AROMATHERAPY is one of the most ancient healing methods, and is the science of utilising aromatic essences extracted from plants for health and healing purpose. The natural essences are used to balance and harmonise the energies within us,promoting the health of our body, mind and spirit. Aromatherapy become very popular nowsaday, because it is very simple, fun and therapeutically beneficial.

There are a lot of ways which we can practice in using essential oils. Here are a few ways for you to get started. These methods are intended as guidelines only, and you do need to pay special attention to all safety and precautions when applying essential oils.

Easy Inhalation
This is the most simple way to use essential oils. Simply choose the essential oils of your favarate, place 3~4 drops on a tissue or cotton ball. Place it under your pillow or at the room’s coners. If you worry about sensitivity or reaction to the oils, start practice with single drop.

Steam Inhalation
Add two drops of essential oil to a bowl of steaming water. Covering your head and bowl of water with a towel, inhale the healing vapours.Steam inhalation can help with colds and influenza. Use of energizing or relaxing oils can also make this method useful any time of day or night.

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The rigor of modern life style, in which most of the people live a busy life, sleeps too little, works too much,  eats not in time and poorly. All this factors depleting our energy. AROMATHERAPY is one of the most ancient healing methods, and is the science of utilising aromatic essences extracted from plants for health and healing. The natural essences are used to balance and harmonise the energies that operate within us, and promote the health of the body, mind and spirit.

Because the resources (mostly flowers, herbs, seeds and spices) are readily available, aromatherapy has been practised for thousands of years. However, very little scientific study has been done until recently. So even though the data available does not yet allow aromatherapy to be adopted into mainstream medical practice, which demands evidence-based claims, the available scientific information on the essences, or essential oils as they are known, may surprise you.

What is Aromatherapy?

You may think of aromatherapy as just the newest candle-selling trick, but this method has actually been around for centuries. Aromatherapy is a holistic healing method that combines the science of essential oils with the art of listening to the body, and applying the appropriate essences to re-harmonise the imbalances.It helps improving health and emotions using the pure essense extracted from flowers, seeds, shrubs or other parts of the plant. These essense are know as the essential oils. This essential oils are highly volatile liquid that they need to be stored in special container.The potent chemicals in these essential oils are responsible for their therapeutic powers. The particles of evaporated oil can be breathed in using spray or diffuser method and absorbed into the bloodstream. Essential oils can also enter the body through the skin merely by applying them as massage oil, incorporated into soaps, body care item. Some oils are effective in healing cuts and bruises, while others have an affinity for respiratory or digestive conditions, and still others alter psychological states. Such oils can give you a boost of energy if you know how to use them. They even can be use as insect repellents.

Essential Oils for Energy

As a rule, essential oils with spicy or citrus scents are the most popular in combating overtiredness. There are two reasons to explain this. One is that such smells just make you feel fresh and perky. Consider for example how the fresh scent of oranges in the morning helps you wake up. The other reason is that these oils contain similar chemicals, all of which stimulate the nerves and emotions. If you are having trouble concentrating after long hours of work or studying, lime oil is an excellent energizer. It refreshes the mind and helps with focus. It blends well with basil, which helps stimulate both the brain and body. The spicy scent of ginger has an invigorating effect on the nerves, so it can be especially beneficial if you are short on sleep. Try combining it with grapefruit, an oil known for its reviving capabilities.

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In today’s busy life, everyday seems so busy that 24 hours is not enough to complete our daily jobs, more and more people feel the tension of living. That’s the reason, meditation become more popular and important nowaday.

Meditation is practised in our daily living to help us transporting ourselve to a place of inner peace so that we can totally rest our mind, our body and feed our spirit. Breathing is at the very core of meditation, by using proper essential oils, it act as natural sedatives and helps create peaceful atmosphere and enhance the relaxed state of meditation.

Meditation is not exclusive to any one particular culture or religious/spiritual group. Generally speaking, meditation induces a sense of relaxation leading one to become receptive to enlightenment.

Whereas prayer is the state of speaking to God or the Divine, either out loud or silently, meditation is the state of silently and calmly listening to hear insight, enlightenment and empowerment from our Divine creator. Meditation allows us to relax our minds, focus upon a particular point of reference and take a mini-vacation from the stresses of the day.

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Only nature can produce whole essential oils. Essential oils are tiny droplets contained in glands, glandular hairs, sacs, or veins of different plant parts, like leaves, bark, flowers, stem, roots and fruits. They are the “essence” of the particular plant that giving the plants its unique scent.

There are three principal methods of extracting essential oils from aromatic plants. These are: distillation process; expression process; extraction using volatile solvents; and enfleurage process.

Distillation Process
Distillation process or steam distillation is the most common process method for obtaining essential oils from a plant. The process involve heating and the steam is force into a vat of plant material, where it breaks open and reptures these glands releasing the precious oils, vapor is formed, then cooling the vapor until it becomes liquid. This is when the essential oils are collected.

Distillation is an economical and popular method used in essential oils extraction. However , it still may take hundreds, or even thousands pound of plant parts to distill a single pound of the essential oils. That’s why, some essential oils will vary greatly in their cost.

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What Is Aromatherapy?

Aromatherapy means “treatment using scents”. It is a type of alternative medicine using the stimulant of pleasant smell of  volatile plant oils, including essential oils and other aromatic plant compounds. Aromatherapy aimed at improving a person’s health, physically and psychologically.  Many consider this type of treatment as unscientific and unwise thinking, however, scientific evidence of its effectiveness is growing.

The most common ingredient used in Aromatherapy nowadays is the essential oils. Essential oils, the pure essences of a plant, they are aromatic essences extracted from plants, flowers, trees, fruits, bark, grasses and seeds with distinctive therapeutic, psychological, and physiological properties, which improve health and change moods. There are about 150 essential oils. Most of these oils have antiseptic properties; some are antiviral, anti-inflammatory, pain-relieving, antidepressant and expectorant. Other properties of the essential oils which are taken advantage of in aromatherapy are their stimulation, relaxation, digestion improvement, and diuretic properties. To get the maximum benefit from essential oils, it should be made from natural, pure raw materials. Synthetically made oils like perfume do not provide the therapeutic benefits of essential oils.

The essential oils are added to the bath or massaged into the skin, inhaled directly or diffused to scent an entire room. Aromatherapy is used for the relief of pain, care for the skin, alleviate tension and fatigue and invigorate the entire body. it helps to change our mood as well. Just imagine what is your mood when you smell the scent of fresh roses and what how you feel when you smell the garbage dump.

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