Is your head aching? Relax! and you will feel better

Stress is one of the main cost of tension headache, if it get out of control it can elevate the problem of mild headache to chronic headache. Various other problems such as high blood pressure, high heart rate, insomnia and headache occur and aggravate at a continuous pace, due to stress.

So,How to manage stress? There are many way to manage stress and relaxation is one of them. If we knew how to use it, it would be very useful to combat the stress, which is a trigger for migraine headache. 

• Relaxtion could reduce your blood pressure
• Relaxtion can also normalize blood vessels in brain, causing increased blood flow to brain, which help in preventing migraine headache.

 Relaxation should be aimed at:

• Reduced level of stress and anxiety
• Improvement in yourself and increase in self-awareness.
• Improved inspiration and motivation
• Enhanced mind’s potential
• Improved quality of sleep 

Here some easy ways to relax:

• Deep Breathing: This is a simple way to  relax. Just let your hair down and breathe in deeply through the nose, this will increase oxygen flow to your various organs and you will feel better.

• Meditation and Yoga: With the deep breathing, in this technique your have to speak a mantra in rhythmic order. OM is a universally accepted mantra and following it may prevent the common diseases of throat, lung and chest. Deep breathing helps in oxygen flow.

• Progessive relaxation: This technique is different from the previous techniques, in this technique, you allow your muscles alternately tense and relaxed, causing exercises of your muscles. This relaxing technique will decrease the stress level and ultimately prevent migraine headache.

The above are some relaxations , they are very simple but very useful for you. Besides, some of following common habits are also useful for preventing tension headache, such as:

• Follow regular eating and sleeping schedules (even do not change them during vacation or weekends.

• Regular physical exercises  such as walking, biking etc may help you in reducing headache.

• Don’t sit or stand for quite a long time, carry out regular stretching of muscles of hand, foots, … remember: Avoid a single posture for long time

• Applying heat or ice (what ever suitable for you may prevent tension headache.