The Complete Guide To Essential Oils: Complete Guide To Essential Oils & Aromatherapy For Weight Loss (2016)

Chapter 1. Aromatherapy

Do you often get tired and stressed in your workout regimes? Do you often fall prey to depression and anxiety after not seeing any significant improvement in your body shape? Do you desperately want to get in your desirable shape but the current practices are not working out for you? If yes, then you need not worry anymore as this book is here to guide you about an exciting thing which could aid in reducing your weight to a great extent.

Losing weight can be a daunting task for most of us. While everyone is excited to get a slim and smart figure, it is only a few which persist in following a strict diet and exercise regime. While exercises and diets are crucial in reducing your weight, they can sometimes take an enormous amount of time to give desirable results.

For most of us, our exercise regimes do not seem effective on our bodies and our diets do not provide any significant reduction to our fats. While many people may continue working out for years, most of us lose hope and give up on our dreams to look slim. Sticking to a strict exercise and diet regime can be stressful for most of us, due to which many people fall into depression and bulimia and move further apart from their aims of reducing weight.

In situations like these, you need something which could lift your moods and fill you with a determination and motivation to reduce the excess weight gained. You need something to enhance your mental health so you could control your cravings in a better way and persist in your workouts no matter how hard they seem. This is where aromatherapy steps in. It enhances your energy, lifts your mood, reduces your stress and improves your physical and mental well being. It is when you are energized, motivated and fit that you will be able to concentrate on your aim and get in your desirable shape.

Before we move on to tell you how aromatherapy can aid in reducing weight, let us tell you what aromatherapy really is. Aromatherapy is a technique in which controlled amount of essential oils are used to enhance one’s physical, mental and spiritual well being. You might be thinking here that this book is about some sweet and mesmerizing scents, like those of some perfumes, which help us feel better whenever we smell them. To break your bubble, aromatherapy is not about smelling all good scents. There are only specific scents of some oils which are known to be effective with our health and fitness.

A few of you might have heard your grandparents telling you about using oils to treat their diseases. Hence usage of oils for treatments is not a new thing as these oils have been curing people in ancient times as well. This is especially true for people of India and Rome who used to rely on the usage of some essential oils for their health and fitness. The good news is that these oils actually work and enhance your physical, mental and spiritual well-being. When they could cure people of ancient civilizations, they could cure you as well.

What Are Essential Oils?

Now that you’ve heard about the importance of some oils, let us tell you the oils which are known for their therapeutic powers. Like we mentioned earlier, not all oils will reduce your stress or help you in controlling your hunger. It is only an‘Essential Oil’ which could work like magic on your brains and remove your anxieties and depressions.

Essential Oils are all those oils which are extracted from the plants and are famous for their fragrance and their therapeutic effects. Since they are extracted from the plants, they contain the healing powers stored in the leaves and flowers of the plants they are extracted from. You might be expecting these oils to be like those normal oils that you see in the market. Contrary to your belief, however, these oils are not sticky and thick. Some of them, in fact, are clear like water and many of them are in pleasing colors.

The idea of using oils to ensure health may seem absurd to most of you. You might be wondering how mere oils can remove stress and anxieties and reduce the extra calories gained. Well, believe it or not, research has shown that the fragrance of these essential oils stimulates certain parts of your brain, releasing chemicals which make you feel good and energized. You would also start feeling calm and relaxed and worries will go away. It is then that you will be able to concentrate on your workouts and get motivated to continue with your diets no matter how fruitless they may appear. Hence ward off all the doubts that you have about aromatherapy and embark on a journey with us where we will tell you how you could use some essential oils to gain enormous health benefits.

Benefits of Aromatherapy

Weight loss is not the only benefit that you will gain if you use aromatherapy. There are a number of benefits that this technique is here to offer. While some of you may use aromatherapy to cure depressions and anxieties, a lot of people use this method to get rid of their body and muscle aches. Aromatherapy has the power to cure your headaches, lift your moods and improve your digestions so you could eat in an appropriate manner. Even if you experience insomnia and usually have a hard time getting asleep, this technique will make sure that all your worries and problems are removed.

Aromatherapy is also known to be effective in menstrual issues, so women can greatly benefit from this amazing technique. In short, aromatherapy is famous for resolving a lot of our physical, mental and spiritual issues and is effective in curing the problem you want to get rid of. Thus if you constantly experience headache and insomnia or you often feel down and depressed, it is time you invest your resources in this inexpensive healing methodology.

In order to perform aromatherapy, however, a person must know the essential oils which are useful in a particular situation. Thus, let us see some of the oils which are powerful enough to enhance your physical and mental well being.

Lavender Oil

Lavender Oil is a very famous essential oil which is used to cure depression, remove anxieties and alleviate stresses from your lives.

Lemon Oil

Aromatherapy from this citrus fruit is highly beneficial as it will help you relax even in the most stressful situations. Hence delve into a therapy session with this oil after a long and tiring day at work.

Jajoba Oil

Surprised to see Jajoba Oil in this list? Yes it is used in hair related products, but it is also very effective when used in aromatherapy.

There are many other oils such as Avocado, Jasmine and Peppermint oil which deliver all the benefits mentioned above. This is not all, however. There are various considerations which a person will have to take before the therapy and there are many methods which could be used to deliver the results you desire.

Excited to explore this healing methodology? Move on to the next chapter to find out more about its usage and benefits. The next chapter will tell you the exact way to apply aromatherapy so you could easily use it and see improvements in your health and fitness.