Aromatherapy is used for many things. It can excite the mind or it can calm the brain. There are more than 500 different essential oils that are recommended for various reasons by aromatherapists to address various issues.

As humans we can become stressed and agitated by many outside forces. There are things that we have absolutely no control over than can make us become anxious, fearful or just stressed. Many times there really isn’t much we can do to change these events that bring on our stress, anxiety or fear but there is something that we can do to help us cope with these feeling and calm ourselves and even the people around us. Sometimes calming the people around us helps to restore calmness to ourselves.

Bergamot is a calming essential oil. It will stop those butterflies from flitting around in us or in the tummies of a stressed out child. Just a few drops on a cotton ball or tissue can make those butterflies be still.

Bergamot is not only calming for humans both large and small; it is also calming to animals. A dog that is agitated can be quieted by sniffing bergamot. Bergamot is often used to quiet temperamental and stressed out horses. Just a few drops of bergamot that has been diluted in carrier oil on the hand of an owner or trainer can quiet the fears of an animal when the animal smells the hand.

Frankincense is another calming essential oil. Frankincense possesses the unique ability to clear the energy field of memories of past hurts and fears. It has calming and relaxing properties that will help to easy the anxiety of a stressful situation for human adults and children as well as for animals.

Other essential oils that will help to restore calmness are juniper, lavender, chamomile, orange, basil, lemon and cypress.

Juniper helps to relieve a worried mind.
Lavender soothes frazzled nerves.
Chamomile provides deep relaxation.
Orange helps to promote self assurance.
Basil, lemon and cypress all help to provide focus which has a calming effect.

Often when people think of aromatherapy they only think of it benefiting human adults but this is far from the truth. Actually humans have the least developed sense of smell that almost any other animal on earth. Animals can be calmed with aromatherapy just like humans. Human children will react to aromatherapy in the same way that adults do. The same essential oils that will provide calming to a human adult can also provide calming to children and to animals.

If you can quiet a dog that is anxious and barking, you will restore calmness to yourself as well and possibly to the neighborhood. If you can quiet a child that is agitated fearful and crying, you will also restore calmness to yourself and to the household. Never discount the value of aromatherapy for yourself as well as for those around you. Aromatherapy is powerful. It has the ability to restore peace and harmony that has been lost and restore calmness to all.