Aromatherapy for Depression
Using aromatherapy to treat depression
can help lighten your spirits
Using aromatherapy for depression really can help lift your mood, especially in partnership with other happiness-boosting activities such as exercise and healthy eating.
Aromatherapy can help ease that awful sense of being "stuck" that often comes with depression.
It's also useful for relieving some of the symptoms of depression.
For example, aromatherapy depression recipes can help...
- ease anxiety
- relieve tension
- reduce stress
- calm fear
- quiet restlessness
- soften irritability
- relieve insomnia
- boost low energy
- improve poor concentration
Aromatherapy won't "cure" depression, but it does trigger a positive emotional and physical response by stimulating your body's limbic and endocrine systems, which are important in regulating depression.
Click here for more information on how these systems affect mood.
It's best to use aromatherapy for depression to support other treatments if your depression is severe or unmanageable.
Aromatherapy for Depression
Make Your Own Aromatherapy Inhaler
This portable little aromatherapy inhaler is great because you can carry it in your bag or keep it in your desk (keep an extra one in your car - it's great for road rage!) and use it whenever you need a lift.
Pour a teaspoon of coarse sea salt in a very small dark glass or PET plastic bottle and add 10 drops Bergamot, 5 drops Grapefruit, 4 drops Sweet Orange and 1 drop Geranium essential oil.
To use, take three long, slow, deep breaths of the aroma.
If you're really stressed out or miserable, take a short break, then take three more deep breaths. You can do this up to three times.
Citrus essential oils are particularly good for lifting spirits, and their uplifting effects are
amplified when you combine them with the nerve-soothing properties of lavender and chamomile or the
hormone balancing effects of geranium or rose essential oils.
Look for other mood-improving recipes containing these essential oils in the bath oil,
bath salts and
massage oil sections.
Need Ingredients?
You can find an excellent selection of essential oils
at Mountain Rose Herbs(organic and plain.) They also have some nice little
glass bottles for storing your aromatherapy recipes.
(Just remember to use dark glass - essential oils are light sensitive.)
Herbal Remedies for Depression
In addition to using aromatherapy for depression, you can also help ease depression by using herbal supplements.
Native Remedies carries a few good herbal remedies for depression.
- Melancholy Lift: A homeopathic remedy temporarily relieves feelings of melancholy, sadness, grief and weepiness
- Mood Tonic Tissue Salts: Optimize the nrevous system, lift mood and reduce anxiety
- SAD Sooother: A homeopathic remedy temporarily relieves feelings of sadness related to the winter season
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What Next?
Why not try these other aromatherapy depression recipes...
Happy Aromatherapy Bath Salt Recipe
Come back to your happy place with these uplifting bath salts.
Tension and stress melt away as this recipe balances your nervous system (and your mood!)
Super-Relaxing Aromatherapy Bath Oil Recipe
Take a slow, deep breath of this super-relaxing aromatherapy bath oil and feel all the bad stuff slide away.
This restful, grounding recipe with sandalwood and lavender will leave you feeling calm and at peace.
Uplifting Aromatherapy Massage Oil Recipe
When you're down in the dumps, use this uplifting, sweetly scented massage oil with bergamot and ylang ylang to dissolve tension and raise your spirits.
Aromatherapy Diffuser Recipes
Use these mood-lifting, stress-reducing aromatherapy diffuser recipes to fill your space with healing aromas.
Use the Fresh Mint blend for a burst of positive energy, the Floral Lavender blend to relax tension, or the Sweetly Sensual to get back inside your skin.
Balancing Aromatherapy Bath Oil Recipe
If your depression is related to hormone imbalance such as PMS or menopause, try this soothing recipe to balance your hormones... and your mood.
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