUT RELAXATION SYNERGISTIC BLEND

You can use this blend in any of the room methods, or in the bath while relaxing with a book. Make up a massage oil on the 1 drop per 1 millilitre vegetable oil basis and ask a friend to massge you, or simply apply it to your body yourself.You can use this blend in any of the room methods, or in the bath while relaxing with a book. Make up a massage oil on the 1 drop per 1 millilitre vegetable oil basis and ask a friend to massge you, or simply apply it to your body yourself.To revive yourself at any time, use the following formula in any of the room methods, in the bath (4-6 drops) or make a body rub using 1 drop per millilitre of vegetable oil.

BURN-OUT REVIVER SYNERGISTIC BLEND

After a warm bath, splash yourself all over with ice-cold reviver. make up a bottle specially for this - an emppty plastic mineral water bottle is ideal - and add three drops of rosemary to 15omls water. keep the bottle in the fridge so it's always ice cool when you require it. Shake the bottle well and splash all over your body. To disperse the essential oils more effectively you coud mix them with a dispersant or 1 teaspoon of vodka before putting them in the water bottle.

After a warm bath, splash yourself all over with ice-cold reviver. make up a bottle specially for this - an emppty plastic mineral water bottle is ideal - and add three drops of rosemary to 15omls water. keep the bottle in the fridge so it's always ice cool when you require it. Shake the bottle well and splash all over your body. To disperse the essential oils more effectively you coud mix them with a dispersant or 1 teaspoon of vodka before putting them in the water bottle.Tired eyes respond well to a rest under cotton wool which has been soaked in an equal mix of cold water and witch-hazel.

Reference: The Fragrant Pharmacy: Valerie Ann Worwood