How Aromatherapy Can Help With Stress and Anxiety

Sometimes it can all get a bit too much. You can sometimes just be too busy, have too much going on and you just don’t where to start or go or where you’re coming from. People, especially in modern day life are put under all sorts of pressures and strains.

You might have a stressful job with an overbearing boss, you might have a manic young family to look after, and you might not have enough time in the day to what you need to do.

This can leave you feeling all a bit… stressed.

Feeling stressed?

Stress isn’t nice. Stress is a horrible feeling that leaves you thinking you that you just can’t cope. It comes in many shapes and sizes and different severities. It is caused by two things:

· It is mainly caused by how you judge situations and scenarios and whether or not you value them as stressful.

· The second cause of stress is your mind reacting to your thoughts. It will react automatically to what you deem as a stressful scenario. This is an instinctive process and is commonly known as ‘fight or flight’.

The side-effects of stress and anxiety are not good; unless you are in a life or death situation in which case it comes in handy.

Aside from that your body might increase your heart rate or blood pressure. It might increase sweating. It will pump more blood to important muscles. It will divert blood away from your skin and it will prepare itself for any imminent damage.

All useful stuff if you are in a life or death situation but quite damaging to your body and mind if otherwise. The effect on our mind is negative, we don’t enjoy the world we are in, it is dangerous and our bodies are not relaxing.

Relieving the stress

There are all sorts of ways to relieve stress with lots of different pieces of advice out there. You could take medication (not recommended unless last resort). You could take up a hobby that helps you channel all your stress into it. You could even look at altering your entire life and live a different lifestyle, one of peace and self-sufficiency.

There are merits to all of the above but there is a method in particular that we want to look at, aromatherapy.

How aromatherapy can help with stress and anxiety

Aromatherapy is the practice of using essential oils and other aromatic plants to balance and bring together a person’s health and well-being. It aims to work with and improve the health of your body, mind and soul. It does this through certain aromas that work on certain things, often through the use of candles or oils.

Aromatherapy can help with stress in particular as the aromas often induce a calming reaction.

There are 3 basic different types of aromatherapy that will help relieve stress; holistic (with massage), clinical (with medicine), on its own (in candles, burners etc.).

Using aromatherapy

Depending on what works best for you, the three methods above will certainly help you reduce stress. When it comes to actually using aromatherapy you need to be careful. There is a great variety of essential oils and there is lots of information surrounding them. Apart from using shop bought candles you will need to understand aromatherapy before using it.

We always recommend using a professional aromatherapist first, they will help you understand what is right for you and keep you safe when using the essential oils.

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