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Aromatherapy for Depression

Easy to make depression natural remedies to lighten your load




Using aromatherapy for depression really can help lift your mood, especially in partnership with other happiness-boosting activities like exercise and healthy eating.


If you're sad, tired, irritable or just generally not yourself, these natural depression remedies might be just the pick-me-up you need.


Aromatherapy home remedies for depression can help ease that awful sense of being "stuck" that often comes with depression. They're also useful for relieving some of the various symptoms of depression.


For example, aromatherapy depression home remedies 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 to learn how aromatherapy affects mood.


It's best to use aromatherapy for depression to support other treatments if your depression is severe or unmanageable. Please do not use information from Easy-Aromatherapy-Recipes.com to diagnose or treat a medical or psychological condition. Click here to see full disclaimer.


orange essential oil for depression

Best Essential Oils for Depression

Benzoin, bergamot, chamomile, cinnamon, clary sage, cypress, frankincense, geranium, ginger, grapefruit, helichrysum, jasmine, juniper, lavender, lemon, lemongrass, orange, palmarosa, patchouli, peppermint, petitgrain, pine, rose, sandalwood, spruce, vanilla, vetiver, ylang ylang

Essential Oil Blends for Depression

Every winter I get seriously depressed, exhausted and anxious. I've tried everything except prescription medications.

Since finding dōTERRA essential oils, I've really turned a corner. I'm managing my depression, my energy levels are more consistent and my panic attacks are way down.

If you're seriously looking for some real, working natural remedies for depression without harmful side effects, weight gain or addiction, read on to see what I use.


Elevation
Joyful Blend

especially good for SAD
Balance
Grounding Blend

(my favorite!)
Serenity
Calming Blend

sweet & more relaxing than straight lavender
Citrus Bliss
Reviving Blend

smells like orange cake :)
Click to buy. (Click on Shop for Products in the top right corner, choose your country and click through to Oil Blends.) Or contact me to get a wholesale discount.

Aromatherapy for Depression
Make Your Own Aromatherapy Inhaler

natural remedies for depression 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 one of the following blends:


Mood Lifter for Irritable Depression
  • 10 drops Bergamot essential oil
  • 5 drops Grapefruit
  • 4 drops Sweet Orange
  • 1 drop Geranium essential oil
  • 1 drop Ylang Ylang essential oil

Comforting Blend for Grief-Related Depression
  • 10 drops Rose Absolute or Rose Otto essential oil
  • 4 drops Sandalwood essential oil
  • 4 drops Neroli OR Petitgrain essential oil

Soothing Blend for Anxious Depression
  • 8 drops Lavender essential oil
  • 8 drops Grapefruit essential oil
  • 2 drops Marjoram essential oil
  • 1 drop Chamomile essential oil
  • 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.


When the scent in your aromatherapy inhaler fades, just add in another batch of the essential oils, give the bottle a shake and you're good to go again.


Another great option is to make the above blends into a bath or body oil. Simply add the essential oils to 2oz (1/4 cup) aromatherapy carrier oil of your choice.

natural remedies for depression

What Next?

Look through the bath oil, bath salt and massage oil recipes. There's a lot of aromatherapy home remedies for depression that can help! Here's a sample for you to check out... Choose one or two depending on the symptoms that are bothering you the most and give them a try - it really can't hurt!


Tension Tamer Bath Salts

Happy Aromatherapy Bath Oil

Stress Relief Massage Oil

Summer Rose Bath Salts

Aromatherapy Diffuser Recipes

Aromatherapy Remedies Main Page

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Aromatherapy for Depression - The Search Continues!

Use the search box below to find more home remedies for depression.


Just type the word "depression" (without the quotes) into the search box, click on the search button, and every page on this site that contains the word Depression will appear. You can also do this to find aromatherapy recipes using any of the essential oils for depression.



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Best Essential Oils for Depression

Mountain Rose Herbs is my most popular supplier for all thing aromatherapy. Here's some quick links for the best essential oils for depression.

Bergamot

Chamomile

Cinnamon

Clary Sage

Frankincense

Geranium

Ginger

Grapefruit

Helichrysum

Jasmine

Juniper

Lavender

Lemon

Lemongrass

Orange

Palmarosa

Patchouli

Peppermint

Petitgrain

Pine

Rose

Sandalwood

Spruce

Vanilla

Vetiver

Ylang Ylang

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