Excellent Aromatherapy Guide

Depression

The term depression covers a wide range of emotions with differing psychological states, feelings and psysical beharior traits. One depressed person may be lethargic an apathetic, feel numb and fatique all the time and do very little, maybe sleeping, feel anxious a lot of the time and have bursts of feverish activity. Obviously these two cases require different techiques and remedies with different essential oils.

Useful remedies

When apathy and lethargy characterize depression, then enlivening, uplifting essential oils are called for. In this case, taking baths with suitable oils is good idea, not least because it makes you do something positive for yourself, rather than relying on someone giving you a massage, which might increase you passivity. Self-massage, however, can be helpful-agai because it makes you do something actively to help yourself.

The most suitable essential oils for depression characterized by apathy and lethargy are both stimulating and anti-depressant. They include bergamot-perhapst the most sunny, elevating and cheering can clear the head and blow away emotional and mental cobwebs. Melissa can help you find a renewed interest in life.

When depression is characterized by anxiety and nervous tension, then calming, soporific essential oils are called for. Receiving a full body massage from an aromatherapist is probably the best remedy here, but diffusing suitable essential oils in your room and using them regularly in the bath are good supplements.

The most suitable essential oils in this instance are both sedative and anti-depressant. They include roman and german chamomile, neroli, sandalwood, ylang ylang, frankincense and clary sage. Including no more than one drop of narcissus, jonquil, linden blosson or violet leaf in a blend adds a deeply calming and slightly hypnotic influence, which helps you ground yourself and find your centre.

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