Benefits of incense

1. Reduce Anxiety and Stres

Incense helps you to relax your body, reducing body activities and heart rate. It encourages your mind to stop worrying about things and lets you handle stressful situations. Sandalwoods incense is best for reducing anxiety and frustrations.

It allows your mind to be calm and work accordingly. Lavender and rosemary would also be a great choice. According to mystic and monks, inhaling the fumes of incense will help you to calm your state of mind. You have to let the fumes to wave in the air.

2. Meditation

In many religious practices, burning incenses is believed to help one deepen their attention and uplift their spiritual side while mediating. Incenses sticks of sandalwood and lotus are more common in use for meditation. Traditionally, people used to burn incense to measure the passing of time.

They used to use set length incense sticks. The aroma of incense fosters your spiritual connection. It gives you the right mindset before you begin. It is a premeditation ritual at the beginning of each session.

3. Generosity and Mindfulness

There is a belief that incense allows you to create good karma. You can light up the incense and let the aroma flow through your sensory receptors to have an impact on your body. It is a simple way to do something without any expectations in return. It is mesmerizing and lets you feel the peace in and out.

4. Creativity Enhancement

A well-selected scent of incense stimulates your ability ideas and improves mental health. Aloes wood-based incense has uplifting fragrances like lemongrass, Ylang-Ylang, citrus scents, etc. It determines your creative zone and finds your flow while you do kinds of stuff like writing, painting. It creates space in your mind for beautiful notes. 

5. Aid Sleep

Incense can be beneficial for insomniacs. Lavender, Vetiver, and Chamomile are useful for inducing sleep. You will have a peaceful sleep with the help of incense. Light the incense 15-20 minutes before you go to bed. Let the aroma revolve around your room that will aid sleep.

However, make sure the incense gets burned out before you sleep. It is also safer than burning candles.

6. Medicinal

Scents releasing out from incense produces serotonin hormone in your brain. It can be an alternative to taking drugs. It is a nonpharmacological method of raising the serotonin hormone. It improves your mood as well as a healthy addiction.

Serotonin hormone is a natural mood stabilizer as it helps in sleeping, eating, digestion. It also helps to reduce depression, headaches, and anxiety.

Rose incense can be best for releasing serotonin hormone.

7. Purifies Air

Certain floral perfume of incense has an anti-bacterial property that helps to purify the atmosphere. It is also an easy, quick method to get rid of the unwanted smell of your area. Mostly, Cedar, Myrrh, Citrus are useful to cleanse the air.

It leaves behind freshness and a new beginning. Using incense to purify air gives you a fresh and clean feeling for 24 hours. It eliminates diverse pathogenic bacteria from the air within closed spaces.

8. Spirituality

Burning incense will help you to connect spiritually. People involving in different religions use incense who have a belief in the spiritual world. Incense can act as a purifier that eliminates negativity in the atmosphere and welcome positive vibes along your way.

For thousands of years, religions like Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity use incense for a spiritual purpose. The scent of the incense can also capture and recall good memories.

Incense are easily one of them most beneficial tools calming and centering yourself. Pair incense with our Tibetan Lotus Incense Burner and find your calm today!