Effects of Irritability: Using Aromatherapy to Rescue you from Irritability

Irritability is a negative emotion / a negative mental state. It stems from frustrated desire, not getting your own way, or not getting what you want fast enough.

Irritability affects
all of us

Effects of Irritability
Multi-tasking, family pressures, peer pressures, threat of the pink slip, and the awful rat-race, have made this emotion highly prevalent in an urban set-up. Furthermore, irritability and impatience are closely linked, and it is best to deal with the two emotions before they flare up and wreak havoc and may result in depression.

Apart from having an unconstructive and dreadful impact on the psychological well-being, the social interactions, and the professional life, irritability can ruin physical health as well, resulting in innumerable disorders, ranging from headaches, gastric disturbances, shooting blood pressure levels to even heart attacks.

Aromatherapy to Rescue Irritability
Essential oils have a powerful mental, emotional, and psychological effect. They help you to slow down and infuse you with a sense of calmness and peace.

Lavender Aroma Oil is a traditional classic used to curb irritability. The essential oil encourages you to slow down, take some time to reflect on the absurdity of wanting every single thing to happen your way, and helps banish excessive and unfruitful thought processes.

How to Use Aromatherapy to fight Irritability?

Aromatherapy can
reduce irritability

• Regular aromatherapy baths are highly favorable in relieving impatience and irritability. An aroma oil bath assists in soothing mental turmoil. Add the aroma oil to your bath tub, to enjoy a warm, soothing, and relaxing bath.
• Aromatherapy oils make for great massages. A massage has the potential to allay the tension in the muscles, lessen stress, and encourage a feeling of calm and well being.
• Burning the oil in an aromatherapy burner is another effective option. Let the aroma pervade the room and fill you with a sense of peace and tranquility.
• Add a few drops of the oil to a tissue or a handkerchief and keep it with you always. Whenever you feel keyed up or irritable, sniff the lavender oil. It prevents a milder negative emotion like irritability, from spiraling in to a stronger negative emotion like anger, (which can have a devastating effect on you and on others).
• Use it as a mood perfume. Apply the oil at your pulse points – temples, wrists, and nape of the neck, to experience a calming and soothing effect all day long.

Caution!!!
Ensure that the essential oils that you use are authentic and absolutely genuine. Using a spurious product could have side effects and be counter productive. We make available to you, original and authentic aromatherapy essential oils. We also provide a stress busting hamper comprising of an essential oil blend, crystals that heal you, and an oil dispenser.

Hunger makes you irritable: Mood Foods to fight Irritability and Manage Anger

Hunger usually starts with a low, growl, from deep within the stomach. Next, weariness and exhaustion set in. Some people are also known to suffer from headaches, blurred vision, mental confusion, and dizziness. Subsequently, hunger makes you really bad-tempered, crabby, irritable and cranky. A diet comprising of mood foods help keep irritability at bay and instill peace and calmness.

Hunger and Irritable Mood
When you’ve remained hungry for long periods of time, there occurs a dip in the blood sugar level. Consequently, there is a reduced supply of glucose (sugar) to the brain. Reduced levels of sugar in the blood / hypoglycemia make you highly irritable and ill tempered. It may also be accompanied by anxiety, fatigue, and headache.
Handling ‘food swings’ by eating small amounts of food throughout the day is a good idea, and is recommended by nutritionists, world over. But ensure that the foods that you eat are healthful, or else the effect will be contradictory. A diet that is rich in protein, fat and fiber will help stave off hunger.

Hunger leds to Irritability

How Mood foods help Fight Irritability and Manage Anger
Certain foods can lift negative moods and suffuse you with a feeling of happiness and comfort.
Low levels of serotonin in the body are associated with moodiness and irritability. Serotonin is a ‘feel-good’ and a ‘pick-me-up’ neuro-chemical that banishes irritability and bad temper. Serotonin is synthesized within the body with the help of an amino acid called tryptophan. Importantly, tryptophan is not formed in the body and needs to be supplied by the diet. Thus, augmenting the daily diet with foods that are good sources of the essential amino acid is very important.

Mood Foods for Irritability and Anger Management
Here are some mood foods that can help fight irritability, temper and keep anxiety and fear at bay.

Banana: Mood food

1. Banana:  Banana is an excellent source of tryptophan and helps boost serotonin levels in the body. A mid-morning snack of a banana will ward off pre-lunch crankiness and lethargy. Additionally, bananas are rich in carbohydrates, and carbohydrates are necessary for the absorption of tryptophan.
2. Almonds:  Munch on a fistful on almonds several times in a day. Almonds are loaded with amino acid tryptophan. The nut is present in the list of foods that have the highest levels of the amino acid. When you eat almonds, tryptophan enters the brain rapidly and the level of serotonin rises. This helps control anxiety and apprehension and reduces irritability.
3. Cheese: Cheese is another important mood food. It is a rich source of protein, essential amino acid tryptophan and carbohydrates. Thus, cheese helps improve your mood and eliminates crankiness and irritability.

Treating Anger with Yoga:Meditation Technique to Manage Irritability

As per a study published in Medical Science Monitor, in a study conducted on twenty four women, undergoing yoga training for three months, it was observed that the therapy aided in reducing anxiety, stress and depression considerably, compared to the control group. Yoga practice in the Western world is increasing with over 14 million people in the United States practicing yoga on a daily basis

Meditation is beneficial

Yoga and Meditation for Irritability and Anger: How Yoga and Meditation help you?
Irritability and anger are strong destructive emotions.Yoga poses are highly restorative and healing. While meditating on their anti-dote – ‘patience’, will help restore calmness, and make life pleasant for you and for others around you.

• Practicing yoga reveals to you just how much of stress and tension you carry in your body everyday.
• Remaining calm and tranquil in the face of adversity is a blessing, and you need to develop it.
• Buddhism and Hinduism recommends dealing with irritability, impatience, anxiety and anger through meditation.

Yoga Posture to fight Irritability and Anger: Shashankasana
Shashankasana is a yogic posture that can instill patience and calmness in an individual. The steps invovled in the technique are,

• Sit down on a yoga mat, in such a way that your buttocks rest on to your toes and the back is upright.
• Place your palms on to your lap.
• Gently inhale, raise your arms in front of you, parallel to the floor. Then slowly bend forward, so that your forehead touches the floor, hands stretched straight out in front of you.
• Stretch the body and relax in to the pose. Don’t strain yourself. You should feel comfortable, while in the pose.
• Let the breathing be gentle and rhythmic. Hold the pose for sometime. Feel physical and emotional pains melting away. Then gradually release.

This asana helps the body to become passive, quiet, and serene, and slows down bodily activity. It rejuvenates the body and clears the mind and allows you to completely let go of all negative emotions.
A daily practice of this yoga posture (in the morning when you rise and in the evening, at the close of yet another taxing and testing day), will yield promising and beneficial results.

Meditation to manage Irritability and Anger

Meditation manages Anger

Meditation when used in combination with Yoga therapy can be very beneficial in the management of irritability and anger.

• Sit down comfortably on the floor, cross-legged, or on a straight-back chair. Ensure that you won’t be disturbed for 20 minutes.
• Focus on to your breath and try to bring peace and calmness in to yourself.
• Bring to mind, the last time you flew off the handle, and were really angry with someone. Are you still angry with him? Was it transient irritability exploding in to anger? Did getting angry with him help you? Did it hurt you? Think how you would feel if you could give that person space, no matter how much he irritates you. Try to give up the need to fight, getting offended, or irritated. Feel peace sweep over you.
• Gradually come back to the present.
• Focus on your breath for a few minutes, then, end the meditation session. Regular practice will reap huge benefits.

This technique will benefit in several ways,

1. Working on this technique makes you more tolerant towards others
2. It encourages patience and forbearance
3. Prevents you from losing your head, whatever may be the provocation
4. This technique reduces stress to a very great extent
5. Promotes peace in your relationships.