The Psychological Benefits of Candles and Aromatherapy
Aromatherapy, relaxation, and calming music offer therapeutic benefits to your mind, spirit, and body. Aromatherapy provides a healing non-invasive means to boost immunity, induce sleep, and reduce anxiety and worry. Additionally, candles and aromatherapy aids can be found at extremely affordable pricing during AU Christmas sales. Stock up on healing this holiday season.
How does Aromatherapy Work?
Have you ever noticed when you smell a familiar scent, maybe it’s your spouse’s cologne or the smell of baking cookies, you feel a noticeable change in mood? Scents trigger your most profound memories. If you associate a fragrance with a favorite event, a person you love, or even a favorite sweet treat, your body reacts as you mentally experience the moment again. Sometimes holiday candles in 2020 will help you remember a fond moment from 1991. It is that powerful!
To make the most of this mood boost, surround yourself with smells that give you warm, pleasant feelings inside. Some scents like the ones by Revive have a combined effect. For example, many people associate the aromas of peppermint or baking gingerbread with Christmas. Fill your home with beautiful holiday candles to boost everyone’s mood.
What are the Therapeutic Benefits of Aromatherapy?
Aromatherapy specifically will address specific conditions in your body. Here are just some of the most popular examples:
- Peppermint – Wakes up the mind and gives you a refreshing feeling
- Lavender – Calms the body and mind and is ideal as a sleep aid
- Eucalyptus – Used in a steamy shower or with a diffuser can ease cold symptoms and congestions
- Chamomile – Has a calming effect and reduces tension
These are just a few examples of popular oils that help heal your body and mind. Combine aromatherapy with other calming activities like yoga, meditation, listening to calming music, or light stretching. Holistic medicine focuses on your body as a whole, addressing each system as part of a larger unit. For example, when your mind calms, your body releases tension. Muscles relax. Your blood pressure lowers. You feel grounded and calm as the scent triggers your parasympathetic nervous system.
Essential oils, aromatherapy, and even scented candles can be used collectively with other holistic methods to boost your body’s immune system and help you feel better. Essential oils are extracted from a plant’s leaves, stalk, bark, rind, roots, or flower. Often you mix the oil in a diffuser or can use it in other ways like spray. Some oils can be massaged into the skin producing positive benefits.
Believe it or not, essential oils, candles, and aromatherapy have been a part of holistic medicine for over a century. Early practitioners used fragrances to create different effects in the body. Today these are used for conditions like depression, anxiety, and high blood pressure. Like all alternative medical treatments, if you choose to use aromatherapy as a treatment, speak with your doctor about the benefits of aromatherapy and your specific condition.
Enjoy the natural healing of the mind and body. This non-invasive holistic therapy is affordable and effective in helping you feel calm in an anxiety-ridden world.
