Psychologist Robert Plutchik created the wheel of emotions. He believes there are eight primary emotions: Joy, Trust, Fear, Sadness, Surprise, Anger, Disgust, and Anticipation. The wheel illustrates different connections among each one.
Essential oils are being recognized for their incredible abilities to help balance emotions. Even hospitals are using aromatherapy for a patient's emotional needs.
They have the ability to calm, help with sleep, and bring about a relaxing environment.
Essential oils are capable of triggering emotions and memories by their complex, pleasant, and unique scents. Your sense of smell is so powerful it can recover memories from childhood; for example, the scent of an apple cinnamon pie can bring back happy memories of your grandmother baking in the kitchen. The scents, whether pleasant or disagreeable, stimulates the olfactory system; this is the part of the brain connected to smell. When the smell reaches the brain, it affects the limbic system, which is linked to the emotions, the heart rate, blood pressure, breathing, memory, stress, and hormone balance.
The Wheel of Emotion - Recommended Essential oils:
Sadness: Joy, Orange, Lavender, Stress Away
Trust: Copaiba, Forgiveness, Harmony
Disgust: Australian Blue, Grounding, Frankincense
Anger: Purification, Trauma Life, Peppermint
Anticipation: Surrender, Inner Child, Motivation, Transformation
Surprise: Release, Present Time, Live Your Passion
You can purchase any of these blends on my website: https://essenty.com/CarlaGibson
Most of these oils discussed are available in the Feelings Collection, designed with 6 essential oils that inspire feelings of emotional well-being when diffused.
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