Essential Oils

If you suffer from sleeping disorders chances are you’ll be given a prescription for sleeping  pills. Unfortunately there are a lot of side effects with sleeping pills, so you’d be better off in the long run treating yourself using natural insomnia cures with essential oils.

This reliance on sleeping pills is typical of the way we automatically look for the “quick fix”. Granted there may be at times valid reasons to go for the fast and easy solution at times, sleep and insomnia are not effectively treated that way. Use of essential oils will certainly help.

We need between six and eight hours per night, on average, and many studies  have shown that the odd night with less sleep does not harm us . The main reason  many of us struggle the day after a nights bad sleep may paradoxically because we take it too seriously, insomnia. and need to use essential oils. !

It helps to consider at your sleep problems in a philosophical way – the odd night with bad sleep is part of life. Unless your insomnia is frequent and actually disrupts your life, try to to regard nights with less than perfect sleep as a gift of extra hours!  Of course we we all know the feeling that “I really want to go to sleep tonight!” If that occurs now and then consider natural insomnia cures before reaching for sleeping pills – they have no side effects,just essential oils.!

An age old method of falling asleep is to take a warm bath, and adding some drops of essential oils will increase its effectiveness for insomnia .

Here are some useful oils you can try – either one by one or together. Each is unique, so you might find that combining two or more works really well for you.

#    Lavender (Lavandula  Angustifolia)(oils). Has a distinctive and pleasing, relaxing smell, and has been used for centuries.

#    Sandalwood (Santalum Album)(oils). Has a soft fragrance and appeals probably more to men than the other oils mentioned here. It is often used in after -shaves and body lotions aimed at men.

#    Sweet Marjoram (Origanum Majorana)(oils). This herb creates a relaxed, warm feeling and will make you quite drowsy. It is not the same as “Spanish Marjoram”, which has different properties and is a member of the thyme family .

#    Neroli (Citrus Aurantium)(oils). A member of the citrus family, it has a distinctive fragrance and is often said to be particularly effective against insomnia and sleep difficulties.

When using essential oils be aware they are very strong ! Check they are not diluted and blended with other ingredients ( look at the latin description !)and use only 6-8 drops. Use less for children and older people, particularly if they are not healthy

Used correctly essential oils will not have any bad effects but rather enhance the beneficial effect of a warm bath.

Finally – the reason a warm bath works wonders and helps you drop off to sleep is paradoxically because your body body needs to cool down slightly before you can fall asleep . When you take a bath you will naturally warm up , but once you get up the body over compensates, and thus you cool down. Looking for natural insomnia cures (oils)make sure you consider these essential oils !