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Once you've retreated to quiet, dark area and covered your eyes from any possible stimuli then breathing is next area to focus on. You must let your breathing relax. Panicked breathing will increase pain you're already experiencing.
To allow your breathing to relax follow these steps:
1. Take a long slow deep breath and exhale equally slowly.
2. Again take a long, slow deep breath. As you're slowly inhaling focus on sensation of air filling your lungs. Feel air filling your body. Once you've inhaled as much as is comfortable again exhale slowly. As you're exhaling focus on sensation of air leaving your lungs and escaping through your mouth. Breathe out completely.
3. Repeat process of inhaling slowly, focusing on sensation of air filling your lungs and exhaling slowly 4 or 5 more times.
4. By fourth reptition you should notice that your breathing is far more relaxed and calm. Your heart rate should now also have returned to a resting rate and you may even feel slighly sleepy. If so embrace that feeling and allow yourself to fall asleep.
Lavender Oil
This is final step in process. Lavender oil is renowned for its medicinal properties and this is doubly so for migraine headaches.
Lavender oil is cheap and completely safe to use. Only use pure Lavender oil for treating migraines - lavender scented fragrances or scented oils are useless. It must be purest lavender oil you can find.
If you feel a migraine attack coming then grab your lavender oil. Place a single drop of pure, undiluted lavender oil on each temple or behind each ear. Also place 2 or 3 drops of undiluted lavender oil on pillow you're going to rest on.
Combined with a quiet, dark room and deep breathing technique lavender oil provides that final "punch" in natural treatments. The scent of oil will relax you and simply inhaling lavender infused air helps to ease pain of a migraine almost immediately.
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