A few months back, I started seeing a ton of post on social media about Essential Oils and how great they are for anxiety, focus, weight loss, hair growth and everything in between. My skeptic hat instantly went on and I thought that this had to be a bunch of crunchy-granola-hippy-dippy shiznit. I shook my head and brushed off all these fabulous claims thinking that there’s no way it could actually work.
A few weeks later I was on a girls getaway and suffered
from an unexpected anxiety attack (for those of you who have never experienced
one, you don’t always know what causes it or how to prevent it, so it can be a
major pain in the 'arse'). After a sleepless night I treated myself to a massage
hoping that it would help. The therapist asked if there was a certain scent I
wanted used for my massage and I told her whatever would help kick anxiety out.
She claimed that she had just the thing. I saw her shake two little bottles
into her hand and quickly rub them together. She told me to close my eyes and
take three deep breaths. With each breath, a sense of calming came over me and
I got this weird tingly feeling. I instantly had to remind myself that there’s
no way this is actually working – but then I took another breath and felt even
more relaxed, ok, maybe there’s something to this… with the third breath I was
in a deeply relaxed state and the therapist had yet to lay a finger on me.
After our 60 minutes were up, I asked her what she used in the beginning. She
told me it was a combination of Lavender and Orange essential oils and that
there are millions of little sensors in our nose that help transmit emotions
and (a bunch of other hippy-dippy words) to our brains.
This sent me into a researching frenzy. I read blog after
blog about how Essentials Oils worked, the different brands, the different ways
you get duped, everything! I figured I would try it out and ordered a set via
Amazon. Word the wise, don’t bother. The ones on Amazon are crap. There are
only two brands that are certified to be ingested (taken orally) and that’s
DoTerra or Young Living. I did a lot more research after sending back the bogus
Amazon set (thank you Amazon Prime) I decided to go with one of the bigger
brands – Young Living.
