What can you do when you find ourselves TENSE or ANXIOUS? Is there a solution to short-term or long-term DEPRESSION and DEJECTION? Can you switch off your ANGER and HOSTILITY to life’s circumstances?
YES!!!! Inhaling Hong Kuai essential oil can flip or switch these UNPLEASANT emotional states into the corresponding opposite PLEASANT emotion.
When you consider the “emotional” characters portrayed in Disney’s movie INSIDE OUT, you are on your way to Emotional Flipping™. Flipping an unpleasant emotion to its opposite positive, pleasant emotion can be achieved every day with essential oils. Let me introduce Emotional Flipping with Hong Kuai essential oil.
Let’s explore more closely some research details from the 2015 research paper “The Effect of Hinoki and Meniki Essential Oils on Human Autonomic Nervous System Activity and Mood States”. I first explored this in Post 12: “Hong Kuai – Research Literature Tells it All”.
First let’s explore the chemistry of Hong Kuai (referred to as Meniki) and Hinoki essential oil. I do this so you can understand the EMOTIONAL FLIPPING. You can see in the graph that Hinoki essential oil is dominated with light, volatile Monoterpenes (22.3%) and Oxygenated Monoterpenes (52.0%). In contrast, Hong Kuai is composed mainly of heavy, less-volatile Sesquiterpenes (63.6%) and Oxygenated Sesquiterpenes (19.1%).
Monoterpene molecules randomly move in rapid abundance in the air. I call them the “first aroma” and “fleeting aroma”. Monoterpene molecules tend to be molecules that trigger the Fight or Flight response (Sympathetic Nervous System) of the Autonomic Nervous System. It should be no surprise that HINOKI essential oil increases the Sympathetic Nervous System activity – the Fight or Flight response.
Monoterpene molecules can “Flip” unpleasant emotions from a state of “Rest & Digest” to pleasant emotions to a state of “Fight or Flight. For example, Hinoki essential oil can flip your “depressed” emotion state (unpleasant, “Rest & Digest”) to the opposite “cheerful & elated” emotional state (pleasant, “Fight or Flight”) within 5 seconds of inhaling. That’s the power of essential oils!!!
Hinoki’s Monoterpenes can also “Flip” your emotional state of “Despair” (also Guilt and Fatigue) that is common when your body is in a Rest & Digest state to a pleasant state of “Hopefulness” (also Innocent and Alert) that is common when your body is in a Fight or Flight state. You can see that you emotional state is related to your body state.
Check out the research results for “Before” and “After” inhalation of Hinoki essential oil. Each set of before/after data contains a “p-value” as an indication of “significant difference”. The p-value is the “probability of error” that 2 groups are uniquely different and not just explained by chance alone. When the p-value is lowest (example: p=0.0001) then it is an indication that the 2 groups are unique and different – not by chance alone.
Hinoki can give you an Emotional Flip from “confused/nervous” to a “focused/relaxed” emotional state. This Emotional Flipping occurs while your body switches from a “Fight or Flight” state to a “Rest & Digest” state. This switch is triggered by the less-abundant, persistent Sesquiterpenes (17.7%) and Oxygenated Sesquiterpenes (5.5%) that become more concentrated as the more volatile Monoterpenes and Oxygenated Monoterpenes evaporate. That’s the chemistry of Emotional Flipping!!!
Hong Kuai essential oil predominantly triggers a “Rest & Digest” response in your body via the Parasympathetic Nervous System. Hong Kuai can help you flip unpleasant emotions (TENSE, NERVOUS, STRESSED, & UPSET) to their opposite pleasant emotion (CALM, RELAXED, SERENE, CONTENT, respectively). During this process your body is transformed from an “active” Fight or Flight state to a more relaxed Rest & Digest state.
The research on Emotional Flipping for Hong Kuai essential oil is quite dramatic and very significant. Hong Kuai can help you flip from being TENSE/ANXIOUS to RELAXED/CALM. Inhaling Hong Kuai can help you flip from ANGER/HOSTILITY to CALM/PEACEFUL. If you want to get flip your emotional DEPRESSION/DEJECTION to ELATED/CHEERFUL, try Hong Kuai essential oil. These Emotional Flipping are significant.
Two additional Emotional Flips are highly significant with Hong Kuai. You can count on Hong Kuai if you need these emotional changes. If you find yourself feeling FATIGUED and in DESPAIR, Hong Kuai will flip you to feeling ALERT and HOPEFUL. It will happen every time. In addition, if you feel CONFUSED and NERVOUS, then inhale Hong Kuai to flip your feelings to FOCUSED and CALM. It’s all in the chemistry.
Hong Kuai essential oil triggers a significant increase in Sympathetic Nervous System activity – a Rest & Digest response. Therefore, Hong Kuai provides three basic emotions: Joy, Power & Peace. These pleasant emotional are a result of the dominant and persistent Sesquiterpenes and Oxygenated Sesquiterpenes. The heavy molecules trigger a bodily state of “Rest & Digest”.
Source: Dr. Cole Woolley