Essential oils are highly concentrated, as you can deduce from the fact that it takes thousands of rose petals to produce a single drop of rose essential oil. This potency must be respected, and the way you handle and use essential oils is important. Following the guidelines given below (and elsewhere in this book) will [...]
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Essential Oil – Safety Guidelines
March 14th, 2010 · No Comments
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Essential Oils – Simple First Aid techniques
March 2nd, 2010 · 2 Comments
Essential oils can be used to treat a wide range of minor common complaints, discomforts, illnesses and injuries. You have already learned earlier about some technique for first aid application, such as massage, bathing and vaporization. Details of how to make hot and cold compresses, antiseptic washes and steam inhalations will be posted later. Some [...]
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Essential Oils – The healing power
March 1st, 2010 · No Comments
This section looks at the healing properties of essential oils, and how they can help us regain and maintain health and wellbeing. A large part of this section comprises of common ailments and minor injuries, together with advice on how to treat them using essential oils. This aspect of aromatherapy, which focuses on physical wellbeing, [...]
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Using Essential oils for meditation
February 28th, 2010 · No Comments
Before you meditate with essential oils, you need to decide whether to use a burner, room spray or a meditative mood perfume. Using a burner or electric vaporizer of some kind is generally best, because the effect of the essential oil is more powerful than it is with mood perfumes or room sprays. However, meditative [...]
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Aromatherapy and Meditation
February 27th, 2010 · No Comments
Since ancient times aromatic plants have been used for religious and spiritual purposes. Regarded as sacred because of their magical healing properties and divine scents, they were ‘sacrificed’ by being burned and the fragrant smoke was offered to the gods. These ceremonies also benefited the priests because inhaling the aromatic smoke often brought about mystical [...]


































