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What is the least you need to know about your own Aromatherapy?
Well, being retired as a clinical counselor, there was much contact with the use of essential oils as a mood changer of mood and thinking. We know that the nerves in the nose circumvent message controls in the brain: smells get to use the super highway into your brain and not be filtered as other body or sensory messages. This occurred through the evolution of the body: smell is another form of "seeing" like the eyes. But, since smells are less vivid and dramatic than sight and sound, all animals that rely on smell needed this circumventing of the brains "filter mechanisms".
The metaphor is: this is an urgent message and it's really subtle, so let's let this message in fast and without any restrictions!
Smell, or the olfactory nerves of our nose, are not the human's primary senses. Because of that, we tend to discount the importance of smell. But, you body was created to take this subtle message of smelling anything or nothing, and fast track it to the brain. There, the brain instantly connects that smelling to memories, thoughts, actions, and even unconscious actions:
1. smell is the one sense that can trigger floods of memories
2. smell can shift the actions in the brain: if one is stressed, a smell can trigger a shift from one portion of the brain being active to another being active. For instance, is you were stressed and focused on bad traffic, an aroma can shift thinking: your brain shifts functions from one area to another. The obsession about the traffic is stopped in it's portion of the brain, and in brain scans we see another area become active. What is that area that gets activated? It could be any other portion of the brain that might including remembering a love or preparing a good meal. But, in general, it's a major shifter: it stopped one small portion of the brain from controlling your thoughts, moods, and actions, and allows the ENTIRE brain to function. So, if we had a metaphor of say the 7 Dwarfs being these parts of our brain, Grumpy had been controlling you. But, now with the aroma shifting this, Grumpy is not exclusively in control now. The other 6 wake up and go into action, for whatever that means for each person as an individual.
These things, that we joke about or discount, as with our nose and smell can change brain function, and this is not speculation, myth, hopefulness: this is science and factual medicine. These are the things that are known to be both therapeutic and factual, though discounted by society and generally the medical field professionals (because their profession is driven by prescriptions and surgeries that they are comfortable with):
a. aroma therapy is smell: the only sense in the body that goes directly into the brain
b. music of most forms
c. music and hypnotic states: sound and listening therapies
used in the treatment of anxiety and ADD called neuralfeedback, a scientific advance on the mind and biofeedback). Let's call these hypnotic states something less than fully conscious, and includes: meditation, hypnosis, yoga, reading, binaural beat audio and light therapy, trance music such as that of the Sufi Dancers and trance music (repetitive music), classical music ((the Mozart Effect))
d. creative action: creating something, writing, gardening therapy, random art and drawing, hand crafts
e. contact therapies with animals: dogs, puppies, horse equine therapy.....many animals really. Touch may be included in this, such as human touch therapies, but these have really never been defined. Still, it's say that a moment of genuine touch of unclouded intimacy can last a year
3. Smell is a different in most non-human animals, and on par with sight our sound for importance. But, for many animals, smell is King:
*dogs are known for being able so smell a single particle of smell, and blood hounds can track that for dozens of miles
*cats and other animals communicate with smell, and the subtle aroma of pheromones is as important as sight. This is also present in humans, but mostly misunderstood: both kittens and human babies put out different bonding hormones in their skin and breath that links them to their parent. The Pheromone says about the baby: you smell like a cinnamon roll, I like that, you're mine". I use Feliway Cat Pheromone to lessen the behavior of a biting feral cat: and it's ongoing use daily through a burner is the only reason Frankenstein and I are still together!!!
*snakes smell is more powerful than sight: but their nose, olfactory sensors are in their flashing tongue
Just a bit of info today on Essential Oils for Aromatherapy
1. Essential Oils have been with us for thousands of years. They are pressed in presses just as our eating oils are.
2. They have been some of the most valuable treasures humans have known, and merchants have travelled the world for these, including Frankincense and Myrrh. While some of these were bought as resins, it's the oil inside that was used to make the aromas and perfumes of old.
3. Think a bit differently about Aroma Therapy is this is new to you. The oils are not the scents of your aroma burner or bathroom spray: smelling like an apple pie or lavender blast garden might be good for your living room. But, that goal is a pleasant "cover up". Aroma therapy seeks to find those
oils that humans have been accustomed to for thousands of years and are natural and not fake or chemical. So, if you seen an aroma in the Glade section of the store, or a pile of little wax pills to burn in your wax burning candle: those are good for that, but are not the smells you want on your Aromatherapy Beads
4. Since these oils are natural they have been pressed only from plant materials:
seeds
petals
plant stems
actual plant wood
plant resins and pitch
This makes most time limited for viability or "shelf-life". That means, after 18 months they'll age just like that olive oil or canola oil in your cupboard. The sign of this "rancid" of all natural oils is to begin to smell like WOOD. So, if there is a smell of wood or lumber to that rose petal oil you bought, it's time to toss it. Put on your aroma oil bottles the date you purchased, then figure it was likely 6 months old when you bought it (if purchased from a reputable business, otherwise, Ebay and Amazon is often a really bad clearing house for old essential oil stocks: these can arrive smelling like wood or do so in a couple of months). There are just a few exceptions to this: there are actual wood essential oil extracts. To tell if those are still fresh and usable, I like this little test:
For Wood Essential Oils: does it smell genuine, true to that wood, PLEASANT, or does it make my nose crinkle up in dislike? That works for pine wood, tropical woods, etc. I recently had a Cinnamon bark essential oil (cinnamon oils can come from leaves, bark, or wood and have different original aromas), and used it in a cake. The cake smelled like a lumber yard that woody smell. I checked the bottle, and sure enough, that bottle I got from a major organic store recently had likely sat on that shelf for a year or two. It was beyond date and usefulness, and I poured it out in the garden. That was $15.
5. the higher the quality the perfume you have, the more it has original and blended essential oils. Cheap perfume has some fake aromas developed in the 1930's by Channel. These smell good, but those with real essential oils simply cost more: with a retail price of $50 or up. That is because many essential oils are costly to produce: a ton of French Rose Petals may make an ounce of essential oil. Some essential oils cost great prices. In bottles, most sold as PURE Pharmaceutical Grade Essential Oils simply are not: there is a filler of mineral oil or vegetable oil, often with fake aromas.
You can use your own perfumes on your Essential Oil Aromatherapy Beads:
1. that nice smell will stay on those many days, so when you shower you won't lose your investment in Estee or Lancome's! You'll smell your perfume as will others.
2. Quality perfumes do last longer then the pure oils: if you invest in a perfume the life of it is a few years as the "pros" know how to do that
3. Most perfumes are clear and less oil feeling: using perfume on the aroma bead is good protection of costly clothes.
6. You can buy essential oils, and as we see from the above points, it's hard to get the real thing that is fresh. But the oils you'll use for Aromatherapy Beads needs to be blended because each on it's own is a both sharp and hollow note or smell. It's when blended that it becomes both rich and pleasant. And, in having several related oils together, the therapy role is accomplished because you have not one tool in your tool box, but several. It's a bit like this:
tasted alone:
butter
cocoa powder
baking soda
flour
sugar
eggs
oil
Tasted alone, these are "hollow". But blended and cooked they make a brownie! Yum because that smells and tastes good.
Essential oils are similar.
Our site on political bullies has links to the catalog of 25 books on how to detect Gaslighters, and 25 books on healing, rebuilding your life, hope, affirmations, and more:
https://narcissistdonaldtrump.blogspot.com/
And, note our recipe has noxious baking soda. Yech, you don't want to taste or eat that alone. In the aromatherapy field, there are essential oils that can be really obnoxious on their own. Vetiver is one of those oils that alone is nasty, but seems to make a blend rounded.
7. We can save you time and buying books on or making errors with Essential Oil Blends. You won't have to toss ours out like your blend trials....
We have two blends now, and will to offer more based on World Essential oils:
1. Tamarack Spring Forest: a blend of pine needles and forest floral. Pleasing, awakening, calming
2. Owyhee Dessert: a blend of high dessert oriented aromas, including desert and garden herbs scents. Remember who you are, return to yourself.
3. Citrus Orient, including the waking up of citrus and the focus of spices that will not smell like foods are drinks, but more "places".
All are blended to balance the aromas, as some are very overpowering. These are all "pleasant" tested!
I've used these in clinical therapy practice for 30 years, and now as a retired therapist I write about this. Please send us any questions on topics of this article, as I respond from my background with a PhD from accredited university in Cultural and Transpersonal Therapies (transpersonal being those a, b, c, d, and e subjects above and more, and their use as treatment for stress, trauma, ADD, and all forms of POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDERS.
Best to you using your full brain, mind, and soul!!
Charles K. Bunch, PHD.
author of 50 books on mental health, PTSD, abuse recovery, and more.
Try this out.
French
Spanish
English versions of Soleil Soleil:
Want to change your mind? Here are some ways that we know work, from our blog on Aromatherapy and Jewelry:
What is the least you need to know about your own Aromatherapy?
Well, being retired as a clinical counselor, there was much contact with the use of essential oils as a mood changer of mood and thinking. We know that the nerves in the nose circumvent message controls in the brain: smells get to use the super highway into your brain and not be filtered as other body or sensory messages. This occurred through the evolution of the body: smell is another form of "seeing" like the eyes. But, since smells are less vivid and dramatic than sight and sound, all animals that rely on smell needed this circumventing of the brains "filter mechanisms".
The metaphor is: this is an urgent message and it's really subtle, so let's let this message in fast and without any restrictions!
Smell, or the olfactory nerves of our nose, are not the human's primary senses. Because of that, we tend to discount the importance of smell. But, you body was created to take this subtle message of smelling anything or nothing, and fast track it to the brain. There, the brain instantly connects that smelling to memories, thoughts, actions, and even unconscious actions:
1. smell is the one sense that can trigger floods of memories
2. smell can shift the actions in the brain: if one is stressed, a smell can trigger a shift from one portion of the brain being active to another being active. For instance, is you were stressed and focused on bad traffic, an aroma can shift thinking: your brain shifts functions from one area to another. The obsession about the traffic is stopped in it's portion of the brain, and in brain scans we see another area become active. What is that area that gets activated? It could be any other portion of the brain that might including remembering a love or preparing a good meal. But, in general, it's a major shifter: it stopped one small portion of the brain from controlling your thoughts, moods, and actions, and allows the ENTIRE brain to function. So, if we had a metaphor of say the 7 Dwarfs being these parts of our brain, Grumpy had been controlling you. But, now with the aroma shifting this, Grumpy is not exclusively in control now. The other 6 wake up and go into action, for whatever that means for each person as an individual.
These things, that we joke about or discount, as with our nose and smell can change brain function, and this is not speculation, myth, hopefulness: this is science and factual medicine. These are the things that are known to be both therapeutic and factual, though discounted by society and generally the medical field professionals (because their profession is driven by prescriptions and surgeries that they are comfortable with):
a. aroma therapy is smell: the only sense in the body that goes directly into the brain
b. music of most forms
c. music and hypnotic states: sound and listening therapies
used in the treatment of anxiety and ADD called neuralfeedback, a scientific advance on the mind and biofeedback). Let's call these hypnotic states something less than fully conscious, and includes: meditation, hypnosis, yoga, reading, binaural beat audio and light therapy, trance music such as that of the Sufi Dancers and trance music (repetitive music), classical music ((the Mozart Effect))
Why are these areas discounted or even joked about in our society? As Westerners, our lives are based on trying to find that which is tangible. But really, underneath it all, these things are called "transpersonal" and something we fear. We fear being out of control, and these things, like sitting an massaging your dying older dog daily, is not very "Western". But, it is soulful, healing, and real. Don't accept the subtle discounting others use for these methods, because it creates a culture then that discounts and ultimately robs all of their healing!
When you hear: "Oh, June or our trans-son Jeff is sorting out their "girly" aroma therapy oils today, so let's the boys get out and get some brewskis like real men do. I may buy here some, but that's to placate her. And, those darn aromas aren't something tangible and useful like my collection of Cabela's Fishing Flies".
If you buy into that, let the comment go without stopping it, or just passively accept it, you've then tolerated the culture of Male Entitlement and Superiority, and allowed a Gaslight event to occur.....even if it's that subtle!!!!
If you buy into that, let the comment go without stopping it, or just passively accept it, you've then tolerated the culture of Male Entitlement and Superiority, and allowed a Gaslight event to occur.....even if it's that subtle!!!!
d. creative action: creating something, writing, gardening therapy, random art and drawing, hand crafts
e. contact therapies with animals: dogs, puppies, horse equine therapy.....many animals really. Touch may be included in this, such as human touch therapies, but these have really never been defined. Still, it's say that a moment of genuine touch of unclouded intimacy can last a year
3. Smell is a different in most non-human animals, and on par with sight our sound for importance. But, for many animals, smell is King:
*dogs are known for being able so smell a single particle of smell, and blood hounds can track that for dozens of miles
*cats and other animals communicate with smell, and the subtle aroma of pheromones is as important as sight. This is also present in humans, but mostly misunderstood: both kittens and human babies put out different bonding hormones in their skin and breath that links them to their parent. The Pheromone says about the baby: you smell like a cinnamon roll, I like that, you're mine". I use Feliway Cat Pheromone to lessen the behavior of a biting feral cat: and it's ongoing use daily through a burner is the only reason Frankenstein and I are still together!!!
*snakes smell is more powerful than sight: but their nose, olfactory sensors are in their flashing tongue
Just a bit of info today on Essential Oils for Aromatherapy
1. Essential Oils have been with us for thousands of years. They are pressed in presses just as our eating oils are.
2. They have been some of the most valuable treasures humans have known, and merchants have travelled the world for these, including Frankincense and Myrrh. While some of these were bought as resins, it's the oil inside that was used to make the aromas and perfumes of old.
3. Think a bit differently about Aroma Therapy is this is new to you. The oils are not the scents of your aroma burner or bathroom spray: smelling like an apple pie or lavender blast garden might be good for your living room. But, that goal is a pleasant "cover up". Aroma therapy seeks to find those
oils that humans have been accustomed to for thousands of years and are natural and not fake or chemical. So, if you seen an aroma in the Glade section of the store, or a pile of little wax pills to burn in your wax burning candle: those are good for that, but are not the smells you want on your Aromatherapy Beads
4. Since these oils are natural they have been pressed only from plant materials:
seeds
petals
plant stems
actual plant wood
plant resins and pitch
This makes most time limited for viability or "shelf-life". That means, after 18 months they'll age just like that olive oil or canola oil in your cupboard. The sign of this "rancid" of all natural oils is to begin to smell like WOOD. So, if there is a smell of wood or lumber to that rose petal oil you bought, it's time to toss it. Put on your aroma oil bottles the date you purchased, then figure it was likely 6 months old when you bought it (if purchased from a reputable business, otherwise, Ebay and Amazon is often a really bad clearing house for old essential oil stocks: these can arrive smelling like wood or do so in a couple of months). There are just a few exceptions to this: there are actual wood essential oil extracts. To tell if those are still fresh and usable, I like this little test:
For Wood Essential Oils: does it smell genuine, true to that wood, PLEASANT, or does it make my nose crinkle up in dislike? That works for pine wood, tropical woods, etc. I recently had a Cinnamon bark essential oil (cinnamon oils can come from leaves, bark, or wood and have different original aromas), and used it in a cake. The cake smelled like a lumber yard that woody smell. I checked the bottle, and sure enough, that bottle I got from a major organic store recently had likely sat on that shelf for a year or two. It was beyond date and usefulness, and I poured it out in the garden. That was $15.
5. the higher the quality the perfume you have, the more it has original and blended essential oils. Cheap perfume has some fake aromas developed in the 1930's by Channel. These smell good, but those with real essential oils simply cost more: with a retail price of $50 or up. That is because many essential oils are costly to produce: a ton of French Rose Petals may make an ounce of essential oil. Some essential oils cost great prices. In bottles, most sold as PURE Pharmaceutical Grade Essential Oils simply are not: there is a filler of mineral oil or vegetable oil, often with fake aromas.
You can use your own perfumes on your Essential Oil Aromatherapy Beads:
1. that nice smell will stay on those many days, so when you shower you won't lose your investment in Estee or Lancome's! You'll smell your perfume as will others.
2. Quality perfumes do last longer then the pure oils: if you invest in a perfume the life of it is a few years as the "pros" know how to do that
3. Most perfumes are clear and less oil feeling: using perfume on the aroma bead is good protection of costly clothes.
6. You can buy essential oils, and as we see from the above points, it's hard to get the real thing that is fresh. But the oils you'll use for Aromatherapy Beads needs to be blended because each on it's own is a both sharp and hollow note or smell. It's when blended that it becomes both rich and pleasant. And, in having several related oils together, the therapy role is accomplished because you have not one tool in your tool box, but several. It's a bit like this:
tasted alone:
butter
cocoa powder
baking soda
flour
sugar
eggs
oil
Tasted alone, these are "hollow". But blended and cooked they make a brownie! Yum because that smells and tastes good.
Essential oils are similar.
Our site on political bullies has links to the catalog of 25 books on how to detect Gaslighters, and 25 books on healing, rebuilding your life, hope, affirmations, and more:
https://narcissistdonaldtrump.blogspot.com/
And, note our recipe has noxious baking soda. Yech, you don't want to taste or eat that alone. In the aromatherapy field, there are essential oils that can be really obnoxious on their own. Vetiver is one of those oils that alone is nasty, but seems to make a blend rounded.
7. We can save you time and buying books on or making errors with Essential Oil Blends. You won't have to toss ours out like your blend trials....
We have two blends now, and will to offer more based on World Essential oils:
1. Tamarack Spring Forest: a blend of pine needles and forest floral. Pleasing, awakening, calming
2. Owyhee Dessert: a blend of high dessert oriented aromas, including desert and garden herbs scents. Remember who you are, return to yourself.
3. Citrus Orient, including the waking up of citrus and the focus of spices that will not smell like foods are drinks, but more "places".
All are blended to balance the aromas, as some are very overpowering. These are all "pleasant" tested!
I've used these in clinical therapy practice for 30 years, and now as a retired therapist I write about this. Please send us any questions on topics of this article, as I respond from my background with a PhD from accredited university in Cultural and Transpersonal Therapies (transpersonal being those a, b, c, d, and e subjects above and more, and their use as treatment for stress, trauma, ADD, and all forms of POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDERS.
Best to you using your full brain, mind, and soul!!
Charles K. Bunch, PHD.
author of 50 books on mental health, PTSD, abuse recovery, and more.
