AROMATHERAPY 04/01/2011
 
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Aromatherapy.  
Aroma-Therapy. 
Aroma- A scent, a smell. Without it, there would be no taste... And without taste life would be pretty bland.
Therapy - A process of  medicating, healing your body or mind.  As we live, we learn.  As we learn more about life and our selves, we grow, we learn to heal.
Aroma-Therapy
How do these two words join in harmony?
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Did you ever walk on the street (maybe you were angry or worried) and suddenly a fresh sweet aroma of vanilla seduces your nose?
It immediately takes you back.... you are five years old and your grandmother is preparing your favorite, delicious desert. With this memory, your heart warms up, your whole body suddenly becomes relaxed, you feel safe and for a moment there, you become that gentle loving child without a care in the world.  As you carry on walking immersed into a beautiful feeling of a childhood memory, you walk past a trash can and a vile smell of spoilt yoghurt  and rotten eggs cut through your loving memory like a sharp knife and you are immediately brought back into "reality" as it was for you on that day.
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So while within Aromatherapy essential oils can also be absorbed through the skin, enter your bloodstream and therefore immediately be healing your organs and your physical body that way, the above mentioned example is how they can affect your mood, your emotions as well as your entire body whilst simply being inhaled.
Aroma- we take it for granted, but think about it for a minute:
What is the aroma of your childhood? What is the scent of your most loving memory?
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Beautiful summer afternoons at my grandmothers are always brought back with June Linden flowers.  A smell of tobacco mixed with a scent of fresh cement - that would be my hard working grandfather.  Moist dark mud, freshly mowed lawn coated with dew, topped up by a distant smell of cow's excrement (believe it or not), that's the smell of my childhood period spent in Switzerland.  When I think of my nursery school I smell linoleum floors, fresh paints, clay, markers and ripe apples.  A scent of dry yellow grass, thirsty earth, helichrysum, joined with a salty see air with a touch of watermelon and ripe sweet homegrown tomatoes - that is August in Croatia.  
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I think about the city.... first that comes to mind is the grey subway smell of exhaust pipes and trains, mixed with garbage from the trash cans on the street...but then there is that beautiful aroma of freshly brewed cup of coffee, baked bread, sweet doughnuts, restaurants with all of the amazing aromas of freshly cooked food...and then there is that smell of clean sheets coming from all the laundromats and what about the flowers from the Deli's?
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Aroma - it is a daily therapy in our everyday lives.  How empty would our lives be without it, yet how much more can we enrich them if we choose to add some aroma and spice to our lives?

All it takes is some good will and a shift in our consciousness...We will only see the objects we choose to turn our eyes to.

Good will, consciousness, aroma, therapy, life... it is all a matter of choice.
 


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Lil
05/22/2011 15:31

Congratulations! This is fantastic..i will look forward to viewing it often and learning new things xx

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