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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Essential oils and carrier oils both play the important roles in aromatherapy. While carriers are often thought of in terms of their reflexology and massage uses, these oils actually posses their own virtues. Instead of thinking of them as merely the method of applying essential oils, we can explore the unique qualities of carrier oils separately with great results. Most likely, your aromatherapy techniques will be enhanced by using your special essential oils with carriers that actually increase their medicinal qualities.

Also, need to remind you here that most of the pure essential oils are not safe if apply directly to skin undiluted, because essential oils are highly concentrate oils. Whenever, you plan to use essential oils, always refer to the safety precaution of aromatherapy essential oils.

To begin with, it is important to remember that fats are essential for human life. Fats, called lipids, are critical for maintaining warmth, providing protection and ensuring healthy cellular function. Although the world of nutrition is engaged in discovering which fats are best for internal health, aromatherapy is concerned with how plant-derived oils deliver health from the outside in. Externally-applied oils help the body maintain vital functions in unique ways through both chemical changes and mechanical assistance.

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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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I believe everyone experiences the pain associated with sore muscles from time to time, whether it’s an injury or just a strenuous workout. Muscles can hurt after a day of work out, especially if you aren’t exercising on a regular basis and then really go for it.

We use to let “the time” to cure the pain slowly. But, actually essential oils are wonderfully healing when used to treat pain such as muscle aches, strains, backaches and headaches. There are many simple, easy-to-make aromatherapy treatment recipes that you can create at home to combat the everyday stress of life and ease your aches and pains along the way. We can use simple essential oils for aromatherapy to reduce the swelling, pain and promotes faster healing.  The sooner it is applied, the better.

Essential oils which suitable for the purpose including chamomile, ginger, jasmine, lavender, marjoram, cypress, rosemary.

Cramp Relief Oil Recipe
* 12 drops lavender oil
* 6 drops marjoram oil
* 4 drops chamomile oil
* 4 drops ginger oil
* 2 ounces of your favourate carrier oil or vegetable oil

Combine ingredients. Apply throughout the day as often as needed over the cramping area. This formula is also excellent for the lower back pain that sometimes accompanies menstrual cramps.

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There are many essential oils suitable for daily use in our daily living. Anyway, if you are new to essential oils and would like to getting started with Aromatherapy Essential Oils, I would love to suggest you these two basic essential oils that are very popular in aromatherapy that should ideally be present in almost every household - Lavender and Tea Tree. These oils have innumerable uses and can be used with any kind of dilution.

Lavender Essential Oils - This oil calms, soothes the skin, balances oil production, helps to heal blemishes, stimulates circulation to skin, reduces inflammation of acne and soothes nervous system.

Lavender has often been called the ‘medicine chest in a bottle’ for its broad range of applications. Every home should keep Lavender on hand, even if no other oil is used, as it is so very effective on burns. Its anti-inflammatory action is responsible for the beginnings of modern aromatherapy, as Dr. Jean Valnet discovered Lavender’s healing properties after being burned in a laboratory accident.

Lavender is considered to speed wound healing and reduce scarring. The oil is also pleasantly calming, and can be used to reduce stress in a variety of situations – a commonly used technique is to apply Lavender oil ‘neat’ (undiluted) to the soles of the feet of patients recovering from almost any ailment

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