7.  Finally bring them towards your nose.

         8.  Repeat these exercise three or four times a day.

Apply a soothing face pack. Face packs are a wonderful way of de-stressing yourself. Many grocery stores and beauty supply stores carry them.  You can make your own face pack at home using things that are 100% safe on your skin. One of the best face packs that I have come across that is equally effective for a sinus headache as well as a tension headache is a curd face pack. What you have to do is chill curd in the refrigerator for a few minutes. If you do not have curd, yogurt will do. Then all you have to do is apply a thin coating of this curd or yogurt on your forehead and on the region around your eyes. But you must be careful to see that it does not get into your eyes. When you feel that the first coat has dried up apply one more coat. Then lie down with your face up for five to ten minutes.

De-stress yourself. This is particularly true for those who suffer from tension headaches. Below I have included some tips on how to distress your self. Meditation brings with it peace of mind as we learn to observe our surroundings. We become one with it and it helps us to focus our mental energy on one thing at a time. The human mind is a virtual powerhouse of energy but often this energy goes un-channeled or untapped.  A lot of it is lost on extraneous things. Through the process of meditation we can harness this energy and use it for constructive purposes. 

In the initial stages you may find your mind drifting but gradually you will learn to focus more and more. The idea behind meditation is not to cut out all the forces around you but to become one with them.  I have seen people plug their ears with cotton to shut out sounds. But that is not the purpose that we wish to achieve. On the contrary we should focus on the sounds around us. Be aware of and listen to them. First listen to the bigger sounds around you like the traffic or machines or even loud music from your neighbor’s apartment.  Then listen to the softer sounds like the drone of the refrigerator, or the A/C. And then bring your attention to the sound of your own breathing. If you can actually hear yourself breathing then you have arrived and this is what you have to keep doing. 

Try to focus on the ‘here’ and the ‘now’ and not on the tomorrow or the yesterday. After all we all live in todays and not in yesterdays and tomorrows! 

The Mind Settling Procedure:

   1.  Sit comfortably in silence with your eyes closed for 30 seconds.

   2.  Perform a brief body massage. (Some meditation traditions recommend that the massage be executed slightly differently for men and women, and I would like to describe these recommendations here. To be frank with you I am not clear as to why these gender-related differences exist, or if the need for the differences is real.)