GROUPING OF ESSENTIAL OILS BY EFFECTS ON THE PSYCHE
Essential oils that effect the psyche are divided into several groups. The main impacts to consider are stimulation, relaxation and adaptation. There is also a group of essential oils harmonizing the psychophysical condition and stabilizing emotions. The impact on the human condition also plays an important role in the degree of volatility of essential oils.
The stimulating effect of essential oils:
It manifests itself in toning the nervous system, the sense of “raising energy”, enhancing physical and mental performance, improve concentration and focus. Most of the essential oils bears the effect of stimulation, but to different degrees. The stimulatory effect is divided into three levels, high, medium and light. Essential oils with high stimulant effect are called strong stimulants…
Psychosomatic relates to a physical disorder that is caused by or notably influenced by emotional factors. Diagnosing the mental status of a person can be helped by the use of essential oils. In aromatherapy it is based on the selection of your favorite essential oils arranged according to the degree of pleasantness. It is done to determine the individual course of aromatherapy with the aim of improving the psychosomatic state of the individual. In this articles I give basic information to define your own psychological state.
The main means of aroma technology is the use of a set of essential oils that are relaxing, adapting, stimulating, harmonizing and stabilizing. For example, I often use a minimal set which consists of essential oils with relaxing ylang-ylang or chamomile, adaptogenic bergamot or juniper, stimulating ginger or lemongrass, harmonizing incense and stabilizing emotions rose. If your set has about 15-20 aromatherapy essential oils, mix 2-3 oils from each group to influence your psychosomatic condition. Choosing essential oils for your own aromatherapy kit is based on the main effects of the essential oils below…
Understanding the mental state of the client can be identified using the so-called rapid diagnosis method by choosing one essential oil that is in the superlative degree in comparison with other essential oils. This gives an incomplete picture, but will become clear through interviews, testing, etc.
Which oil defines the human condition? It turns out that in addition to the main effects of the essential oil used for relaxing, adaptogen, stimulating, harmonizing and stabilizing emotions it is more than diagnostic characteristics. The main rule is the essential oil for diagnostic must be the only one you really like. It must be the only essential oil that you can really distinguish from other essential oils as the most-loved for yourself. The following is a description of essential oils for the express aroma diagnostic.
Anise: Neurotic depression, nervous tension, irritability, reduced efficiency.
Orange: Depression symptoms, fatigue, anxiety, emotional lability…