Essential Oils for Mood Management

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What are essential oils?

Essential oils are aromatic compounds found in the seeds, bark, stems, roots, flowers, and other parts of plants. Plants have been used for years as medicine and healing agents. The healing properties of these different plants can be found in the esential oil form of these natural medicines.

What is aromatherapy?

Aromatherapy is the therapeutic technique of using essential oils through inhalation often through a diffuser. The benefits of essential oils can also be absorbed through the skin by diluting and applying them on your body and some are safe to ingest.

How does aromatherapy work?

The molecules in essential oils enter your system through small receptors in your nose or through the skin. They then enter blood vessels, get circulated throughout the body and communicate with your cells in different ways. On an emotional level, essential oils have been shown to work by positively affect the nervous system and the limbic system of the brain (center of emotions).

Essential oils have been proven to have a therapeutic effect on different emotional conditions and states such as anxiety, depression, irritability, moodiness and insomnia.

Because different plants have different healing effects, different essential oils are used for different symptoms and conditions.

The most effective essential oils I have found for mood management are through DoTerra.

Why?

Through their Emotional Aromatherapy Kit, Do Terra has created essential oil BLENDS that combine different oils, making them effective for different emotional states.

As a science-y, book-lover gal that only likes to use research-based techniques, I spent a few days reading up on essential oils for mental health and mood management to ensure they matched up with the DoTerra blends. And guess what? They do!

Below the kit description, I list various symptoms/emotional states and the essential oils recommended for those states from science-based literature. I’ve then matched up which blend from the DoTerra Emotional Aromatherapy Kit is best to use for that state (i.e. that blend has the most essential oils from the science-based recommendations for that state).

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What's in the DoTerra Emotional Aromatherapy Kit?

MOTIVATE

Peppermint, clementine, coriander, basil, melissa, rosemary, yuzu

$39.33 CAD

FORGIVE

Spruce, bergamot, juniper, myrrh, arborvitae, thyme, citronella, Nootka tree wood

$34.33 CAD

CHEER

Wild orange, clove, lemon, nutmeg, ginger, cinnamon, star anise, vanilla bean

$42.67 CAD

CONSOLE

Frankincense, patchouli, ylang ylang, sandalwood, rose, amyris, osmanthus

$63.33 CAD

PASSION

Cardamom, cinnamon, ginger, clove bud, sandalwood, jasmine, vanilla bean, damiana, coconut oil

$57.89 CAD

PEACE

Vetiver, lavender, ylang ylang, frankincense, clary sage, marjoram, spearmint

$51.33 CAD

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Which one for which state?

Anxiety &Worry

General Anxiety

Best oils to use: bergamot, vetiver, juniper, patchouli, lavender, sandalwood, cedarwood, frankinscence, clary sage, geranium, rose otto, melissa, neroli
Best DoTerra blend (combines the most oils from above) = PEACE and CONSOLE

Stress

Best oils to use: lavender, ylang ylang, clary sage, frankincense, sandalwood, geranium, chamomile roman
Best DoTerra blend = PEACE

Fear

Best oils to use: sandalwood, vetiver, bergamot, cedarwood, frankincense, lavender, lemon, orange, basil, clary sage, cypress
Best DoTerra blend = PEACE

Fear of Failure

Best oils to use: coriander, ylang ylang, frankincense, basil, fennel
Best DoTerra blend to use = PEACE with MOTIVATE

Fear of Change

Best oils to use: ylang ylang, frankincense, lavender
Best DoTerra blend to use = PEACE

Doubt

Best oils to use: coriander, ylang ylang, basil, frankincense
Best DoTerra blend to use = MOTIVATE with PEACE

Panic Attacks

Best oils to use: lavender, frankincense
Best blend to use = PEACE

Depression & Sadness

General Feelings of Sadness or Depression

Best oils to use: bergamot, orange, ylang ylang, clary sage, lavender, lemon, jasmine, sandalwood, frankincense
Best DoTerra blend to use = PEACE

Crying Frequently

Best oils to use: sandalwood, patchouli, ylang ylang, rose otto, geranium, chamomile roman, neroli
Best DoTerra blend to use = CONSOLE

Anxious or Agitated Depression

Best oils to use: lavender, bergamot, lemon, orange, nutmeg, chamomile roman, cedarwood
Best DoTerra blend to use = CHEER

Lethargic Depression (sleeping a lot)

Best oils to use: clary sage, eucalyptus, cypress, peppermint, grapefruit, rosemary, melissa

Best DoTerra blend to use = MOTIVATE

Moodiness

Best oils to use: ylang ylang, lavender, patchouli, lemon, eucalyptus
Best DoTerra blend to use = CONSOLE

Feelings of Worthlessness

Best oils to use: frankincense, sandalwood, clove, cedarwood, geranium, chamomile roman
Best DoTerra blend to use = CONSOLE with PASSION

For Addictive Behaviours

Best oils to use: vetiver, rose otto, basil, frankincense
Best DoTerra blend to use = PEACE

Grief

Best oils to use: bergamot, vanilla, spruce, thyme, frankincense, nutmeg, chamomile
Best DoTerra blend to use = FORGIVE with CONSOLE

Guilt

Best oils to use: bergamot, thyme, clary sage, nutmeg, ylang ylang, vetiver
Best DoTerra blend to use = FORGIVE with PEACE

To Increase Self-Esteem

Best oils to use: vetiver, sandalwood, ylang ylang, jasmine, bergamot, cedar wood, geranium, rose maroc
Best DoTerra blend to use = PEACE

To Improve Self-Image

Best oils to use: orange, ylang ylang, jasmine, cypress, cedarwood, black pepper, lavender, sandalwood, juniper, frankincense
Best DoTerra blend to use = CONSOLE

Irritability & Agitation

Anger

Best oils to use: lavender, vetiver, ylang ylang, bergamot, patchouli, rose otto, chamomile roman & german, cedarwood
Best DoTerra blend to use = PEACE and/or CONSOLE

Irritability

Best oils to use: ylang ylang, lavender, melissa, coriander, cypress, chamomile roman & German
Best DoTerra blend to use = PEACE with MOTIVATE

Quarrelsomeness (argumentative)

Best oils to use: clary sage, lemon, patchouli, clove, lavender, sandalwood
Best blend to use - PEACE and CONSOLE

Insomnia & Fatigue

Exhaustion

Best oils to use: bergamot, rosemary, eucalyptus, cypress, ginger, grapefruit, lemon, pine, frankincense, cardamom
Best DoTerra blend to use = PASSION with CHEER (use in the morning)

Insomnia

Best oils to use: lavender, clary sage, sandalwood, vetiver, chamomile roman valerian
Best DoTerra blend to use = PEACE or SERENITY (use at night)

For Alertness

Best oils to use: cardamom, basil, rosemary, coriander, cinnamon, eucalyptus, juniper, thyme, peppermint, bergamot
Best DoTerra blend to use = MOTIVATE

For Concentration

Best oils to use: lemon, lemongrass, cardamom, orange, rosemary, peppermint, basil, bergamot, cedarwood, eucalyptus
Best DoTerra blend to use = MOTIVATE

To Grow & Rise

For Greater Confidence

Best oils to use: coriander, bergamot, jasmine, rosemary, cypress, cardamom, ginger, grapefruit, pine, orange
Best DoTerra blend to use = PASSION and/or MOTIVATE

For Greater Assertion

Best oils to use: jasmine, cypress, frankinscence, ylang, ylang, bergamot, cardamom, basil, ginger, patchouli, coriander, orange, black pepper
Best DoTerra blend to use = PASSION

For Greater Creativity

Best oils to use: bergamot, frankinscence, lemon, geranium, rose otto, jasmine, clove, saldalwood, juniper
Best DoTerra blend to use = PASSION with CONSOLE

For Self-Awareness

Best oils to use: clary sage, cypress, pine, clove, coriander, sage, ylang ylang, sandalwood, jasmine, orange
Best DoTerra blend to use = PEACE or PASSION

For Meditation