Sleep Tight Roll-On Blend
Tired, but still wide awake? 🤔
Restless mind keeping you up? 🧠
Pain disrupting your comfort? 😖
Feeling utterly drained, yet your body refuses to relax into restful slumber?🌙
Waking up groggy, wondering, "What does it feel like to actually feel rested?" 💭
Same…🥱
And so, Sleep Tight was BORN. ✨
The Magic Of Sleep
Sleep isn’t just a time to rest; it’s when our bodies and minds restore, rejuvenate, and rebalance. Quality sleep is essential to our physical health, mental clarity, and emotional well-being. It’s during these hours that our body repairs tissues, our memories consolidate, and our hormones regulate. Without it, we lose more than just energy—we lose balance.
When Sleep Eludes Us
Stress, anxiety, pain, and even modern life’s busy pace and screen-time use can keep us from achieving the deep, restful sleep we need. Disrupted sleep can weaken our immune system, impair cognitive function, increase our risk for chronic conditions like heart disease and diabetes, and even affect our mood and mental health.
Thoughts on Prescribed Sleep Medications
Sleep medications may seem like a quick fix, but they often bring unwanted side effects like memory loss, dependency, and grogginess. Sleep Tight offers a gentle, natural and research-based alternative that works with your body’s own rhythms to promote restorative rest. Infused with Reiki energy, it’s designed to support emotional balance and guide you into peaceful sleep—without the pharmaceutical risks.
The best part? Sleep Tight works alongside your prescribed medications without the negative impact, allowing you to transition toward more natural sleep solutions, whenever you’re ready. The goal isn’t to rush or pressure, but to honor your own unique path—whether you're using medication or looking to slowly lessen your reliance on it. We’re all in this together. It’s about discovering the power of nature, nurturing our bodies, and reconnecting with ourselves.
Healing Properties
✨ Anti-inflammatory: Calms the mind and reduces tension, preparing you for sleep.
✨ Relaxing: Natural grounding and sedative properties ease you into a restful state.
✨ Mood-enhancing: Uplifts and stabilizes mood, feelings of comfort and happiness soothe away stress and anxiety.
✨ Hormone-balancing: Supports the regulation of the sleep-wake cycle, promoting a more consistent and restful sleep pattern.
The What, Why, & How of Essential Oils
What: Essential oils are concentrated, aromatic liquids extracted from plant materials (such as flowers, leaves, stems, roots, bark, or fruits) to harness their potent healing properties in purest form.
Why: More than just ingredients, essential oils are nature's gift to us, offering unparalleled natural relief from the nagging, debilitating symptoms affecting the quality of our lives.
How: The limbic system, often called the "emotional brain," plays a key role in sleep regulation due to its influence over both emotions and memory. Here’s how it connects to sleep, particularly when using the calming oils in Sleep Tight:
Emotional Relaxation for Better Sleep: The limbic system includes structures like the amygdala and hippocampus, which manage emotions, stress responses, and memory formation. When we’re stressed or anxious, these structures become active, making it harder to relax or fall asleep. Essential oils with calming effects, like lavender, work through the olfactory system to reduce amygdala activity and may even help regulate stress hormones. This reduction in emotional stress helps the mind and body prepare for sleep by promoting a calmer, more stable emotional state.
Regulation of Neurotransmitters: The limbic system also influences the release of neurotransmitters and hormones that affect sleep, such as serotonin and melatonin. Lavender and clary sage, in particular, can encourage the release of serotonin—a precursor to melatonin, the hormone that regulates our sleep-wake cycle. This natural boost in serotonin not only stabilizes mood but also helps facilitate the body’s shift towards restful sleep.
Activation of the Parasympathetic Nervous System: When essential oils stimulate the limbic system, they can help activate the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS), the part of our nervous system responsible for “rest and digest” functions. Activating the PNS slows heart rate, reduces blood pressure, and relaxes muscles, making it easier to transition into sleep. Oils like lavender and sweet orange support this response, helping to release physical tension and encourage a deeper state of relaxation.
Memory Processing and Emotional Integration: The limbic system is closely linked to memory and emotional processing, which are essential for healthy sleep. Quality sleep, particularly REM sleep, is where much of our emotional integration and memory consolidation occurs. Calming essential oils that work on the limbic system can help us enter deeper stages of sleep, where this mental processing happens, promoting not only better rest but also mental clarity and emotional balance upon waking.
In summary, Sleep Tight contains calming essential oils known to interact with the limbic system to ease emotional tension, regulate sleep-supportive neurotransmitters, and activate the PNS. This combination of effects can be incredibly effective for promoting restful, quality sleep, enhancing one’s health and overall sense of well-being.
Plant Powered Ingredients 🌱
Our Sleep Tight roll-on blend is a harmonious fusion of Reiki-infused organically-grown hemp seed oil, witch hazel, and a carefully curated selection of 100% natural & organic* essential oils, each chosen for their unique ability to promote deep, restful sleep:
Tranquil Essential Oil: a blend of blood orange, patchouli, ylang ylang, and bergamot offers a calming and grounding experience, perfect for easing your mind and promoting restful sleep. Blood orange and bergamot help reduce stress, while patchouli and ylang ylang provide soothing relief, guiding you gently into a peaceful slumber.
Clary Sage Essential Oil: Known for its hormone-balancing properties, it can help regulate the sleep-wake cycle. Clary Sage essential oil has cortisol-lowering abilities and natural sedative effects that calm the nervous system, ease racing thoughts, and reduce anxiety, making it easier to fall asleep and stay asleep.
Lavender Essential Oil: This superstar essential oil is one of the most well-known oils for promoting relaxation and sleep, and for good reason. Its sedative and mood-enhancing properties ease the nervous system to soothe anxious thoughts, ease tension, and reduce pain, contributing to a more restful night's sleep. Also, research shows lavender can increase slow-wave sleep—the most restorative stage—which means you wake up feeling refreshed and energized. (Ko et al., 2021). Check out the research here.
Frankincense Essential Oil: Used for centuries for its anti-inflammatory and grounding properties, frankincense essential oil helps quiet the mind, reduce stress and pain, and induce a sense of tranquility that is conducive to sleep. It also supports respiratory health, which can be beneficial for those whose sleep is disturbed by breathing issues.
Sweet Orange Essential Oil: Mood-enhancing properties that uplift your spirits and envelop you in a sense of calm. Its anti-inflammatory and mild sedative effects help relax the mind and body, easing you into a peaceful slumber. Additionally, sweet orange has been shown to reduce cortisol levels, the stress hormone that can keep us awake.
*We are dedicated to using high-quality, predominantly organic ingredients. Although some oils may not be available in organic form, we ensure that our commitment to natural excellence remains unwavering.
Directions for Use 📝
Glide the soothing oil blend onto your inner wrists, temples, on back of your neck, behind your ears, and/or the soles of your feet before winding down.
As you inhale the calming aroma, feel the day's tensions begin to dissolve, inviting you to let go, make peace with the progress of today, and settle into a restorative state. 💫
Take a moment to embrace this quiet stillness as you prepare your mind and body for restful sleep.
Reapply as needed to support a peaceful night’s rest and awaken feeling grounded.
Pro Tip! For an enhanced calming effect, pair with our cortisol-lowering Shutdown Stress roll-on to help release stress, reduce tension, and prepare your body for deep, rejuvenating sleep.
Note: Just as sleeping pills requires several days or weeks to deliver full benefit, Sleep Tight may also take a few nights to reach peak effect. Use nightly, and with consistency and a little patience you'll soon notice the positive impact on your sleep quality, mental clarity, energy, and mood.
Reminder: Always patch-test on a small area of skin before regular use to ensure no adverse reactions.
Reiki-Infused? The Meaning & Benefits
When I infuse Sleep Tight with reiki energy, it becomes more than just an aromatherapy blend — it transforms into a tool for healing and balance, offering support on physical, emotional, and energetic levels. Here's how this reiki infusion enhances the Sleep Tight experience:
- Energetic Balance: Reiki helps to clear blockages in your body's energy system, promoting the flow of life force energy (also known as chi or prana). This balance can reduce stress and anxiety, creating an ideal environment for deep, restorative sleep and peaceful relaxation.
- Calm & Relaxation: Reiki is known for its calming effects on the mind and body. By infusing Sleep Tight with this energy, the essential oils—like lavender, sweet orange, and clary sage—work synergistically with the reiki to soothe your nervous system, helping you to unwind and let go of the day’s tensions.
- Enhanced Emotional Support: Reiki amplifies the calming properties of the essential oils, providing emotional healing and greater inner peace. This infusion supports a balanced emotional state, helping you to release anxiety and welcome a tranquil, restful sleep.
- Mindful Self-Care: Applying Sleep Tight becomes a sacred ritual. The reiki energy and the soothing aromas encourage you to slow down, reconnect with your inner peace, and cultivate a sense of calm before bed. It's a gentle reminder to prioritize yourself and your well-being.
- Positive Intent: Each bottle of Sleep Tight is infused with love and positive intention, creating a holistic experience designed to empower you to embrace peace, rest, and serenity amidst life’s demands.
By blending the benefits of aromatherapy with the healing energy of reiki, Sleep Tight becomes an essential tool to support your sleep journey and overall well-being.
Eco-Friendly & Conscious Care
Enlightened Lotus is committed to using only the finest all-natural, organic ingredients to nurture your body and mind. Sleep Tight is crafted without artificial colors, scents, or preservatives, and is cruelty-free, because we believe in the power of nature to heal and restore.
Our 10mL luxury roll-on bottle is a perfect blend of elegance, convenience, and sustainability. The amber glass protects the potency of the essential oils from light degradation, preserving their quality and effectiveness. It’s also 100% recyclable, reducing plastic waste and contributing to a more a more eco-conscious lifestyle. 🌿
Sleep Tight is designed to fit seamlessly into your daily self-care routine, offering a convenient way to enhance your sleep and support emotional well-being—whenever and wherever you need it. This luxury roll-on bottle is compact, portable, and leak-proof, making it easy to take with you on the go. Whether you keep it on your nightstand, in your purse, or your pocket, Sleep Tight ensures that soothing support is always within reach, no matter where life takes you.
Safety Information
Sleep Tight is thoughtfully crafted with all natural, organic ingredients and is safe for ages 3 and up. Please keep out of reach from infants and pets.
Due to the addition of clary sage, Sleep Tight is not safe for use during pregnancy or breastfeeding. However, I can make similar blends tailored to your unique situation and needs, feel free to reach out 💕
For external use only. Avoid contact with eyes.
We recommend conducting a patch test on a small area of skin before regular use to ensure no adverse reactions. Stop use immediately if irritation or discomfort occurs.
This product is handmade in small batches and has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This product is not intended to diagnose, cure, or prevent any disease.
This product is intended for personal wellness use only and does not replace professional medical advice or treatment. By purchasing this product, you agree to use it at your own risk and release Enlightened Lotus from liability.
References
Ko, L. W., Su, C. H., Yang, M. H., Liu, S. Y., & Su, T. P. (2021). A pilot study on essential oil aroma stimulation for enhancing slow-wave EEG in sleeping brain. Scientific reports, 11(1), 1078. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-80171-x
Reclaim your nights and restore your days with Sleep Tight by Enlightened Lotus. Sweet dreams are just a roll away. 😴✨🌙
Tired, but still wide awake? 🤔
Restless mind keeping you up? 🧠
Pain disrupting your comfort? 😖
Feeling utterly drained, yet your body refuses to relax into restful slumber?🌙
Waking up groggy, wondering, "What does it feel like to actually feel rested?" 💭
Same…🥱
And so, Sleep Tight was BORN. ✨
The Magic Of Sleep
Sleep isn’t just a time to rest; it’s when our bodies and minds restore, rejuvenate, and rebalance. Quality sleep is essential to our physical health, mental clarity, and emotional well-being. It’s during these hours that our body repairs tissues, our memories consolidate, and our hormones regulate. Without it, we lose more than just energy—we lose balance.
When Sleep Eludes Us
Stress, anxiety, pain, and even modern life’s busy pace and screen-time use can keep us from achieving the deep, restful sleep we need. Disrupted sleep can weaken our immune system, impair cognitive function, increase our risk for chronic conditions like heart disease and diabetes, and even affect our mood and mental health.
Thoughts on Prescribed Sleep Medications
Sleep medications may seem like a quick fix, but they often bring unwanted side effects like memory loss, dependency, and grogginess. Sleep Tight offers a gentle, natural and research-based alternative that works with your body’s own rhythms to promote restorative rest. Infused with Reiki energy, it’s designed to support emotional balance and guide you into peaceful sleep—without the pharmaceutical risks.
The best part? Sleep Tight works alongside your prescribed medications without the negative impact, allowing you to transition toward more natural sleep solutions, whenever you’re ready. The goal isn’t to rush or pressure, but to honor your own unique path—whether you're using medication or looking to slowly lessen your reliance on it. We’re all in this together. It’s about discovering the power of nature, nurturing our bodies, and reconnecting with ourselves.
Healing Properties
✨ Anti-inflammatory: Calms the mind and reduces tension, preparing you for sleep.
✨ Relaxing: Natural grounding and sedative properties ease you into a restful state.
✨ Mood-enhancing: Uplifts and stabilizes mood, feelings of comfort and happiness soothe away stress and anxiety.
✨ Hormone-balancing: Supports the regulation of the sleep-wake cycle, promoting a more consistent and restful sleep pattern.
The What, Why, & How of Essential Oils
What: Essential oils are concentrated, aromatic liquids extracted from plant materials (such as flowers, leaves, stems, roots, bark, or fruits) to harness their potent healing properties in purest form.
Why: More than just ingredients, essential oils are nature's gift to us, offering unparalleled natural relief from the nagging, debilitating symptoms affecting the quality of our lives.
How: The limbic system, often called the "emotional brain," plays a key role in sleep regulation due to its influence over both emotions and memory. Here’s how it connects to sleep, particularly when using the calming oils in Sleep Tight:
Emotional Relaxation for Better Sleep: The limbic system includes structures like the amygdala and hippocampus, which manage emotions, stress responses, and memory formation. When we’re stressed or anxious, these structures become active, making it harder to relax or fall asleep. Essential oils with calming effects, like lavender, work through the olfactory system to reduce amygdala activity and may even help regulate stress hormones. This reduction in emotional stress helps the mind and body prepare for sleep by promoting a calmer, more stable emotional state.
Regulation of Neurotransmitters: The limbic system also influences the release of neurotransmitters and hormones that affect sleep, such as serotonin and melatonin. Lavender and clary sage, in particular, can encourage the release of serotonin—a precursor to melatonin, the hormone that regulates our sleep-wake cycle. This natural boost in serotonin not only stabilizes mood but also helps facilitate the body’s shift towards restful sleep.
Activation of the Parasympathetic Nervous System: When essential oils stimulate the limbic system, they can help activate the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS), the part of our nervous system responsible for “rest and digest” functions. Activating the PNS slows heart rate, reduces blood pressure, and relaxes muscles, making it easier to transition into sleep. Oils like lavender and sweet orange support this response, helping to release physical tension and encourage a deeper state of relaxation.
Memory Processing and Emotional Integration: The limbic system is closely linked to memory and emotional processing, which are essential for healthy sleep. Quality sleep, particularly REM sleep, is where much of our emotional integration and memory consolidation occurs. Calming essential oils that work on the limbic system can help us enter deeper stages of sleep, where this mental processing happens, promoting not only better rest but also mental clarity and emotional balance upon waking.
In summary, Sleep Tight contains calming essential oils known to interact with the limbic system to ease emotional tension, regulate sleep-supportive neurotransmitters, and activate the PNS. This combination of effects can be incredibly effective for promoting restful, quality sleep, enhancing one’s health and overall sense of well-being.
Plant Powered Ingredients 🌱
Our Sleep Tight roll-on blend is a harmonious fusion of Reiki-infused organically-grown hemp seed oil, witch hazel, and a carefully curated selection of 100% natural & organic* essential oils, each chosen for their unique ability to promote deep, restful sleep:
Tranquil Essential Oil: a blend of blood orange, patchouli, ylang ylang, and bergamot offers a calming and grounding experience, perfect for easing your mind and promoting restful sleep. Blood orange and bergamot help reduce stress, while patchouli and ylang ylang provide soothing relief, guiding you gently into a peaceful slumber.
Clary Sage Essential Oil: Known for its hormone-balancing properties, it can help regulate the sleep-wake cycle. Clary Sage essential oil has cortisol-lowering abilities and natural sedative effects that calm the nervous system, ease racing thoughts, and reduce anxiety, making it easier to fall asleep and stay asleep.
Lavender Essential Oil: This superstar essential oil is one of the most well-known oils for promoting relaxation and sleep, and for good reason. Its sedative and mood-enhancing properties ease the nervous system to soothe anxious thoughts, ease tension, and reduce pain, contributing to a more restful night's sleep. Also, research shows lavender can increase slow-wave sleep—the most restorative stage—which means you wake up feeling refreshed and energized. (Ko et al., 2021). Check out the research here.
Frankincense Essential Oil: Used for centuries for its anti-inflammatory and grounding properties, frankincense essential oil helps quiet the mind, reduce stress and pain, and induce a sense of tranquility that is conducive to sleep. It also supports respiratory health, which can be beneficial for those whose sleep is disturbed by breathing issues.
Sweet Orange Essential Oil: Mood-enhancing properties that uplift your spirits and envelop you in a sense of calm. Its anti-inflammatory and mild sedative effects help relax the mind and body, easing you into a peaceful slumber. Additionally, sweet orange has been shown to reduce cortisol levels, the stress hormone that can keep us awake.
*We are dedicated to using high-quality, predominantly organic ingredients. Although some oils may not be available in organic form, we ensure that our commitment to natural excellence remains unwavering.
Directions for Use 📝
Glide the soothing oil blend onto your inner wrists, temples, on back of your neck, behind your ears, and/or the soles of your feet before winding down.
As you inhale the calming aroma, feel the day's tensions begin to dissolve, inviting you to let go, make peace with the progress of today, and settle into a restorative state. 💫
Take a moment to embrace this quiet stillness as you prepare your mind and body for restful sleep.
Reapply as needed to support a peaceful night’s rest and awaken feeling grounded.
Pro Tip! For an enhanced calming effect, pair with our cortisol-lowering Shutdown Stress roll-on to help release stress, reduce tension, and prepare your body for deep, rejuvenating sleep.
Note: Just as sleeping pills requires several days or weeks to deliver full benefit, Sleep Tight may also take a few nights to reach peak effect. Use nightly, and with consistency and a little patience you'll soon notice the positive impact on your sleep quality, mental clarity, energy, and mood.
Reminder: Always patch-test on a small area of skin before regular use to ensure no adverse reactions.
Reiki-Infused? The Meaning & Benefits
When I infuse Sleep Tight with reiki energy, it becomes more than just an aromatherapy blend — it transforms into a tool for healing and balance, offering support on physical, emotional, and energetic levels. Here's how this reiki infusion enhances the Sleep Tight experience:
- Energetic Balance: Reiki helps to clear blockages in your body's energy system, promoting the flow of life force energy (also known as chi or prana). This balance can reduce stress and anxiety, creating an ideal environment for deep, restorative sleep and peaceful relaxation.
- Calm & Relaxation: Reiki is known for its calming effects on the mind and body. By infusing Sleep Tight with this energy, the essential oils—like lavender, sweet orange, and clary sage—work synergistically with the reiki to soothe your nervous system, helping you to unwind and let go of the day’s tensions.
- Enhanced Emotional Support: Reiki amplifies the calming properties of the essential oils, providing emotional healing and greater inner peace. This infusion supports a balanced emotional state, helping you to release anxiety and welcome a tranquil, restful sleep.
- Mindful Self-Care: Applying Sleep Tight becomes a sacred ritual. The reiki energy and the soothing aromas encourage you to slow down, reconnect with your inner peace, and cultivate a sense of calm before bed. It's a gentle reminder to prioritize yourself and your well-being.
- Positive Intent: Each bottle of Sleep Tight is infused with love and positive intention, creating a holistic experience designed to empower you to embrace peace, rest, and serenity amidst life’s demands.
By blending the benefits of aromatherapy with the healing energy of reiki, Sleep Tight becomes an essential tool to support your sleep journey and overall well-being.
Eco-Friendly & Conscious Care
Enlightened Lotus is committed to using only the finest all-natural, organic ingredients to nurture your body and mind. Sleep Tight is crafted without artificial colors, scents, or preservatives, and is cruelty-free, because we believe in the power of nature to heal and restore.
Our 10mL luxury roll-on bottle is a perfect blend of elegance, convenience, and sustainability. The amber glass protects the potency of the essential oils from light degradation, preserving their quality and effectiveness. It’s also 100% recyclable, reducing plastic waste and contributing to a more a more eco-conscious lifestyle. 🌿
Sleep Tight is designed to fit seamlessly into your daily self-care routine, offering a convenient way to enhance your sleep and support emotional well-being—whenever and wherever you need it. This luxury roll-on bottle is compact, portable, and leak-proof, making it easy to take with you on the go. Whether you keep it on your nightstand, in your purse, or your pocket, Sleep Tight ensures that soothing support is always within reach, no matter where life takes you.
Safety Information
Sleep Tight is thoughtfully crafted with all natural, organic ingredients and is safe for ages 3 and up. Please keep out of reach from infants and pets.
Due to the addition of clary sage, Sleep Tight is not safe for use during pregnancy or breastfeeding. However, I can make similar blends tailored to your unique situation and needs, feel free to reach out 💕
For external use only. Avoid contact with eyes.
We recommend conducting a patch test on a small area of skin before regular use to ensure no adverse reactions. Stop use immediately if irritation or discomfort occurs.
This product is handmade in small batches and has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This product is not intended to diagnose, cure, or prevent any disease.
This product is intended for personal wellness use only and does not replace professional medical advice or treatment. By purchasing this product, you agree to use it at your own risk and release Enlightened Lotus from liability.
References
Ko, L. W., Su, C. H., Yang, M. H., Liu, S. Y., & Su, T. P. (2021). A pilot study on essential oil aroma stimulation for enhancing slow-wave EEG in sleeping brain. Scientific reports, 11(1), 1078. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-80171-x
Reclaim your nights and restore your days with Sleep Tight by Enlightened Lotus. Sweet dreams are just a roll away. 😴✨🌙
Tired, but still wide awake? 🤔
Restless mind keeping you up? 🧠
Pain disrupting your comfort? 😖
Feeling utterly drained, yet your body refuses to relax into restful slumber?🌙
Waking up groggy, wondering, "What does it feel like to actually feel rested?" 💭
Same…🥱
And so, Sleep Tight was BORN. ✨
The Magic Of Sleep
Sleep isn’t just a time to rest; it’s when our bodies and minds restore, rejuvenate, and rebalance. Quality sleep is essential to our physical health, mental clarity, and emotional well-being. It’s during these hours that our body repairs tissues, our memories consolidate, and our hormones regulate. Without it, we lose more than just energy—we lose balance.
When Sleep Eludes Us
Stress, anxiety, pain, and even modern life’s busy pace and screen-time use can keep us from achieving the deep, restful sleep we need. Disrupted sleep can weaken our immune system, impair cognitive function, increase our risk for chronic conditions like heart disease and diabetes, and even affect our mood and mental health.
Thoughts on Prescribed Sleep Medications
Sleep medications may seem like a quick fix, but they often bring unwanted side effects like memory loss, dependency, and grogginess. Sleep Tight offers a gentle, natural and research-based alternative that works with your body’s own rhythms to promote restorative rest. Infused with Reiki energy, it’s designed to support emotional balance and guide you into peaceful sleep—without the pharmaceutical risks.
The best part? Sleep Tight works alongside your prescribed medications without the negative impact, allowing you to transition toward more natural sleep solutions, whenever you’re ready. The goal isn’t to rush or pressure, but to honor your own unique path—whether you're using medication or looking to slowly lessen your reliance on it. We’re all in this together. It’s about discovering the power of nature, nurturing our bodies, and reconnecting with ourselves.
Healing Properties
✨ Anti-inflammatory: Calms the mind and reduces tension, preparing you for sleep.
✨ Relaxing: Natural grounding and sedative properties ease you into a restful state.
✨ Mood-enhancing: Uplifts and stabilizes mood, feelings of comfort and happiness soothe away stress and anxiety.
✨ Hormone-balancing: Supports the regulation of the sleep-wake cycle, promoting a more consistent and restful sleep pattern.
The What, Why, & How of Essential Oils
What: Essential oils are concentrated, aromatic liquids extracted from plant materials (such as flowers, leaves, stems, roots, bark, or fruits) to harness their potent healing properties in purest form.
Why: More than just ingredients, essential oils are nature's gift to us, offering unparalleled natural relief from the nagging, debilitating symptoms affecting the quality of our lives.
How: The limbic system, often called the "emotional brain," plays a key role in sleep regulation due to its influence over both emotions and memory. Here’s how it connects to sleep, particularly when using the calming oils in Sleep Tight:
Emotional Relaxation for Better Sleep: The limbic system includes structures like the amygdala and hippocampus, which manage emotions, stress responses, and memory formation. When we’re stressed or anxious, these structures become active, making it harder to relax or fall asleep. Essential oils with calming effects, like lavender, work through the olfactory system to reduce amygdala activity and may even help regulate stress hormones. This reduction in emotional stress helps the mind and body prepare for sleep by promoting a calmer, more stable emotional state.
Regulation of Neurotransmitters: The limbic system also influences the release of neurotransmitters and hormones that affect sleep, such as serotonin and melatonin. Lavender and clary sage, in particular, can encourage the release of serotonin—a precursor to melatonin, the hormone that regulates our sleep-wake cycle. This natural boost in serotonin not only stabilizes mood but also helps facilitate the body’s shift towards restful sleep.
Activation of the Parasympathetic Nervous System: When essential oils stimulate the limbic system, they can help activate the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS), the part of our nervous system responsible for “rest and digest” functions. Activating the PNS slows heart rate, reduces blood pressure, and relaxes muscles, making it easier to transition into sleep. Oils like lavender and sweet orange support this response, helping to release physical tension and encourage a deeper state of relaxation.
Memory Processing and Emotional Integration: The limbic system is closely linked to memory and emotional processing, which are essential for healthy sleep. Quality sleep, particularly REM sleep, is where much of our emotional integration and memory consolidation occurs. Calming essential oils that work on the limbic system can help us enter deeper stages of sleep, where this mental processing happens, promoting not only better rest but also mental clarity and emotional balance upon waking.
In summary, Sleep Tight contains calming essential oils known to interact with the limbic system to ease emotional tension, regulate sleep-supportive neurotransmitters, and activate the PNS. This combination of effects can be incredibly effective for promoting restful, quality sleep, enhancing one’s health and overall sense of well-being.
Plant Powered Ingredients 🌱
Our Sleep Tight roll-on blend is a harmonious fusion of Reiki-infused organically-grown hemp seed oil, witch hazel, and a carefully curated selection of 100% natural & organic* essential oils, each chosen for their unique ability to promote deep, restful sleep:
Tranquil Essential Oil: a blend of blood orange, patchouli, ylang ylang, and bergamot offers a calming and grounding experience, perfect for easing your mind and promoting restful sleep. Blood orange and bergamot help reduce stress, while patchouli and ylang ylang provide soothing relief, guiding you gently into a peaceful slumber.
Clary Sage Essential Oil: Known for its hormone-balancing properties, it can help regulate the sleep-wake cycle. Clary Sage essential oil has cortisol-lowering abilities and natural sedative effects that calm the nervous system, ease racing thoughts, and reduce anxiety, making it easier to fall asleep and stay asleep.
Lavender Essential Oil: This superstar essential oil is one of the most well-known oils for promoting relaxation and sleep, and for good reason. Its sedative and mood-enhancing properties ease the nervous system to soothe anxious thoughts, ease tension, and reduce pain, contributing to a more restful night's sleep. Also, research shows lavender can increase slow-wave sleep—the most restorative stage—which means you wake up feeling refreshed and energized. (Ko et al., 2021). Check out the research here.
Frankincense Essential Oil: Used for centuries for its anti-inflammatory and grounding properties, frankincense essential oil helps quiet the mind, reduce stress and pain, and induce a sense of tranquility that is conducive to sleep. It also supports respiratory health, which can be beneficial for those whose sleep is disturbed by breathing issues.
Sweet Orange Essential Oil: Mood-enhancing properties that uplift your spirits and envelop you in a sense of calm. Its anti-inflammatory and mild sedative effects help relax the mind and body, easing you into a peaceful slumber. Additionally, sweet orange has been shown to reduce cortisol levels, the stress hormone that can keep us awake.
*We are dedicated to using high-quality, predominantly organic ingredients. Although some oils may not be available in organic form, we ensure that our commitment to natural excellence remains unwavering.
Directions for Use 📝
Glide the soothing oil blend onto your inner wrists, temples, on back of your neck, behind your ears, and/or the soles of your feet before winding down.
As you inhale the calming aroma, feel the day's tensions begin to dissolve, inviting you to let go, make peace with the progress of today, and settle into a restorative state. 💫
Take a moment to embrace this quiet stillness as you prepare your mind and body for restful sleep.
Reapply as needed to support a peaceful night’s rest and awaken feeling grounded.
Pro Tip! For an enhanced calming effect, pair with our cortisol-lowering Shutdown Stress roll-on to help release stress, reduce tension, and prepare your body for deep, rejuvenating sleep.
Note: Just as sleeping pills requires several days or weeks to deliver full benefit, Sleep Tight may also take a few nights to reach peak effect. Use nightly, and with consistency and a little patience you'll soon notice the positive impact on your sleep quality, mental clarity, energy, and mood.
Reminder: Always patch-test on a small area of skin before regular use to ensure no adverse reactions.
Reiki-Infused? The Meaning & Benefits
When I infuse Sleep Tight with reiki energy, it becomes more than just an aromatherapy blend — it transforms into a tool for healing and balance, offering support on physical, emotional, and energetic levels. Here's how this reiki infusion enhances the Sleep Tight experience:
- Energetic Balance: Reiki helps to clear blockages in your body's energy system, promoting the flow of life force energy (also known as chi or prana). This balance can reduce stress and anxiety, creating an ideal environment for deep, restorative sleep and peaceful relaxation.
- Calm & Relaxation: Reiki is known for its calming effects on the mind and body. By infusing Sleep Tight with this energy, the essential oils—like lavender, sweet orange, and clary sage—work synergistically with the reiki to soothe your nervous system, helping you to unwind and let go of the day’s tensions.
- Enhanced Emotional Support: Reiki amplifies the calming properties of the essential oils, providing emotional healing and greater inner peace. This infusion supports a balanced emotional state, helping you to release anxiety and welcome a tranquil, restful sleep.
- Mindful Self-Care: Applying Sleep Tight becomes a sacred ritual. The reiki energy and the soothing aromas encourage you to slow down, reconnect with your inner peace, and cultivate a sense of calm before bed. It's a gentle reminder to prioritize yourself and your well-being.
- Positive Intent: Each bottle of Sleep Tight is infused with love and positive intention, creating a holistic experience designed to empower you to embrace peace, rest, and serenity amidst life’s demands.
By blending the benefits of aromatherapy with the healing energy of reiki, Sleep Tight becomes an essential tool to support your sleep journey and overall well-being.
Eco-Friendly & Conscious Care
Enlightened Lotus is committed to using only the finest all-natural, organic ingredients to nurture your body and mind. Sleep Tight is crafted without artificial colors, scents, or preservatives, and is cruelty-free, because we believe in the power of nature to heal and restore.
Our 10mL luxury roll-on bottle is a perfect blend of elegance, convenience, and sustainability. The amber glass protects the potency of the essential oils from light degradation, preserving their quality and effectiveness. It’s also 100% recyclable, reducing plastic waste and contributing to a more a more eco-conscious lifestyle. 🌿
Sleep Tight is designed to fit seamlessly into your daily self-care routine, offering a convenient way to enhance your sleep and support emotional well-being—whenever and wherever you need it. This luxury roll-on bottle is compact, portable, and leak-proof, making it easy to take with you on the go. Whether you keep it on your nightstand, in your purse, or your pocket, Sleep Tight ensures that soothing support is always within reach, no matter where life takes you.
Safety Information
Sleep Tight is thoughtfully crafted with all natural, organic ingredients and is safe for ages 3 and up. Please keep out of reach from infants and pets.
Due to the addition of clary sage, Sleep Tight is not safe for use during pregnancy or breastfeeding. However, I can make similar blends tailored to your unique situation and needs, feel free to reach out 💕
For external use only. Avoid contact with eyes.
We recommend conducting a patch test on a small area of skin before regular use to ensure no adverse reactions. Stop use immediately if irritation or discomfort occurs.
This product is handmade in small batches and has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This product is not intended to diagnose, cure, or prevent any disease.
This product is intended for personal wellness use only and does not replace professional medical advice or treatment. By purchasing this product, you agree to use it at your own risk and release Enlightened Lotus from liability.
References
Ko, L. W., Su, C. H., Yang, M. H., Liu, S. Y., & Su, T. P. (2021). A pilot study on essential oil aroma stimulation for enhancing slow-wave EEG in sleeping brain. Scientific reports, 11(1), 1078. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-80171-x
