How to Have a Relaxing Day at Home (for Women)

Start out with a nice smoothie or your favorite drink. Try to make a strawberry-banana Smoothie if you have the ingredients. All you need is 1 half of a Banana (chopped in to fourths), 4 medium sized strawberries (frozen or fresh), a cup of soy milk and 3-4 ice cubes. Add soy milk first then add the bananas, strawberries, and ice cubes then blend for about 20 seconds and enjoy, or you can go to Make a Banana Smoothie.

Go to your room and shut the door while sipping on your smoothie. Curl up on your bed with a blanket and a magazine/book.

Finish off your smoothie and go in to a large space in your house such as the living room or your room. You can either just sit in the silence or you can do some stretches, yoga, tai chi, or Qui Gong. If you do decide to do one of these, research them and find some of the moves.

Run yourself a nice bath with bubble bath, fragrant salts, sea salt, epsom salts, essential oils, or powdered milk with some honey. You can also light some candles and put them at the foot of your bathtub. Relax for about 30 minutes and think of good thoughts, maybe a favorite past time or a favorite scene in a movie.

After 30 minutes drain the bathtub and get out slowly. Dry yourself by patting your body with a towel, your skin will feel softer if you do this. Wrap the towel around your body and stay in the bathroom.

Tweeze your eyebrows wherever it looks like the hair is growing out of the hairline. The steam from the bath softened the skin and loosened the hairs so that its less painful.

Brush your teeth and your hair slower then you usually do, brushing fast can damage your teeth and your hair.

Step out of the bathroom and go back to your room to throw on some comfy PJs or sweats. Do not put on uncomfortable clothing such as jeans, tight shirts, skirts or work clothes, these won't help you relax at all.

Pull back your hair in to a ponytail and push on a hair band or just pin the hairs that aren't in a pony back with bobby pins.

Step in to your kitchen and find honey, milk, a bowl, and a spoon. Mix a tablespoon of honey and a tablespoon of milk in the bowl then heat it in your microwave for 10 seconds. Mix again and apply to your face and neck for 15 minutes then rinse off with warm water. Splash your face with cold water about 3 times to close the pores. Pat your face dry with a towel.

Grab a toothpick, nail file, bowl filled with water, olive oil or lemon juice, and nail clippers. First fill a small bowl or bottom of a water bottle with warm water, you can add either add olive oil or lemon juice. Olive oil moisturizes while lemon juice whitens the nails. Soak nails for about 5 minutes then pat them dry. Clip nails to a mid-length (not long nor short) then use a toothpick to clean under them. Shape nails to an oval by going from the edge of the nail to the tip in a semi-circular motion. You can also paint your nails, but if you just took off nail polish its best to wait a day or two to let your nails breathe.

You'll need a large bowl, epsom salts, sea salts, essential oils, bubble bath, honey, milk, vinegar, or anything else you can think of! The possibilities for a foot soak are endless. A favorite would be a half cup of epsom salts, 1/4 cup of sea salt, and 8 drops of Lavender oil. Lavender is soothing and it helps get rid of scars and heal blisters. Fill the bowl with warm-hot water and keep your feet in it for 15 minutes. Remove and dry.

Grab a pumice stone/foot file, nail clippers, nail file, and lotion. Scrub your feet while they are still wet if you use the pumice stone, but if you use a foot file make sure your feet are dry. Clip your toenails until they are short and square with round edges, make sure you also file the nails this way. Apply large amounts of lotion and sit back and relax for about 15-20 minutes then tissue the excess off.

Grab your stereo, mp3, ipod, radio, or computer and make a playlist of all your favorite music. If you are using your computer and you don't wish to wait for a while til youtube loads, use www.imeem.com It is a safe playlist website and you can search all your favorite music, from classical to rap. Listening to music will help you relax. Sing or dance crazily, it helps a lot with relaxing!

This time you will need a pillow and a bed. If it is the afternoon, it is perfect to have a 20 minute nap. Set your alarm to wake you up at this time, you will feel more energized.

Now that you are awake, do some more stretches! stretching helps blood circulation and oxygen get to the brain.

Watch some movies. Rent some or go on an adventure to find some on tv, either that or watch ones you already have. Chick flicks really help raise your mood. Some good ones are: "The proposal", "A Walk to Remember", "The Notebook", "The Devil Wears Prada", "Confessions of a shopaholic", and "The Other Boleyn Girl".

Get lots of healthy, nutritional snack foods. this will help keep you energized!