Numerous essential oils are linked to anxiety reduction. They include lavender, cinnamon, cedar wood, lime, rose, orange, and many other essential oils. If you already have relaxation techniques to help you deal with your anxiety, you may want to mix essential oils into those routines to make them even more effective. Here are some ideas to explore.

Meditation

If you use meditation to help with your anxiety, you may want to set up some soothing essential oils in the room where you meditate. Consider releasing the odours of essential oils into the room using a diffuser.

If you have a steam therapy machine, you may want to put essential oils for anxiety in that as well. These machines heat water to high temperatures so it turns into vapor. If there's a few drops of essential oils in the water, that gets into the vapor, and you get to inhale it.

Muscle Relaxation

Muscle relaxation is another technique many people use to fight anxiety. This can take a number of different forms. For instance, you may sit in a quiet room, alternating clenching and relaxing your muscles. It usually works the best to do this from your toes to the top of your head.

These exercises help to make you aware of tension in your body so that you don't hold onto it. You can integrate oil with a diffuser or steam therapy as indicated above. Alternatively, you may want to move your muscle relaxation routine into the bathtub. There, the hot water can also help to relax you, and you can easily add a few drops of oils to the bath.

Hair Care

Some people like to alleviate symptoms of anxiety by pampering themselves, and if doing your hair is part of that, you may want to add essential oils to your hair. You can add the drops directly to your hair, or you can mix them into your shampoo or conditioner.

Additionally, if you play with your hair or "hide behind" your hair as a coping mechanism for anxiety out in the world, these essential oils can help. Whenever you touch your hair, you will release the aroma of these anxiety reducing oils. Note that this does not refer to serious issues such as trichotillomania, or compulsive hair pulling. If you use those coping mechanisms for anxiety, you should see a counselor or mental health professional.

Visualization

Along with mediation or on its own, visualization can be another useful way to deal with anxiety. If you visualize a particular "happy place," you may want to use essential oils to help create that visual picture. For example, if there were lots of lavender plants or roses in the garden when you were a child and you love those odours, you may want to use lavender or rose oil.

If you grew up going to a church where frankincense incense was used as part of the ceremony, visualizing those experiences may help you relax. In those cases, you can complement those visualizations with frankincense oil.

Massage

If you use massage to help with your anxiety, you may want to choose a massage artist who is also knowledgeable about essential oils that reduce anxiety. Alternatively, if you bring the oils that help the most with your anxiety, you can simply ask the massage artist to apply them to your body.

Even if you do some small hand or feet massages at home, you should take this approach. Just put a few drops into a carrier oil, and then put it on your hands before you start massaging.

To learn more about which essential oil blends will help your anxiety the most, contact a professional. They can help you figure out which oils to get and how best to use them.