Aromatherapy Blends
"We can create new emotional pathways using scent, which can have a positive impact on how we process daily challenges and behave amidst confrontation. It adds up, scientifically speaking: According to Psychology Today, scents are processed first in the olfactory bulb, from the interior of your nose, before heading back along the bottom of your brain. This matters because your olfactory bulb has direct connections to two brain areas that are strongly implicated in emotion and memory: the amygdala and hippocampus. So when you take in a scent, you are instantly “transported” to a time or a sensation. Visual, auditory, and tactile (the stuff you see, hear, and touch) information does not pass through these brain areas. This may be why scent, more than any other sense, is so successful at triggering emotions." - Yoga Journal

