Description
We know that movement using your whole body over the course of your entire lifetime is crucial for maintaining good physical and mental health. Almost everyone at some time has experienced discomfort in their muscles. Whether you lift weights, are a weekend hiker, or just love to dance, you can feel soreness in your muscles the next day.
Known as myalgia, muscle aches, soreness, and pain can manifest through exercise. It’s a common response for muscles to become sore when you begin a new physical activity or switch up your exercise routine. Muscle soreness is a side effect of the stress put on muscles when you exercise. Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS) is normal but temporary discomfort.
But periods of inactivity—sitting too many hours on your sofa or at your desk or on your phone, along with stress and aging can also cause muscular stiffness, aches, and pains too. Working adults who work long hours at their computer complain of chronic pain in their necks, back, and shoulders. Stiff, sore necks have become a common complaint for children and teens who hang their heads over their phones while on social media for long periods of time.
If you have been sedentary for some time or sitting for hours looking down at a screen, you most likely will experience muscle stiffness from the discomfort of holding that position.
Myalgia manifests during periods of inactivity due to illness or injury. The less frequently the muscles in our bodies are used, the smaller and weaker they will become. Muscle shortening from sitting too long can impair your ability to stand tall and move freely, and everyday movements of walking, climbing stairs, bending, reaching, or twisting become compromised.
We now know that at least half of the age-related changes to muscles, bones, and joints are caused by disuse. This condition, “disuse syndrome”, refers to the changes that happen in the body as a result of being sedentary or inactive. Muscles get tighter, tendons and ligaments become less flexible, and our bodies take longer to recover from injury.
Chronic stress symptoms also include persistent aches or stiffness anywhere along the spine and sharp, localized pain in the neck, upper back, or lower back. Psychological stress, eye strain, and emotional issues related to depression and anxiety are also known to increase muscle tension and soreness. Changes in the nervous system cause muscles to contract; it’s the body’s way of guarding against stress, and emotional and physical pain.
It’s never too late to incorporate gentle movements such as stretching, walking, tai chi, or yoga into your daily or weekly lifestyle to enjoy more fluidity and comfort in the body. After all, movement is life.
Deha Muscle Soothe Body Oil’s alchemical blend is formulated in a base of jojoba and arnica oils with a proprietary blend of flower essences to help you energetically melt tension from tight muscles, help you to unwind, and recover from muscular strain.
Our synergy blend of essential oils has a long history of traditional topical use in folk medicine known to relieve muscular aches and pains and reduce pain intensity. With their anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving properties, arnica, sweet marjoram, lavender, roman chamomile, and birch essential oils penetrate deep below the surface to relax muscles, enhance blood circulation, reduce inflammation, and temporarily soothe and ease muscle discomfort and soft tissue distress.
Deha Muscle Sooth Oil is easily absorbed to nourish all skin types and may provide temporary relief of minor aches and pains associated with exercise, stress, inactivity, and aging.
Affirmation: “My body is soothed as I release tension allowing my body to quickly recover.”
Suitable Skin Type: All Skin Types
Directions: Use as needed, to temporarily soothe muscular tension, reduce pain and relieve stiffness due to stress, inactivity or post-workout.
• Massage onto shoulders, back of the neck, arms, calves, and thighs.
• For acute pain, use with either a hot or cold compress to boost therapeutic effects and increase circulation. Cold compresses will constrict blood vessels, control swelling, calm inflammation, and reduce pain. Hot compresses or moist heating pad will soothe muscles, reduce muscle aches, and speed up healing injuries (after acute phase of 24 to 48 hours).
• Use 2 pumps of oil with Fleur Dead Sea Salt or 50/50 Salt Blend for a soak in your bath for added therapeutic relief.
It is worth noting that massage alone may help with relieving pain and discomfort. Any improvement in muscle soreness that occurs may not specifically be due to the use of flower essence aromatherapy.
Holistic Lifestyle Recommendation:
• For best results, commit to drinking plenty of water throughout the day to stay hydrated to help keep your muscles supple.
• Include plenty of organic fresh fruits and vegetables in your diet to provide the necessary nutrients for healthy muscles and tendons.
• Eat more healthy fats found in fish such as such as herring, mackerel, salmon, tuna, or use fish oil supplements.
• Maintain a regular exercise and stretching to improve circulation and develop muscle strength.
• Warm up before exercise by gradually increasing the intensity of the activity you plan to engage in.
• Practice good posture when you sit and stand.
• Incorporate the 20-20-20 Rule: Every 20 minutes, stand up, look up and away from your screen, and allow the eyes to look at something 20 feet away (gazing at nature helps) for at least 20 seconds to relieve shoulder, neck, and eye strain.
• To enhance muscular relaxation, end your bath or shower with a few cycles of hot and then cold water. First, turn the water to as hot as you can take it for several seconds, then to as cold as you can tolerate, then back to hot, and so on. This will stimulate blood circulation to loosen tight muscles and tonify weak muscles.
Ingredients: Jojoba oil, organic Arnica (Arnica montana) infused in organic Sunflower (Helianthus annuus) oil, with vibrational flower essences of Cowkicks, Dampiera, Purple Flag, Flower, Silver Princess Gum, WA Smokebush, and organic botanical essential oils of Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia), Sweet Orange (Citrus sinensis), Birch (Betula lenta), Sweet Marjoram (Origanum majoranum), Black Pepper (Piper nigrum), and Chamomile (Chamaemelum nobile).
Use: Body massage.
Caution: Do not use on open sores, skin ulcers, burn wounds, varicose veins, eczema or undiagnosed rashes. Avoid if you are at risk of blood clots due to inactivity. Keep out of reach of children.
