Creative Ways to Use Your Incense Gift Set for Meditation and Home Fragrance!

A positive vibe and a perfect aroma - that is what we all want when we step into your homes. Well, you can have these both by adding just one thing to your room - incense gift sets.

Incense gift sets create an inviting and peaceful ambiance that everyone loves to stay in. It just enhances the vibe of any space and make it feel warm and welcoming. Not only this, it also enhances your overall mood and creates a sense of tranquility and relaxation.

In this blog post, we'll cover creative ways of using incense sticks during meditation, yoga practice, and general self-care at home. Read out to know...

A Brief History of Incense

Burning incense has been practiced for thousands of years for spiritual, ceremonial, and medicinal purposes across many ancient cultures. Incense also became intricately tied to rituals in many world religions, such as Buddhism, Hinduism, and even early Christianity.

Fast forward to today, and incense still holds significance for mindfulness, prayer, and relaxation. Leading neuroscientists have also begun exploring how certain fragrances can beneficially impact mood, focus, memory, and stress levels. With its grounding tactile and olfactory elements, incorporating incense thoughtfully into one's routine has potential to enhance overall well-being and self-care practices in modern times.

Using Incense for Meditation

One of the most impactful ways to use incense sticks is during meditation sessions. Lighting incense just before meditating allows its subtle smoke and aromatic compounds to gradually fill the air, setting an atmosphere more conducive to inner reflection and presence. Here are some tips:

• Choose calming scents associated with relaxation, like lavender, sandalwood, or frankincense. These promote feelings of peace.
• Light one incense stick or cone and allow it to burn fully rather than chain smoking multiple ones. Its slow, steady burn parallels the pace of meditation.
• Position incense in front or slightly to the side rather than directly behind you, so the smoke doesn't disturb your breathing flow. Find a natural rhythm.
• Incorporate intentional awareness of scent as part of your meditation practice. Gently focus on its journey from source to dispersal point, same as focus on breath.
• For longer daily sessions, relight incense midway as needed to sustain the contemplative environment. Extinguish carefully when finished.

With regular practice, incense sets can become a grounding anchor to the presence that deepens one's meditation experience over time. Its inclusion shows respect for both the practice and one's internal landscape.

Using Incense for Yoga Flows

Flexibility and strength are pillars of yoga, as is cultivating mindfulness of body, breath, and spirit during fluid movements. Incorporating incense sets a tranquil stage for this inward-focused movement meditation. Here are some tips:

• Choose energizing yet calm fragrances like peppermint, eucalyptus, or lemongrass before a morning vinyasa flow to enhance mental clarity and physical energy.
• For restorative evening practices, opt for soothing scents like lavender, chamomile, or jasmine to promote relaxation and rest.
• Light incense about 15 minutes prior to your session to allow full dispersion in the space. Its spread mirrors yogic "pranayama" breathing exercises.
• Gently sync breath and movement with journey of incense smoke. Inhale on exertion phases, exhale on release.
• Extinguish incense after "savasana" final relaxation pose when body is open, calm, and senses heightened. Express gratitude.

Using incense in intelligent, sensitive ways like these supplements the yoga experience on physical, mental and subtle energetic levels. It invites one inward to meditate within each posture and breath more profoundly. 

Using Incense for General Atmosphere and Self-Care

Beyond specific practices, incense enhances the general environment, mood, and self-care in daily life:

• Burn incense sticks while working, studying or being creative from home. Fragrances like sandalwood, frankincense or lavender aid focus and reduced stress.
• Light-scented incense cones around the home on weekends to leisurely fill interior spaces with an uplifting aroma. Walk between rooms mindfully.
• Try bundling several incense sticks together in a bundle before important conversations or counseling sessions for a focused, present state of mind.
• Burn incense before bed to lull the senses into a deep, restorative sleep with nighttime blends containing valerian, vetiver, or chamomile. Snuff out completely before resting.
• Gift incense assortments as an aromatherapy self-care package to spread comfort and goodwill, whether for oneself or to nurture community

By thoughtfully choosing fragrances aligned with one's needs each day, incense elevates overall wellness, comfort and mindfulness among all aspects of life both indoors and out. Its smell, smoke and intentional inclusion cultivate positive energies and spaces to inhabit fully.

Top Incense Sets From Goldenhands

Goldenhands offers a variety of high-quality incense gift sets perfect for integrating into your daily routine. Here are a few top options:

Lavender And Co Gift Set: This set includes 12 assorted packs of hand-rolled incense sticks with calming lavender and other relaxing scents. Each cone has a nice 30-minute burn time for extended usage. The vegan formulation makes it ideal for self-care.

Satya Best Seller Bundle Large 2nd Edition: For meditation or a general atmosphere, this selection of 15 best-selling sticks ensures you have grounding fragrances like sandalwood, frankincense, and more on hand. Satya incense is artisanally hand-rolled.

Midnight Calm And Co Incense Gift Set: Also featuring 12 assorted packs of incense cones, this set provides ingredients and blends focused on relaxation and rest. It would make a perfect gentle addition to evening yoga flows or before bedtime routines.

Bottom Line

By exploring the creative uses of incense outlined above and selecting sets tailored to your needs, you can elevate every aspect of your daily self-care, spiritual practice, and home life. Thoughtfully using incense in this way cultivates a more peaceful state of being from the inside out. To get the best incense gift sets online, get in touch with Goldenhands now. Explore our collection now and get the best incense sticks now.