Can Aromatherapy Help Depression?

For a while, the most difficult part of my morning, without fail, was when I had to brush my daughter's hair. It is long and narrow, and I do not know what they are doing when they sleep, because no matter how well I comb it in the night, it is always a huge knot on the back right side of her head the next morning.

Oh to receive complaints! The calls were the so terrible that I wondered what my neighbors thought I did, even though I was careful combing from the ground and keep their hair above the nodes. My son was little more than a year and in the habit of repeating his sister has done all would be screaming, so that by the time we were finished, the whole house was crying. Sometimes even the dog came in.

It was a wonderful way to start the day. :)

Anyway, a few weeks ago, I tried applying a mixture of essential oil young life called "Joy" on the back of the neck, before I brush. She loves the smell of the mixture contains the beneficial oils such as tangerine and Rose. She was visibly more relaxed, as I began, brush, and actually cried less than normal. Then, she said, "Mommy I do not scream when you brushed my hair!" I replied that I noticed that.

The next day I repeated the pattern, and again no complaints. This time they told me that the essential oils made their "courage". I agreed.

In fact, it reminded me why I with essential oils in almost ten years - in order to balance my mood, in this time more in the direction of depression. It also reminded me how the oils helped me to move past depression. I've always been for the oils in the morning, on my heart chakra, and made a confirmation, such as: "I face a life in dignity, grace, and with joy." Well, in the time that was not the case, but I said it anyway, and because I felt so good when I look at the oils on, I felt good when I said we could it.

Many with the studies, which show that our sense of smell is deeply connected with our emotional center and we have powerful associations with certain scents. All of us have memories associated with odors, some good, some bad. I think what I did was to create good associations with certain smells (essential oils) and a statement that I think that was easier to accept because, as well as I felt.

I repeats the ritual in the early morning every day for about three months, (Sometimes repeat it again in the afternoon, because I began to enjoy), when I realized that I was feeling better. It was a subtle difference. But I was not with the deeper lows. I felt sad, disappointed, angry, embarrassed or whatever the emotion was appropriate for the moment, but I went through these emotions rather quickly, and not get "stuck" , as I had the past. It was love wonderful.

I that I passed along this lesson to my daughter will one day be more difficult than fighting with her hair brushed. Create positive associations is a small but powerful way to help us through some of the difficulties of life. And we can really smell good, while we do it.

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