Anger: Come On Baby, Don’t Light My Ire
Anger is a normal emotional reaction to a less than desirable result, but having a short fuse indicates something deeper is wrong. If you get mad easily, I feel for you. Life is hard for people who are quick to anger – for people like me – or like I used to be anyway. We bring so much heartache on ourselves because of it. It took me years to stay calm in situations that aggravated me and even longer to ignore things I had no control over. I’m still working on it, but I’ve mostly conquered it. First, I recognized it; next, I gave up believing I was justified in…
Fear Less: Use These Essential Oils
Fear debilitates us all, and these days, there’s a lot of it going around. Daily media reports about the ever-evolving nature of COVID-19 keep us on edge and amplify the usual stress of finding or losing a job or managing a family and a life. So how do we negotiate such uncertain times without completely devolving into an emotional mess too afraid to breathe? We take precautions, practice prevention, and use essential oils to help us stay calm. The trick is to self-reflect in a way that helps us rise above rather than sink below and get stuck in the black tar of that deep abyss of doom. We want…
20 Essential Oils for Grief and Loss
If you have experience using essential oils to help get yourself through grief and loss, you know how well they work. Essential oils help many people recall blocked memories, break through situations where they feel stuck, overcome irrational fears, and deal with debilitating despair. I started using them a year after my mother died to help me, and I’ve never looked back. When I started using essential oils, I knew they would help my emotional health, but I never knew why. However, I wasn’t convinced they could help my physical health until I experienced the effects myself. How did they do this? I wanted to know, so I began investigating…
Scent Anchoring and Essential Oils
What is scent anchoring? Scent anchoring is when we store what we smell in our olfactory memory. Some we attach to pleasurable experiences, others with uncomfortable or even traumatic events. When we reencounter the same smells within a few days, months, or years, we may find that they trigger positive or negative reactions to things we associated them with in the past. We can attach any scent to any event, and essential oils can smell like those same aromas anchored in our olfactory memory and trigger the same responses. As with the stored scents, essential oils may cause people distress, and others may help people break through their trauma or…
