Using Essential Oils to Help Balance Your Life
Last Updated on February 2, 2022 by Organic Aromas
With how busy our lives have become in today’s modern age, it’s no surprise many of us are suffering from a bit of imbalance. Schedules, professional lives, home lives, moods, and appetites are all feeling the consequences of living an unbalanced life, and aromatherapy with essential oils could be what you’ve been looking for to get things back on track. Using your nebulizing diffuser, essential oils can target every specific reason for your lack of balance, and bring you to a place that is filled with calm and contentment once again.
Essential Oils for Balanced Sleep
An estimated 30% of Americans report sleeping for only 6 or fewer hours per night according to a study performed by the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention. A lack of sleep inhibits hormone production, it causes brain fog and lack of cognitive ability, effects mood, and even suppresses the immune system – hardly creating the atmosphere needed for a balanced life. Lavender essential oil in a diffuser can help to soothe your body and relax your mind, inducing sleep when you need it most. This sleep support effect can help to bring balance not only to your life, but to your body’s energy stores as well.
Lavender isn’t the only essential oil to benefit sleep, and when mixed with chamomile essential oil you can ramp up the soothing and comforting aromatherapy benefits.
Treating Yourself Kindly With Essential Oils
Sometimes the biggest thing you can do to bring balance to your life is to treat yourself kindly. All too often we place incredible pressures on ourselves and beat ourselves up for not making unreasonable expectations, and it does nothing to balance our emotions and our well-being. Showing yourself some self-care and self-love once in a while can help to lift your spirits in a really amazing way, and this is where essential oils come in.
Essential oils can be enjoyed in more ways than aromatherapy necklaces or oil diffusers. With a carrier oil, they can also be added to a bath or bath products to provide yourself with a luxurious and pampering experience. Energizing oils like bergamot or spearmint, or soothing oils like lavender and chamomile, help to bring you away from those negative thoughts and emotions as you show yourself a little appreciation.
Using Essential Oils In Balancing Digestion
Stress, lack of sleep, and poor nutrition leads to digestion disruption. When your digestion is disrupted, your entire day is thrown off-balance, and reacting to the disruption simply disrupts things even further. Let’s say you’re having a particularly stressful day packed full of activities, so you opt for some fast food to satisfy your hunger. After eating the fast food, you’re left feeling bloated, uncomfortable, and maybe even a little nauseous. While you’re feeling lousy, you may find it hard to fall back to sleep, to continue to eat balanced meals, and to feel good about taking care of the rest of your day.
Essential oils such as peppermint, spearmint, and wintergreen can work brilliantly to combat digestive upset, and can help to balance your life by balancing one of the most important systems in your body. These essential oils can help to alleviate a variety of different digestive issues, helping you to get back on track with the rest of your day.
Keeping our lives in balance is one way not only to keep us happy and feeling good, but to keep our bodies working to the best of their ability. With aromatherapy and essential oils, you can have your own secret weapon against the disadvantages of unbalance right there with you at all times.
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I have to try it! The smell of lavender is my favourite 🙂
I used to burn candles so my house would smell good. When I switched to essential oil diffusers not only did I save money, but my headaches went away, and I received so many compliments!
Really useful to know which essential oils help with different areas of our lives, be it sleep or just needing to be kinder to ourselves.
the part about herbal and digestion was particularly useful to me.
I really need to do these, especially the one to balance sleep.
I love essential oils, they always calm me.
I use essential oils for all kinds of things from diffusers to cleaning thank you for the information
Essential oils help me with my severe anxiety as well as sleeping better.
I never go anywhere without my lavender, my peppermint, my tea tree and my frankincense oils. They truly keep me tick rocking through each day!
Meditating with the wonderful aromas helps me focus, or not as the case mey be. 🙂
Great article! My faves are ginger, jasmine, sandalwood, and patchouli
Some good ideas always interesting to read about benefits of essential oils
Great detailed information! A great read!
Essential oils sound very useful. Thanks for sharing!
I need this for me and my daugther
I keep a bottle of lavender EO in the fridge, ready for the oil burner if Ive had a stressful day, on my pillow if I’m having problems sleeping, but more importantly for burns….I use it a lot of that!
I love using essential oils – so relaxing
that essential oil can relax your mind inducing sleep.
In our Diabetes Ed classes, we preach the importance of quality sleep. We are now recommending the use of lavender🌱
Whisper helps me sleep. Thanks for sharing.
Some really useful information.
This would be ideal to balance my lifestyle
Definitely need to balance my digestion 🙂
I didn’t know essential oils could help so much
Balanced sleep is much needed.
The sense of smell is one of my five favorite senses.😁
I need to get into these oils more. I need to learn how to relax and sleep better.There are so many good uses for them. I agree with some of the other comments that they don’t like taking pills and medication for everything these days!
I heart olfactory stimuli!
Great information on how to use these oils!
I have heard about essential oils but never tried them. They do sound great!
I am just getting into the essential oils and love it! They have helped my family and I so much. I have been using a bit of peppermint when I have an upset tummy and it has worked better then any meds I have ever taken for it. I love the smells and the miraculous wonders they do!
aroma oils are great for relaxing
Essential oils are great for relaxing
Thank you for the great article. I use essential oils daily and so do my daughters! I’m diffusing a bit of patchouli with a touch of lavender and a soupcon of clary sage as we speak. So relaxing
Every house should have Essential oil of Lavender in their medicine cabinet! 🙂
Good Info
What great benefits that can come with having your house smell nice.
Love this. Great info. Thank You!
I feel like the problems of the world can be solved with essential oils ;). I just had an event that got me upset a few minutes ago, so now I’m diffusing frankincense, clary sage, copaiba, and sandalwood. SO good! Feeling calmer, more balanced already :).
I love EOs. I put a drop or two of lavender EO on the soles of my feet right before bed. I truly believe I sleep so much better now.
Using essential oils is a great way to improve mental, physical and spiritual health
My daughters looked into oils for health reasons for me when I was diagnosed with cancer. They don’t feel right with me taking morphine and all these meds for the pain. Plus they wanted something extra for healing purposes. I have my Himalayan Salt lamp going all the time.
I have used spearmint, lavender and chamomile oils. I have also drunk peppermint, spearmint, and chamomile teas. Especially to settle my stomach after chemo. They do help! Oils are cheaper and better than all the chemical meds. Thank you for sharing!
Almost this entire article applies to my life. I’m still learning but I think that essential oils would greatly benefit me, especially in the sleeping department.
Essential oils for an upset stomach would help a lot.
Great suggestions! We definitely don’t get enough sleep in this house.
Love this..thanks for the tips. I’ve been using different essential oils lately and I love the results.
i think this is great for pretty much everything!
I love diffusing essential oils. My favorite to start the day is a blend of Sweet Orange, Fir Needle and Lavender.
Would like to try to help with digestion.