Deep Breath

Would you blame me if I liked aromatherapy?

I was once skeptical about it (like any normal person) but a long time ago I worked at the Body Shop for a few weeks and discovered that I like it.

I started out using only products of theirs, mostly this spray that you spray onto your pillow and it makes you fall asleep and dream really, really heavy, weird dreams. But then you wake up feeling the way it felt to wake up when you were five years old and you were ready to start climbing the walls all day.

Anyway they don't sell that stuff anymore but I started using essential oils from the grocery store in my old Body Shop oil burner and I had a lot of success with it.

Before we go any further... no, I do not receive anything from any company selling aromatherapy stuff. I am just some gay dude that shops a lot and likes to talk about shopping.

Anyway I have a big issue these days with staying up until 3AM and then sleeping in until around noon. I long ago accepted that this is my body's natural cycle and it wouldn't be healthy to break it. I always feel really amazing whenever I just surrender to that cycle and go with the flow.

But it's extremely inconvenient for school and also for work and it's just true that I'm not a kid anymore and there's not that much useful for me to do from 1 AM to 3 AM... I usually just end up watching Netflix until I fall asleep.

So I thought I could try to reset my schedule using some aromatherapy. But I needed new stuff since my trusty Body Shop sleeping mist doesn't exist anymore.

I decided to try Saje, that natural products store that's in all the malls now. It's funny because I returned to my original position of being a skeptic. I thought that if it was a store in the mall they would just be selling the idea of new-ageyness (see: my feelings about Lulu Lemon) and it would just be perfumes in little bottles designed to make you think that you were feeling more relaxed, like a placebo.

Big mistake.

I got this roll-on sleep remedy and the first night it didn't get me very far but the second night I slept like you couldn't believe.

It's a weird thing. It's this little roll on and you roll it onto your neck. The girl at the store actually recommended rolling it onto your wrists, which I also do. The instructions say to roll it onto your feet, which I personally think sounds ridiculous but honestly all of it sounds ridiculous so I decided to just go for it and I've been doing it.

In the morning I burn an oil from them that's supposed to help you wake up. It's not as impressive as the sleeping one but I do like it. It also comes as a roll on and I'm so impressed with the sleep roll on I might try the energy roll on next.

I've moved up to one of those electric diffusers. I love it so much.