Health/Self-Care

Inside each bottle of essential oil lies the key to beauty, health, and wellbeing-and this comprehensive illustrated reference contains all the information needed to work aromatherapy’s magic. It includes complete instructions for skin and body treatments; recipes for creams and lotions; remedies to overcome negative emotions; advice on psychic cleansing; and techniques to enhance meditation and massages of all kinds. There are first aid therapies to relieve simple ailments, and to use during pregnancy and with babies, children, and the elderly. A Directory of Essential Oils gives the properties and applications of 75 common and exotic oils.

Renew Your Essence through the Divine Power of Fragrance Fragrances possess a unique ability to evoke emotions, memories, and visions. Since the dawn of time spiritual traditions as diverse as Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Shinto, and Buddhism have used fragrances to enhance the experience of the Divine. With Aromatherapy for the Soul, world-renowned aromatherapist Valerie Ann Worwood has created a comprehensive guide to the use of essential oils and aromas to enhance spiritual practice. Originally published as The Fragrant Heavens, this groundbreaking book draws equally upon the pioneering research of eminent scientists and the insights of leading spiritual teachers. Extensive charts and exercises demonstrate how to use fragrance in healing, prayer, and meditation and in conjunction with vibrational and energetic healing. This extraordinary guide covers more than seventy essential oils and will help you call upon the divine power of fragrance to enrich your spiritual journey.

Make Ayurveda an indispensable part of your everyday self-care routine with this step-by-step guide to holistic balance and wellness. 

For a natural approach to self-healing, alternative medicine, and wellness, expert Sonja Shah-Williams has tailored remedies including Ayurveda recipes, skincare, yoga, and mindful meditation techniques. 

New science has provided evidence that the effectiveness of Ayurveda as a view of the world based on ancient beliefs that everything is connected and that balance is the key to wellbeing. Ayurveda focuses on the prevention of disease by focusing on anti-inflammatory diets, mindful meditation, and massages. This practical guide is an ayurvedic consultation at your disposal.

This little self-care book will take you on a breathtaking journey of holistic healing. It begins by unpacking what Ayurveda is and the benefits of the practice. This reference book includes wellness practices designed to uplift the mind, body, and spirit and healing treatments designed to address, relieve, and help cure a range of common conditions. 

Your Essential Ayurveda Toolkit for Self-Care in the Modern World 

Ayurveda combines spiritual practices and self-care strategies. Take control of your wellness and heal yourself. Follow step-by-step massage routines, recipes, yoga, meditation, and skincare routines designed to deliver maximum benefit to you.

Harness the power of holistic living and self-healing with this reference book and learn:



   • What Ayurveda is and the benefits of the practice
   • Easy to follow, step by step illustrated guide to Ayurvedic practices 
   • How to easily incorporate these practices into daily life
   • Ayurvedic recipes, diet, and recipe tips
   • What ingredients and equipment you will need to get started

Do you find evolving your habits, especially around body issues such as deeper nourishment and stress management, to be a frustrating challenge? With Body Thrive, Cate Stillman brings a modern eye to the daily habits from Ayurveda and yoga, sharing how they completely uplevel your day-to-day routines to align you into a flow state. Encouraging gradual, sustained progress through small actions, Body Thrive shows how to align yourself with your natural biorhythms to cultivate deep energy, restful sleep, optimal digestion, and self-mastery in your body and your life.

Rather than presenting a rigid series of scheduled tasks, Stillman provides commonsense tools and insight for changing behaviors at a pace optimized for your own unique needs. Through its clear, beginner-friendly approach to 10 core daily habits of Ayurveda, Body Thrive lets you to take charge of your habit evolution and craft your best possible life.

Cultures around the world have long used bathing and bathhouses to connect with Spirit and to promote personal wellness and cultural milestones. The Book of Sacred Baths shows how to use this wonderfully relaxing practice to create transformation in your love life, career, health, and spirit. Discover everything you need to know about the history of sacred baths, the healing medium of water, meditations and prayers, creating intention, essential oils and crystals, visualization, Law of Attraction, and much more.

Discover 52 recipes for sacred baths, one for each week of the year. Each bath recipe is tailored to a specific emotional or spiritual need, and helps you align your thoughts, feelings, and emotions to attract your highest good. Use essential oils, crystals, candles, and color therapy along with visualization and ritual practice to raise your vibration and release negative energy down the drain.

Never has the idea of mindfully checking in with ourselves and creating a “whole body” health—health that is more than simply the absence of illness—been so appealing. In this guide to self-care, wellness and beauty educator Mary Beth Janssen reveals how introspection, ritual, and love can help cure existential woes. She profiles a wide range of activities and exercises, including:

Karma Cleanse: How to cultivate/give lovingkindness, compassion, and forgiveness in yourself, and then pay it forward.
Intention, meditation, and breathwork techniques: Exercises for calm and centered living.
- Emotional Housecleaning: How to deal with unprocessed emotions “stuck” within yourself.
- Setting Healthy Boundaries: Check-in exercises for relationships that will help you reevaluate and build your support network.
- Tips for nourishing yourself, deep sleep, and beauty rituals to celebrate your body.

One of the secrets of real magic is that it is controlled by the mind. The more things in your ritual to help your mind associate with your goal, the more powerful your ritual may be. Colored candles, scented oils, natural incenses, and more all add to the impact of the magic you wish to do. But how do you know which incense to burn? Is it possible to add scented oils together to get a more powerful oil? And how do you make your own, appropriately-scented tools?

The answers to questions like these and hundreds more can be found in The Complete Book of Incense, Oils & Brews by world-famous author Scott Cunningham. This is a greatly expanded and rewritten version of The Magic of Incenses, Oils and Brews. It includes over 100 new formulas, proportions for each element of the recipes (the most requested feature from his previous book), how to substitute ingredients, and much more. Besides the formulas, it also includes the exact methods of making all of these scented tools, including how to extract the essences from the herbs.

Each one of the formulas is precise and easy to make. Do you need luck? Take 2 parts vetivert, 2 parts allspice, 1 part nutmeg, and 1 part calamus, grind them together as finely as possible, then sprinkle the powder in a circle around you, beginning and ending in the East and moving clockwise. Sit within this circle and absorb the powder's energies. Also included are other ways to use magical powders that will have you coming up with your own ideas for them, too.

There is a legion of recipes for incenses. There are three for the sun and two for consecrating talismans. There are incenses for each of the astrological signs and ones to help you study better and gain success. You'll also find incenses for each of the planetary influences. There are four for Saturn alone!

This compendium of magical lore is a vital tool for every magical person on any magical path, whether you are a beginner or an expert.

Cosmic Rituals – An Astrological Guide to Wellness, Self-Care and Positive Thinking is the ultimate guide to taking care of yourself and harnessing your powers.

With a focused chapter for each star sign, Cosmic Rituals covers everything from hints and tips for self-care, and de-stressing, to mindful meditations and techniques to help you feel energized and ready for anything. There's herbal healing to soothe the soul, and sleep rituals to get you in the Zzz-zone, plus a selection of mantras to help you get up and glow.

There's no one size fits all when it comes to taking care of yourself, but your star sign provides a blueprint, which you can work with. Whether you're a tenacious bull who prefers routine or a sensitive crab that takes on the world's woes, the character traits associated with each sign mean you'll need a unique approach to selfcare and wellbeing.

There really is no better way to find your sparkle, than by looking to the stars!

Tap into the power of nature and learn how to unleash your inner magic to navigate modern-day life and the issues the universe throws at you. Curative Magic shows you how to work with the tools that witchcraft provides, including spells, rituals, and herbs as well as meditation and recipes. Nature is incredibly clever - plants, herbs, crystals, and other natural materials can improve spells, provide guidance, enhance your personal health, and help you work through life's challenges. Kitchen witch and author Rachel Patterson shares her own experiences, personal rituals, recipes, and remedies to help you manage depression, anxiety, insomnia, ailments, and many other common issues we confront.

This lively A to Z reference guide shows readers how to prepare and use essential oils and use them for healing physically and emotionally. The handy book culls the best of THE COMPLETE BOOK OF ESSENTIAL OILS and organizes every oil into accessible, alphabetical listings. It includes individual oil profiles, applications, and the physical and emotional conditions that warrant their use.

Specific formulas for blending essential oils for a myriad of home and health applications are provided. Detailed treatment suggestions for such special circumstances as pregnancy, children and babies, chronic pain, terminal illness, and pre- and post-operative conditions are included. This is an easy-to use guide for every reader, or a handy reference for those who already use The Complete Book of Essential Oils and Aromatherapy.

Journey Through Aromatherapy is a comprehensive guide to the healing and therapeutic use of essential oils on a physical as well as psychological level.

Drawing on 28 years of experience, Dr. Ratan combines ancient Ayurvedic wisdom with modern aromatherapy principles in Vedic Aromatherapy, creating unique blends for holistic health and healing. This unique, beautifully illustrated guide explains the active ingredients, properties, and uses for over 90 remarkable essential oils, and the ways they affect our physical and emotional well-being. Whether you’re experienced in Ayurveda and aromatherapy or just beginning, Dr. Ratan will help you: •

Understand the secrets of blends and applications, whether healing, relaxing, uplifting, or sensual •

Choose the right base oils to enhance your blends •

Discover chakra healing with essential oils •

Find out 50 easy ways to use aromatherapy and essential oils •

Learn aromatherapy and beauty therapy for every body part •

Benefit from the wonders of evening primrose oil •

Make feel-good fragrances for the body and home, including blending, aromatherapy massage, and steam inhalation, alongside natural beauty treatments

You're late to a meeting and caught in traffic. Your toddler is screaming and your in-laws just showed up. You're about to give an important presentation but you've misplaced your notes and you're beginning to panic. We all find ourselves in situations that stir up anxiety. And for many of us, our fear and worry have reached debilitating levels. How can we stay balanced and live up to our potential when fear and anxiety seem so easily to get the best of us? According to Dr. Friedemann Schaub, the answer lies in the subconscious mind-the source of our most challenging emotions and the key to the wisdom they offer.

We may not realize it, but negative feelings can be as toxic to our health as physical poisons, wearing on us and causing depression, illness, and burnout. In this updated edition of her classic How to Heal Toxic Thoughts, shaman and psychologist Sandra Ingerman reveals the secrets of the ancient alchemists and offers strategies for processing harmful thoughts and emotions and turning spiritual lead into gold. Her methods are simple…but they can change you, others, and the world.

How to Love Yourself (and Sometimes Other People) is a smart, hip guide for spiritual seekers who want to experience more love and stability in relationships of all forms. Told from the unique vantage points of authors Meggan Watterson and Lodro Rinzler, this book explores staying anchored in the foundation of self-love as you navigate the natural (and often stormy) cycle of a relationship. Their dual perspectives as teachers and scholars of Christian mysticism and Buddhism respectively make for a rich and fascinating dialogue that covers everything from sex, self-worth, falling in (and out of) love, deep friendships, and all the way to conscious uncoupling-and how to maintain an open heart through it all.

At its core, this book is about learning to love yourself no matter what. Meggan and Lodro suggest that you are worthy of love, both self-love and the love of others. They aren't experts on how to get that man or lady to fall in love with you, nor are they experts on how to have "the perfect relationship." But they are spiritual teachers who know that relationships have a life of their own, and can speak to the human element of what it means to experience them fully. In the process, they share deeply personal, revealing, honest anecdotes and spiritual practices to assist you with the inevitable ebbs and flow of love in all its manifestations.

Author Tina Chantrey teaches everything you need to know about reflexology to get your life in balance and alleviate common health problems.

Beautiful illustrations and an 18 × 24–inch wall chart of key information combined with easy-to-follow instruction make this the perfect go-to reference.

Combining multiple areas of bodywork, reflexology involves applying pressure to the hands and feet to produce beneficial changes in the body. The underlying principle behind reflexology is that there are “reflex points” on the feet and hands that are connected to organs and body parts by energy. When pressure is applied to these areas, energy blockages are removed and better health results. Learn reflexology to relieve:

• Back pain
• Previous injuries
• Insomnia
• Headaches and migraines
• Digestive disorders
• Arthritis
• Hormone imbalances

The In Focus series applies a modern approach to teaching the classic body, mind, and spirit subjects. Authored by experts in their respective fields, these beginner's guides feature smartly designed visual material that clearly illustrates key topics within each subject. As a bonus, each book includes reference cards or a poster, held in an envelope inside the back cover, that give you a quick, go-to guide containing the most important information on the subject.

Denmark is often said to be the happiest country in the world. That's down to one thing: hygge. 'Hygge has been translated as everything from the art of creating intimacy to cosiness of the soul to taking pleasure from the presence of soothing things. My personal favourite is cocoa by candlelight...' You know hygge when you feel it. It is when you are cuddled up on a sofa with a loved one, or sharing comfort food with your closest friends. It is those crisp blue mornings when the light through your window is just right. Who better than Meik Wiking to be your guide to all things hygge? Meik is CEO of the Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen and has spent years studying the magic of Danish life. In this beautiful, inspiring book he will help you be more hygge: from picking the right lighting and planning a dinner party through to creating an emergency hygge kit and even how to dress. Meik Wiking is the CEO of the Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen. He is committed to finding out what makes people happy and has concluded that hygge is the magic ingredient that makes Danes the happiest nation in the world.

Explore the fantastically fragrant world of magical oils and enrich your life with their mystical, energizing, and transformative power.

This is the only book available that shows how to select and mix 67 essential oils for a myriad of magical, medicinal, and spiritual applications—arranged alphabetically for ease of use. Bursting with 1,200 original recipes for spells, rituals, and remedies, this comprehensive book also enables you to create your own blends.

Mix potent, all-natural fragrances and tinctures to attract a lover, perform healing work, calm your mind, protect your home, summon inner strength, consecrate ritual tools, celebrate the Sabbats, and achieve anything you wish.

From Chinese massage to Shiatsu to Indian head massage, this lavishly illustrated “bible” presents all the techniques needed to master the basics. Every spread features large and easy-to-follow photos, while the text guides beginners on what pressure to exert, what part of the hand makes contact with the body, and exactly what to do—whether they’re feathering the back, working on the neck and scalp, or performing a sequence on the arms and hands. In addition to holistic and sports massages, there are suggestions for special situations (including massaging a baby); advice on massages to relieve common ailments; and lifestyle tips.

A professional reflexologist and instructor with more than a decade of experience in England and Ireland, Pauline Wills combines yoga and color therapy in her practice of reflexology. She is the author of several books on healing, including The Reflexology and Colour Therapy Workbook.

This book is an intriguing guide to being your true self. Self-love has become part of our language, especially the language of women. Self-Love is visually layered with dharma art, expressing the many layers of the complex divine feminine. It offers a visual journey that is like the life of a woman - an intricate tapestry of color and beauty woven with love. The dharma art on each page presents visual, poetic, and practical offerings to guide each reader as they immerse themselves in self-love, compassion, forgiveness, and an expanded perspective.In this Aquarian Age of multi-layered communication, technology, and greater awareness, the human collective is evolving rapidly. This age is all about energy - particularly the expansive energy that is the vibration of true love flooding through our world. As the reader learns about the chakras and the aura, which is used as a container for the understanding of emotions, they will understand how subtle energy within the body can be trusted, harnessed, and utilized for well-being.

The Self-Care Year reveals how to re-connect with your body and mind and engage with your surroundings, how to slow down, live in tune with the seasons, and pay attention to the present moment.

Each season is different and special, bountiful and beautiful in its own unique way. The book is divided into spring, summer, autumn and winter and covers how you can harness the changing seasons and take inspiration from the natural world, with bite-sized self-care practices, projects and mind and body exercises for each chapter.

Offering tips and rituals for better sleep, yoga positions, breathing and meditation exercises, as well as simple craft projects and seasonal affirmations, this book is for those who are seeking a slower pace and want to carve out quiet, mindful moments in their lives. Whether you're a lover of the first buds of spring, a summer sun worshipper, a fan of the fall leaves as the year turns or a winter wonderland devotee, there is something for everyone.

100 simple practices and activities to incorporate into any bedtime routine to help you fall asleep easier and wake up refreshed and renewed.

Do you have trouble getting—and staying—asleep? Sleep rituals can set the mood for restful slumber and help you drift off in peace—let these recommended bedtime routines be your key to a good night’s sleep!

This accessible guide offers 100 easy rituals—including sleep-friendly recipes, relaxing yoga poses, calming breathing exercises, soothing meditations, and comforting writing exercises—suited for every type of person. You can even mix and match them for a completely customized bedtime experience and find the perfect solution to banish any sleepless night.

Rituals include:

-Sleep-friendly recipes, like nutmeg-spiced warm milk
-Soothing practices like dry brushing
-Restorative yoga poses, such as Child’s Pose
-Breathing exercises, like alternate nostril breathing

Let Sleep Rituals help you get the good night’s sleep you’ve been dreaming of!

For those who want to infuse their self-care routine with a little magic, this mystical guidebook provides readers with simple spells to enhance their daily lives. Topics range from relationships and emotional health to self-love, work, school, and more.

Spellwork for Self-Care takes an old-fashioned approach to the practice of self-soothing. As young people flock to the well-worn paths tread by the witches of yore by using tarot card readings, astrological sign analysis, and herbal home remedies for mental and physical ailments, the practice of witchcraft has morphed into a form of spirituality for millennials and Generation Z.

This book of 40 spells combines witchy spiritual practices with our culture's hunger for self-care, creating a compact resource for those seeking alternate paths to better mental, spiritual, emotional, and physical health.

Taking time to nourish yourself and connect to the rhythms of the Earth can feel like a tall order when your days are packed to the brim but this beautifully illustrated handbook can make it a whole lot easier. The Spirt Almanac provides readers with potent, accessible rituals they will want to call on again and again throughout the year to feel more grounded, aligned with their purpose, and in touch with their own innate sense of knowing.

Readers will be invited to practice and personalize dozens of routines incorporating science-backed techniques like breathwork, meditation, and aromatherapy, as well as more esoteric offerings like astrology, crystals, and tarot. Along the way, they will learn the fascinating history of ritual and trace these ancient spiritual practices through the ages to modern day applications from several true masters—from reiki healers to psychologists to sound therapists—who live and breathe this work. Divided by the four seasons, this book features dozens of ideas for spirit and soul enriching rituals including:

· Honor the quiet of winter and the start of the year by setting new intentions with a seed planting ritual
· Come spring, try a breathwork ritual to release blocks and move forward
· Celebrate summer with a forest bathing ritual to clear your mind or a crystal ritual for an open, receptive heart
· Wind down in fall with a self-soothing full moon ceremony to reflect on the year

The Spirit Almanac will infuse your life with more joy, gratitude, and a deeper connection to yourself and our Mother Earth.

Worship yourself the witchy way—learn how to nourish your body and spirit with herbal remedies, spells, and rituals inspired by witchcraft in this unique, enchanted guide to self-care!

Self-care is a necessity for any modern woman, and this book helps you prioritize #1 with a little help from the magic of witchcraft. The Witch’s Book of Self-Care has advice for pampering your body, mind, and spirit with spells, meditations, mantras, and powerful activities to help you to keep healthy, soothe stress, relinquish sadness, channel joy, and embrace your strength.