An important feature of Aromatherapy For Your Soul is the images that go with each essential oil.
I have long wanted to offer the option to choose by the energy from the image and to have all the pictures together on a page, linked to their individual pages where the essential oil is further described and where its energy story can be found.
The Aromatherapy Gallery
This weekend I’ve treated myself to making the “aromatherapy gallery” page – see here. Very nice!
Aromatherapy US - Shining Sun Aromatherapy Samples
I received some aromatherapy samples from Shining Sun Aromatherapy’s Audre Gutierrez just before I left for the ET conference; and I couldn’t wait to get my hands on them just as soon as I got back.
Well there is no other way to say it – I am BLOWN AWAY.
FABULOUS! aromatherapy oils these are, vibrant, lively, resonant – GORGEOUS!
Dare I say that these are, to date, the best aromatherapy essential oils I’ve sampled?
Yes, ok. I dare say!
The Pine essential oil was nothing short of a revelation. Seriously. I have many, many different kinds of pine in my cupboard and this one is just such a presence, such an experience, it’s like a whole new take on the very idea of pine.
The samples included a totally gorgeous Clary Sage and a really superb Lavender; the Siberian Pine left me breathless and you could completely TASTE it in your mouth as well as smell it, which is a rare thing!
The Rhododendrum was again, out-of-this-world-good. I like Rhododendrum essential oil a lot, and again, have a number of different types from different suppliers, but this one from Shining Sun was just STUNNING. There was a punch of green behind the basic idea of Rhododendrum that was immediately exciting, energizing, and simply delightful.
But as though wasn’t good enough yet, the best was still to come.
A new oil! I’ve never had Wild Tansy before and it INSTANTLY lit up my entire neurology, produced a story on the spot with brilliant brightness and I fell in love with it there and then.
I’ve got to include Wild Tansy in future editions of Aromatherapy For Your Soul – it’s amazing.
The story that came to me was of a young princess who had lost her child in childbirth. She was very, very sick – not just physically sick, but heart sick as well. Her younger brother hears of this and travels to visit her; when he walks into the sick room, everything is dark and stale, and physicians hover around the bed like so many vultures with their pale thin faces and long sharp noses.
The brother drives them out and hires a gypsy girl which has the scent of the hills and flowers in her hair, laughter in her voice and freedom in her step; she takes over the care of the princess, lets the sunlight back into the room, and with her loving care and the help of nature, herbs and flowers, the princess is saved and starts on the road to recovery at last.
So Wild Tansy, according to this story, is for people who are not just physically ill, but also and at the same time, heart sick and need that love and nurturing, bringing light into their lives AS WELL AS physical rehabilitation.
Wild Tansy is a fabulous essential oil, and I have no doubt that I was lucky enough to get a superior version on my first meaning through the sample that Audre sent.
What a wonderful experience!
So dear friends and readers looking for aromatherapy in the US, I am absolutely delighted to fully and wholeheartedly be able to recommend a US Aromatherapy supplier and true specialist at last – I’ve had so many people ask, but I didn’t know what to say to them. If you’re not from the US, trust me, the extra postage is worth the experience!
Go to http://shiningsunaromatherapy.com and meet Audre and her passion for essential oils and aromatherapy.
Order something in the full trust that you’ll get something very special, above and beyond the ordinary run of the mill aromatherapy essential oils, something that’ll make your nose twitch, and your heart sing!
I’m off to sit in the garden now and commune some more with Wild Tansy … 
And thank you Audre for sending me the samples – I’ve had a wonderful time with them, and I’ll be back for more!
Crystal Healing Energy
Did you know that you can use Aromatherapy Essential Oils *inside* the bottle for energy healing just the same as you would use a crystal for energy healing?
Here is a great, easy, step by step introduction to self healing with the energy of essential oils in a very different and quite delightful way – try it for yourself!
Help! I'm stuck in a bottle ...
It’s one of those things – we all develop habits, and get stuck in old grooves.
Especially when you’ve had a formative experience with a particular essential oil, what we call a “guiding star experience” – you fell in love with the smell, or what it did for you at the time, a mini-enlightenment experience, true and proper – you can get “stuck” on a certain aromatherapy oil.
This essential oil then becomes your favourite, and no matter what the problem, challenge, or whether it has anything to do with what your energy system might be needing at the time, this essential oil is what you turn to, over and over again.
This is a double edged sword.
On the one hand, yes, you DO experience emotional relief when you once again turn to your old favourite, because it rekindles a memory of that first time, that first enlightenment experience.
This breaks state and reminds you of better things in life; so as a safety anchor that is valuable.
HOWEVER – you knew that was coming, didn’t you …
At the same time, because of the powerful linkage between emotional/energetic states and the experience of the essential oil, it does also re-affirm THE PROBLEM you are trying to cure – over, and over again.
Does this sound like addiction?
Well, that’s the same structure and one of the basic problems with addictions of all kinds. They both alleviate AND re-affirm an existing problem, making a loop that becomes very habitual very easily, and also quite tricky to break.
Luckily, aromatherapy essential oils aren’t cocain and they are not inherently addictive; even oils like Sage which do affect the same receptors in the brain that nicotin and cocain affect as well do not create a permanent physical addiction.
This can be as simple as to STOP before you reach for the (Lavender, Lime, Tea Tree, Sage, Frankincense etc etc) YET AGAIN and to take a deep breath.
Ask yourself, “What do I REALLY need, right now?”
Think about something POSITIVE you want to DRAW INTO your life, right now, that would make you feel better, rather than thinking in terms of “wanting that pain to stop” which is the way Western medicine tends to go.
Think about it for a moment. WHAT would help here? Youth? Lightness? Old, deep green? Something medicinal, antiseptic? Try these ideas on in your mind and check with your body – can you feel a yearning? A sigh of relief when you propose a POSITIVE energy input? That’s the essential oil you want to go TOWARDS then – and it might NOT be the same one as always, and always, and every time before …
Changing your prescription can be exactly what the nature doctor ordered to kick you out of repetitive grooves, lift you up, help you move FORWARDS and away from your problems – leading you and all your systems into the Even Flow, which is ever changing, and ever NEW.
Amber
There is a lot of controversy around amber “essential oil” because amber doesn’t work like a nice green herb, or a flower freshly picked from the field.
Millions of years old, or sometimes as young as 200 years (copal amber), Amber is already a resin before we start.
Amber readily dissolves in ether, alcohol and commercial solvents; it is then ready to be mixed with other things to become some form of amber liquid.
However, Amber doesn’t smell very much, especially not to folk whose noses are used to the onslaught of White Birch, Red Thyme or Wintergreen!
So what happens is that essential oils are added to the mix; some add Sandalwood, some Frankincese, I’ve heard of Vervain being used, and Vanilla seems to be another favourite.
Before you go and dismiss Amber “essential” oil, I would ask you to stop and consider the energetic qualities of amber.
In working with aromaenergy and the energetic influences of aromatherapy oils, amber has much to offer, be it in straight EmoTrance/energy work, magic spells and potions, or simply in a comforting, anti-evil massage.
Before you shell out for “Amber Essential Oil” I would advise however to severely question the supplier to elicit what exactly is in their “Amber potion”, because that’s probably closer to the mark.
It doesn’t matter much if they’ve added a dozen essential oils to make it smell “nicer” or if the carrier oil is sunflower or starflower; as long as the supplier can answer your question honestly, and there actually is SOME dissolved amber resin in the potion, you should have some fun with the amber potion and gain good benefits for mind, body and spirit from your amber oil.
Yesterday, I met a young lady who told me that she been having emotional problems and someone suggested Clary Sage as the remedy.
She said she didn’t like the smell of it and it made her nauseous, so she’s not used it at all since she bought the bottle and opened the lid for the first time.
Now I could eat, drink, roll around in Clary Sage until the end of time, and it *is* a good remedy for *certain* emotional problems, but clearly wasn’t the right one for this young lady.
So how do you find the right aromatherapy essential oil for YOUR specific emotional problems?
Clary Sage
Well I explained to her that I use a different way of explaining the effects of the oils.
I don’t use therapy or psychology words such as stressed, depressed, anxious, fearful, paranoid, ADD or whatever.
Instead, I tell a story.
For example, the Clary Sage story is about a woman in rags and with her hair in tatters, running in her bare feet across a frozen winter field, and crows pecking at her head as she runs for her life …
Someone comes and catches her in their arms, chases the crows away, puts a warm blanket around her, and takes her inside, where there is a cosy fire, and it is warm, and safe.
So the woman is the description of the state of being, and the someone with the warm blanket is the action of the Clary Sage.
I said to the young lady, “Now when you hear this, you can tell if that fits you – if that’s what you feel like.
“There are many other ways in which to feel emotionally upset.
“Instead of the crow woman, you could have someone sitting in a dark cave, covered in dust, in the darkness, dry, no light shines here, no movement, no sound …
“And if someone feels like that, they will RECOGNISE THEMSELVES in one of the stories, and that’s the story that has the right essential oil for YOUR state of being, whatever that may be.”
I’d never explained what Aromatherapy For Your Soul is actually doing with those stories to someone who has never heard of this before, and I was surprised how readily and easily the young lady understood exactly what I was trying to do, and saw the merit in it.
The fact is that people are DESIGNED to learn and understand BY STORY, not by dry fact listings or artificial words that mean one thing to one person, and a totally different thing to another (one man’s depression is NEVER exactly the same as another man’s depression!).
Stories are far more information dense than “just facts” because they include environment, emotion AND ACTION within them.
Where “depression” or “madness” is this still thing, stuck in time, the woman being chased by the crows running across the winter fields, exhausting herself, hurting herself, being defenseless and terrified is MOVING, it is an unfolding state of affairs, as all stories are; and as the rescuer comes into the story, it BECOMES CHANGED and we understand how that happens.
That’s the other amazing thing about story vs “fact” – people UNDERSTAND stories without having to go to University first for 8 years and read a mountain of “learned” books.
A five year old can understand the story about the Clary Sage, and if they’re a bit switched on, could say, “That’s just like Auntie Kate!” if you asked them who that woman reminded them of.
That’s the true magic of story as an information transmission device – we understand it, it makes sense, and we learn something from it.
I bet that after reading this, you’ll always remember that crow woman and the Clary Sage that comes to the rescue, and if you ever met someone in THAT state, you could quite authoritatively tell them, “You need Clary Sage!”
As for the young lady who didn’t feel that the Clary Sage “vibed” with her problems, she can now look through the pages of Aromatherapy For Your Soul, which are all free online at http://aromatherapy4soul.com and find THE RIGHT aromatherapy oil FOR HER.
Which is a very neat thing indeed, when all is said and done.
You can read a useful introduction to which aromatherapy oil to use for stress and how to use it on http://stressfish.com/aromatherapy_stress.htm What is particularly useful about this article is that it distinguishes between different states of stress which need different kinds of aromatherapy essential oils.
Clary Sage
For example, there’s the kind of essential oil that has the “slap around the head, wake up!” effect to snap a person out of stress. Which is very useful – but people who are already worn down by stress don’t need any more beatings, and they will do much better with something strong, and supportive, so they can recover from the ravages of stress. There is also spiritual and emotional stress which has their own essential oils.
If you haven’t tried aromatherapy essential oils for or rather, against stress before, do give it a go. It’s amazing what they can do.
Visit http://stressfish.com/aromatherapy_stress.htm for the complete article and the choice of oils.
Lift early morning depression with aromatherapy morning magic!
Here’s a simple little tip that can make a GREAT deal of difference to the whole day – what I call aromatherapy morning magic, to counteract depression and set you up for a good morning and a good day.
Simply, before you go to bed at night, put some fresh hot water and washing up liquid in your sink.
Then add a mixture of aromatherapy essential oils that you wanted to be greeted by the next morning.
I like to choose something refreshing, like Lime and Lemon, Lemongrass, sometimes Dill which is a great favourite of mine anyway, Rose Geranium, Bergamot, Marjoram, Sweet Thyme, that sort of thing.
Turn out the lights, close the kitchen door and go to bed.
Next morning, when you stumble into the kitchen, you’ll be walking into a room filled with fragrance and rich energy that has had all night to build up and it’s a very, very nice experience first thing, especially if you’re still a bit dreamy or hazy at that time.
Try it! It really makes a difference to the start of the day and lifts your moods, brightens your spirits, especially in winter.
I went to the Manchester Mind, Body Spirit Festival (we were educating the general public about EmoTrance, which is in case you don’t know this yet, the newest and most userfriendly energy work modality on the planet today! Find out more and get a free intro book at http://EmoTrance.com!) and bought three things.
A music CD, a Native American flute called The Raven – and an aromatherapy diffuser.
Here it is:
Ultransmit Aromatherapy Diffuser
When I first saw it, it made me laugh because I thought they were selling little volcanoes!
Lots of what appears like smoke bellows from the top – and imagine my joy when I was told that was water vapour and you could put Aromatherapy Essential Oils into it as it was supposed to be a diffuser!
I’ve been looking for something a little more practical than basically cooking little cauldrons full of water over a tea candle for a while. I have an iodizer with an aromatherapy diffusing plate as well but frankly, it sucks. Both just boil the oil to the hotplate eventually, leaving an unpleasant sticky mess you have to clean up again before you can use it, and neither throw enough scent nor water vapour around the room for my liking.
So really, I was already sold – £25 for the diffuser, that’s a lot less than many of my single 5ml bottles of essential oils, A LOT LESS! – before the lady behind the stand spotted me and started the sales talk.
I was DELIGHTED to hear that this aromatherapy diffuser doesn’t work with heat at all, but instead with a vibrating plate that moves so fast, it breaks the water into vapour which then escapes rapidly, carrying with it the essential oil you’ve put inside.
The Ultratransmit works with tap water and, joy of joys, turns itself off when the water level gets too low. At 12 Volts, it’s low in electricity costs and even has a couple of little lights so whilst it diffuses your Angelica and Valerian and brings extra moisture into your bedroom, it can also serve as a night light – lol.
What a fabulous machine!
The little volcano is putting out lots of wonderfully scented water vapour as we speak; I was in some need of what I call “The Big Trees” mix which involves Cedar (Strength) and Pine (Wisdom), Rosewood (Soul Love) and a little Australian Sandalwood (Peace) – you can tell I need some thing to help me recover from the weekend!
I like it a lot and I can not just smell these scents perfectly but taste them too, which is a wonderful relief and relaxation.
I hope it lasts, but I’m pretty sure if it breaks down, I’ll get another sonic diffuser rather than the heated version; undoubtedly it’s better for the purity of the essential oils, and in the end, my experience, which is what counts.
If you REALLY want to make aromatherapy WORK for you, you need to find a different way to get the scents and energies QUICKLY, right at that moment in time when you need it the most. There isn’t time to go rooting around for bottles in cupboards or digging around frantically in your handbag, especially in public. Sometimes, it’s difficult to have the right blend to hand, and even if you find it, unscrew it and then … what? Carefully sniff the bottle, making sure you don’t accidentally touch your nose to the oil because you know that this will cause irritation? It’s really neither practical nor userfriendly. So I have developed, tested, designed and created the AromaPod – the essential oil lover’s BEST FRIEND!
Wear Your Essential Oils Pendant - The AromaPod by Dr Hartmann
Boots aromatherapy Clary Sage
I was in town the other day – a rare occurrence! – and walking through Boots the Chemist, I wondered if they had any aromatherapy essential oils.
I looked around and found a “natural healing” section which contained some homeopathy items and at the end, I spotted the aromatherapy contributions.
It wasn’t the greatest range in the world but there were at least some oils; the packaging is one of my personal hobby horses, as usual.
See if you own a heap of aromatherapy oils which have to be stored IN THE DARK! which means AWAY from sunlight, in a cupboard or shelf that is lurking in the shadows, and you’ve got about 200 of them, it would REALLY HELP!!! (HELLO, AROMATHERAPY SALES & MARKETING PEOPLE!!!) if you could ACTUALLY READ THE GODDAMNED LABEL!!!
In the image, do try and read the label, what this oil is. Not only is it teensy, it’s in orange on white! Sorry guys, I’m traumatized by spending ages with my nose pressed up against the cupboard trying to find the right oil in a moment of crisis and cursing the madness of the label designers …
This outburst over, what’s the essential oil like?
On previous occasions I’ve been less than impressed with chain store offerings in the aromatherapy department, but this time, I was very pleasantly surprised – so much so I NEARLY forgave the labelling.
Nearly … naah …
This Boots Clary Sage doesn’t state where it’s from, and it cost £8.79 (~$17) for ten mil. That’s slightly above the average and there are certainly places where you can get organic Clary Sage for less, but it’s also certainly not the most expensive I’ve seen, so that was fair enough.
But upon having wrestled the child proof cap open, I actually really liked the Clary Sage.
It was very fresh – that’s always nice, and I guess that comes with lots of turnover of stock in a big, big shop like that, fragrant and very Clary Sage, if you know what I mean. It was a good oil with pleasant aspects, lifted by its freshness to a really good experience.
I was getting ready to go on a diatribe about Boots “the CHEMIST” selling aromatherapy oils but now I won’t.
In fact, in a moment of crisis, I shall certainly consider buying some more of their oils from the basic range of such things as Eucalyptus and Sandalwood.
Well done Boots, and listen, guys – MAKE BETTER LABELS. PLEASE. Your product is well good enough to deserve to be found!
Not everyone gets hot flushes, or flashes as the case may be, and how this plays out is highly personal. I get waves of feeling really hot, as though my skin is way too tight, and I’m going to burst any second. I also get weird sensations as though things are walking on me and what I can only describe as electric shocks and rivers of electricity running across my skin.
As you can imagine, this is somewhat disturbing; and I’m convinced a lot of is directly from the energy body as it undergoes a major transformation.
One day I came in from an outing, heart racing, really going quite mad with it all and I found in the fridge a big container of Clary Sage Floral Water.*
* Floral waters or hydrosols are the water that is left over after the essential oil has been extracted; it is very resonant of that essence but is of course, water so you can use it in many different ways.
Now Clary Sage is particularly kind and good for women in menopause as are all the sages; so I grabbed it, got some cotton wool pads, and started to apply the ice cold Clary Sage floral water to my person.
Oh MY! What a fabulous experience!
Instant relief, and I mean INSTANT relief. I started with my face and neck and worked my way through the most affected parts and literally within minutes, calm and a wonderful refreshed clarity had been restored.
And I could really feel that this was both physical, certainly, the wonderful cooling and refreshing floral water directly on the skin; but also energetic, as I could really feel the energy tension drain away and be soothed most perfectly by the Clary Sage.
So that’s it. Standing order for litres of Clary Sage hydrosol for the next couple of years!
In general, you can put a bottle of cold water into your fridge and add perhaps a couple of drops of any oil of your choice for a wonderful and very holistic soothing of your person and your energy system if it runs too hot for whatever reason.
A beautiful, uplifting experience!
* I get my hydrosols from Norfolk Essential Oils http://www.neoils.com/ – organic UK grown hydrosols at a really good price.
For a product comparison, I ordered organic and well, not inorganic but generally farmed Bergamot essential oils from Oshadhi last week.
Bergamot is not what I might call one of the most important oils in the world to me; and I’m not invested either way, but I was quite curious if I would be able to tell the difference – at least enough of a difference to justify the difference in price.
I started with the organic Bergamot.
And I must say, I was immediately surprised.
Of course I’ve smelled Bergamot before, on many occasions, from many different suppliers, at that, but this one was extremely fragrant and rich.
It had undertones and frequencies in it more normally associated with much more expensive oils, perfumed, fragrant notes reminiscent of the exotic richness of Jasmine, Elemi or Champaka.
I found that really delightful and intriguing; and as I kept sniffing, the scents just kept on coming. It was like a procession of sensations and experiences that were reaching far out with many different levels and layers to it.
Certainly not something I’ve ever experienced with Bergamot before!
Still, and that was both perplexing as well as delightful, it was unmistakably Bergamot and couldn’t be anything else at the same time.
This put me into a very good mood indeed and so I took a brief state breaker and then turned my attention to the “other” Bergamot.
It was absolutely fascinating to note that although the top existence of Bergamot was there, sharply defined, clear and pleasant as it is, those extra fragrant notes, depth and richness was absent.
The effect was that of something much more clinical, much more “down the line” and as expected, no surprises here, no flights of fancy into Arabian nights and walking under hallowed groves, with stars above.
I thought that was really interesting.
So I would say, if you’re a romantic like me, and you love essential oils and the exquisite things they DO to your mind, body and spirit, it is well, well worth the extra pennies to pick the organic version instead.
If you’re just after “the chemical properties of”, aren’t really that interested in the finer points of aromatherapy or use bucket loads of it to keep the fleas of your pets or disinfect the stables with it, then the non-organic version will do the job, save you money and you should go for that instead.
Or just buy both!
Pennyroyal is much maligned as being oh so dangerous – this is the same old story again about all the essential oils. It is no more dangerous than aspirin, which is sold freely over the counter, and in aroma energy work, we don’t take it internally nor do we even put it on our skin so that’s triply safe then.
With that out of the way, Pennyroyal, a member of the mint family, has some exquisite and extraordinarily useful energetic effects and actions.
It is extremely medicinal in a good sense – where Pennyroyal is, uncleanliness, disease thoughtfields and unhealthy attachments cannot be. Like matter and anti-matter, if you will. There is a HUGE component of psychosomatic responses to each and every illness known to mankind, physical or otherwise; placebo tests show this, and so do hypnotic phenomena whereby people all of a sudden get well for “no good reason” and others remain chronically ill or in physical and mental pain, also “for no good reason”.
Ladies and gentlemen, to say that is so unscientific, it hurts!
Of COURSE there is a good reason for these things, and a very good place to look around for these good reasons is in the energy system.
Especially thoughtfields play a big part in directing the energy system to work for us, or against us; a great example are those doctors who tell people “you have only four weeks to live” and the patient, shocked, scared and completely HYPNOTIZED in that moment, drops dead four weeks later – leaving the doctor to think they were RIGHT, rather than thinking, “Shit, what I did I do with my stupid post hypnotic suggestion?!”
Those are extreme cases but being hypnotized by thoughtfields relating to disease is much more common than that. I was for example told as a child that a cold “comes for three days, stays for three days, and goes for three days.” I manifested this exactly like that until I was 32, when I saw the light of day and now my colds take a different path altogether; mostly they are done with in a day or two.
“You’ll get a stiff neck from sitting in a draught …” – “If you get cold, you get a cold …” – “If you drink coffee, you get a headache …” Our world is STUFFED FULL with bad post hypnotic suggestions, thoughtfields, which make diseases that really happen much worse, and can even create them out of blue nothing, like stigmata manifest in the palms of hysterical believers.
And here we come to the good uses and fabulous services of Pennyroyal. It has the power to blow the cobwebs of such post hypnotic suggestions out of your energy field and replace them with thoughtfields of purity, of healing, of health, of cleanliness instead.
This gives then the immune system a fighting chance to do it’s thing and bring this disease process to a conclusion as quickly as possible.
Just put it on a cloth, carry it around with you, and any time you start “worrying” about your disease, take a few sniffs and let the power of this energetic disinfectant literally STOP you from making these diseased thoughtfields in the moment.
Physical processes are this thing that we can only encourage; I am a firm believer that we shouldn’t make things worse if we can help it, and one leverage point we do have is what we think, and what we think about. Here, we can do our best to think “clean thoughts” – and Pennyroyal will help with that, absolutely.
I heard a report yesterday that 21% of the general aduult population had tried some form of aromatherapy. Aromatherapy draws people strongly towards it, being the most popular choice for alternative or complementary treatment and healing, but the amazing thing about this is that people have the LOWEST expectations of actually getting over their troubles with aromatherapy, as a study by Professor Suzanne McDonough of the University of Ulster shows.
74% of respondents who had received acupuncture thought it was definitely or probably very helpful; the least confidence was shown in aromatherapy in that 17% said it was probably or definitely not helpful.
What have we here?
I would say that we have a POWERFUL MODALITY in POTENTIAL that is not being used as it should be used.
I think people are drawn to essentials so magnetically because there is an innate sense, a hunger, for what they have to offer. And then it all goes wrong with the current treatment forms and the current practice of Aromatherapy “as taught by the local adult education college” and people end up disappointed and dissatisfied.
I am absolutely convinced that GOOD aromatherapy practitioners would agree that aromatherapy is far more magical than it is chemical medicine from the Newtonian clockwork universe.
That the results that come from working with the essences AND the client, how you do that, and what you are after to achieve, are highly dependend of the magic of the practitioner – their intuition, their reading of the client’s existing conditions, and matching the right frequency of essential to that.
With the right practitioner, aromatherapy can create quite magical changes. But you really do need to look beyond the chemical properties of the essentials, big time. And you do need to understand that an essential oil based ointment is not a steroid cream, doesn’t work like that, mustn’t be prescribed or handled or delivered like that, doesn’t affect THE WHOLE PERSON like that, is essentially OTHER THAN “modern allopathic “”"healing”"”.
With that many people from the general population being really interested and drawn to aromatherapy, there is every scope for creating whole new techniques and methods of USING essential oils in a very different ways than just sniffing and rubbing with little or no thought or intention, which will unlock the true magic of these amazing super-natural alchemical potions and will bring about changes that will not only make your head spin, but blow those kinds of statistics right out of the water.
Just one week left to go – and I’m really looking forward to giving my Aroma Energy presentation at the ET08 conference!
It’ll be delightful, to say the least, to share my wonderful experiences with working with the energies of these radiant nature gifts in small bottles with the conference crowd.
EmoTrance is a brilliant modality that has at its heart joy, energy, and energized end states – unlike so many other forms of healing, ET doesn’t just stop when the pain stops. “Peace” isn’t the aim or target. ET is about celebrating life, about living life to the fullest, about having fun and enjoying ourselves.
The spirit of the essentials is a perfect match to that, and what’s more, EmoTrance already has a custom made place for this – the concept of energy nutrition.
EmoTrance says that we need to suck in vast quantities of all kinds of energies to keep our energy bodies healthy – that’s what makes you feel happy, young and alive. Now when we’re on holiday in a beautiful place and the sun’s shining, we drop shields and we suck these nature energies into our depleted selves – but then we go back to work, live in cities, stay indoors and that’s when we experience a SERIOUS shortfall of nature energies.
My wonderful discovery was early last year that you can literally bring the sunshine into your home and life at any time – courtesy of the wonderful essential oils as used in aromatherapy.
They are so concentrated, so immensely radiant, that even a total beginner won’t have any trouble feeling these energies, and with a bit of practice, learns to suck this energy into themselves and use it to delight and brighten any time, any day, no matter what the weather.
As all the essentials are different and have different energy contributions to make, there is also the fun to discover which ones affect your own energy system the strongest – the ones we hunger for most, and those will do you the most good.
Simple, profound, immensely enjoyable and working with essentials and their energies in this way opens up the door to a whole world of self healing, of restoration, of feeding hungers we’ve displaced onto all sorts of other things, people and activities, and simply making us HAPPY.
What more could you ask for in a remedy?
I LOVE IT – and I can’t wait to see the good folk at ET08 start to tingle all over, big grins coming into their faces and then that switch into delight and joy when the energy REALLY starts to flow – it’s wonderful.
I’ll post a full report after the fact!
What’s in a name?
Lots … everything, even. When someone calls their new puppy “Satan”, how do you think it’s going to grow up? If you look at it over ten years, how is the dog called “Satan” going to beCOME so very different from exactly the same dog, but it was called “Fluffy” instead?
So, there is this essential oil and it’s really neat. It is instantly compelling, smells fascinating, green, alive, very powerful. It has this wonderful uplifting action and banishes the gremlins and the blues. It comes from a plant that was given to Chieron by Diana who told him that it would heal him of all ills. And it’s name is Artemisia, dedicated to the Goddess Artemis, who is the keeper and protector of all wild things, of nature, and of women.
Are you getting excited yet?
Do you want to buy this essential oil Artemisia?
Do you want to to try it, smell it, interact with this energy?
I’m guessing, yes.
You are interested, open and receptive.
But what if I told you that this self same essential oil is called …
… drumroll please! …
Wormwood.
Eeeouwh!
Wormwood???
It’s HIDEOUS!
It’s POISONOUS!
It’s so dangerous that only the few even stock it!!!
See what I mean about “what’s in a name” …
Let’s be reasonable now.
Artemisia Essential Oil comes from a plant that has so many beneficial and natural aspects to it, it was venerated by the greatest healers of the ages. With all the many plants to choose from, to give this one the name of the Goddess Artemis, that’s really a grand recommendation.
Artemisia plants have many unusual properties; one of those is a cocktail of many interactive components that get rid of worm infestations! In the essential oil, of course all the components are HIGHLY concentrated; that is so for all essential oils and why its just not a good idea to drink them in quantity!
For many, Artemisia’s greatest claim to fame is Absinthe. Folk are so enthusiastic about it, they’ve formed a Wormwood Society for disseminating information about the delights of drinking Absinthe, which is a mixture of Artemisia and other herbs delivered in alcohol and water.
Apparently, the drinking of Absinthe gives mental clarity and helps with artistic endeavours. I’d say sniffing the essential will do better than that, especially when combined with a spot of EmoTrance.
Indeed, the very name “wormwood” is thought to be a derivation of the Germanic “wermut” which some think may mean to defend the mind, and others think it is to defend the mother – either way, sounds a lot more palatable, doesn’t it.
So the moral of the tail? (The old wive’s tails – long, and scaley thought hey may be …!)
Artemisia Absinthium and Artemisia Afra essential oils (previously known as wormwood) are very powerful energetic devices that can do a lot for you in aroma energy work. Don’t drink them, don’t brush your teeth with them, and work with their scent and energy. Without fear and with expectation that they will drive out parasites and help the mind – or the mother …
I strongly advise when working with aroma energy to NOT count the pennies. To the uninitiated it seems that some oils are very expensive, but you know, compared to what or whom?
What does a single session with a psychologist in New York cost these days? $100? $200?
A small bottle of Britney Spears perfume? $100?
And how much fun do you get from 25 applications of one drop of even the very most expensive of oils?
So this isn’t about saving money or making one oil more “precious” than another; it’s just a little exercise to compare prices as the different sizes and dilutions in which essential oils are sold make it quite difficult to get a real grasp of what costs what.
How Many Drops Are In A Milliliter?
0.05ml = 1 drop
1 ml = 20 drops
5 ml = 100 drops
10ml = 200 drops
This is approximate as one man’s drop is not necessarily another man’s drop but it’s a guideline.
I’ve taken some current prices from a midrange supplier; these are all the basic versions, so not the “doubly organic hand picked sun blessed sang to sleep at night” higher price specialist essential oils.
I’ve worked out how many ml, how many drops, and divided the price by this to arrive at a measurement unit for costing aromatherapy essential oils, “penny per drop” or ppd.
* These are UK pennies – double it if you are from the US to get cents per drop instead.
You can pay much, much more for connoisseur versions of even the cheapest oils, and some ultra expensive rare and precious oils.
But still, it’s a bargain in my opinion.
I have a small cloth with one drop of osmanthus and 3 drops of hyssop on it which I’ve been sniffing on all day to keep me focused and working well.
What is that worth in practical terms?
Priceless!
It’s funny how the world works …
I love Sage essential oil. I LOVE it. I roll around in it like a cat in catnip and make sage tea. All sorts!
Yesterday, I phoned Jonathan Hinde from Oshadhi UK and ordered some replacements. When it came to Sage, he said, “Which one?
“Spanish Sage? Wild Sage? Triloba?”
I said, “Send ‘em all. I’ll have a Sage party!”
The packet arrived the very next day and I did have my Sage party. What a trip! The three Sages were very distinct and it was as always incredibly interesting what they were doing to me and my energy system, my thoughts, my head, my state.
Gorgeous …
So today I thought, let’s have a look what other kinds of Salvias there are out there.
I started to search the three – Salvia Lavendulifolia, Spanish Sage; Salvia Officinalis, Wild Sage; and Salvia Triloba, also known as Sage Triloba.
As soon as I put in the word “Salvia”, the search engine exploded with references to Salvia Divinorum, of which, I admit, I hadn’t heard a thing.
But Divinorum sounds good!
Turns out it grows mostly in Mexico and if you smoke it, you have out of body experiences.
And that it was used to predict the future by shamans.
Cool …
Where is the essential oil of Salvia Divinorum?
Of course, it’s nowhere to be found as a gram of the ground plant goes for $25 or thereabouts to the happy smokers who are looking for a pot alternative. Drat. And the US legislators got their knickers in a twist over it to the degree that it’s illegal now in dozens of states …
Illegal plants. Somehow that doesn’t jive with me at all.
But still. A Salvia by any other name is still a Salvia.
I concur with the shamans of old that all Salvias strongly affect the psychic circuitry; I certainly swoop like an eagle on a bit of Sage, whatever the variety.
Let’s not get too wound up about smoking the plant. Practise your energy awareness every day and you can get high as a kite on some plain, simple Sage – a drop on a handkerchief will do. If you have some Project Sanctuary experience, you can direct your vision quest anywhichway you want and remain in total control, using the extra lift from the Salvia/Sage to get you further and pick up more detail, keep your concentration longer.
Let’s enjoy it whilst essential oils of Sage, any variety, are still so plentifully and cheaply available.
Have a great trip …
I thought tonight when I was choosing my aromatherapy companions for the evening (God I love this trip! It’s been going on for a year and shows no signs of abating. Every time I think I’m done with it, something else comes along!) …
… if I was an aromatherapy oil, which one would I want to be?
As you know, I’ve given them evocative names like the Ghost Hunter and The Champion and so forth; it gives them a shape my human neurology can deal with and make relationships with; and I do think of the essences in terms of angels, companions, friends, if you will.
So which one?
Tonight, I choose Elemi – Coloured Lights.
[An aside - I have The Magic Bottle as a shortcut on my desktop and use that to go to the site when I want to. On this occasion, I was going to look up Elemi and post the link to it for this message. The Magic Bottle said "China Star Anise" and I nearly passed it by to go to the A-Z, but then I didn't and that's what that said:
Aniseed China Star is good for people who have abandoned their bodies; builds compassion for the body, rekindles good body feelings, helps with eating disorders and sexual problems. A major component of romantic love potions.
Aromatherapy Story Start
There once was a hermit who wanted to be a holy man and decided he had to find God in the desert. So he went and lived in the stony desert by himself; and he lived there for so long that the sands and winds and heat and cold blew all memory of why he was even there, what he was called or why he had come from his mind. He became a wild thing that wandered about and one day, he wandered close to the home of a woman who had build a house at the edge of the desert, near a fine spring, where she grew fruit and flowers and many healing herbs as well.
She saw the man and became fascinated; over many days, she befriended him like a wild animal and eventually he came close enough to take some food from her hand. He looked so lost and thin that the woman had a great feeling of compassion flow over her - she couldn't help herself, she stroked his face. He didn't draw back, but stared at her - her touch reminded him of many things that were now coming back to him.
It took a long time but eventually, he became a husband and then a father, and finally learned what holiness is really all about.
======== hm ....]
Anyway. Elemi.
http://silviahartmann.com/aromatherapy/elemi.htm
Yes, I want to be Elemi tonight.
Which one do you want to be?
In my travels on the web, I came across the following study:
Lehrner J, Marwinski G, Lehr S, Johren P, Deecke L.
University Clinic of Neurology, Medical University of Vienna, Austria.
The goal of this study was to investigate the impact of the essential oils of orange and lavender on anxiety, mood, alertness and calmness in dental patients. Two hundred patients between the ages of 18 and 77 years (half women, half men) were assigned to one of four independent groups. While waiting for dental procedures patients were either stimulated with ambient odor of orange or ambient odor of lavender. These conditions were compared to a music condition and a control condition (no odor, no music). Anxiety, mood, alertness and calmness were assessed while patients waited for dental treatment. Statistical analyses revealed that compared to control condition both ambient odors of orange and lavender reduced anxiety and improved mood in patients waiting for dental treatment. These findings support the previous opinion that odors are capable of altering emotional states and may indicate that the use of odors is helpful in reducing anxiety.
PMID: 16095639 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
An interesting choice of essential oils I thought. Lavender and Orange are both good life affirming, straightforward and helpful essentials and in their own way, can certainly reduce anxiety. My hot tip for or rather, against anxiety is Lemon Verbena, but as they are both cheap and widely available, by all means, pack some Lavender and Orange, together or by themselves, to keep you calm when you’re not just at the dentist’s.
NB: For young people and children, a cloth imbued with Litsea Citrata can be just what the doctor ordered to lift the mood and give more confidence.
—- -Orange ===—-Lavender ——Lemon Verbena —Litsea Cubeba
Just sniffing an aromatherapy essential oil is fab – wonderful sensations, instantly being transported to another time, another place, cares drifting away, energy movements all over your body …
Aaah ….
Can it get any better?
Try this:
Draw in your breath r-e-a-l-l-y slowly and follow with your intention as the breath you have drawn in begins to travel all through your body, down to the very last tips of your hair, your fingers and your toes.
And there it rushes out as you breathe out fully and completely – beautiful!
In and of itself, this is already fun. When you add an essential oil of your choice, this is carried by your breath into every part of your body and then through and out, leaving you amazingly tingly and fresh, clear – rejuvanated.
Remember on the outbreath, you are only breathing out through your mouth that what wasn’t used – that what was used leaves forward and outward, through your skin, all around, an ongoing energy transmission that keeps your body always clear and alive.
Wonderful!
An interesting story I came across the other day was a reference that using Helichrysum essential oil was particularly good for “repairing the holes in the aura caused by tattoos”.
I hadn’t thought about it, but it makes sense to me that this might be the case.
There may also be a case for some people putting tattoos on places where there are already disturbances in the aura or in the energy body in general. Often, people choose protective symbols like power animals, crosses, skulls and crossbone and so forth which would work as warding off to certain energy forms.
It’s an interesting thing. But either way, if you feel you have weak spots in the aura, try some Helichrysum – whether you have tattoos or not.
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