Peppermint oil has been shown to have calming effects on people. It settles the stomach and relaxes you. That's why drinking peppermint tea is a really good idea when you're panicky or upset! But also the intensity of the flavor probably has some effect on drawing your attention away from the anxiety. For me, I would suck on an atomic fireball when anxious or upset ,and that really got my mind off of everything.
If it works, keep doing it!
Take care,
J
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"One by one, as they march, our comrades vanish from our sight, seized by the silent orders of omnipotent death. Very brief is the time in which we can help them, in which their happiness or misery is decided. Be it ours to shed sunshine on their path, to lighten their sorrows by the balm of sympathy, to give them the pure joy of a never-tiring affection, to stregthen failing courage, to instill faith in hours of despair."
-Bertrand Russell
With love and hope,
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