Aromatherapy in Anxiety and Depression

Anxiety and depression is that feeling you get when you think your well-being is threatened in some way. It's out of proportion to the actual situation. Basically, it's a fear – fear of lack, fear of looking foolish, fear of commitment, or any other fear that has you feeling threatened somehow.

Common anxieties are not having enough money to pay all those bills piling up, the mortgage company threatening to foreclose, asking someone out on a date, proposing marriage, public speaking. The list is long. We really are a fearful species.

Our lives have become incredibly busy and demanding. We're working longer hours; spending more time sitting in traffic; the kids have so many activities after school and on weekends to which they need chauffeuring. No wonder we feel frazzled.

Learning How To Cope

How we cope with anxiety could be cause for further anxiety – like addiction and depression.

All these fears are basically just the results of your thoughts – your self-talk. Fear takes you out of the present moment, and transports you into the future – which doesn't exist.

Physics has shown that all we have is this moment of NOW. The future is only a probability. And the past, as we know it, doesn't exist either. It's just memory and interpretation. Both of which are incredibly inaccurate.

Rather than reach for the bottle of tranquilizers or alcohol, you can quickly get back into the moment by asking one simple question:

What in this moment is lacking?

If you can name anything, you're not totally in the moment. Focus on how you're breathing. Put your complete awareness on your body and the space around you. Nothing else. Now, from there, ask the question again.

Then light a stick of Sandlewood incense, breathing in the fragrance and releasing the anxiety on the out-breath. Be gentle with yourself, relax, and melt that anxiety and depression away!

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