Anger Coping Candle

Anger Coping Candle

Mental health struggle: Anger

Scent: Amber Santal and Eucalyptus 

Essential Oils Included: Orange sweet, patchouli, nootka tree, eucalyptus, lavender, vetiver, cedarwood, elemi, carrot seed, cedar, coriander, clove leaf, nutmeg, fennel, caraway and pine.

Healing Rocks: lepidolite, aquamarine, blue lace agate, blue kyanite, carnelian.

How to utilize your candle: Anger is a feeling experienced by all of us. Although it is universally common, many of us can struggle with controlling anger, feeling comfortable expressing and understanding the emotion, and processing the emotion in a healthy manner. This candle is intended to be lit when you are experiencing the emotion of anger, maintaining a heightened emotional state, struggling with irritability and frustration, or needing help slowing your thoughts and emotions to better understand the root of your anger. All the essential oils in this candle aid in releasing tension within the body and mind. The healing rocks and stones in this candle all help reduce stress and quite the mind. 

The goal with managing anger is to learn skills that will help you recognize when anger is rising, which coping skills help to calm your mind and body, and how to express your emotion of anger in a healthy and productive way. The emotion and experience of anger is not a mental health diagnosis or illness, but it is attached to many mental health struggles and general life challenges. Working with a therapist who utilizes cognitive behavioral therapy can be very beneficial to help recognize and change your thought, emotion and behavioral cycle. A simple way to get started on this, is to start journaling and documenting your thoughts and emotions. A thought would be "My boss never gives me credit and takes all the credit for himself." An emotion attached to that thought would be "I feel manipulated; I feel insulted; I feel angry; I feel vengeful." This is helpful because often we can get our thoughts and feelings mixed up, or we realize we are not doing a good job stopping to even identify what thoughts or feelings we are having. The next step is to make sure there is credible evidence for our thoughts and feelings. If we can begin to recognize our thoughts and feelings rising, we can often implement various coping skills to redirect ourselves from our normal explosive or anger filled actions. Lighting your candle while implementing grounding techniques, such as meditation or simple mantras, as well as breathing techniques is a wonderful way to utilize your coping candle while practicing healthy responses to cope with anger.

Burning Instructions: Please take all healing rocks out of your candle before burning. Place them in front of the candle to allow the healing rocks to do their magic! Move the stones into the sunlight every 10-12 days to reenergize your stones. Allow the candle to burn for 2-3 hours, or until the meltpool reaches the edge, to avoid tunneling.