How Are You Feeling Today?
Have you paused recently to check in on your wellbeing?
As we transition from the pandemic and embrace a new chapter, the challenges of the past years have highlighted the importance of self-care and mental resilience.
In this blog, we’ll explore practical strategies and insights to support your mental health, offering guidance on how to navigate the post-pandemic landscape with renewed strength and clarity.
Join us as we dive into the tools and practices that can help you make self-care a regular part of your life.
Taking Care of Our Mental Health
Whether we have a diagnosed mental health problem or not, we should all be taking care of our wellbeing.
Mental and emotional wellbeing describes how you are feeling in the moment, and can change day to day.
Though it is important to embrace our emotional lows, there are practical steps we can take to improve and maintain our wellbeing, including making more time for ourselves and building inner resilience.
Learning Optimism
Neuroscience shows us that it is possible to increase our positivity.
The brain is shaped by our life experience, but also responds to training. By adopting a ‘growth mindset’, or habitual behaviours, you can train your brain to think more optimistically and experience greater positivity.
Strengthening our wellbeing requires practice: it is the multiple repeats and rituals that form the neural connections to make a habit out of optimism.
Training our Minds to Cultivate Positivity
Neuroscientist and Aromatherapy Associates brand ambassador, Dr Tara Swart, advocates using daily self-care rituals to elevate our optimism, so we can direct our actions and emotions to manifest positive days.
"The connection between aroma and channelling the power of your brain is incredibly strong, since the olfactory nerve connects the nose directly to the limbic system: the intuitive, emotional pathways of the brain.
Triggering your olfactory system can alter your overall wellbeing in a positive manner, both emotionally and physically.
We can use smell alongside visualisation to trigger the brain to create positive associations, or what I like to call “the smell of success”.
When we start to align smell with positive habits, positive change can come. I have been using Aromatherapy Associates' Rose range to set my day up with the best intentions."
The essential oil blend works on a therapeutic level to transform your mind and body. When you inhale Aromatherapy Associates’ Rose blend, the act of inhalation stimulates the olfactory nerve, which travels into the part of the brain associated with emotion, triggering feelings of optimism and boosting your mood.
Our Rose Essential Oil Blend Collection
Every product in this collection was formulated to uplift our mood, helping us feel empowered and resilient, and giving us the inner strength to cope with whatever life may bring.
Long known for its uplifting and anti-depressant properties, Rose is one of the most powerful oils in the aromatherapist’s toolkit.
Known for it's antidepressant and sedative properties (*Avicenna Journal of Phytomedicine), with a warming and relaxing scent to help reduce stress and tension, calm the nervous system and uplift our senses when we are in need of emotional support.
This collection was also formulated with Geranium oils, a tonic for the adrenal cortex - a gland that regulates the release of hormones.
This essential oil helps to balance the hormonal system during times of hormonal change, relaxing the mind, calming agitation and easing mood swings (*International Journal of Preventative Medicine).
Bring home our Rose wonders
Our mental health should be prioritised every day
While it might come as effortless to check in on friends and family, it is always important to think of yourself and your own self-care.
Are you making time, however short or long, to check in with yourself?
