Essential Oil Education

This week’s posts are going to concentrate on different ways essential oils can help us keep our balance during stressful times like the holidays. The month of December is traditionally a time when we attend many holiday parties–be they work related or with family and friends. It is known that this is a very stressful [...]

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Now that you know what top, middle and base note essential oils smell and act like, it is important to balance them harmonically in a blend. What are the proportions that we should use? it is important to remember that essential oils have a complex chemistry which means that many oils have notes in several [...]

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To create a fragrant harmony of essential oil fragrances, it is important to know what you are doing. Simply picking a few single oils that you like and throwing them together may only be wasting your oils and creating a fragrant mess. Blending borrows the concept of scales from music. Ideally your blend will have [...]

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Once you have your essential oil blend put together (described in Part 1), how will you use it? Diffuse it? Apply it to the skin? Dilute it to rub the whole body? All of these ways are acceptable when opening up to spiritual awareness.
Let’s look first at diffusers. There are many on the market but [...]

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In yesterday’s post, I introduced the concept of blending single oils for a purpose. Today we want to look at blending for spiritual awareness. You are probably looking at oils that have been known to lift us up spiritually like frankincense, myrrh, spikenard, galbanum, and onycha. These oils have been particularly noted in the Old [...]

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As you go through life, unless you don’t have the ability to smell (anosmia) you have been picking up smells and registering them in your brain as either pleasant or unpleasant. You have a very good memory and once you register a fragrance the next time you smell it, your brain identifies it by name or [...]

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When traumas occur in your life, you are simultaneously registering smells with that trauma whether you are aware of it or not. When the same odor is smelled again, fear or the emotion originally experienced, gets triggered.  For example, say as a child you were terrorized by an older adult–a teacher, neighbor, store clerk, etc. Perhaps that [...]

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We have millions of olfactory cells that are directly hot-wired into the limbic system of the brain. That’s where emotional memories are stored. Wow! That means the smells of our childhood still remain within as well as all the memories of smells we have ever smelled! Think about it–essential oils which are potent fragrances can [...]

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It is hard this time of year to protect yourself from people with coughs, colds and even flu. They are everywhere–standing in line at the bank, working beside you, teaching your children, in the grocery stores, even in the next pew at church–in short, wherever people congregate–you will find sick people who should b home [...]

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Recently I ran across a research study on student nurses studying for their exams. The study used rosemary for clarity of thought and lavender for relaxation with significant results. Let’s look at the rosemary.
Did you ever wonder why all those pictures of Romans showed them with garlands of rosemary around their heads? Was it just [...]

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