Manage Stress
Mental health might be the most difficult parameter of health to measure. While hours spent at the gym might result in your clothes fitting more comfortably, the benefits of being mentally healthy are sometimes slightly less obvious. Mental health is a broad category of health that includes the emotional, psychological, and social aspects of consciousness. A healthy mind emotionally and psychologically is better equipped to handle the uncertainties and stressors that arise in personal and professional life. From dealing with trauma to developing and maintaining relationships, having a healthy understanding of our emotions and mindset dramatically affects our ability to pursue opportunity and make decisions. While our mental health can be pre-dispositioned according to genetics and early life experiences, healthy lifestyle factors can dramatically support mental and emotional development. Read the articles below to discover new perspectives about how to achieve, maintain, and better understand genuine mental well-being.
Benefits on a Molecular Level
Scientifically the chemical compound linalool, a molecule, has many researched benefits. Not only is the powerful constituent potentially soothing, but it also has cleansing properties. While Lavender essential oil has one of the highest amounts of linalool, you can also find linalool in Coriander, Cilantro, Basil, and Petitgrain essential oils.
Benefits of Linalool
When it comes to Essential Oils it's all about the chemistry. Experience the cleansing properties by applying topically. Help promote feeling of relaxation and calmness through aromatic use. When taken internally helps promote a healthy circulatory system. With Lavender being rich in Linalool may be beneficial to the Immune System. *1
Few examples how to incorporate Linalool to your life and daily routine.
Add a few drops of Lavender or Cilantro oil to your DIY all-purpose surface cleaner for added cleansing power and a refreshing scent.
Put a few drops of Cilantro oil in a Veggie Cap or try adding Basil oil to your favorite Italian dishes to support a healthy circulatory system.
Diffuse Basil or Petitgrain along with your favorite oils each morning to help keep you relaxed throughout the day.
Our society teaches us down time is looked down on. Our body is stressed and struggling to keep up with homeostasis. The hormonal response to the flight or flight from stress from work is toxic to the body. It’s a chemical down poor, chronic long stress causes physical depression and after so long can cause emotional depression. The body is worn down and telling you to slow down.
Emotional Aromatherapy kit – oils assist in homeostasis in the body.
Forgive – helps hormone feeling to let go of resentment, victimized, angry. Forgive helps the hormone oxytocin, released in the brain, that acts on organs in the body (including the breast and uterus) and as a chemical messenger in the brain, controlling key aspects of the reproductive system, including childbirth and lactation, and aspects of human behavior.
Peace – fear, worry, concern
Console – emotional pain, hurt feelings, betrayed, had a loss, aching heart, feeling emotionally overwhelmed
Passion – apathetic, unmotivated, uninterested
Motivate – feeling done, step out of crisis mode but energized mode, difficulty with decision making, feeling stuck
Cheer – feeling down for no reason
From the Kids Kit Calmer is great to soothe and promote relaxation after a long stressful day, great for preparation for bedtime.
Sympathetic nervous system = fight or flight
o Increases heart rate, bronchial dilation, essentially blood circulation is targeted towards muscular system and reduced to non-essential organs such as the gastrointestinal tract and skin
o If on over drive causes, weight gain, long term psychological or emotional stress, poor appetite and digestion, difficulty urinating, permanently elevated blood pressure, heightened cardiac stress
o The emotional kit helps the sympathetic nervous system.
Suggested Essential Oil Products for Managing Stress
Lifelong Vitality - full of essential nutrients and powerful antioxidant designed to help promote energy, health, and manage stress
Melissa - is great for relaxation and very beneficial for asthma, chases away dark thoughts, decreases stress, great for an anti-depressant, Balance is a go to.
Magnolia - Good on emotional level especially during the menstrual cycle or post postpartum. For stress, grief, can rub over heart. Great to also use as a personal perfume.
Elevation – Joyful blend, good for depression, stress and anxiety
Adaptive Calming Blend - Soft gels can be taken once daily for stress and anxiety. Combine with the oil for calming, promotes positive mood, encourage relaxation supports mental well being. Helps support emotional responses with our moods and hormones.
Rose Touch - powerful healer of the heart, apply over heart
Serenity - creates a restful environment at bedtime
Balance - offers harmony to the mind, body and balance to the emotions
Wild Orange - energizing and uplifting to the mind when diffused and taken internally
Lavender - a must-have for its calming & relaxing properties. Apply or Ingest Lavender Oil for a peaceful sleep or to ease feelings of tension.
Vetiver - Vetiver is ideal for massage therapy and calming routine before going to sleep.
Petitgrain - Diffuse for a calming and relaxing aroma. Take internally to help ease feelings of tension, help calm the nervous system, and promote restful sleep.
Ylang Ylang - used to lessen tension and stress and to promote a positive outlook. Provides a calming, positive environment
Clary Sage - is linalyl acetate, part of the esters group, making it one of the most relaxing, soothing, and balancing essential oils.
Frankincense - Combine Frankincense essential oil with essential oils like Bergamot or Lavender and inhale or diffuse to create an experience of peace and satisfaction.
Roman Chamomile - is known for its calming effect on the skin, mind, and body, promotes courage.
Peppermint - By combining Wild Orange and Frankincense essential oils with Peppermint oil’s soothing properties, the blend becomes an aromatic powerhouse that will have you feeling relaxed and energized for the tasks ahead.
Black spruce is one of my ultimate favorites. After learning and researching more on Black Spruce and it's benefits I do not want to ever be without. It creates the feeling of balance, relieves emotional block. It's a grounding oil and stabilizing, of all the grounding oil the spruces are most effective, helpful for times of crisis, shock and trauma, deal with fear, and generational fear due to DNA such as alcoholism, addictions. The negative emotions it helps with is feeling of depleted, fearful, unstable, exhausted, dysfunctional in those generational patterns. Positive emotions it helps with is feeling more stable, resolute, grounded, and balanced. Black Spruce is also found in the Balance Blend.
Emotionally: traditionally detoxifying and cleansing, helps with emotional and physical toxins and pestilence. Helps your body naturally purge emotional and physical toxins. Helps straighten your course and turn to things that lead to better outcome. Negative emotion it addresses is toxic-ness, sluggish, stagnate like you are not going anywhere, imbalance and unhealthy. Positive emotions that celery seed helps bring out restored, cleansed, well balanced, realigned, committed.
Recipes
Roller-ball Recipes
Liquid calm
10 ml roller bottle combine
10 drops of Serenity
10 drops of Balance
10 drops of Vetiver
top it off with FCO (fractionated coconut oil) apply on back of the neck and shoulders and feet.
Sleep - If having trouble sleeping try this blend
in a 15ml bottle combine
15 Lavender
10 Vetiver
10 Clary sage
5 Frankincense
5 Ylang ylang
8 Roman Chamomile
5 Wild Orange
topped with FCO and roll on bottom of feet.
Stress Less
10 drops of Lavender
10 drops of Frankincense
10 drops of Peppermint
Combine in a 10ml roller bottle and top it off with FCO and apply either on back of neck, on wrist, or bottom of feet throughout the day as needed.
Epsom Salt Bath Soak Recipes
Refreshing & Calm
Add to 1/4 cup of Epsom salt of either recipe
5 drops Petitgrain
5 drops Ylang ylang
5 drops Wild Orange
Relaxing Epsom salt recipe
5 drops or Petitgrain
5 drops of Lavender
3 drops of Fennel
2 drops of Wild Orange
Good Morning Sunshine Epsom Salt recipe
4 drops of Rosemary
6 drops of Grapefruit
5 drops of Petitgrain
Diffuser Blends
Stress Relief
2 drops each
Petitgrain
Clary sage
Lavender
Evening Relaxation
3 drops each
Petitgrain
Cedarwood
Lime
After Dusk
3 drops of Petitgrain
3 drops of Wild Orange
2 drops of Clary sage
Grounded
3 drops of Balance
3 drops of Petitgrain
2 drops of Eucalyptus
Resources:
1) Contributed by Jeff Dorsett, MSHS and Dr. Damian Rodriguez, DHSc, MS
2) Dr. Dixy
