Calming and Relaxation with Aromatherapy

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Aromatherapy is used for many wonderful purposes. It can excite the mind or it can calm the brain. There are more than 500 different known essential oils that are recommended for various reasons by aromatherapists to address various needs.

As humans we can be buffeted, stressed and agitated by many outside forces. There are things over which we have absolutely no control. They can make us become anxious, fearful or just leave us feeling stressed. Often there really isn’t much we can do to change these events that bring on our stress, anxiety or fear. But there is something that we can do to help us cope with these emotions and calm ourselves and all of the people around us. Calming the people around us can often help to restore our own calmness as well. Aromatherapy offers more than relaxing scents, but relaxation and the achievement of calm in our hectic lives is certainly one of its many roles.

Bergamot is a calming essential oil. It will stop those butterflies from flitting around in us or in the tummies of a stressed out child. Just a few drops on a cotton ball or tissue can make those butterflies be still or at least fly in formation.

Bergamot is not only calming for humans both large and small; it is also calming to animals. A dog that is agitated can be quieted by sniffing bergamot. Bergamot is frequently used to quiet stressed out or temperamental horses. Just a few drops of bergamot that has been diluted in carrier oil applied to the hand of an owner or trainer can gently quiet the fears of an animal when the animal smells the hand.

Frankincense is another calming essential oil. It was one the three kings gifts for a reason. Frankincense possesses the unique ability to clear the energy field of memories of past hurts and fears. It has calming and relaxing properties that will help to ease the anxiety of a stressful situation. I works wonders for human adults and children as well as for animals.

Other essential oils that will help to restore calmness are juniper, chamomile, orange, lavender, basil, lemon and cypress.

Juniper helps to relieve a worried mind.  Chamomile provides deep relaxation. Orange helps to promote self assurance. Lavender soothes frazzled nerves.

Basil, lemon and cypress all help to provide focus which has a calming effect.

Often when people think of aromatherapy they only think of it benefiting human adults but it has far greater applications.  Actually humans have the least developed sense of smell when compared to almost any other animal on earth. Most animals can be calmed with aromatherapy just like humans. Our children will react to aromatherapy in the same way that adults do. And the same essential oils that will provide a calming effect for a human adult can also provide calming to children and to animals.

When you can quite a dog that is anxious and barking, you will restore calmness to yourself as well and possibly to the neighborhood. If you can quiet a child that is agitated fearful and crying, you will also restore calmness to yourself and to the household. Never discount the value of aromatherapy for yourself as well as for those around you. Aromatherapy is powerful. It has the ability to restore peace and harmony that has been lost and restore calmness to all. Blessed be the peacemakers.  Use aroma therapy to bring tranquility to your life, and that of your family and pets.