Helping Kids Calm Anxiety with Essential Oils
Diffusing Sweet Orange is a great way to calm anxiety with essential oils—especially for kids.
When kids reach a certain age, it's common for them to have some anxiety now and then.
Like at bedtime.
Well, I'd like to introduce you to my friend, sweet orange! It knows just how to calm anxiety with essential oils, and it's very popular among children. (Kids tend to love orange's familiar, fruity, bright scent.)
And can you believe it? Bedtime anxiety never happens at sweet orange's house.
You might think sweet orange has "the magic touch" with kids . . . but there's a lot of science behind its soothing actions!
Sweet orange's natural components are known to relax the nervous system and help the mind release worry and fear.
It's emotionally comforting, like a security blanket in a bottle.
I want to share a diffuser blend that I created for my book, The Heart of Aromatherapy. It's called Orange's "Sweet Retreat" Diffuser Blend.
I created both adults and kids' versions of every recipe in The Heart of Aromatherapy. I like to use less essential oil for kids because their systems tend to be smaller and more sensitive than grown-ups'. Using too much essential oil might get overwhelming for them.
This is the kids' version.
Orange's "Sweet Retreat" Diffuser Blend
Diffuser this blend whenever you want to help calm anxiety with essential oils.
Ingredients
2 drops Gingergrass Oil (Cymbopogon martinii sofia)
2 drops Orange Oil (Citrus sinensis)
1 drop Geranium Oil (Pelargonium x asperum)t
Equipment
Directions
Add the drops of essential oil to a diffuser.
Sweet orange is such a friendly, soothing oil that in The Heart of Aromatherapy, I imagined it would have a peaceful house in the middle of a fruit orchard. (Wouldn't you like to bring the kids there and let them play all day among the fruit trees? And then see them slip off to sleep peacefully at night? What a sweet dream!)
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