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Aromatherapy science is a newly created discipline.  This science takes common knowledge about smell and mood regulation from everyday life into the laboratory setting.  Holistic aromatherapy practitioners have made claims that scents and aromas help to reduce stress and promote relaxation.  Here in the lab, it can be tested and the results categorized.  The results have been surprising to the scientific community members.  Lavender and vanilla have been discovered to greatly reduce stress and anxiety in some settings.  In a study at Manhattan’s Sloan-Kettering Hospital, stress related to claustrophobia was reduced by 63% during MRI scans, using the scent of vanilla.  In another lab setting using mice, lavender and sandalwood aroma bursts calmed the hyper-excited rodents.

There may be benefits to include aromatherapy in your everyday life as well.  Relaxation is an important part of combating high blood pressure and heart problems.  Unlike meditation and yoga that takes time and practice, with aromatherapy you can get immediate results just by inhalation.  Just introduce a pleasing scent into your environment and presto, relaxation.  You can introduce it into the work environment and academic classrooms as well. 

Here is a tip on how to try aromatherapy in reducing stress and tension.  Use a scented soy candle while reading or bathing or even just daydreaming.  Lavender and or vanilla has shown proven results in reducing stress and promoting relaxation.  As aromatherapy science advances you can except more information on what scent will give you the intended effect for your mood and reduction of stress.