Essential Oils and Emotions

Registered Aromatherapist, Melissa Holman, specializes in helping her emotionally numb clients return to wholeness with essential oils.

Your brain is the primary control center for all your body functions, including your emotions.  It controls how your body performs, informs what emotions to elicit, and how it responds when injured.  When your body experiences stress or injury, the brain is responsible for reacting and providing the necessary responses to ensure survival. Aromatherapy can help move your body from a state of stress to relaxation.

Your brain cannot perceive between a real or imagined stressor and will always seek survival.

Whether you’re being chased by a bear or worrying about how to pay your bills, your brain sees these scenarios as dangerous. As someone who experiences emotional disconnect, you have told your brain that your emotions are not safe, so your brain also views emotional experiences as hazardous.  It activates the stress response, the Sympathetic Nervous System, to create the necessary survival response within your body. 

Occasional stress has a positive intention of ensuring your survival.  However, chronic stress creates within your body an unsustainable way of being.  Chronic stress prevents your mind, body, and spirit from working in unison, and dis-ease enters.