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Aromatherapy –
an Ancient Art of Healing in Modern Times
Although it has been practised for thousands of years, Aromatherapy has only recently become popular in our culture. This is a result of a return to a holistic lifestyle, recognising the importance of combining the mind, body and spirit to achieve optimum health and wellness. |
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Scent is the most enduring of our senses. It has the power to transform our emotions and heal our bodies. It can take us to another place and time. Essential oils are the vital life essence of aromatic plants and flowers in a condensed form. Aromatherapy is the use of essential oils for therapeutic effects. Essential oils have been revered for their fragrance and their restorative effects on the body, mind, and spirit for thousand of years.
The healing properties of essential oils are capable of not only treating our physical bodies, they are renowned for enhancing our state of mind as well. Choose the emotional state of mind you wish to remedy…
Pure essential oils are blended for harmonious, combined effect and fragrance. Skilful blending balances the therapeutic effect and aromatic quality of individual essential oils. Blends are suggested to promote calmness, emotional and hormonal balance, stress relief, rejuvenation, etc.
The scent of essential oils is conveyed by the olfactory nerve to areas of the brain that can influence emotions and hormonal response. When used in a bath or massage, the oils are absorbed through the skin and carried by body fluids to the main body systems; such as the nervous and muscular systems for a healing effect |
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Pure, concentrated plant extracts have been used for centuries and knowledge of their special properties has been collected throughout many ages. Aromatherapy is not recommended as a substitute for medical care.
Therapies and medicines that were once viewed as alternative, cloaked in a shroud of scepticism, have risen from the shadows, providing a complement to conventional medicine. Aromatherapy is one such example and a very powerful one, of a complementary therapy widely practised today.
We are all seeking answers for the illnesses that pervade our society, and the stresses that this fast paces modern life places on us. Conventional medicine has given us some of those answers in the form of prescription drugs and surgery, but still, we ask for more.
With growing health care costs and the sometimes impersonal quality of conventional medicine, we have turned to nature to find the answers to our questions. We have realised that we must take personal responsibility for our health and strive to educate ourselves on living more balanced lives.
For some of us, we do not even know we’re doing it. When you burned that scented candle last night, you were practising Aromatherapy. When you walk through a fragrant garden, you are doing it again! In fact, virtually all of the bath and body care products we use contain some form of essential oils – the basis of Aromatherapy.
This is one of the reasons Aromatherapy is so popular today. It is easy to practise, readily available, and effective as a therapy.
S. Hinnah |
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