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The art of aromatherapy is the use of aromatic
Essential Oils to benefit the body's emotional and physical
well-being. Essential Oils offer several therapeutic benefits.
They can help diminish stress and tension, encourage relaxation,
build up the immune system, inspire detoxification for given
body organs, and effect emotions.
When Essential Oils are applied externally, they
are absorbed by the skin and carried immediately throughout the
body, where they deliver healthful benefits.
Essential Oils act as natural chelators. In fact,
when diffused throughout a room, Essential Oils can rid the air
of dust and other harmful particles.
Everyone has different memories that are invoked
by certain smells. Therefore, a given scent may be very pleasing
to one person and saddening to another. In addition, everyone's
nervous system is different. Hence, even our neurological
responses will differ when two individuals are exposed to exact
same scent. Our advice: Be very careful when using Essential
Oils therapeutically ( especially internally ) as the subjective
responses of the therapy can vary from individual to individual,
even when using the exact same blend and regime. This does not
mean they are responding wrongly or that the Essential Oils is
bad, it just means that a person's neurological polarity is
reversed from that of other people.
How Does Smell Work
With every breath, fragrance particles enter our
nose and travel to the mucous membrane situated there. The
fragrance impulses are forwarded to the so-called limbic system,
the oldest part of our brain. There, where neuro-transmitters
and messenger substances control our vegetative nervous system
and our emotional sensitivity, we perceive scents.
The nose is the only sensory organ which
transmits its impulses directly to the brain without passing
other parts of the nervous system. |